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hellotoby

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    Comment #34387922

    To quote Dawkins: We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could …

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    Comment #34387117

    I guess this is being downvoted because HN isn't really a place where existential nihilists hang out. But in all honesty, isn't it incredible that anything happens at all! That giv…

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    Comment #34387018

    Once you can accept that your own life is insignificant and essentially meaningless, you can stop worrying about how many weeks, days, months or minutes you'll be here for and just…

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    Comment #33825601

    Location: Sydney, Australia Remote: Open to it Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Team management, Strategic planning, Solution design and architecture, Full stack (mostly Javas…

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    Comment #33647966

    Most tickets I buy these days seem to be through Humanitix ( https://humanitix.com/au ). The shift seems to have happened fairly recently though.

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    Comment #33555859

    "Be kind to yourself" - My grandfather.

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    Comment #30796473

    https://feedbin.com/

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    Comment #30681694

    https://render.com/

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    Comment #29375442

    I'm always interested in other alternate Internets. If you're feeling over the existing web there's always Gemini or DAT to conjure up those warm fuzzies of the early net. - https:…

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    Comment #26084141

    As a team we play a game of Geoguessr ( https://www.geoguessr.com/ ) on Friday afternoons. It's fun to have some friendly rivalry and banter and de-compress together after a week o…

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    Comment #20671780

    You may like the Temporary Container add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

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    Comment #11004284

    I made a quick VR version of the panorama* (using aframe.io) if anyone's interested. http://tobyvervaart.com.au/moon/ * caveats: probably not to the correct scale

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    Comment #6382918

    I see new ad/paywall hybrids springing up, whereby adblock users are detected and presented with a paywall / donation / nag screen and regular users are shown display ads.

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    Comment #5683944

    I use Notes app which comes bundled with OS X Mountain Lion, in which I keep lists of books I'd like to read. For articles which I'd like to read later, I use Instapaper.

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    Comment #5482238

    Just listened to this. If you like this kind of ambient music then I recommend you take a look at the works by Geotic. http://www.angelfire.com/indie/postfoetus/geotic.html

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    Comment #4752447

    If I knew that the world would end in 2 years the last thing I would be doing is working. I would spend that time with family and loved ones.

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    Comment #4520754

    Hi. Firstly, it sounds like you have manic depression (extreme highs and extreme lows), however I am not a doctor, so please talk to someone about how you're feeling so they can ma…

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    Comment #4488332

    It's possible that these things could happen. It's also possible that you are paranoid.

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    Comment #3691753

    You can also add these stylesheets to Safari using the User CSS plugin, found here: http://code.grid.in.th/

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    Comment #3655876

    Perhaps you should see Bipolar / Manic Depressive disorder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder There are many forms of depression as well as Major Depressive Disorder.

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    Comment #3610768

    Great! Thank you.

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    Comment #3610767

    I hadn't heard of Ban.jo. Looks great. Thank you!

  23. story
    Ask HN: Public Social Media APIs with geolocation data

    I'm working on an MVP which displays geolocated data from social sites on a map. So far I'm importing json data from the following sites: - Instagram - Twitter I'm looking for more…

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    Comment #3544802

    Thanks for the heads up on Jason. I work with a lot of web apis and this looks like a great tool for browsing json responses.

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    Comment #3241848

    I feel this way too just not about Apple products, but about HTML. These surely are great days to be a web developer. HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript coupled with great browser support.…