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Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by deft »

gdulli wrote: post #107
danielvf wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We’re you thinking of the author of zeromq? http://hintjens.com/blog:115 “A protocol for dying”

No, this was someone who was still in good health and wanted to be proactive about avoiding possible future sickness and even just aging. But thanks for posting that.

Are you talking about the guy who ended up killing himself, revealing a never ending manifesto-like site upon his suicide? I'd like to find that again myself.

EDIT: one google search and here it is: http://www.businessinsider.com/ex-sports-writer-kills-himsel...

The site looks like it's down now though.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by severine »

Teichopsia wrote: post #84

I've been trying to find an email server which was mentioned in a comment a few months ago. I read through the setup instructions - the only point I remember is once it's setup one can add as many domains to it as one wants - if I remember correctly. There were several that popped up this past year, https://mailinabox.email this being one of them but I don't think it was the one I'm talking about. The setup instructi…

Citadel? http://www.citadel.org/doku.php?id=features

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by deft »

Darkenetor wrote: post #83
zerostar07 wrote: post #71

Off topic, but browsers should be appending the referrer page in the history list when openning a new browser tab. Countless times i've lost an article because i opened a link and much later discovered i had somehow closed the opener page.

This saved me a lot of time for these cases https://github.com/program-in-chinese/HistoryInThreads_WebEx...

Saving this for later. Bookmark.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by amikazmi »

amikazmi wrote: post #58

Someone posted a youtube talk about Game Design that's applicable to general product design... I remember it was really good, but couldn't find it anymore

Forgot to mention that the youtube video I saw was in english..

the "What Game UX Can Teach Designers about Product Design" article is pretty great too! thank you for sharing!

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by arjunbajaj »

orbuch wrote: post #157
arjunbajaj wrote: post #95

A service that converts PDF research papers into a clean readable webpage. Their example paper was a research paper with two columns and diagrams to show their service actually works well. I searched a couple of times but couldn't find them again...

perhaps https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/ ?

Yes that's the one! Thank you so much!

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by daveguy »

cm2012 wrote: post #219
daveguy wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Completely disagree about the fried chicken part of the equation. The more fried chicken the better.

Its not making a judgment call, just a correlation.

I wasn't making a judgement call either. Just stating how much I like fried chicken.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by snailmailman »

teddyh wrote: post #43
snailmailman wrote: post #21

Not a "interesting thought" really, but I thought someone posted a link to a site for "un-mangling" text. would fix all the formatting issues like &amp, and other various issues caused by copy/pasting text from place to place. I forget what I was doing recently but I thought "I should use that site" and couldn't find it anywhere after lots of searching. I should have bookmarked it :-/

You probably mean this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16103356

Ah, yes this was it! thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by rkda »

icc97 wrote: post #203
rkda wrote: post #181

Not sure if it was on HN but it was a short story about an old retired sys admin in an age where everything runs on the cloud. One day, something went wrong in a data center and he was called to fix it because robots manage everything now and nobody knows how to fix things anymore. He was accompanied by a younger sysadmin IT person as he fixed a server or something. By the end of it, the younger IT person wanted to l…

Reminds me of the sysadmin XKCD: https://xkcd.com/705/

Heh. That's always a good one. I'm not sure anymore if I found it here or on Nat Torkington's four short links.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by rkda »

rkda wrote: post #181

Not sure if it was on HN but it was a short story about an old retired sys admin in an age where everything runs on the cloud. One day, something went wrong in a data center and he was called to fix it because robots manage everything now and nobody knows how to fix things anymore. He was accompanied by a younger sysadmin IT person as he fixed a server or something. By the end of it, the younger IT person wanted to l…

I found it! It's Hardware Guy

http://praxagora.com/fiction/hardware_guy/

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