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_Mark

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An Australian Startup guy.
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_Mark··on Ask HN: How do you stay active while working from home?
Zwift was a game changer for me. Can highly recommend it, although the cost of entry is rather expensive.
_Mark··on Ask HN: How do I get fit and healthy as a software engineer?
Get on Zwift.

Purchase yourself a smart trainer like the Wahoo kickr V5. This has been a life changer for me. Stuck in lockdown Australia, with Zwift I can ride when ever I want, and for as long as I want too. I now ride about 50km a day, and am the fittest I've ever been.

You get a great mix of cardio, gamification by playing an actual video game, and social networking as you can chat and make connections to others in the game. All from the comfort of your own home.

_Mark··on A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech
I had a video flagged, and marked as adult content because the title had "Hump Day" in it.

I am not sure in other parts of the world, but in Australia Hump day is the middle day of the week, A.K.A Wednesday.

_Mark··on Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
This is a huge changing of the guard play. You have to give credit towards Spotify for this move, and what could signify a pivotal point in changing history.

The fact there is a paying subscription model behind Spotify, I can see a future where all podcasts move towards this platform.

_Mark··on Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
Stile Project
_Mark··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
I am still working on my business which was started during the GFC back in 2008.

My business isn't important, but what is important is what you do over the next coming months.

During the GFC, I was a contract programmer and was let go in November. In Australia I figured nobody was going to hire in December, January is basically a write off, and could possibly find work in February.

Now I had 3 months up my sleeve. I could either lay down the foundations to my side project, or slack off, play video games, and watch videos all day.

So I worked hard on my side project which was making no money, and eventually it grew legs a year later when I was in a position to work on it full time, and have been ever since.

Now, what are you going to do with your current spare time? Nothing you do will make money instantly, but you could be planting those seeds, and maybe your tree might grow into something big.

_Mark··on The Man Behind Trump’s Facebook Juggernaut
Having just read Targeted (https://www.amazon.com/Targeted-Cambridge-Analytica-Whistleb...) This story has a completely different angle, and I have the feeling some people are trying to take credit for other peoples work.
_Mark··on Tesla Model 3 Invaded My Neighborhood – But It’s Bigger Than That (GM Take Note)
What happens when there is mass adoption for people needing to drive long distances?

This video seems to be the start of something https://youtu.be/a1uFudf37JU

_Mark··on People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts
Is this able to play Audio Books? Or is there an Android app that can skip silence for audio books?
_Mark··on RSS: there's nothing better
I still cannot see how https://www.inoreader.com/ doesn't get more love. I easily moved to it from Google Reader, and spend my day in the web browser version, and night with the App on my phone.
_Mark··on Feedly Found a New Way to Steal Page Views From Publishers
I am using www.inoreader.com

I was a big Google Reader user, and I found this a perfect replacement. Even has an Android App and its all synced.

_Mark··on GIF search engine, exactly what the world needs
To avoid future confusion, how should I be pronouncing the domain?

Should I say out loud "JIFY", of is it a hard G like "GIFY", just like how you say "GIF"

_Mark··on Google Reader shutting down
From your 626 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 12,220 items

Since September 5, 2010 you have read a total of 300,000+ items

_Mark··on Google Reader shutting down
I am afraid of what I am going to do with all this spare time I will regain once this is gone.

This was the home page of "My" internet.

_Mark··on Resolutions for programmers
Surely I wasn't the only one looking at this for something like : 1,920×1,080
_Mark··on Retina MacBook Pro Review: The Age of the High-Resolution PC
In Chrome I cannot read it, but the text appears fine in Firefox.
_Mark··on Groupon falls below $20/share
It's like there is a Groupon deal on Groupon Shares.
_Mark··on Zlio.com is Closing Its Doors
Official French Version : http://fr.blog-zlio.com/2011/08/17/fermeture-du-service-zlio...

No sign of the English one, only the email so far.

_Mark··on Can You Trademark a Color?
On the Australian ANZ Bank page : http://www.anz.com.au

The footer contains the text "ANZ's colour blue is a trade mark of ANZ."

The actual web site contains multiple blues, so I am wondering which exact one they have trademarked?

_Mark··on Interesting photos from Google Street View
I still think the most interesting / scary Street view was when the Street view van was followed by kidnapper/rapist (now also a murder suspect) Phillip Garrido.

http://boingboing.net/2009/08/31/did-google-street-vi.html

_Mark··on The Anatomy of an Epic App Store Sale: 1.1M downloads in 1 WEEK
Yes it is a quote from idiocracy : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_4jrMwvZ2A