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I did something similar for a few clients, but mainly for automating documents. People were copying and pasting between Excel and Word, so I made them systems that link the two together. I had enough clients asking for something similar that I made a SaaS product that does it. Gives them a nice little interface that links web form fields to named ranges, and then a simple templating language to insert those fields into a Word document. Instead of writing a calculation engine for our webforms, I just used Excel. It's pretty powerful, and more than I could have implemented if starting from scratch.

Is this the quote you based your classification on? Seems like he is talking generally about the threat of a pandemic causing 10 million or more deaths. He also mentions Asia.

"This is a huge challenge, we’ve always known the potential for a naturally caused, or intentionally caused, pandemic is one if the few things that could disrupt health systems and economies and cause more than 10 million excess deaths.

This could be particularly if it spreads in areas like sub-Saharan Africa and some Asia, it could be very very dramatic.

We’re doing the constant science to provide the tools to do the diagnosis to provide vaccines, to provide therapeutics and hopefully contain this epidemic, but it’s potentially a very bad situation."

(found this here -> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/15/coronovirus-bill...)

Read and/or listen to books that give you tips on building products. Most importantly use the skills you learn about.

Don't try and do everything in the book. Try and take one or two things that resonate with you and just implement those. Obviously you need to be involved in the development of a product to do that.

For example, I listened to The Mom Test earlier this year. Instead of trying to remember and do everything from the book, I just took one part that resonated. For me that was "Don't talk about your product when interviewing customers, talk about the customer and their problem.". When you feel you've improved at that, move on to the next thing you can improve.

I bet you'll get some new interest from this being on the front page of HN too. I just listened to a bunch of your songs and really liked them :)

I love Discover Weekly and get excited every Monday morning when I start work and remember there's a new playlist with music I'll probably like. I created a separate playlist called "Discover Favourites" and when I hear a song I like I put it in there, and it's got hundreds now. I've found so many artists I never would have heard of.

Patronage seemed like a more formal thing though. They lived with the patron who would provide them a workshop, food and money. Their early days in a workshop seemed more like an employee at a business, not much different than today. The owner would have to go and find work and tap his network to find people who needed his businesses wares. He would hire employees, and they would complete jobs under his supervision. When Leonardo da Vinci was 14 and working at a workshop he was an employee of the workshop owner. It took him a long time to get a patron. He even sent letters to rich people trying to get their patronage by saying what he could do (and just like today, there was a bit of "fake it till you make" in those letters too :)

It wasn't all through patronage though. I just finished listening to a biography of Leonardo da Vinci, and he was taught in a workshop, essentially as an apprentice. They would do independent commissions for people - portraits, statues etc. It's true that the great artists would get patronage once they were great, but it seemed that there were a bunch of these workshops with apprentices that copied the master's paintings, worked on commissions with them etc. Just thinking about it now as I write, and the Patronage is like the "made-it" moment where an artist gets rich, but I bet there were a multitude of apprentices that toiled away in workshops just making money for food.

Im confused. All those small day to day technical things you described are opportunities to help and care about sick people. On the otherside of the chart is someone in pain. Its maybe not House, but it will make a huge difference in their life. If I was hiring a doctor, I'd want the person that understood that.

You don't need a mountain

When I was young, our concentration would always lapse. We would watch the first hour or so, then start itching to play, so we'd run outside and have our own game of cricket in the backyard. Mum would yell if a wicket was taken, and we'd rush back to the lounge room to watch the replay. Good times!

I'd worry less about specific technologies and more about learning the basics of building of a web app. It doesn't really matter what you use. Successful sites have been built using pretty much all languages. When I taught myself programming about 16 years ago, I bought a book on Cold Fusion that had step-by-step chapters on building a CRUD app, I used MS Access as the database, and did basic JavaScript for validation. If I was doing the same today, I'd use PHP, PostgreSQL and JQuery. The concept is the same. Learn how to create, read, update and delete records from a relational database via a web front end. Learn how to loop over records and display them. You've got to walk before you can run.

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And imagine if the AI also rated the car occupants on their future value to society.

I use android phones and have found many responsive sites to be horribly slow. Scrolling is the main thing I notice, and sometimes it is so slow ijusteave the site. Unfortunately, your site was this slow. I use an HTC One with the Dolphin browser.

I also have it set to the desktop user agent instead of android, as I would rather view the desktop site than a mobile one. With the resolution on this phone, and pretty good eyesite, I find this a much better experience. Responsive sites don't seem to have a desktop option, so I'm usually left dissatisfied with them.

I think turning off mouse integration in virtualbox helps with the tablet issues. I use virtual box for Photoshop and light wave 3d, and the mouse integration feature always upset how the program read the cursors coordinates. You just have to remember to use the keyboard shortcut to turn it on again before trying to move your mouse back to a host program.

Maybe we are a simulation within some entities brain.

I thought that too, but then after reading it I remembered a previous post about the distribution of colours within actual movies, not movie posters. So perhaps that is what you remember too?

Yeah, the latest Lightwave runs on Linux. I installed one of the Beta's a few months ago and it ran OK, though it didn't include everything the windows version had. I still use Lightwave via Virtual Box.

When I signed up I remember they asked if I wanted to link to picassa, and all my photos where private until I actually shared them with a circle.

Yes, peace would be the best outcome, but there is probably some overarching reason for the war that won't be solved by two armies deciding not to fight for tactical reasons.

But then when they don't attack you have 2 armies sitting and waiting until the supplies run out (assuming the other learns you are not going to attack back). So when one realizes they will run out first, or another army is coming to cut their lines, or the city behind them is starving, or one side drops mustard gas into the other trench ... what do you do?

Not if they don't actually go after the criminals

It may be hard to count. I change my user agent on my phone so that I don't get the mobile version if websites. With current phone resolutions I prefer to see the full page and zoom than have an often crappy mobile specific site that shows me less and makes me click more.

"Now without foam!!!"

I don't have any problems reading this site on my HT Desire. I don't like the mobile versions of some sites, so the "Mobile View" setting in my browser is usually off ... but I can read the android site with it off or on.

I took mpk to mean the timing of the Interpol Red Notice, not the allegations themselves.

I had an HTC Magic for a year and found the web browsing to be great. Never used an iPhone to compare though. I loved that I could open multiple Windows, which I pretty much did every browsing session. I have an HTC desire now and its awesome. Really, really awesome.

I've always thought that the URL to use when searching articles is the same you would use when retrieving a collection of articles, just with the search terms or filters included as parameters, ie, /articles?q=terms

Approving articles could be as simple as posting TRUE to the "approved" attribute of an article, ie, /articles/1234/approved

You just need to make sure that every resource that can be modified or retrieved has a URL.

One way to do this is to have the clients pass the authentication information in the headers with every request.

One of the rows of data in that link provides the total carbon emissions (the row titled: "Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), thousand metric tons of CO2"). Dividing this number by the population of the US and Australia provides a very similar result to the Wikipedia article. The per GDP data is another row entirely. Maybe I'm confused, as I don't look at stuff like this much, and I've only given it a cursory glance ... but this data doesn't look to be backing up your original argument either.

Im not sure how accurate this is, but Wikipedia lists the US carbon emmissions per capita as 18.67, Australia as 18.74 and China has 4.57. This seems to correlate with the world bank data as shown on Google for 2005 - http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=en_atm_co...

Maybe it has changed in the last few years, but it is a lot different than your claim of 5 times the US amount or 11 times the Chinese. Where did you get your numbers from?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...