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iezeon Scheduling morning emails with Python and Celery

This doesn't handle daylight saving time.

iezeon A crazier prediction: iPhone Plus is real, and huge

How long until Apple makes something the size on an iphone with the screen size of a note? (With some sort of magic, like the thinkpad butterfly keyboard.)

iezeon Write code, fix the space station, win $10,000

Also:

>By winning a prize in this event you agree to transfer ownership of your submission to TopCoder.

So do TopCoder resell the submission to NASA?

iezeon We expect too much of geeks

I'd be interested to read how your own views of people contrast with the ideas in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...

iezeon National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

In the UK a certain over-the-counter drug that can be used to commit suicide is only sold in quantities insufficient for suicide.

There is nothing to stop a person from going to several shops, but the measure is effective because that takes longer.

iezeon National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

It's well meaning.

"Hearing about a suicide seems to make those who are vulnerable feel they have permission to do it" -- David Phillips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide

Unfortunately http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/16e15s/i_transcribed_... was posted and front-paged yesterday.

Google returns a local suicide prevention line number when you google suicide. Perhaps social media sites should discourage posting on the subject at the time of submission, or trying to wrap such content with reminder to the readership that they matter.

iezeon Let's black bar HN

It is more regrettable. I don't see suicide as a shame thing. Just very very sad.

iezeon A Pickpocket's Tale

Charly Borra (26s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...