Hacker News: jroid

New comment by jroid in "Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?"

jroid — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 18:28:20 +0000

Google Desktop. I haven't yet seen a good, cross-platform alternative to search within documents on my PC, with a browser interface.

New comment by jroid in "AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services"

jroid — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:12:18 +0000

You still depend on some provider. Or, are you talking about multi cloud installations ?

New comment by jroid in "Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?"

jroid — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 15:21:38 +0000

Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity

New comment by jroid in "Introducing the New Yahoo Mail"

jroid — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:18:56 +0000

I use Yahoo Mail and pay $20, so I can create temporary email addresses. I know there are other free temp email services, but I like to have it one place, makes it easier to search as well.

New comment by jroid in "Introducing the New Yahoo Mail"

jroid — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:55:51 +0000

Looks much better, but did you find a way to disable notifications ? I didn't see any settings menu.

New comment by jroid in "Kasparov and Thiel: Our dangerous illusion of tech progress"

jroid — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:56:03 +0000

So, does that mean singularity won't happen anytime soon ? :-(

New comment by jroid in "Panorama picture of Mars"

jroid — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:49:25 +0000

Except Foveon cameras. http://www.foveon.com/article.php?a=69

New comment by jroid in "Another free course: Model Thinking"

jroid — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:44:43 +0000

Here you go... http://thinkmentalmodels.com/page67/page67.html

New comment by jroid in "Amazon Prime’s new killer app: Kindle books by subscription"

jroid — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:33:20 +0000

You can do this from Kindle.. Go to Kindle Store and then to Owner's Lending Library. There are categories and subcategories and books are sorted by bestselling

New comment by jroid in "Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles"

jroid — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:32:08 +0000

I think touch is useful, if you browse a lot. Using keyboard to navigate links is hard.

New comment by jroid in "Two thousand years in one chart"

jroid — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:53:28 +0000

Cheap hydrocarbons made all the difference in the 20th century. Whether this growth will flatten or slow down, we will wait and see.

New comment by jroid in "Cobra effect"

jroid — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:45:01 +0000

Sounds to be the same as "The law of unintended consequences" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences

New comment by jroid in "Google+ Demo"

jroid — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 05:33:48 +0000

Go here, accept the conditions https://www.google.com/accounts/MultipleSessions

On the right top menu, Switch Accounts, sign in to second account, (may need to accept conditions again). At this point, you will be able to switch back and forth, between the two accounts

New comment by jroid in "Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?"

jroid — Fri, 13 May 2011 06:08:02 +0000

http://www.reddit.com/r/firstworldproblems/

New comment by jroid in "The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything"

jroid — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 03:28:04 +0000

http://robertjhastings.net/

The true joy of life is the trip, not the destination

New comment by jroid in "Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich"

jroid — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:41:23 +0000

Why not charge a toll depending on traffic ? As the traffic increases, the toll increases (and vice versa), which will keep the lane fast moving. Not my idea, someone has already implemented this.

New comment by jroid in "Few hours left for grabbing a free premium Licorize account"

jroid — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:08:13 +0000

I don't see a link to free premium. How do I get it ?

New comment by jroid in "If you had money to invest in tech stock, which would you choose?"

jroid — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:18:12 +0000

MSFT Their free cash flow last year was $22 bn and their enterprise value is $177bn, which gives EV/FCF of slightly above 8.

New comment by jroid in "Tell HN: HNdroid, Hacker News android client"

jroid — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:46:07 +0000

Great app. Can you please add a "Read later button", that will save it to Instapaper/ Read it later/ Delicious/ download to SD. (the option of where to save could be configurable). Thanks.

New comment by jroid in "Ask HN: when is Google Instant coming to my GMail search?"

jroid — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:15:01 +0000

But then, the amount of data that you search in gmail is a drop in the ocean compared to web search.