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treenyc

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treenyc··on My first ten-day Vipassana retreat
Wow that is interesting! I have many respected secular friends who have done it and highly recommended. I've being waited listed, but have not done it yet.

Sorry to hear that was your experience in the end. Seems like the people who are preaching may be diverting from the essence of the practice. From what I understand Vipassana predates buddhism. Has not thing to do with religion rather a practice to observe our own internal thoughts without outside influence.

treenyc··on Ask HN: I'm a dull person since software doesn't excite me anymore. What to do?
"to live is to travel.."

soren kierkegaard

treenyc··on What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2016?
Since you disagree with "Furthermore absolutely no viable public purpose can be served today by backdating new rules to past works."

I just would like to know your bases for your disagreement, and ask for some examples. Maybe there is a misunderstanding.

treenyc··on What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2016?
> I disagree.

Care to elaborate, and give some examples? Tks

treenyc··on Time Warner Cable says up to 320,000 customers' data may have been stolen
Yes, consider using a company that

1. technologically competent (PCI compliant and more) 2. That company can keep that information along with other financial data.

3. That vendor's code and hardware infrastructure is being periodically audited by a third (independent ) party and expert. Or open sourced! Both hardware and software.

3 is crucial to maintain the operating integrity of the company.

treenyc··on IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment
Why can't Time Warner, Verizon, BT do that?

Is there a commercial interest for different companies to keep IPv4?

treenyc··on The Relationship Between Intelligence and Anxiety
Ignorance is bliss!
treenyc··on Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source
No! Javascript the language and thread are not related. If you find a Javascript implemented over JVM like ringojs uses JVM threads to execute JavaScript in parallel. In which case you get both event based within thread, and multi-threaded at the same time.

http://ringojs.org/documentation/ringo_101/

treenyc··on A Good Night’s Sleep Is Tied to Interruptions, Not Just Hours
The traditional chinese medicine doctor has a saying. Every hour you sleep before 12 midnight counts twice as much.
treenyc··on Ask HN: Leaving as founder, what happens with equity?
Convertible note might be a good way to avoid Tax-liabitlies. But check with your accountant/lawyer.
treenyc··on Death by a thousand likes: Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web
What I didn't like about twitter is that they uploaded my contact info on smart phone app without my consent. To date, they still have NOT erased those information and I still get email asking me if I know someone who just happen to be in my address book a few years ago.
treenyc··on Cloudflare Introduces Universal DNSSEC: Secure DNS for Your Domain
Sounds like a better option. Why should I trust a single company when there are open source non-profit alternative?
treenyc··on ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway
This is told to me by a Danish classmate (while intoxicated at a party).

He asked me: do you know why we say "Skull" when we drink? I said: No I don't.

He Said: Well, back then during the Viking times. The Danes would fight all the way to the kingdom and cut the off the Skulls of the English princes; Dump out their brains and use the skull as cup for drinks. Hence the word "Skull".

I said: Huh? Interesting!

"And then we also took all their good looking women. And that's why all the Danish girls are soo good looking" Add him.

You got love the Danish people!

treenyc··on Clojure all the way down
"The idea that you can have a language which is portable/reimplementable on any platform is fundamentally flawed. You can't."

Can you elaborate? Shouldn't VM just standardize EVERYTHING on the language level? Can you give specific examples when language NEED to be aware of the hardware?

treenyc··on Reasons to love SQLAlchemy
This is my approach to ORM.

Use ORM for: 1. INSERT, UPDATE, DETELE get one record

Use SQL/Stored Procedure for: SELECTs that involved more complex joins and queries.

treenyc··on Fukushima
"Have we learnt anything since then?"

I'm very curious to hear from those who are knowledge in the area.

treenyc··on Japan orders universities to end education in social sciences, humanities, law
Wow am I the only who is shocked that this will totally privatize the legal sector of Japan?
treenyc··on Refugees Welcome
You can be responsible, and it doesn't has to be in the way that allows 'refugees' into your country. People in each country ought to have a choice in that.
treenyc··on Ask HN: How are some people exceptionally productive?
What I found is that productivity is much related to the state of one's well being and quality of one's relationship with close ones.
treenyc··on Java Micro Frameworks
> Java micro frameworks are an attempt to address the weaknesses of Java while maintaining its strengths

What about all those scripting language for java?

Jruby, Jython, Rhino, Nashorn....

treenyc··on A Crisis at the Edge of Physics
So the difference between QLG and String Theory is that QLG seems can be proven wrong in the near future, where String Theory seems to be the kind of theory that is not experimentally provable (at least in the near future)?

Sounds like string theory people really knows how to play this game.

treenyc··on Firestr: encrypted P2P chat and Lua application platform
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treenyc··on Mail-in-a-Box
How does it compare to iRedMail?

http://www.iredmail.org

Does it support multiple domains?

treenyc··on When Robots Take All the Work, What'll Be Left for Us to Do?
Productivity is over rated. It made sense in a scarcity based economic worldview when we didn't have the technology and know how to create abundant wealth.

How do one measure productivity?

Is it based on number of (quantity) of products produced and service offered?

treenyc··on Stellar
OMG, this would be perfect for the 501(c)3 non-profit where I'm at.

http://newfuturefoundation.org

They are currently paying a lot of fees to the bank fund nonprofit projects in Africa.

This would really be perfect for them.

treenyc··on Top designers react to Google’s new ‘Material’ design language
The hardware is also different on each platform, e.g the iPhone hardware button layout vs android button layout. That effects the layout and user interaction.
treenyc··on Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL
thanks a lot really. I have being use Linux for a while now. Thanks for the update.
treenyc··on Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL
same here. Was a FreeBSD user, but find hard to find VM a few years ago that support FreeBSD, may switch back, if this issue is NOT addressed.
treenyc··on Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL
FreeBSD has something like

SHMMAXPGS, SHMMAX in postgresql.conf

in the

sysctl.conf kern.ipc.shmall kern.ipc.shmall

treenyc··on Open source has won the battle but is losing the war
Sorry, maybe I miscommunicated something. They don't need to be centralized. Although I do think TRANSPARENT centralization can play a benefit part of the ecosystem.

I just meant in other aspects of government, everything is very centralized in Scandinavia, and it seems to be work very well there. However, that should not be translated to US, where we have much larger and diverse population.

I hope that make sense?

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