Viewing profile — joslin01
joslin01
HN member- Joined
- Tue, Dec 07, 2010, 6:59 PM UTC
- HN karma
- 1,562
- Public activity
- 465 items
- HN profile
- View on Hacker News ↗
About joslin01
Recent public activity
-
comment
Comment #37725898
Hello, I had an idea to use Storj.io to backup my photos of my baby and ... well... I had to build an app to do it! At least in the way I envisioned wanting to use it. How is it di…
- story
- comment
-
comment
Comment #23246439
Big time.. I started singing 4 years ago after going through some heartbreak. It soon became an obsession to sing everyday and I can always count on it to lift me up if I'm feeling…
- comment
- story
-
story
Ask HN: Can I play video in bg of my terminal?
I enjoy playing youtube videos that have cool art w/ uplifting music while coding in Vim with iTerm. Can I bring the two together somehow similar to the background transparency fea…
-
comment
Comment #22947884
You can read their actual 2018-2022 strategy here: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/usda-stra...
-
comment
Comment #17349366
What are you protecting if you're spending all your time protecting it? What are you really scared of? Sometimes we're using our worries as deflections of a bigger problem or lack …
-
comment
Comment #17137164
Shoot, well if this is the way the world works, I better get some flash cards to talk as a doctor/mechanic/craftsmen/anything-else before I even think of talking to them. The horro…
-
comment
Comment #17129002
I feel like this is a long-winded way of saying what Linus already has famously said: "Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their …
- comment
- comment
-
comment
Comment #17119558
On one screen, I have inspirational / epic / fantasy music going with pictures always changing (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWQbkJA9ZQs ) I get bored of coding so I li…
-
comment
Comment #17115954
I'm guessing you mean "dd" and "yy" to delete/yank lines. "x" deletes a single character, what you mean extract a line? If you learn "w", which just means advance by a word, you ca…
-
comment
Comment #17104423
It was his vision that made him such a joy to be "latched onto." It's too easy to dismiss building collaborative environments with extreme talent underneath you. People aren't just…
-
comment
Comment #17014987
S/he means desert
-
comment
Comment #16970830
That signal to noise quote is actually great, and one of the reasons why the late Aaron Schwartz refused to read the news. He said in one of his essays it's far more valuable to re…
-
comment
Comment #16906755
Yep, I see dreams same way and enjoyed reading Jung a lot in college. It makes sense that stress would induce more dreams if you saw dreams as mechanisms to heal your own mind, or …
-
comment
Comment #16906530
These have happened intermittently through my life when my stress is high. This is only personal clue I can give to you "why" otherwise maybe you're just getting good at it. In my …
-
comment
Comment #16887779
I think what you're saying is fair and I realize it might be pushing it to remove the dimension of time to articulate my position. Regarding the last question, if I understood forc…
-
comment
Comment #16887120
I guess I don't see the equivalence. Time very much depends upon duration and the terms might as well be synonymous. Does space depend upon displacement? If we froze a single insta…
-
comment
Comment #16886182
Ok so you change the situation drastically by squashing them into a black hole, something nobody really understands, and tell me coffee and time are interchangeable. Right. Also I …
- comment
-
comment
Comment #16885862
Coffee is sitting there as a bunch of molecules. Can you point at time as a bunch of molecules sitting there? If not, it's not by the same token.