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fegu··on The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days
I came here to say this as well. Me exactly.
fegu··on Revisiting the Business Card Raytracer
Almost into passable frame rate territory. Next version could be business card VR:)
fegu··on 0xF Rules
Other bad names for variables and database coloumns: type, kind, val.
fegu··on Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life
"Keep your identity small." From a Paul Graham essay.
fegu··on British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free
In many cases this had the effect that you can sell them only once since the buyer then has everything he needs to sell it, and will presumably do so for less.
fegu··on Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
Yoneda lemma
fegu··on Ask HN: Not smart enough to a programmer, where to take my life from here?
Even CRUD apps can have fun stuff: APIs, live GUI updates for everyone else logged in when a user makes a change, security (both designing and pentesting), building your own toolbox for accelerating development of the next one, usage monitoring etc. Some of these will impress clients and make your superior recognize you as a talent. This will make it more fun and open up new possibilities all by itself.
fegu··on Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
Has anyone here tried OpenXava.org? I am considering looking into it, but don't want to waste my time.
fegu··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)
Systor Vest, Stavanger, Norway

Vue.js,.net core, Haskell Native apps and Flutter

Positions open right now.

Consulting company with some products as well. No-nonsense, geeky, all-dev, environment.

No remotes. Must speak Norwegian. Both req due to communication intensive work with some meetings and occasional on-site work.

fegu··on What Is the Point of Universal Basic Income?
The reason for this is maybe captured by the adage "better a have-been than a never-will-be"
fegu··on The 'Great Wave' has mystified art lovers for generations (2019)
"[] the rich shade of blue used in the prints was imported from Europe. Prussian blue, as it's commonly known, was a synthetic color created in the 18th century and prized for its depth and durability. That Hokusai employed the hue as the principal actor in his oceanic drama suggests that he was depicting Japan on the cusp of change."

Or he just liked this new blue colour that was now available, he needed blue for his waves, and we shouldn't read more into it than that.

"As much as the wave portends instability and danger, it also suggests possibility and adventure."

To some viewers, perhaps. But the wording makes it sound like this was the original artist's idea - and of this we have no idea.

fegu··on Must-Read Books About the Moon
Tanstaafl
fegu··on Combining finances
The article, and comments so far, focus on income only. This is the easy part. A lot of people have savings or investments going in. Perhaps one is renting and the other owns a house. This is where it gets tricky. Especially considering it would be prudent to lay plans that also work well in the event of a divorce.
fegu··on Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard
The latter case, no middle name, should be stored as an empty string. In practice, not enough care is devoted to the difference between Null and empty string for text fields.
fegu··on Why Flutter Might Be the Best of Both Worlds
Could this eventually, perhaps on webassembly, be an android, iOS and Web solution?
fegu··on Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and Now Residents Know Why
And duty cycle limits.
fegu··on Haversine Formula
Rectilinear distance, also called taxicab distance, would probably serve better.
fegu··on 2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail
DVDs in 2019 is nothing compared to actual floppy disks in health care in 2015 (https://gundersen.net/functional-floppy-disks-in-2015/)

Proven tech often has a really long tail.

fegu··on Howard Roark: In Praise of the Self Speech from the Fountainhead (1943)
Much can be said of Ayn Rand and her books. That aside, I find the money speech of Atlas Shrugged [1] far better at conveying the point than the self speech of The Fountainhead. 1: https://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2002/08/franciscos-money-...
fegu··on A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (2009)
The article says fur.
fegu··on The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet?
Not advocating hanging yourself, but it is something you will never regret since if done "successfully" you will cease to exist and therefore not be able to regret anything.
fegu··on Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory in My Guest Bedroom
In mature markets, such as the EU and US, there are extensive requirements behind the FCC and CE marks. While no third party approvals are necessary, the requirements are still there. Especially the radio noise requirements can be difficult. How do you go about solving and documenting these?
fegu··on The Octopus Is Smart as Heck, But Why?
For anyone looking for that movie, it is Dune. Worth the watch.
fegu··on Scientists who make apps addictive
Made me chuckle. Spot on. Also why I only go to YouTube as a last resort.
fegu··on Money Can Buy Happiness [pdf]
Puppy videos give us joy. But joy is more fleeting and short-lived than happiness. An analogy could be broke vs poor.
fegu··on The hotel bathroom puzzle
These are built for a reason. CANbus means they share the wires with lots of other components. Wiring and the complexity in the other end of that wire have a cost too.
fegu··on Sponsorship needed for new OS/2 web browser (2017)
Indeed. But as obscurity goes, you can't get much higher than OS/2 :)
fegu··on IPVanish “No-Logging” VPN Led Homeland Security to Comcast User
How many VPN services are run by the government three letter agencies through decoy companies? Seems like a match made in heaven.
fegu··on Self-driving technology is going to change more than cars
A lot of efficiency and responsibility/insurance issues will be solved if the store used its own fleet of delivery cars. Other than that, we can hope this materializes. Domestic robots will be a revolution.
fegu··on Plasmodium-associated changes in human odor attract mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are attracted to co2. You are probably just bigger than your wife, exhaling more co2.
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