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LostWandereron BlackBerry will shutter its app store on December 31st, 2019

For 7 years i have been searching for the perfect phone but everytime the phones grow bigger and more touchy. Maybe a gameboy styled modular phone could do the needful,but the touch phone era has dashed all my dreams of having a compact phone with tactile keys. Hopefully the the next year will be better

LostWandereron Bees Are Bouncing Back from Colony Collapse Disorder

Have the street cars and lamp-posts changed their lighting to LED?

LostWandereron The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity

I wonder if there is a link between life originating from the sea and the ability of using our hearing as the main sensory organ to detect other objects.

And maybe we over relied on some senses and made an education system which relied on certain sense organs more than other senses. But talking about Smartphones,we may be coming to a full circle with Voice assisted AI is gaining ground.

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I would suggest you to read The book 'A brave new world' By Aldous Huxley which predicted how the information overloaded numbness works in a beautiful way

LostWandereron Microsoft Surface Laptop Teardown

I always wonder if there will ever be a modular laptop coming out with a 10 to 15 year lifetime.

Whenever there is a technological stabilization round the corner,There is another different kind of device created and people run towards the new device.

LostWandereron The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]

I sometimes work in curious ways. Recently i have been printing the HN articles and reading them at random intervals like just before going for a jog,Thinking on one's feet is a wonderful experience

LostWandereron E-cigarettes ‘Potentially as Harmful as Tobacco Cigarettes’

If i consume 100 smokes vs 100 vapes equivalent then what will be the total damage done to the enviornment in each case,starting from the production to disposal?

LostWandereron Ask HN: What if we built new cities with a strictly limited footprint?

A lot of issues would be solved if multiple such cities covered a state,however if there will be only a few such beautiful cities then expect the crowd coming in all the time and once the momemtum picks up the city will expand. And controlling the crowd can be a nightmare. But it can be achieved. Adding a low carbon footprint methods like solar cookers,urban forests(dont mind the insects) may help also. The concern with such an idea has been scaling up in a sustainable manner,almost every ideal city has ruined because of the population boom

LostWandereron Ask HN: Non-developers: What brings you to HN?

Thank you.

There is nothing more satisfying than to see the spark of interest and wonder reignite in a child.

Keep up your good job people, I hope to pickup coding from where i left. I remember the good old days of basic and logo,They were fun to start programming with.

LostWandereron Ask HN: Non-developers: What brings you to HN?

I teach in places where there is almost zero education, heavy child trafficking.As i learn from HN, I try to teach them to kids(Remember that calculus made easy book? or those fun reads) They enjoy the true essence of learning and discovering the world from their own eyes.

I hope that someday these kids will become self learners and help other kids do the same. Even learning how to send an SOS signal from a phone can be a lifesaver for these kids.

That day is still far off but it is possible.And believe me,Kids are super smart and I am sure that my students will change their lives on their own. All i can do is give them that offbeat motivation.

And the crowd here is very good,Thanks.

LostWandereron The Bibighar Massacre: The Darkest Days of the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Or the 5k-10k indians that die each day b/c westerners don't let us have access to viable uranium powered energy? ---------

Slightly off topic but there seems to be a historical love for past events and catastrophes,But the present is hidden from the limelight

http://www.dianuke.org/whats-killing-the-children-in-jadugod...

This nuclear issue is like a trickling bomb for the past 40 years.

LostWandereron PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

something like a nintendo gameboy styled phone with ports?

LostWandereron Ask HN: Recommendations for educational video games

i would love to make games which mix augmented reality and education....

Understanding speed or how the shapes and shadows work outside.. I believe education lies beyond the walls of a classroom.

One anecdote: i once taught kids multiplication and speed with walking and running as the base exercises... They understood in no time, of course tech could have helped making it easier but there is hardly any tech which the children conceptualise,would be great though

LostWandereron Ask HN: Is there a project to preserve some of the Internet in non-digital form?

One of the most permanent and time tested ways of storing data is etching it on a stone... Its storage time basically may be upto millions of years...I actually wont mind storing some essential data on steel disks or paper (both compressed and noncompressed will do)

One huge solar storm may be enough to cripple our networks for a good amount of time.... Now this leads me to ask,what happens to the dams,nuclear plants when a very power solar burst hits them

LostWandereron PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

Will it be possible to revive the old Symbian button phones through this or some similar project?

LostWandereron Ask HN: How can I do social good through programming?

I am working on restarting tech from the ground up in rural places. It always amazes me on how phones get so easily addictive but hardly have much utility values.Like recording the environmental changes or just simple information dissipation to their peers would do wonders to help them. Something i have been very interested in the use of local languages in developing areas in spreading of their rights and information

LostWandereron Silicon Valley’s $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze

Such a bad design flaw,How come the intelligent investors pushed for this device? What are some of the red flags that one should keep in mind to avoid such issues?

Sometimes I cannot fathom the depth of laziness we have gone into,But hey.. Laziness has been the driving force for the evolution of humans

LostWandereron How to Raise a Creative Child – Step One: Back Off (2016)

This may be a shot in the dark but try looking for doctors who interact and are cheerful(to their patients). The referral thing between the patients is very strong so more patients will come and will feel good which works as a catalyst(Both the parties will have a good amount of dopamine flowing). And eventually the variety and number of patients will increase and so the doctor will have more practice and become better!

In the far off rural areas where connectivity is almost nil,The doctors rarely go to the hospitals and the doctor's assistant does more work,becoming at par with the doctors in a few years.

LostWandereron Ask HN: Could hackers prevent WW3?

Maybe not but pockets of hackers can be there to prevent the damage from spreading. Here is my take on what a post-nuclear war hacker may look like. Solar energy may not be available so charging points have to be something like a bicycle modifiable to a tent(Maybe mod the tyres into wind energy devices and a fan). More single board computers with outernet(?) plugged in. It will be interesting to see how peer to peer networks

LostWandereron John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music

Is it possible to paint by playing music?

Not exactly thinking of a visualiser but it would be interesting to see how one could actually do that

LostWandereron A Cuban man trying to build the world's tallest bike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-XS4aueDUg

How Cuba DIY's its existence Quite bunch of interesting hackers

LostWandereron Sleep Is the New Status Symbol

I travel regularly to tribal places! Some of them dont have electricity and they sleep at around 8pm and wake up early at 5 am. But the people who go to cities and come back sleep really late! The shift has been very dramatic and the more technology is adopted there seems to be an increase in discontent in an otherwise peaceful life.

On a side note: Earlier the tribals used to negotiate when there was a fight or crime,But once the police station opened the people seem to netgotiate less and use a third party to resolve the issue

LostWandereron Children prefer to read books on paper rather than screens

There is something interesting happening with the kids these days, They are being handed over tablet devices as soon as possible. My concern rises from the hand movements which is in a swipe , How Does this restriction of movement in the formative years affect the child in the later years?

LostWandereron New Nokia 3310 will be practically unusable in many countries, including US

I guess not!

There is still a huge population which wants basic phones as a backup atleast. There are places in india where electricity is not so easy to get and the monthly salary is still under 100$ The senior citizens even though have migrated to smartphones stil are in the dire need of a durable small phone.

I feel apple may also jump in with a luxury feature phone,Just a matter of time

LostWandereron Nokia 3310 hands-on

What are the possibilities of application development in feature phones? Are we seeing the return of feature phones with possible voice functions in the very near future.

LostWandereron Ask HN: What is your best passive income in 2017?

-Woodworking -Teaching older people on how to use Feature phones/Smart phones

LostWandereron Ask HN: Best feature phone in 2017?

casio makes some good rugged phones... I guess they came up with a 3g 5mp camera feature phone

LostWandereron Ask HN: What are important climate science opensource projects?

There is this crypto currency called gridcoin where you lend your machine's processing power for researches like climate change,cancer research... Very intersting projects there

LostWandereron Ask HN: What do you want from a coffee startup?

And with a bio-degradable packaging.

LostWandereron The Case for Ubuntu Phone

I also liked the concept of Firefox basic phone.. It was interesting to have smart features in a feature phone