Hacker News: dhs

New comment by dhs in "Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones"

dhs — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:06:54 +0000

44 percent of all Spaniards under 25 are currently jobless.

New comment by dhs in "Poll: What mobile OS are you using?"

dhs — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:35:26 +0000

Maemo 5. I like that it's not tied to some tech giant, and that it comes with a console where you can simply do "apt-get install".

New comment by dhs in "Rackspace Response to PRISM"

dhs — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:51:13 +0000

I suggest http://www.copernico.net/ ,who are in Spain. I've no affiliation, other than being a customer; in my experience, the service is excellent, the boss, Miguel Angel, is very easy to reach, and I've come to know him as an independent spirit, who does not like governmental intervention at all.

New comment by dhs in "Retailers Are Losing the Software Talent Wars"

dhs — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:48:20 +0000

There are several candidates for "Wordpress for ERP"; try OpenERP, Openbravo, and Compiere.

New comment by dhs in "What future space combat would really look like"

dhs — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:45:44 +0000

The "bugs" in Paul Verhoeven's "Starship Troopers" make ample use of this idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7-PQIuWwLo

New comment by dhs in "Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or OpenOffice""

dhs — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:55:22 +0000

Let me offer a counterpoint: I started out with Word 3.0 for DOS, in 1987. From there, I went through lots of office software for PC, Mac, and Atari. A good ten years ago, I installed OpenOffice, which I have been using ever since. I never had any .doc compatibility problems.

Today, I'm working for a small retail company in Madrid, Spain: Ten people, running Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. All of us are using OpenOffice. It already was that way when I came here a year ago. Until now, I heard nobody even mentioning our office software. And these people are not "computer geeks" by any measure; we sell clothes.

I guess it is the reliance on Excel macros, which are not compatible with OpenOffice Calc, that prevents lots of companies from switching. If you don't depend on any of those, I honestly see no advantages in using MS Office.

New comment by dhs in "The Cyber Security Industrial Complex"

dhs — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:48:28 +0000

What motivates you, at a personal level, to do this kind of work?

MINE: Maximal Information-based Nonparametric Exploration

dhs — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:39:33 +0000

Article URL: http://www.exploredata.net

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3364206

Points: 2

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New comment by dhs in "Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works"

dhs — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:29:55 +0000

Probably a pirate ship, then:

The captain and quartermaster to receive two shares of a prize: the master, boatswain, and gunner, one share and a half, and other officers one and quarter.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_code

New comment by dhs in "Six Days without Food: Hacking Your Mind to Make Do with Far Less"

dhs — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:36:32 +0000

re. 2: Not many, according to the sources I can find on that. Example: "[M]uscle tissue has been observed to burn roughly seven to 10 calories per pound per day, compared to two to three calories per pound per day for fat. Therefore, if you replace a pound of fat with a pound of muscle, you can expect to burn only approximately four to six more calories a day."

Source: http://www.acefitness.org/fitnessqanda/fitnessqanda_display....

New comment by dhs in "NYC Man Earns $55,000 A Year Peddling Candy On Subway"

dhs — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:36:44 +0000

Isn't it one until at least the first major exit event happens, like, until an IPO, or something?

New comment by dhs in "I too know the websites you visited"

dhs — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:15:30 +0000

From the 5 sites I visited, it correctly flagged HN, WP and YT as visited, and gave a "whoops" for FB and Google (what does that mean?), which I both visited.

New comment by dhs in "Open Source (Almost) Everything"

dhs — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:22:41 +0000

At least in Germany, as an artist, the only way to transfer your "Urheberrecht" to somebody else is to die. See §29 of the "Urheberrechtsgesetz" (copyright law) [1]:

"Das Urheberrecht ist nicht übertragbar, es sei denn, es wird in Erfüllung einer Verfügung von Todes wegen oder an Miterben im Wege der Erbauseinandersetzung übertragen."

(Translation: "Copyright is not transferable, unless it is transferred in execution of a testamentary disposition or to coheirs in the way of partition of an estate.")

[1] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/BJNR012730965.html#BJ...

New comment by dhs in "Xmonad 0.10 was released"

dhs — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:36:25 +0000

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Screenshots

New comment by dhs in "The new Alan Turing docudrama is available for streaming"

dhs — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:40:51 +0000

In Spain, no.

New comment by dhs in "http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to"

dhs — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:14:49 +0000

Seems to me that the precision is greatest at http://3.14.jpg.to/, which has 1 reference.

New comment by dhs in "Why don't developers dress better?"

dhs — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:32:29 +0000

Take a look at the Red Wing 101 [1], a.k.a. "the Postman". Designed in the 1950s for people who had to walk a lot while wearing a uniform - I actually first spotted them on the feet of policemen in New York -, they combine comfort with a simple-but-neat look which provides a nice contrast if worn with straight cuffed selvedge jeans.

[1] http://www.redwingheritage.com/boots#&f=&m=/detail/1...

Edit - better link: http://www.b-74.de/out/pictures/1/red_wing_101_postman_oxfor...

New comment by dhs in "I am nothing"

dhs — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 08:25:30 +0000

I adopted the metaphor which works for me here from Ken Wilber, though I'm sure that the idea appears in the works of other writers, and much earlier: hierarchies of growth vs hierarchies of domination. The former (your "one hand") are nested hierarchies (inclusive); the latter (your "other hand") are conventional hierarchies (exclusive). The way I understand this is that "I am nothing" puts the "I" - whatever it is - at a leaf node if the reference is an exclusive hierarchy (a "hierarchy of domination"), whereas if the reference is an inclusive hierarchy (a "hierarchy of growth"), "I am nothing" appears at the root node.

Edit: typos.

New comment by dhs in "Forestall the "Debt Crisis": Mint a 5 Trillion Dollar Coin"

dhs — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:30:47 +0000

I'm actually quite sad. This seems so unnecessarily self-destructive. It feels like watching a girl cut her forearms with a broken beerglass.

Schmidt preaches 'deep integration' desire with Facebook, Twitter

dhs — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:15:10 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/08/eric_schmidt_social_plans/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2742767

Points: 1

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