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simopaa

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About simopaa

github: spaasis

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    Tell HN: xscode.com may be using your GitHub profile

    Apparently https://xscode.com scrapes public github profiles and makes it look like they are ready to "chat". Without permission, naturally. Check https://xscode.com/profile/ The p…

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    What could tech do to make solving this problem easier? I stumbled on iNaturalist [1], a crowd-sourced platform for doing species identifications that is also (at least partly) ope…

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    Comment #16528062

    If I recall what I've been taught correctly, the reason why viruses are not considered 'life' is that they have no metabolism of their own. https://www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/…

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    Comment #14646315

    This is most likely due to the Office bug: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/here-is-a-fix-for-mi...

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    Comment #14526326

    Set up Akasha out of interest and it does seem really promising. Thanks for the tip!

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    Comment #14403945

    I switched to nano recently, and it wasn't as easy as it perhaps should have been: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36802996/bash-nano-comma...

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    Ask HN: Do you keep a developer diary?

    I recently was struggling with an design/architecture issue all day, and when I was finished I thought about writing down some thoughts about the what/how/why aspects of my solutio…

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    Comment #14298224

    In the same vein, I'm curious about the workflow and tooling here. Being used to Visual Studio+XAML kind of WYSIWYG editing, is there anything similar in Kivy? Or do you write code…

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    Comment #14280093

    Solid advice, thanks! Hadn't really considered that the company might like to replace me with another, cheaper student. I do, however, consider my position guaranteed for at least …

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    Ask HN: Should I go full time in my main job?

    For the past three years I've been working part time (0 hour contract) as a developer while completing my studies. Now that I'm graduating, I have a choice between going full-time …

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    Comment #14089392

    I read in a local science magazine that (paraphrasing) no matter if all the cars were electric - as long as people keep flying, the amount of benzine produced would stay roughly th…

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    Comment #14089159

    We have been using http://rocket.chat at work and it works beautifully. Slack was never an option for it was not self-hostable

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    Comment #14012414

    As I finally decided to move away from LastPass (giving Enpass a shot) and tried to delete my account, I noticed in the advanced settings that the option "Keep track of login and f…

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    Ask HN: Open data as a career – what to learn?

    I've been increasingly interested in pursuing a career (or at least doing some work) at open data, by which I mean ie. opening and managing government data and APIs. I think that o…

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    Comment #13328781

    You are absolutely correct about that the water aspect is not vertical related in any way. I'm just used to seeing vertical and aeroponics going so hand-in-hand that I totally forg…

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    Comment #13326283

    I think that the most important potential with vertical farming is not the smaller area requirement, but the tremendous water saving that can be achieved. For example in areas like…

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    I can confirm that this seems to work, although adding the spoofer somehow messed with the Netflix UI loading so that it loads maybe 1/10 previews and is otherwise all black.. Sham…

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    Comment #13121350

    Okay, fixed now!