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NiceWayToDoIT

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NiceWayToDoIT··on Show HN: Yare.io – game where you control units with JavaScript
Is there a short video demo ?

EDIT: Sorry, I was lazy, just saw walk through tutorial, nice game, but it would be nice to have 1 min trailer.

NiceWayToDoIT··on YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos
I had a similar issue few days ago, but managed to do it with downloading my youtube account cookies with Chrome extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/get-cookiestxt/bga...

This is the command I have used: ./youtube-dl -f best -a test.txt --cookies ./youtube.com.cookies

-a test.txt - i had a bunch of URL in text file.

NiceWayToDoIT··on Tech Interviews Are Stupid
Point of the interview should be to asses knowledge and thinking process, and many other things. Definitely, it is not easy, as in one hour someone needs to assess that person is not faking his entire working history, and that has acceptable skills for the certain role.

One of the good interviews I had was with few people DB/Architecture/Testing/Coding at the end they had combined overview. Usually when I am interviewing I would allow everything, as I am more interested in thinking process of attempting to solve something than actually giving me some clever solution in extra limited time.

For me it is interesting that many companies have decoupled skills vs. money paid for those skills expectation, and often they would like to have star workaholic developers but only if they could pay them as McDonald employees. What I am trying to say, don't have an interview like you trying to employee in Google if you are are not prepared to pay those people like the Google.

NiceWayToDoIT··on Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story (2018)
In addition to my previously stated opinion, a forgot to say that I would rather heavily invest more into organ printing, and organ growing than going into Opt In/Out organ donation defaulting/forcing people to do something they have any type of objection.
NiceWayToDoIT··on Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story (2018)
Very good article, my only objection is following:

"Still, three people die in the UK every day while waiting for an organ. It should be compulsory, unless a person refuses. Opt out, not opt in — like it is in other countries. If a person would accept an organ if they were dying, then they should register as an organ donor themselves. Who would rather die than accept an organ? Nobody should die waiting for a kidney that is buried in the ground, disintegrating."

My problem with opt in automatically is that it works ethically in ideal world, but there is a also other side of the coin. In our world number of "accidents" could increase so certain wealthy people and their family members would get organs from suitable "donors". I am not implying that necessarily wealthy would do it on their own but, it is quite likely that certain black and gray market would be created. Similar like cases of stolen children during the birth, while doctors were pronouncing them as dead.

NiceWayToDoIT··on YouTube Will Monetize Videos Without Paying Content Creators
What is next?

- Google will monetize Apps without paying to the developers

- Apple will monetize Apps without paying to the developers

- Spottily will monetize songs without paying to authors

Brave New World ... :)

NiceWayToDoIT··on A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls
I thought pearls are quite strong, but I learned something today, I just learned that Pearl's Mohs hardness is 2.5 (between gypsum and calcite), meaning very soft in comparison to Diamonds (10).

I had this video in mind: https://youtu.be/nu7snTgSFeE?t=39 They do not look they are gentle with them.

Described method has repetitive manual steps: - put pearls in the trey, - take a photo - take out pearls, - put new ones ...

These steps do not look like much, but if we are talking about amount shown in video can be hundreds of hours.

Phone costs money, and making application costs developer's time and money (so nothing is free) ...

Counting device can be made by Lego, so very cheaply, here is simplistic example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YguSl_IekQ

Of course device should be made having in mind handling.

By the way application probably has a lot of sense for small dealers, or jewelries,

NiceWayToDoIT··on A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls
I am not impressed, they could cut 1000% by using: big bawl, pipe, simple mechanical sorting mechanism, and electronic counter.
NiceWayToDoIT··on UFOs regularly spotted in US airspace, report on the phenomena due next month
Very good point, it make sense. As wiki says "The Outer Space Treaty does not ban military activities within space, military space forces, or the weaponization of space, with the exception of the placement of weapons of mass destruction in space, and establishing military bases, testing weapons and conducting military maneuvers on celestial bodies.[6][7]"

So very high probability is that they need approval for additional money spending in that area.

NiceWayToDoIT··on UFOs regularly spotted in US airspace, report on the phenomena due next month
Occam's razor principle says it is the first one, honestly it does not belong to HN articles, and should be treated as click bait.
NiceWayToDoIT··on Anal oxygen administration may save lives
That was not clear enough on my side, let me find source:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/thai-die/

So, some type of ultra cheap method to get high (but quite dangerous) is to get pump air with bicycle pump into the bottom. Article above.

NiceWayToDoIT··on Anal oxygen administration may save lives
First thing I needed to check that I have not woke up in alternate reality and that today is not 1 April, after I remembered that some drug addicts use similar techniques to get high.
NiceWayToDoIT··on Framework Laptop pre-orders are open, starting at $999
Probably part of planned obsolescence, they any other part would ruin manufacturer reputation, let say if you loose data etc.
NiceWayToDoIT··on Framework Laptop pre-orders are open, starting at $999
I just hope they made unbreakable hinges
NiceWayToDoIT··on Tesla no longer accepts Bitcoin due to climate impact
I would just like to hear what those who were saying that Bitcoin is Tesla's long term position 3 months ago have to say now?
NiceWayToDoIT··on Tesla no longer accepts Bitcoin due to climate impact
It seems Elon is playing pump-and-dump game, creating significant profit, betting on one "horse" and putting a curb to others.
NiceWayToDoIT··on What Is a Nuclear Microreactor?
Anyone info about the price per MW, availability?
NiceWayToDoIT··on Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency
I do not see how will this help, it will create opinionated groups that are close to different views. So, each time someone expresses his view, the entire group can act against that person, which is exactly what happens today on the twitter, if you express unpopular view about let say "gender" topic, there will be entire cohort of hate tweets... It seems like many other ideas, this was well intended, but devs have not considered many negative type of misuse and exploits...
NiceWayToDoIT··on $1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007)
When drawing circle slow always says it is 'rectangle' ?
NiceWayToDoIT··on Bill and Melinda gates divorce after 27 years of marriage
I would argue that in wealth it is easier to separate, when people have safety cushion tolerating other side is not predominant virtue.
NiceWayToDoIT··on Bill and Melinda gates divorce after 27 years of marriage
Is this going to be one very expensive separation, so if equal parts 65 bn each ?
NiceWayToDoIT··on Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
None, what so ever, just guess, if someone acquires something it means he wants some gain out of it, what kind of gain we will see along the lines ...
NiceWayToDoIT··on Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
I those will come now with significant price tag.
NiceWayToDoIT··on Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
course of actions:

- go to github

- download all source code

- download last installation version ...

- say farewell to audacity ...

NiceWayToDoIT··on Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]
That is the reason these guys decided to Copyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJtm0MoOgiU TED talk

NiceWayToDoIT··on EU court rules software transfer is a sale (2012)
That is true but unless static address why would anyone give you exact geo location of the IP address?!

If you extend this to everything you can have massive surveillance without cookies, MAC address of device, IP address for each package and you know who is accessing what kind of content on internet. So, why wait whenever someone reads article about class 1 drug just brake his door and arrest him, isn't it ?! I mean fork privacy, democracy, and judicial process, just lets immediately arrest everyone :/

Anyway, in German scenario how can you certify that someone was not hijacking your router?

(As per friends case, they had friend who was sleeping over and connected to their Wifi ...)

NiceWayToDoIT··on EU court rules software transfer is a sale (2012)
Sorry for making error in terminology yes it is some Lawyer agency or what not, but result is the same. If someone can sniff your transport regardless who it is end result is the same, you do not have privacy and idea that you can copy something for your own or your family use is just plain wrong.

I mean you can, we can do "anything" but there are repercussions for each action.

NiceWayToDoIT··on EU court rules software transfer is a sale (2012)
What kind of copyright work? I have heard from friends in Germany that ISPs sniffing all transport so if you download movie with torrent they will send you exact titles, and ask you to pay 1000-2000 eur or they will take you to court where you will pay 1000 per each movie downloaded ... And I have friends that actually paid fine.
NiceWayToDoIT··on Utsuro-Bune
Hmmmm "probably time traveling alien from the hollow earth", :P
NiceWayToDoIT··on Google have declared Droidscript is malware
It seems this is not a rare case, I know that my friend lost great portion of his investment in the app at the point when number of users on his app was enough to start getting braking even, Google just decided that some of his users are deliberately clicking on ads.

I guess that is way when you deal with company with too much power, there is no way to appall, complain, or do anything that will save your business. So, I guess, and from few stories I read if they find out that you have type of business that is interesting for them, they can simply suffocate your business by standard mafia means, like in the movies first they send a "negotiator", then they beat you a bit, and if you do not comply they "burn" your place down.

So, company that had slogan "Don't be evil!" what a joke...

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