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niclupien commented on Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom   zephony.com/remote-softwa... · Posted by u/kevinpaladin
niclupien · 6 years ago
I'm single dad with 3 young kids and I would never change from working from home. After leaving the kids at daycare in the morning, I come home and quickly clean up the house. I do stuff like meal prep and laundry in pauses during the day. I spend quality time with my kids in the evening instead of doing chores. When they go to bed, I can relax, read a book and workout. I don't know how I would do any of this with 1-2 hours of commute.

In term of productivity, I'm more productive at home without the distraction of a workplace. I don't have any special setup. Just a laptop really. Not even headphones. I have a nice office space setup in my basement with a whiteboard and an extra monitor but I rarely use it. I'm more often working from the kitchen or living room.

I still love going to the workplace (or another place) from time to time. There's no substitute to interacting with people in real life.

niclupien commented on How to make a friend fast   happyturtlethings.net/how... · Posted by u/trurl42
phaed · 8 years ago
I think I might have permanently damaged my vision with that #FFF on #000 color scheme. I still see text floating in the air.
niclupien · 8 years ago
I use Materialistic HN reader for Android and I just turn on readability.
niclupien commented on A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system   twitter.com/GambleLee/sta... · Posted by u/dmit
gumby · 9 years ago
I always give the post code of the shop, if I know it, or one nearby that I do know.
niclupien · 9 years ago
Wait, why do you know the post codes of the places you shop?
niclupien commented on Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something else?    · Posted by u/dvrajan
niclupien · 9 years ago
First time I quit programming, burned out, went working on a friend's farm. After some times, I felt much more valuable helping them with computers/website/payment processing problems. Didn't took long, I was back in programming.

Second time, I took some time to execute on a non profit to help our local community. Being good with data really help organizing event people really liked so I tried to spin that into a startup and failed. Like other commenters said, I was doing stuff I didn't really like.

I'm back to programming but I'm really glad I tried different things. Not everything was a failure, I eat fresh organic food from my friend's farm and I have an impact on my local community.

niclupien commented on Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology   newstatesman.com/culture/... · Posted by u/noir-york
peter_l_downs · 10 years ago
Do you have any other recommendations along the same vein? Literature, tv, mobies - I'm interested in absorbing more "near future" sci fi, particularly those that focus on identity issues. I had a lot of fun reading Stross's Accelerando and Vinge's Deepness series.
niclupien · 10 years ago
I find anything cyberpunk very good "near-future" literature. Currently reading "Ready Player One" (Ernest Cline) and watching Caprica which are both about AIs and VR. Seeing much VR (ex: HoloLens) on HN frontpage lately adds to the fun of it. If it's your kind of stuff, you can try this list from GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/487.Best_of_Cyberpunk
niclupien commented on Chrome Cleanup Tool   google.com/chrome/cleanup... · Posted by u/pvinis
bt3 · 10 years ago
Judging on the verbiage of that splash page, it sounds like this is a utility that does nothing more than reset one's settings back to normal, while deleting, or at least disabling a majority of add-ons that may be primary contributors to the crashing, erroneous start pages, and "ads you can't get rid of".
niclupien · 10 years ago
Interesting, I understood something completely different. I thought it would detect and remove malware installed on the user's computer that affect chrome behavior.
niclupien commented on MRI Scans of a person's brain   github.com/dcunited001/mr... · Posted by u/shagunsodhani
anotheryou · 10 years ago
Anything cool one can do with this? I have my MRI + DTI and wonder what to do with it.

Mine looks like any brain to me (no tumors, yay!).

From the DTI I was able to calculate the white matter trajectory with slicer: http://screencast.com/t/yDYFJdL7D

(I was a little let down I couldn't follow the visual nerves, but as they cross there is no clear direction of diffusion that could be imaged I guess...)

niclupien · 10 years ago
My friends did this http://www.artofthebrain.com They sell brain art but they can also produce one with custom data from MRI.
niclupien commented on Atlas by Hashicorp   atlas.hashicorp.com... · Posted by u/danielsiders
niclupien · 11 years ago
Atlas as a project name seems very popular these days (Facebook Atlas API, o'Reilly Atlas platform, etc).
niclupien commented on Ask HN: What domain registration and DNS service do you use?    · Posted by u/dangayle
d0ugie · 12 years ago
Do they have a good deal on SSL certs when buying or transferring domains? the certs are good, yes?
niclupien · 12 years ago
Yes they do, when I purchase a domain they give a SSL cert for 2$ for 1 year. That's kind of a no brainer for me.

u/niclupien

KarmaCake day74September 17, 2010View Original