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aldo712on Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on the surgeon’s birthday

The website appears to be down. [1] is an archived snapshot.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201216100507/https://www.psych...

aldo712on Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content

Here's a WayBackMachine Link to this article. :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20200908090515/https://hawaiigen...

aldo712on Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016)

So, are German men also called "Germen"? xD

aldo712on Show HN: CuriositY

This is interesting. However, I seem to have hit a roadblock at level 6 (layer). I tried changing the z-index (thinking it might reveal something, because - layers), but in vain. Scanned through the HTML and css. Nothing, still. Hints?

aldo712on Show HN: 5 minute word game

Umm..

  She piss bed, pussy busy red!
  Men run cab, nun sip pill, deer led
  pig hit lip, tie tin cap!
  Dig mud ball, fin gig!

aldo712on Show HN: Collaborative todo list app – to reduce the email load in my office

Sorry if I'm missing something, but how is this collaborative?

aldo712on Show HN: Dffer – Get notified when a website changes

About a year back I had written a script that would scrape a page every 15 minutes, and notify me when the content changed. It was basically a Band Tour page, and I wanted to be the first to know when the tickets got announced so that I could grab 'em before they got sold out.

P.S. : It was an amazing concert. :)

aldo712on Show HN: Teach your friends to lock their computers

Took me back almost a decade. I'd take a "Print Screen" of the desktop, make that the new desktop background, and hide all the desktop icons after that. It was great fun to watch them struggle, trying to click on the "icons" which are actually embedded in the background wallpaper. :)

aldo712on Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)

“If something happens very slowly over quite some time, maybe over decades, the different parts of the brain take up functions that would normally be done by the part that is pushed to the side”

The way I see it, the Human Brain increases its efficiency (Assuming the 10% Brain Efficiency Myth is true) in such cases, to be able to do all the work that otherwise an entire Brian would have done. I'm curious what would happen if we were to somehow gradually disable parts of the brain, ensuring all functions of the Human Body are still intact, and then suddenly bring all of it back.

aldo712on Show HN: 3DC.io – A dead simple cross-platform 3D design tool

I was confused on selection patterns too. But now that you mentioned that it was meant to be used by 'tapping' (started out on touch devices), selection behavior makes much more sense. Tap to select, tap again to deselect. Tap another item to add to current selection. Thanks!

aldo712on Swift is like Kotlin

Would be great if someone could add a third column for Java.