<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: josscrowcroft</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=josscrowcroft</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:55:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=josscrowcroft" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "Great Barrier Reef at 'terminal stage'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Again speaking from zero expertise, would it be possible to genetically engineer coral lifeforms to adapt to higher temperatures?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:05:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14077773</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14077773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14077773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "Great Barrier Reef at 'terminal stage'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is improving water quality the decided-upon method for preventing (or even reversing) bleaching of coral reefs?<p>It seems like that ship has sailed, and now more technological advances are required.<p>Speaking from zero expertise or experience in marine biology, is it not possible to manufacture massive quantities of synthetic coral that somehow corrects for the changing water quality to enable coral life to flourish?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:35:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14077593</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14077593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14077593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "Ask HN: What SaaS customer service tools does your startup use?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think we've been with HelpScout for around 4 years at <a href="https://openexchangerates.org" rel="nofollow">https://openexchangerates.org</a>. The service is great, and they just seem like a really honest, switched-on team.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:45:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13841471</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13841471</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13841471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "U.S. Airport Pat-Downs Are About to Get More Invasive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am fortunate that neither work, family, nor leisure compel me to fly to (or through) the USA at any point. I intend to keep it that way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2017 02:45:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13788859</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13788859</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13788859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "GitHub commit search: “remove password”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I liked this one:<p><a href="https://github.com/squared-one/omniauth-unsplash/commit/072bc946b5d069d0f30b32f8f3cc53d22abff36e" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/squared-one/omniauth-unsplash/commit/072b...</a><p><i>"... It's not really removing any password, is it? But hey, why not use the
momentum ... wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:07:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13651712</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13651712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13651712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "Snap Committed to Spend $1B on Web Services with Amazon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious, at that scale why don't they build their own infrastructure? Surely it would cost less?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:25:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13608050</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13608050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13608050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "Ask HN: Which book have you re-read recently?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>What I Talk About When I Talk About Running</i> by Haruki Murakami. I'm on at least my third reading and imagine I'll read it again.<p>Also re-listened to <i>Getting Things Done</i> by David Allen. This could also be any number of times.<p>Sort-of related, currently re-watching <i>Westworld</i>. I burned through ten episodes in two sittings first time around and wanted to properly appreciate it this time at a more leisurely pace.</p>
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<p>A very well-reasoned and well-written piece. Thank you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2017 10:42:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13519990</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13519990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13519990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "Why we should all have a basic income"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Alternatively - under UBI - you may decide to work 6 hours per day, and enjoy the earned income in addition to the regular Basic Income payment, all the while knowing that you can leave (or switch employer) any time without fear of destitution.</p>
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<p>I got the mayonnaise guy as well!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2017 23:48:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13414088</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13414088</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13414088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "Ask HN: What is your experience with 'doing something' daily challenges?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good question! Neither. I write whatever is on my mind, it changes day-to-day. It's sometimes logical, rational things, plans for the day or week or a project, and sometimes it's dream recall from the night before, or pennies that have dropped, sometimes it's stream-of-consciousness, nonsense, or just fiction. I'll usually shift between these and page 2-3 tend to be more 'out there' and get to the deeper stuff going on in my life. I don't set a timer, but the process generally takes 25-30 minutes on an average day.<p>The key is to write without editing and as much as possible, without stopping to think or read.<p>I learnt about the practice in The Artist's Way about 3 years ago. I think this is the most up-to-date website about it: <a href="http://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/" rel="nofollow">http://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2016 20:22:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147691</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147691</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "Ask HN: What is your experience with 'doing something' daily challenges?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been writing Morning Pages (3 x A4 pages, hand-written) every day for almost three years. Sometimes I do them in the afternoon or evening, or right before bed.<p>Sometimes I'll only do one page, sometimes ten... A month or two ago I spent a month writing about 20 pages a day of "morning pages" after a few intense experiences.<p>After a month or so I didn't need to think about it any more, and now I can't imagine not doing it. Every morning, wake up, make coffee, write, then start the day. I find my life is richer and deeper as a result.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2016 18:30:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147058</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147058</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "I am not a self-made man"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In 2008, his book "The Four Hour Workweek" helped me change absolutely everything in my life, and really to start living at all.<p>Even if most of its contents could be found elsewhere, the book is something of value that didn't exist before.<p>I've since moved on from where that book is coming from (as has he, from the sounds of things), but I still listen to the audio from time to time for inspiration and to reconnect with my 2008-self.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:23:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13140060</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13140060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13140060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "Big Banks Are Putting Rain Forests in Peril"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The most shocking stats from this article that jumped out at me and made my heart sink:<p>"The world has lost 60 percent of its population of Bornean orangutans since 1950, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. In July, the Bornean orangutan was listed as critically endangered."<p>"About 15 percent of the world’s historical forest cover remains intact, according to the World Resources Institute. The rest [85%] has been cleared or degraded or is in fragments."<p>"Climate concerns have been brought into sharp relief by the impending presidency of Donald J. Trump, who has called climate change a hoax. Mr. Trump has said he will pull the United States out of the Paris accord, a commitment by 95 countries to take concrete measures to reduce planet-warming carbon emissions."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2016 21:39:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13097630</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13097630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13097630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "A Dose of a Hallucinogen from a ‘Magic Mushroom,’ and Then Lasting Peace"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair</p>
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<p>What effect could four years of Trump presidency have on such research, trials and progress? Anybody have any comments or links to related resources? Thanks in advance.</p>
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<p>From the outside, I'm curious if anybody here has any comment on what effect (if any) a Trump presidency could have on this and related research/progress?<p>In all the noise of the election run, I didn't any position on controlled substances and medical research coming from Trump's side.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:22:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13075263</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13075263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13075263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use <a href="https://ipredator.se" rel="nofollow">https://ipredator.se</a>.<p>"IPredator was launched in 2009 as a response to a growing trend of Internet censorship, in restrictive regimes as well as so-called open societies. Our main goal is to provide a seriously non-discriminating access flatrate for the Internet."<p>I may be mistaken, but I believe it was built by or connected somehow with The Pirate Bay.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPredator" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPredator</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 21:50:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12982035</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12982035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12982035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 21:21:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12981745</link><dc:creator>josscrowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12981745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12981745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by josscrowcroft in "Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm most proud of making Open Exchange Rates (<a href="https://openexchangerates.org" rel="nofollow">https://openexchangerates.org</a>), which grew out of a hobby project (and a desire to create a really simple API for something that had previously been annoyingly complex.)<p>The basic JSON API request and response formats are unchanged since day 0, although we've added a few new features in response to customers' demands over the years.</p>
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