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domedefeliceon Facebook Novi: Wallet for Libra Digital Currencies

Italian brand of chocolate, not Swiss ( https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_(azienda) )

domedefeliceon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

I'm building it as a web app.

I'm still undecided on whether hosting it myself or just releasing it as a self-contained stand-alone app (startup script launching a lightweight webserver and opening a new tab in the browser).

There are pros and cons with each approach and I'm making up my mind on the best one to follow

domedefeliceon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

A spaced-repetition software, inspired by SuperMemo and Anki.

I'm working on reaching the simplicity of Anki, while keeping more features like in SuperMemo, e.g. native support for incremental reading.

It's still in early stage but almost usable. I'm planning to push the repository on GitHub as soon as the last couple of to-dos are finished.

domedefeliceon How to Rebuild an Attention Span (2013)

I will try it, thanks

domedefeliceon How to Rebuild an Attention Span (2013)

This is the course I attended: https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/courses/search . It may be difficult at first but it's definitely worth it

domedefeliceon How to Rebuild an Attention Span (2013)

You are right. After a 10 days course of Vipassana my focus and attention span greatly improved. But you need to keep practicing. I kept practicing for about a month then I stopped. After stopping, slowly I acquired again the old habit of getting easily distracted. I need to take that (free) course again.

domedefeliceon How to Rebuild an Attention Span (2013)

Yeah, I was wondering the same. Since NeuroRacer doesn't seem to be available, are there any other good games «to promote “interference-resisting abilities”»?

domedefeliceon Ask HN: Front-end “design patterns”?

@mattmanser the op asked specifically for UI patterns: "To give an obvious example of what I'm looking for- I would say, use margins to separate multiple instances of same components (among other uses)."

domedefeliceon Show HN: One click image optimization for GitHub

Gaining the confidence of the user is not easy:

1) I think you should state explicitly that the compression is lossless (if it is);

2) You should provide some kind of demos/examples to look at.

Good job anyway!

domedefeliceon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2014)

  Location: Dublin, Ireland
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Javascript, Python, Ruby, Java, C. More information on the CV
  CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s094z0bbstdydpz/Curriculum%20Vitae.pdf?dl=0
  Email: hire.20.defelice@xoxy.net
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/domenico-de-felice/73/710/88a

I'm available and very willing to study and learn new programming languages, technologies and environments or anything else needed to accomplish my job. I love to enrich my skills and I quickly assimilate new technologies and concepts.

domedefeliceon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2014)

  Location: Dublin, Ireland
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Javascript, Python, Ruby, Java, C. More information on the CV
  CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s094z0bbstdydpz/Curriculum%20Vitae.pdf?dl=0
  Email: hire.20.defelice@xoxy.net
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/domenico-de-felice/73/710/88a

domedefeliceon Best ways to learn a foreign language

Hi bigd. I've only tried the free demo of rosetta stone and it was too short to make me form a useful opinion about it. Anyway I would prefer free material.

domedefeliceon Best ways to learn a foreign language

Similar to dictation but seems funnier and more challenging at the same time. Very interesting! I am going to try this

domedefeliceon Best ways to learn a foreign language

Hi Xiaoma, thanks for your feedback. I think that Duolingo and Anki are great trampolines to learn the basics of a language. Duolingo worked great for various people I know and it helped me learning the basics of German in a funny way.