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CWIZO··on From Nand to Tetris (2017)
Is the online course and the book the same material? Trying to figure out if I need both or either.
CWIZO··on Breaking free of plastic pollution
Yes and all the other discarded equipment. It's a massive problem.
CWIZO··on PHOLED Will Transform Displays
Can you point me in the right direction so that I as someone that didn't know this exists up until now could learn enough to know what and where to buy?
CWIZO··on Breaking free of plastic pollution
The good thing about reducing/ eliminating meat consumption is that it would actually help with plastic as well. Mainly because the fishing industry is responsible for over 50% of the plastic pollution in the oceans. And because you reduce the packaging waste of all that meat being sold.
CWIZO··on Australia's overuse of antibiotics driving rate of drug-resistant infections
You're not going to suffer your whole life if you don't eat animals, not a very apt comparison.
CWIZO··on 10k Bounty for Rewriting Prettier in Rust
Would love to learn more if you have any resources available?
CWIZO··on Banging errors in Go
I like this. Do you have any real life examples to share or a blog diving deeper into it?

We have no standards for this at our place and I think this might be a nice starting point to introduce something.

CWIZO··on Why don’t Americans eat mutton?
You're reasoning isn't sound here. Same logic can be applied to other things: breeding dogs to dog fight, breeding humans for organ harvest, etc. And presumably you wouldn't think those justify things.

I would also ask you to consider if you'd like to be born as a creature that will be mutilated, abused and ultimately painfully killed and if you would consider that preferable to never existing.

CWIZO··on Glove80 Ergonomic Keyboard
Regular keyboards are why many people end up with wrist/hand/shoulder/etc. pain. Perhaps going as "extreme" as something like Glove80 is unnecessary for most, but I wouldn't recommend a regular keyboard to anyone that types at least a few hours a day.
CWIZO··on My favourite 3 lines of CSS
I haven't done CSS in about 6 years. So I don't understand why you'd ever use OP's version over yours?
CWIZO··on Working at Google: Maps
This is a strange article. Why did the author feel the need to include the pictures of two random guys that were put on the project and are not even relevant to any of what he writes about?

One of many strange things about it. The other being the story suddenly turns into a tutorial about some maps feature.

CWIZO··on Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress (2011)
Nice, I'll go trough this things. I'll be in touch if I have any questions. Thanks.
CWIZO··on Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress (2011)
How does that work, going to a therapist? He knows how to ask the right questions? How many sessions did you have to go to? I don't have massive amounts of money unfortunately.
CWIZO··on Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress (2011)
Does anyone have any experience with meditation and RSI? I've been having RSI(like) problems for almost 3 years now. Recently I've read the Mindbody Prescription book[0] after finding this HN thread[1]. I must say it did help somewhat but I think I'm still in the process of healing myself. The bit I'm struggling is uncovering suppressed feelings and emotions. So I'm wondering wether meditation would help here. Any thoughts?

[0] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body-P...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1269951

CWIZO··on Why Programmers work at night (2011)
This is SPAM!

The original blog post, written by Swizec[0] can be read on his blog: http://swizec.com/blog/why-programmers-work-at-night/swizec/...

Can mods please change this submission?

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Swizec

CWIZO··on Pay Phones in NYC Will Become Free Wi-Fi Hot Spots
On a related note; London is transforming the payphones into free charging stations.
CWIZO··on Hound: Review JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and Ruby code for style guide violations
Shame this only works with GitHub. We use stash at work. And I would LOVE to have this. I'm very sensitive to this stuff, and I always have to be that guy :/
CWIZO··on Show HN: Cobalt2 theme and colour scheme for Sublime Text
Wait, I thought it's not possible to style the sidebar in ST (or at least not much)? I was searching for a plugin that would show Git status in my sidebar (as Atom does) but everywhere I looked people were saying it's not possible because of this limitation in ST.

Looks very good btw.

CWIZO··on Hacker News Leaderboard
Wrong thread? :)
CWIZO··on Headphones/earphones for work
Does anyone know of good headphones with a microphone and that they are over-the-ear type or have noise cancellation?
CWIZO··on Roadmap to Alpha Centauri
Imagine a ship travels at 1.5x the speed of light. Now imagine the signal from the "steering wheel" travels to the ruder with light speed. You turn the wheel. Before the ruder gets the signal and turns (and let's ignore human reaction time) the ship has already traveled however much distance you cover when traveling at half the speed of light. You would have an enormous lag basically.

Something like that :) I'm rubbish at physics :)

CWIZO··on Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience
Hey, great job with the app. I use it all the time, but I do have one complaint.

I live, literally, next to the Langdon Park DLR station. Any time I use CM to get directions to the center, it will either send me to the Jubilee line, or to the Central line, which is fine. But, it always sends me to Stratford first, which is in zone 3. Why? I know, it's faster (and cheaper) to either go to Canarry Wharf, and to a 2 minute walk from the DLR station to the tube for the Jubilee line. Or go to Bow Church DLR and walk to Bow Road tube, and then transfer at mile end to central line.

Basically it seems, CM tries to avoid walking as much as possible, even if that means taking a longer&more expensive journey. Can you guys do something about that? If nothing else, an option that let's me specify that I don't mind a bit of walking.

CWIZO··on Show HN: Opp.io – Meeting Minutes Made Useful
As a non native speaker, I had to look up the definition of succinct, which was the very first thing I saw on the page. And I consider myself a very good English speaker.

So you might want to change that word to something a broader audience would understand.

CWIZO··on Show HN: Simple algorithmic trading in JavaScript
That's not true. Our company (http://www.caplin.com/business/page/fx-motif) provides SDP solutions written in JavaScript. Works great.
CWIZO··on Show HN: Simple algorithmic trading in JavaScript
Good job Kafton :) Glad you released it :)
CWIZO··on Recommending music on Spotify with deep learning
This is all great stuff. But until Spotify fixes some very low hanging fruit problems, such as not playing a song ever again if I click "don't like", I find it hard to believe they will use anything remotely complex as this.
CWIZO··on Why Europeans Don't Refrigerate Their Eggs
I live in the UK now, and coming from Slovenia I still keep my eggs in the fridge when I bring them home. They are not friged in the store though.
CWIZO··on GitHub is your resume so keep your resume in GitHub
Well, for the majority of us that is not the case. If you work for Mozilla (or something like that) then great, but to expect the same from everyone is just ridiculous.
CWIZO··on Prosthetic Arm From Segway Inventor Cleared by FDA
Could this be used to type on a keyboard? Or if anyone knows of a hand which would allow the wearer to do that?

I really like the general progress in this field and I can imagine in 5-10 years they will have completely functional prosthetics.

CWIZO··on CityMapper – Point to Point City Directions
Yep. It's the reason why I stopped using FS all together ...
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