great list and wonderful photos!
> Redditors may be the tastemakers of a small incredibly self-referential corner of the Internet, but have approximately zero influence on the Internet that everyone else uses. Some reddit topics/threads were…
I thought about creating something very similar for years but never began actually working on it. Chances are, many people were thinking about building such a platform during the last couple of years. It is weird…
This reminds me of the Coué method: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Cou%C3%A9#The_Cou.C3... I noticed this pattern too, but doubt that it is healthy. It might help reaching goals but at the same time it distorts…
> HN's most attractive feature from day one has always been the positive, intelligent, supportive community. Those are not traits you tend to find in your typical 9-5 programmer I guess this is because HN attracts…
"* It completely ignores people that read the post but didn't vote. There really is no way to get a perfect count of this no matter how much scroll logging, but you could approximate it and then include it in the…
" Common misinterpretation on how Google handle `Disallow` in robots.txt" Here is why I think this happened: http://www.facebook.com/humans.txt ;)
To log bits of information quickly I added this to my .bashrc: log(){ date >> ~/log/$* ; cat >> ~/log/$* ; } I try to keep it simple but I keep several files. There is one for general ideas which is…
The scary part wasn't necessary to experience something wonderful. I am producing electronic music myself. These days, where the internet is mainstream I don't dare posting anything online. About 9 years ago, things…
My first thought after reading his post was not that he was successful "even though" but "because" he had no computer. It forced him to learn more efficiently when he sat in front of one. If you have access to a…
On a related note: It always saddens me when news programs on TV use footage from youtube and don't mention the author but youtube as source.
"It's getting a lot of coverage and attention overseas where it should be" I wish that would be true. Here in Germany, "Tagesschau" is the biggest news program on television. And they didn't report anything about the…
If you run linux, I recommend BasKet: http://basket.kde.org/
Normalization wouldn't help as the problem is compression. If A has a very narrow dynamic range (because it is heavily compressed) and B a rather broad one - think metal band vs orchestra - then after normalization A…
Technically, 0db is the loudest a digital signal can be. For the perceived loudness, however, the average loudness is what matters. If you have a recording of something that is loud for just a millisecond and the rest…
Well, Parlament is German for parliament. So that mistake is easily made ;-)
I don't agree with the article at all. The author advocates that you should change the environment around you so less discipline is needed to stay focused. I think this is counter productive. If this were a fundamental…
Risking it all - Bolivia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZEN-qA0e94
I experience this problem on a daily basis, too. A few days ago I decided to set up another user account on Ubuntu. That one, I use from 9 to 5. On this account only work related programs can be used (but no e-mail…
great list and wonderful photos!
> Redditors may be the tastemakers of a small incredibly self-referential corner of the Internet, but have approximately zero influence on the Internet that everyone else uses. Some reddit topics/threads were…
I thought about creating something very similar for years but never began actually working on it. Chances are, many people were thinking about building such a platform during the last couple of years. It is weird…
This reminds me of the Coué method: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Cou%C3%A9#The_Cou.C3... I noticed this pattern too, but doubt that it is healthy. It might help reaching goals but at the same time it distorts…
> HN's most attractive feature from day one has always been the positive, intelligent, supportive community. Those are not traits you tend to find in your typical 9-5 programmer I guess this is because HN attracts…
"* It completely ignores people that read the post but didn't vote. There really is no way to get a perfect count of this no matter how much scroll logging, but you could approximate it and then include it in the…
" Common misinterpretation on how Google handle `Disallow` in robots.txt" Here is why I think this happened: http://www.facebook.com/humans.txt ;)
To log bits of information quickly I added this to my .bashrc: log(){ date >> ~/log/$* ; cat >> ~/log/$* ; } I try to keep it simple but I keep several files. There is one for general ideas which is…
The scary part wasn't necessary to experience something wonderful. I am producing electronic music myself. These days, where the internet is mainstream I don't dare posting anything online. About 9 years ago, things…
My first thought after reading his post was not that he was successful "even though" but "because" he had no computer. It forced him to learn more efficiently when he sat in front of one. If you have access to a…
On a related note: It always saddens me when news programs on TV use footage from youtube and don't mention the author but youtube as source.
"It's getting a lot of coverage and attention overseas where it should be" I wish that would be true. Here in Germany, "Tagesschau" is the biggest news program on television. And they didn't report anything about the…
If you run linux, I recommend BasKet: http://basket.kde.org/
Normalization wouldn't help as the problem is compression. If A has a very narrow dynamic range (because it is heavily compressed) and B a rather broad one - think metal band vs orchestra - then after normalization A…
Technically, 0db is the loudest a digital signal can be. For the perceived loudness, however, the average loudness is what matters. If you have a recording of something that is loud for just a millisecond and the rest…
Well, Parlament is German for parliament. So that mistake is easily made ;-)
I don't agree with the article at all. The author advocates that you should change the environment around you so less discipline is needed to stay focused. I think this is counter productive. If this were a fundamental…
Risking it all - Bolivia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZEN-qA0e94
I experience this problem on a daily basis, too. A few days ago I decided to set up another user account on Ubuntu. That one, I use from 9 to 5. On this account only work related programs can be used (but no e-mail…