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I live in Melbourne (Vic, Aus), and I've always felt like the standard 4 seasons have never applied well. A chat with my partner inspired me to actually try and work out if there w…

FYI if anyone wants to pick up the kindle version of this book from Amazon, don't bother. It is an incredibly poor quality scan of a physical book, compiled horizontally and full o…

FYI using the terms ADHD/ADD when not talking about the actual disorder is often offensive to people who have ADHD. It fails to acknowledge that the condition is more complicated t…

Often you need to preserve some state that is lost when using bookmarks (e.g. scroll position, a confirmation message that will be lost on refresh, a paused game/video etc.)

This extension works really well. Feature request: I would like to be able to use some kind of wildcard/regex system to select which websites or domains it works on.

For number 115: by moving the bigger piece side to side you spin the two wheels. Each wheel spins the same amount but in opposite directions. Shafts attached to those wheels can be…

To anyone suffering significant hand, arm, neck & shoulder pain, I suggest you consider asking your doctor about Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic_…

You cannot cure ADD or ADHD. Not with our current drugs, and not with any known cognitive therapy. The article (and particularly its title) belittles those with the disorder, perha…

Would the number of professionals which only use a Mac really be at all significant compared to the number of workers in almost every business and field which use MS Office running…

I'm working and unable to spend a lot of time find the papers (for which you would need access to the journals to read) I do have this transcript of a talk which does a much better…

What do you mean by mind boosting? Do you mean that the effects of the drug when used by people with ADHD are no different then when used by an NT person, and that everyone is just…

That is a broken argument. Are you trying to suggest ADHD doesn't exist? Not being able to sit still is only one of multiple symptoms (from only one of the two categories - inatten…

Pretty sure he didn't imply that cancer drives evolution. wikipedia on cancer: "A large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide …

I'm not sure of the exact definition of immortality, but I wouldn't really count this. Without diving too far into philosophy of self: if I right now I turned into a newborn child …

"1.OOP (Object Oriented Programming) Objects can access the data members and the functions of any class. She is the object , your house is the class, members are your family and fu…

Oh wow, I used this as source material for some coursework in a distributed systems class. Leslie Lamport has a couple of things named after him I think. Logical clocks were my fav…

Running Chrome on OSX, latest update did not enable password sync for me automatically. Had to do it myself. (I did already have sync setup for my bookmarks and some other stuff at…

Ending my 2nd year of a CS degree and I have enough technical knowledge to begin coding up websites and services like many of the other people here on HN. I was wondering whether o…

I've been using a slightly different version of that gridding method to multiply numbers since I was in grade 5. Some guy came into school and showed us some "novel math", and it j…

It might stabilize with enough of a community around it, you might even see some sort of hotelling's beach situation between the leading meals. If it or anything similar takes off,…

Could you explain your position a little more? This place doesn't seem so bad. In fact, some aspects of it are downright clever. A quick browse of the 4foods website gives a pictur…

this is kinda interesting stuff. "...Here’s how it works: I create a burger, call it “The Bits Burger” and broadcast it to Twitter or Facebook. Each time someone orders my special …

If this digital data didn't have to be put away somewhere, I would make the most of intelligence. Put someone in charge, with the skills to transfer the data the newer mediums as t…

I've got a chrome extension called "hckr news". It shows you which comments on a HN thread that are new since the last time you visited that page. So far I'm liking it

I am a big fan of the older nokia phones, especially the ones with only two screen colours. I accidentally flung them across rooms, dropped them on sidewalks and even put one throu…