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by kaolinite 5y ago
It’s interesting to me how quickly I’ve soured on the concept of open banking, which on paper sounds fantastic and originally I was very much in favour of. And which I’ve used personally to make it easier to extract my own data for my own u
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by kaolinite 5y ago
“Everything old is new again”. Not always inaccurate, but often used to overlook nuance.
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by kaolinite 6y ago
My partner and I had been working with a personal trainer up until the lockdown hit and had sold most of our exercise equipment before we moved to London, so without the gym we were a bit stuck. Thankfully we did have a rowing machine and s
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by kaolinite 8y ago
Yes, the company I’m contracting at currently has done exactly this. We’ve kept Slack around for calls and for monitoring alerts, but other than that it’s all in Basecamp. It has made an incredible difference. As a remote worker, I always f
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by kaolinite 9y ago
I've read more in the past 12 months than in the past few years, purely because I discovered a company in the UK called the Folio Society[1]. They sell beautifully bound and illustrated editions of fantastic books, although at rather h
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by kaolinite 10y ago
Killer feature for me is being able to cmd+click on file paths in the terminal to open them. I use this constantly. There are plenty of other features too such as being able to reopen a tab you closed accidentally.
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by kaolinite 10y ago
Creating a checklist for my morning routine has been such a great time-saver and anxiety-reducer for me. I have everything on there, even the most obvious items such as "eat breakfast", and all I need to do once I wake up is tick
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by kaolinite 10y ago
Not saying that these are valid reasons however two that spring to mind are thickness (USB-C is fairly significantly thicker) and elegance (one could argue that Lightning is a more beautiful and slightly more pleasant to use connector). In
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by kaolinite 10y ago
I'm on mobile so not sure if anyone else has pointed this out but Apple mentioned in the keynote that the escape key is still present when using the terminal. There is also a way to bring up the full row of function keys. Personally I
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by kaolinite 10y ago
Interestingly I was getting occasional black screens (i.e. the entire screen, status bar and all) in Safari on iOS 10. Not seen that on any other site before.
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by kaolinite 10y ago
I used to use this excuse to justify ridiculous levels of spending. My time is valuable, etc. It's definitely true for some people but probably not most and certainly not me. Unless you actually are earning more (and saving it too, not
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by kaolinite 10y ago
Rails doesn't execute the query until you actually use it in some way, by which point it knows you've added a limit clause.
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by kaolinite 10y ago
Adblockers on iOS require the 64 bit A7 SoC which was released with the 5S. I'm not sure if there's a valid reason why they couldn't make it work on 32 bit too, whether it was just extra effort or whether they'd have had
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by kaolinite 10y ago
You might want to look into this: http://www.lumobodytech.com/lumo-lift/ I haven't tried one myself, although I am tempted as I often get quite bad back pain (at age 23 :-/ ), however I can't quite bring
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by kaolinite 10y ago
Try user groups for your languages / technologies of choice. I subscribe to a couple of Ruby user groups in the UK where jobs and contracts are routinely posted - in fact, it's how I found my current contract.
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by kaolinite 10y ago
I use Arq[1] for backing up my Mac. It's also available on Windows, but not Linux. However, it does allow you to back up to Linux, via SFTP. It also supports S3 and a few other cloud services. It does cost. You can either pay for a sub
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by kaolinite 11y ago
I made Trunk as an Evernote alternative. It's open-source and web-based, using Markdown to store notes. It might be too simple for your needs however. You can try it at http://trytrunk.com/ or get the source at https:
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by kaolinite 11y ago
For the past month or so I've been building a notes app as I wanted to move away from Evernote and couldn't find a good replacement. It has been really fun building something that I use every day and building it exactly as I want
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by kaolinite 11y ago
First of all, thanks for your feedback - really appreciate you trying it out and taking the time to offer your thoughts. Regarding your points: 1. I'll check the search tonight and add some tests to cover it, thanks for letting me know
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Show HN: Self hosted Evernote alternative(github.com)
12 points by kaolinite 11y ago|3 comments
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by kaolinite 11y ago
This article reads as if it were copied straight out of an email from a PR rep.
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by kaolinite 11y ago
I've drastically cut my HN time in the past few months by following this one weird trick: Add "news.ycombinator.com##td.subtext" following to your Adblock/uBlock custom filters. You still get to read the articles and kee
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by kaolinite 11y ago
Completely agree. Often I'd look on the designer's website and find the exact price listed - even though Gilt said it was heavily discounted. After my last shopping experience with them, I won't be buying again. Whilst it too
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by kaolinite 11y ago
Consider using this Adblock/uBlock filter: news.ycombinator.com##td.subtext I've been using it for a week or two now. It blocks links to all comments (besides Ask HN, Show HN, etc - which is why I'm here). I've
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by kaolinite 11y ago
Your customers may not read TechCrunch but they may read The Guardian or the Wall Street Journal and if you want to get an article there, your best bet is to have an article already on TechCrunch and similar sites. It's the same reason
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by kaolinite 11y ago
This is what Homekit[1] (and Brillo[2] from Google) is trying to fix. We're early on in IoT - things are very immature right now but that doesn't mean the entire concept is flawed. [1] https://developer.apple.com/h
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by kaolinite 11y ago
Sorry, perhaps I should have been more clear - I'm not saying these cars are unreliable or will fall apart, I'm saying they're ugly and made of horrible materials. Unpleasant fabric, plastic that is textured to "look&quo
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by kaolinite 11y ago
Even though it's hard to imagine Apple making a car, there is an awful lot of smoke around this. There has to be a fire somewhere. Lots of people are wondering how Apple can differentiate in the car market - I think (surprisingly) it c
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by kaolinite 11y ago
Maybe for you (and me too) but for the general public, the default apps are used a hell of a lot. 50% of users use the default notes app[1], for example. Apple Maps (which based on the press, many might assume isn't used at all) has 3.
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by kaolinite 11y ago
He confirmed on Twitter that it'll keep being updated for the foreseeable future. https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/645060381778571265

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