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mikerice

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mikerice··on Drone Sighting Halts Departures at Heathrow Airport
I suspect the last thing you want to do in the vicinity of one of the busiest airports in the world is to start jamming frequencies?
mikerice··on Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?
Similar boat: started working out with a trainer in Feb 2x a week, and 2x on my own. Although having a trainer is a luxury the return has been great and I've never felt better.
mikerice··on The US Marines' Love Affair with 3D Printing
This is common with every large organization.
mikerice··on iPhones may shut down in cold weather
This has been happening already for at least the past 4 winters. This was pretty common knowledge, right?
mikerice··on Orcas have learned how to drown great white sharks
Totally fair! Either way it's an interesting article
mikerice··on Orcas have learned how to drown great white sharks
I think it was common understanding that Great White sightings decline when there are Orcas in the area, but I've never heard of these predatory behaviors just to get some shark livers
mikerice··on Sonos: users must accept new privacy policy or devices may “cease to function”
There is a Sonos app for iOS, though? But agree using the Spotify app to manage it is pretty lousy but then I just switch to the Sonos app.
mikerice··on Sonos: users must accept new privacy policy or devices may “cease to function”
It's so good but still so buggy. Very much a love-hate relationship.
mikerice··on Little Things I Like to Do with Git
Big fan of the git-randomline command. So much that I'm stealing it!
mikerice··on Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City
Yeah I mean I get why people in Toronto are excited, but not a single person is thinking of privacy implications. It grosses me out.
mikerice··on The web looks like shit
This is rich coming from theoutline
mikerice··on Why “Uber for X” companies are struggling even as Uber thrives
It's interesting, however, that Uber is now in fact doing "Uber for food"/"food on demand" with https://ubereats.com.
mikerice··on Scrapy Tips from the Pros
Using it for the same use case, scraping a whole lot of job posts. Scrapy is love, scrapy is life.
mikerice··on Check your Google history
You can actually delete it all on the settings page, as well as turning off your history.

https://history.google.com/history/settings?hl=en

mikerice··on Bop.fm (YC S13) Links Together Music Silos Like Spotify, Rdio To Share Tracks
have you heard of the echonest api? im pretty sure they even use it at bop.fm
mikerice··on Anonymous takes control of North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr accounts
NK could interpret it as US actions rather than Anonymous.
mikerice··on Goodbye Jody. You Really Were Awesome
that's why he also published it on BI? http://www.businessinsider.com/jody-sherman-the-founder-and-...
mikerice··on Show HN: WhenEpisode.com (Simple weekend project)
Nice work, very impressive for a weekend project! Did something similar a couple years ago called http://remembertowatch.com.
mikerice··on Gmail.com was down
Happened to me as well.
mikerice··on Show HN: Weekend Hack: NextEpiso.de
Snazzy UI. I made something similar: txt reminders for new episodes of tv shows: http://remembertowatch.com
mikerice··on New Zealand admits illegally spying on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
Rule #1 of spying: Never admit to it.
mikerice··on Show HN: A Monthly Tee from your favorite YC startup
What if I get a tee from a startup of which I don't necessarily like? The only tees of startups I wear are ones I use/really support. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for a startup I'm not even using.
mikerice··on Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook
This is what I thought. Load times were brutal. But I do love Wolfram Alpha.
mikerice··on Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints
This is so awesome, just really wish the recipe database was a lot bigger. As much as I love bacon, not sure I want it for 3 meals a day.
mikerice··on Draconian ‘Wi-Fi police' stalk Olympic Games
Why does this bother anyone? They're trying to stop interference with the vast amount of wireless communication tools they have to use from refereeing to planning etc.
mikerice··on HP releases more Open webOS code, including System Manager and core apps
I really had big hopes for webOS, it looked very promising when it was announced. Too bad it never made it.
mikerice··on Sparrow acquired by Google
I love how everyone here is complaining but if 90% of you were in that position you probably would have taken the offer.
mikerice··on Skype goes open source: Flawless victory
This is stolen, not open source.
mikerice··on Customer: Apple Store denied me iPad for speaking Farsi
Why is this even bad? Current US - Iran relations are very bad, and are blowing up thanks to media. It's no surprise that this man doesn't want to risk losing his job.
mikerice··on Russia, China, Tajikistan propose UN "code of conduct" for the 'Net
Tajikistan, the voice of the internet.
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