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brickmorton Real Estate Agents Are Weaponizing Snapchat

In other news, Google searches for 'Manse' shoots up 4000%

brickmorton Peter Thiel Is Very, Very Interested in Young People's Blood

I noticed that as well. It's been well-known that Thiel has been funding anti-aging research for some time now. It's not until very recently that it's being published sensationally as 'Peter Thiel Wants Your Young Blood!'.

brickmorton Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

I signed up for Snapchat and didn't use it for an entire year. It just didn't make sense. The whole thing seemed pointless to me. Then it clicked. I'm not sure what it was, but once you have friends using Snapchat, it definitely becomes more enjoyable. If you don't know anyone with a Snapchat, Try following some celebrities first.

brickmorton Ask HN: What blogging platform are you using these days?

Django Mezzanine running on an EC2 instance, for the simple reasons that I'm familiar with python and I like having full control over all aspects of the stack.

brickmorton Stoned drivers are safer than drunk ones, new federal data show

> Stoned drivers are less dangerous than drunk ones

brickmorton Ask HN: Best linux laptop right now?

I've had excellent experience with Dell Latitude laptops. I was using a Dell Latitude E6420 running Linux Mint for about two years until it stopped charging completely and I had to keep it plugged in for it to work. I ended up replacing it with a refurbished E6420 with almost identical specs for a little under $300. It's my primary computer and, with the 9-cell battery, can hold a charge for about 8 hours.

brickmorton Google 'mic drop' Gmail joke for April Fools' day backfires

what a terrible idea for a prank. I can't believe this made it through all channels and got the OK.

brickmorton How a new emulator generates 3D scenes from 2D NES games

There's a video in the article that shows Contra in 3d!

brickmorton Python Exercises for Kids

"You're gonna go far, kid"

brickmorton Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

Apple will begin sitting on it's laurels while core services and products degrade, while Microsoft enters a quiet, user-first renaissance under new leadership.

(buzzer sound)

brickmorton Viewer.js – JavaScript image viewer

This brings up an interesting debate, but I do side with you on this. Feels weird to be at my desk browsing through pictures of Emma Watson.

brickmorton Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

hahahah :)

brickmorton Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

I deleted my Facebook account after realizing that every time I would go on it, the clickbait and mindless minutia would irritate me more than entertain me. between the advertisements, there would be 'you'll never guess what happens next!' posts, then political propaganda, then children/marriage updates on people I hadn't interacted with in years. At a certain point, I realized that it wasn't even fun to me anymore, so I bid farewell to everyone, backed up my contacts & pictures, then deleted my facebook. It's been about two years since I left and, for the most part, I don't really regret it.

With that said, what I do regret is missing out on my growing family. My cousins from out of state as well as my siblings are getting married and having kids. I was helping my mom log into her facebook the other day and I saw pictures of my niece's first day of ballet class and my nephew's first day of kindergarden. It made me light up and think "Ah shit, I'm kind of missing out on these things." Although I see them every now and then, stuff like that is the only reason I would even consider getting back on FB. I find it funny that it's for a completely different purpose from when I first joined in college.

brickmorton Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode (2013)

I thought the same thing. "But does it really?"

brickmorton The sky's gone dark

thanks!

brickmorton Facebook Mentions

so... Periscope/Meerkat on Facebook?

Actually, at second glance:

Facebook Mentions is only available to public figures with verified Pages.

brickmorton Show HN: Libsoundio 1.0.0 – cross-platform audio input and output

neat!

brickmorton Tell HN: Today I try to make a living from my side project

If you aren't already, I highly recommend frequenting /r/entrepreneur and /r/startups on reddit. Best of luck!!

brickmorton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2015)

Python/Django Developer, DevOps Engineer

Location: NYC | Long Island, New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: to NYC

Technologies: Python (Django, Flask), Bash, HTML/CSS, Java, C#, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Rust, AWS, Docker, CoreOS, Devops, Linux

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwagfa9ahgp0SDJQOVdFTHRObTQ...

Email: please see resume

Working in IT full-time and currently doing freelance development. looking to shift to a full-time developer or devops oriented position. I'm bilingual in Spanish and English. Feel free to contact me even if you just want to keep in touch.

brickmorton Ask HN: What do you do when an homeless ask you money?

living near NYC has taught me to ignore beggars. At a certain point, you lose sympathy because you can't distinguish who genuinely needs it and who's just looking to make an easy buck.

brickmorton The Death of Cash

Before clicking through, I thought this was going to be about Johnny Cash...

brickmorton Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

The concept seems very similar to Rabbit: http://rabb.it

brickmorton This Industry is Fucked

just wondering... why are you singling out only white males? I'm a non-white male.

brickmorton Ask HN: Are there any angels investing in the marijuana industry?

Snoop Dogg is. :)

brickmorton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2015)

Location: NYC | Long Island, New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes, depending on location

Technologies: Docker, CoreOS (rkt, etcd), Python (Django, Flask), HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, Bash, Rust

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwagfa9ahgp0REdjNWt3QlVmZFE...

Email: please see resume

Currently working in IT, but looking to move to a developer, devops, or related field. I'm bilingual in Spanish and English. Feel free to contact me even if you just want to keep in touch.

brickmorton Geeknet to be acquired by Hot Topic

ThinkGeek had already become a geekier Hot Topic somewhere in the past two years. This news isn't surprising.

brickmorton 'Sham' cancer charities raised $187M, used almost none on patients, suit

> upsetting for upstanding charities like Susan G Komen.

err......

brickmorton Ask: Ghost or Wordpress?

I started using it shortly after the official release in the Fall/Winter of 2013 and used it until about a month ago when I moved to Wordpress.

brickmorton Ask: Ghost or Wordpress?

Go with Wordpress. I used Ghost for my blog for a little over a year (started using it immediately after it was first released) and, despite it being a solid blog engine, it's very limiting if you want to do anything other than that.

Ghost does not yet have plugin support, so adding social meta data to your blog is much less intuitive than if you were to use something like WP's 'Yoast SEO plugin'. The Ghost team has made some great improvements that have resolved the woes of manually entering meta attributes to your posts, but Yoast's SEO plugin is still taking the lead with optimizing your page for sharing/SEO.

I had several woes when I used Ghost. At one point, I decided that I wanted to make a static splash page as my root page '(mysite).com', with a 'blog' button that takes you to the blog section at '(mysite.com)/blog' Turns out it's impossible to do this on Ghost. It would have to be implemented on Apache.

Next, I wanted to make a separate page to showcase my artwork. I was thinking of making a nice gallery page. The best way to do it with Ghost would be making a new blog post, setting it to be a static page, then embedding the pictures manually with Markdown. I could have made a photo gallery with Javascript and tucked it under the Markdown, but it just felt unnecessarily hacky and I didn't want to deal with it. It would have been nice to just have a simple out-of-the-box feature plugin that would do that for me.

Wordpress is a massive, well-seasoned Goliath, and Ghost is the smaller, younger David. Like I said, Ghost is great for what it is: a blog engine. But if you want to add anything else to your blog and maybe make it work more like a website, you'll have to either write up your own theme for it or crawl under the code to tweak it around to your taste.

When I moved to Wordpress, I imported my posts, added a picture gallery, splash page, fully customized everything and it took just a few hours and it looked great. It was such a sigh of relief.

brickmorton Show HN: Onfleet, local delivery logistics SaaS

Now all we need is a company called "Eyebrows" to use this. Then you'll have Eyebrows on Fleet :)