nishnik
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Comment · 4 years ago
Five years back, YouTube didn't have the feature to queue your videos on the fly. You could have created a playlist, but then it is the same sequence of songs every time. So I hacked a chrome extension to add/remove songs to a dynamic queue saved on your LocalStorage[1]. Later, YouTube added the queue feature. Sometimes I go on long hikes and think that it wasn't merely a coincidence. :)
Comment · 4 years ago
Are you referring to the luck surface area?
https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur...
Comment · 5 years ago
You can live in almost any city in India for less than 1k USD per month.
In Bangalore (Tier-1 City), rent for a 1-bed-hall-kitchen apartment will be around 200 USD. Add 10 USD per month for high speed internet. Another 100 USD per month for a dedicated maid and cook. Add 200 USD for all kind of grocery. That will be around 500 USD per month of living expenses.
You can live in Varkala/Goa (if you love beaches) and Dharmshala/Shimla (if you love mountains) for even less.
Comment · 5 years ago
Related article on Amazon trying its hand on creating games.
https://qz.com/1999032/why-amazon-keeps-failing-at-video-gam...
I think Netflix has a better chance in winning on this. Games, like movies, have a skewness in their distribution-of-popularity. Some movies get too much popular, more than 1000x of an average movie. Similar distribution holds for games.
Netflix is excellent at spotting popular movies early-on (Compare Netflix with other streaming content creators). So I hope they can use the same way of making decisions in spotting and building good games.
Comment · 5 years ago
Where do folks use tile38?
Comment · 5 years ago
WhatsApp is up now.
Comment · 5 years ago
Folks are coming to HN and twitter to see what happened.
Comment · 6 years ago
To add more info they have been building a C++ code-base for the most important features: https://github.com/symengine/symengine
SymEngine can be used from C++ or from the wrappers in Python, Julia, Haskell - and gives a performance boost over vanilla SymPy.
Comment · 6 years ago
And then: What do you care about what other people think?
In the first chapter he goes on to tell about beauty/taste[1]. One of his friends told him that you scientist won't be able to appreciate art as much as us artists. Then Feynman explains how he can imagine the cellular level function, why is the flower colorful, and how it interprets to insects having some sense of colour for why should beauty only be on centimeter level?
[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Do_You_Care_What_Other_...
Comment · 6 years ago
I created an add-on which replaces !s with inurl:stackoverflow.com to replicate the bangs of duckduckgo in Google.
Comment · 6 years ago
The book : Oxygen advantage[1] makes similar points.
It points out to the research of why swimmers have higher life expectancy than the average athelete, why almost all of us are hyperventilating. Then he outlines simple exercises to improve your breathing habit.
Few points: 1. Always breathe through your nose. Even when you are jogging/cycling heavily. 2. Try to hold your breathe for elongate period of time. 3. Try doing 2 while walking/running/cycling. 4. Swim! 5. Pushing the breathe out and then holding is better than taking the breathe in and holding.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26533127-the-oxygen-adva...
Comment · 6 years ago
Firefox running add-ons on Android made me switch to it on the mobile phone.
It makes the mobile experience way better than Chrome and Brave.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes Thiel writes how sales is important.
He gives out a mental model to think how much sales is important for your company, and how much you should invest in it. On a scale from tiktok (viral) to Palantir, you have to increase your sales spendings.
He talks how advertising was important for PayPal (by giving some money(sales spending) for referring).
And he talks why small/medium sized businesses don't use softwares for day-to-day tasks. Because they lie (in his words) a dead zone of sales, the 1000$ per product.
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