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DocG··on How to travel around the world for a year
I love traveling but I avoid couch-surfing like fire. I think is down to the kind of person you are.

Hostels are my time off. I can sleep in my bed as long as I want, I don't have to talk to anybody, I can pay and not ask/talk. Socializing is huge energy consumer. Hostel time is when I don't have to worry about a thing, relaxing and recharging.

DocG··on John McAfee on How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus
Let me rephrase it. It allows me to be in control when I want it. If I choose to run something it THINKS is malicious, it will let me. It is decently hidden menu for a casual user, but easy enough for people who need it. With AVG only way was to allow certain directories and it was buried under menus.
DocG··on John McAfee on How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus
For free soft, I used to install AV, but it had horrible chance of getting messed up by user by installing 30 days trial and blocking me running my small viruses on my own comupter. MSE all the way, no way to accidentally install trial and allows to run everything I want.
DocG··on Burner Phone
Although, I do see potential for this, pay with credit/debit card? It will be traceable who do I call, also it will show up in my card records. Also, there is going to be some record where it was sent. It will be probably sufficient for most users, but not all.

I have it a little bit better, but not perfect.

For 15 euros I will get phone + prepaid card. I can buy it from any local gas station or kiosk or mall, I can have some homeless to buy it for me.

Prepaid over here means, it is as simple as old school phone cards. No name, no bank accounts, no contract, no credit/debit card. Cash and goodbye.

I can also allow roaming just by sending sms to specific number(if it is not allowed), it will work almost everywhere(although the prices will be pretty high)

(source(sorry, translator don't work with https https://www.elisa.ee/et/Eraklient/konekaart/konekomplekt/eli...)

DocG··on What is happening in İstanbul?
Uh, I am moving there at the end of the summer. That is pretty much last thing I want to see at the moment. I am hoping they manage to finish this thing before.

Although, I would prefer Turkey to be peaceful, I do understand and agree with these protest.

If there happens the worst case scenario and real revolution, does anyone have info, how safe it is after that usually?

DocG··on The Facebook experiment has failed
After MSN went bad with WLM and Skype(its awful, online list seems to be random), it is last place where most people talk. And it is mainly used as messenger/email hybrid platform. Around my friends, it is main reason why we are still there...

So I kinda agree. Almost no stories what pick my intrest. Only win-to-share post and not relevant post.

DocG··on Police Response to School Water Balloon Fight: Violence and Arrests
original story with video about incident http://www.wral.com/parents-question-police-response-to-enlo...

I wonder why it was posted as reason.com link, this article is half the thing only.

DocG··on The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr
I most curious what does it mean for me, as tumblr poster. Couple of months ago I started OC artwork blog on tumblr.

Now I must probably wait until this things settles, to know is it worth investing my time or not, what changes they are going to make etc.

DocG··on Nokia Asha 501: Impressive Low-end Touchscreen Phone for $99
For all the non-impressed people. It was unveiled in New Delhi, meaning it focus group isn't western world. It is not meant for you, who already own a smartphone.

And for its focus group, it is pretty darn impressive. Battery life for people who don't have toilet, not mentioning wall outlets.

edit: I think it would be perfect phone for kids first phone. Simple, cheap, good battery, durable.

DocG··on Teacher 'powerless' to stop ex-girlfriend's cyberstalking
Of course he should keep away from social accounts. Other than that, I doubt she would find him.

Basically like new identity.

It would help to clean his name for future employees. Also, a really common name would help probably.

DocG··on Teacher 'powerless' to stop ex-girlfriend's cyberstalking
change name and life
DocG··on Teacher 'powerless' to stop ex-girlfriend's cyberstalking
He should learn to secure his online doings and then create new everything. Also, should keep away from social accounts.

Name change would really help and if kept quiet, zeros harasser's work. It's not about whats right, it's just the easiest way.

DocG··on I am burning out
take six months off, if you can.

rearrange life, priorities things you like to do. Fuck the other stuff. Say no to people, say no to "must do" things.

Stop coding, building whatever. Help your son, go traveling, read a fantasy book, whatever.

And this is how you avoid burning out and improve your life quality.

Some relatives of mine, in Europe, have taken sick days, up to six months from work stress. They were on verge of burning out. They still got income. Also, employee don't need to know, why are you sick. It is private matter between you and your doctor.

DocG··on Sleep: Everything You Need to Know
I think drinking cold water before bed is not as good as you make it to be.

Cold water is like shock to your system. It wakes your body up.

Your body needs to work on warming the water first.

Although water itself should be good, warm/hand temperature water should be best.

DocG··on We used to sleep twice each night
Same here. I get tired early but I force myself to stay up, because I will wake up around 12 then.

Another interesting pattern is that I can't go to sleep after midnight. I have to be really tired to start sleeping between 00 and 01. 21-00 is all good, also after 1 or 2 I can start sleeping easily

Well, I think I will give my new sleeping pattern a chance

DocG··on The Minuum keyboard project: mobile keyboards reimagined
Most non English languages don't work with these. My main language speaker count is 1 miljon. I am not going to get auto-correction for this anywhere soon(assuming it uses it). And my language happens to have some special letters, so without changing keyboard, you can't just switch vocabulary(we bypass it by using numbers, but this makes text non computer readable).
DocG··on Wanted: People Willing to Die on Mars
The big question is, Is this my only chance to get to Mars? Or am I young enough to get artificially longer life, to get round trip to mars? Or do I die before it is possible? Can I live on Mars long enough for round trips to get frequent? Is science advanced enough to keep me live after getting back(c'mon, I am piece of history then, first ones on Mars, of course they are going to keep me alive if they can)?

What are you betting on?

DocG··on Procrastination is Not Laziness
all goes for me also. but For some bigger things I need extra prepare time. Specially communicating with strangers, its mentally exhausting. So phone call might take me 24h instead of 10 minutes, but then I am not out of energy, after that call. I am really good at talking with strangers and organizing and nobody knows, but it takes huge amounts of energy.

And often, procrastination helps. With bigger plans or things, mind subconsciousnessly tackles problems, while I am "resting". And after that procrastination period, I know the answer I didn't know before.

DocG··on Thai character ก็็็็็ (ก) gets rendered in a strange way
Oh gawd, there are dirt all over my screen now..
DocG··on SimCity Burning: A Warning to Publishers on The Dangers of Always-Online DRM
You are right.

People have managed to play trough server crashes without noticing. Only after they quit to region, it disconnects.

City is managed locally. Only region management save files are server side.

DocG··on SimCity Burning: A Warning to Publishers on The Dangers of Always-Online DRM
All your city is managed in your local PC. Everything runs fine, only saving is cloud. Proof is that people have played though server crashes without noticing, up to 40 minutes.

But, region management is server side.

So basically, if one manages to skip log in and makes save-s local then one can play single city offline.

This is as much information as I have at the moment.

DocG··on Mars trip to use astronaut poo as radiation shield
Another silly question, we don't use magnetic fields for deflecting radiation because we can build only weak magnets?

(just idea, electricity comes from solar panels/"nuke plants" and is probably only non ending resource in space.)

A burst from capacitors for powerful electromagnet, could be future?

edit: found answer from comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5315143

DocG··on How not to send password reset notification email
worst cases of emails I have gotten are from Sony. For example, Planetside 2 beta acceptance letter came from info@e-sonyonline.com and without ANY personal information. It was the most generic official letter I have received. Link to download PS2 was also from link.e-sonyonline.com. I disregarded it first, only after a while, discovering it was genuine. And a lot of people are having doubts about this aadress, just google it.

Also, their password reset letter comes from something like contact@p7s1games.net. I usually disregard everything like this automatically. Luckily reset link is planetside2.eu.

DocG··on Evernote hacked
Not cool. I use evernote for throwaway email passwords. And storing some usernames, without passwords. Just to remember usernames.

I wouldn't lose anything, it would be just inconvenient for me.

DocG··on The MS Surface Pro
Really good review!

It has changed my mind on surface pro. It will still be out of my price range and I am not going to buy it, but it has changed my mind about it.

Best tradeoff for MS with surface series ever? For one tablet, HN is changing its mind?:D

DocG··on I Can't Find a Single Productive Use For My Tablet
I tough similarly, but now I have found spot for tablet in my life.

It is not my home work tool. Hell no, downgrading from three screens to one small? no.

I use low end Android phone, so I charge it only twice a week, but this means I cant use it for other purposes so well. Tablet is the thing I take with me whenever I leave house or go on a bigger trip. Battery life+ portability. Traveling abroad, maps, internet, hostels, emails, everything. It is perfect for these things, better than laptop. It is nothing I would prefer over real computer inside the house. But I prefer it every time I leave the house.

nexus 7 is my choice.

DocG··on I'm a shut-in. This is my story
I will read it to the end, half way, got to go, but two things: I am year older than you, you know what psychologist said to me, only time I ever visited her(I had to, for some paperwork)? I am still not grown up. If you are under 30, you are still not fully developed.

Second, there seems to be unlucky amount of not your kind of people around you. I have managed to find people, who seem "default" on the surface, because they have to, but the praise different. Almost any kind, there is no "you are too weird". And it helps, its awesome.

DocG··on Ubuntu on tablets
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation +otg cable for any usb keyboard or use BT keyboard.

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DocG··on Why HN was down
I think we have a new king!

Awesome explanation.

DocG··on Wi-Fi patent troll hit with racketeering suit emerges unscathed
True, it has drawbacks. I am sadly not too familiar with the whole system. I just know people try to leave court as last chance.

But it also means, I wont probably get sued for opening a door to a woman.

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