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Show HN: My implemented vision of a PIM
Hi one and all. I've created an encrypted personal organizer I wish to share with you all. I know.... you are sighing and thinking "Oh! No! not another one".

doogiePIM is different in that it's built by the same coder that created one of the very first PIMs that came out around 18+ years ago and creator of TexNotes way back then (it was actually called Scribillo. Wow, I feel old). The original PIM was sold then abandoned by GemX Software and that made me feel really bad. So, I obtained the full code and started to build a far better version of the information manager. One that will (hopefully) stand the test of time. The work is still ongoing, taking out the bugs, improving features and making it available to everyone around the world with localisation of the UI.

(Warning: I'm going to invoke Obi Wan Kenobi logic here....)
Therefore, it's not another PIM - it's one of the oldest on the Internet... from a certain point of view :P

After a couple of years of work, I think it's almost there. I've rewritten a huge chunk of code, implemented a more modern UI and reworked a lot of the database encryption. I can now start implementing some needed new features and quality-of-life implementations that help rather than hinder. Features such as Android connectivity and better importing of Cloud data. I'm pretty sure you guys will give me a guide as to what you need in a solid PIM.

I want to invite you all to take a look at my vision of a single focus PIM. Go ahead and try doogiePIM, tear it apart. I'd love to read anything you have to say about it.

You can read my latest dev blog here:
https://bitespire.com/community/274-around-the-world-in-80-d...

Download here:
https://bitespire.com/download.php

Of course, read about the features and usual blurb here:
https://bitespire.com/details_doogiepim.php

Kindest regard to all,
Chris
What you're saying, which is a good point, when you say that shelter isn't optional, you can phrase that more precisely as "owning property is a hedge against variable property prices". It's true but there are other ways to hedge this, eg. Long term rental contracts, limited rent controls or owning specific derivatives all reduce this risk. There are societies that run like that, eg. Germany.

Some stocks can go to zero, some are very unlikely to and most portfolios have things that are very unlikely to flatline like govt bonds.
Well i don't mortgage although i could, and I do save so hello you've met your first. The idea that we need a bank threatening to throw us out of our houses to enforce responsible saving is infantile and grotesque.

General criticism of the finance sector is a bit too off topic for me to engage with.
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That already exists with bonuspoints within torrent communities. It works well.

This Atlas thing is all about extracting real money. The owner of BitTorrent Inc is a cryptocoin scammer.
Spoken as someone who denies the safety net beneath their high wire act. For some the risks described and the comforts forgone in the hunt of prosperity are called life. Losing these resources means intense uncertainty of paralyzing outcomes. It's not our job to understand the plight of all around us with compassion, but it does make it easier to justify incongruent rewards they bring.
You know that politics/money influences science when studies get published (or don't), get grants (or don't) based on whether the results match the interests of whoever wants to influence the outcome. This is inherently bad and it's weird to me you challenge that. Scientists acknowledging the climate change do just that - they publish the studies based on what's actually going on, not what someone wants to see.
I was a teacher. Before doing my teacher prep program, I tried to gain relevant experience tutoring after school. When I actually started teaching, I realized very quickly that it's a completely different ballgame.

Teaching isn't just a one way upload of knowledge. It's an interactive process and feedback from the learner is extremely important. Not just for correcting misconceptions, but also for motivation, partnership, and dialog. One-on-one, the loop is very tight.

That's one reason I'm skeptical about technology making a huge impact any time soon. Our technology is just really, really far away from being able to stimulate tutoring.
> The internet used to be accessed by highly sophisticated and technical users.

Quaint but that's simply not true unless you're talking pre 90's. No point in kidding ourselves.

The internet was accessed by people who accessed the internet.
They popped a floppy/cd in a drive and followed instructions. They then opened a browser and typed a url.

Nothing sophisticated about it.

Nobody was creating electrical signals by hand and sending them down a home made wire.
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I have started using https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu (along with uBlock Origin and Cookie AutoDelete) for this reason. It just gets rid of as many of those dialogues as possible, haven't seen one in a month.
"Really? Is that all? I thought there might have been more," Strickland responded, sounding surprised.

It has now been a while, that achievements are rarely done in trios, duos or in solitude. It is a farce to all other hard working scientists.

This recognition is for those, who successfully appropriate the spirit of a given time. Aside from the propaganda/marketing stunt.
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Absolute rubbish.
> "basically saying"

Your summary is a gross oversimplification of what was a very thoughtful comment.

Like I said, the comment you replied to, and the original article, are valuable for their nuance. Your replies are deliberately lacking in nuance and therefore derail the discussion.

Nobody is focusing on how "rich" or "successful" he was; in this discussion people are only talking about how he led his company to build many different products that many people care about and find extremely useful.

As you point out, humanity has many important challenges to solve, and in order to solve them we need leaders who can get results.

I can agree with you that it would be ideal if those leaders were good-natured people who treat others well.

Finding the right balance between getting results and treating people well is an important, complex topic that needs to be discussed with care, not drowned in rage.

Edit: For what it's worth, in the past 24 hours I've posted another comment defending people's right to criticise Elon Musk and invoking The Emperor's New Clothes as a demonstration of why it's important to be free to criticise powerful people, no matter how much they claim to be on a mission to "save the world".

So I'm not against criticism of successful people. I just like it to be substantive, and of the kind that promotes interesting discussions and generates valuable new insights.
Can confirm. I've never felt in danger around an Australian police officer, despite the fact they're packing.

I reckon even if I did something stupid around them I'd probably get pepper sprayed rather than shot.
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> Such as... a General Data Protection Regulation?

Without the rest, sure. Law's also exist for consumer data sharing transparency in the US, they just need to require more detail and have their scope increased (again, if we're resigned to the fact that something must happen).

> That's a big part of GDPR, actually

Right, my whole point is starting small, i.e. without all the other big parts.

> I'm willing to bet few people cared about regulations on traffic safety and alcohol as well

We have to stop debating like this. I could bring up drug laws or prohibition to bolster my point about government regulatory overreach and its consequences. But doing this at a high level negates the nuances in the debate on this issue which has no historical equivalences from which to draw.

> What do you mean by this?

I have not seen large scale equitable enforcement of EU internet laws to justify their size. It's becoming a more rational approach to ignore the laws. Even proponents of the GDPR use subjective enforcement to allay small business fears of compliance. This is why I promote proving you can enforce before expanding scope.

> You all don't

That is a product of levels of risk, legislation scope, and market reaction to the general murkiness of how it will be interpreted and enforced. It's like telling a business they don't need an accountant, the information is all out there.

> The view of pre-GDPR internet as something free of regulation, or free from government involvement, or as nothing but a land of milk and honey seems to me like a pretty severe case of rose-tinted glasses, especially if we're talking the last 10-15 years.

Agree and I definitely don't share that view. I am proud of my peers for fighting it where we have, I just wish we could separate what we want vs how we get it.

Speaking of breaches, I think that's a great initial place to direct legislation and build citizen support against reckless companies without going all in on legislation of data specifically. It also has the benefit of punishing violations instead of prescribing specific maintenance rules.
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> I don't see any such things.

I usually browse the web from within the EU, and I have really begun to mentally filter out the popups because there's just so darn many, but on a recent trip back to the US, the difference was remarkable. A visit to commonly used sites like SourceForge or Washington Post were suddenly just seamless, and on some other sites I was no longer even searching around for the obnoxious cookie warning so that my screen didn't feel so cluttered.
And how would this crypto coin thing help here? Nothing in the announcement deals with obscure, large content.
I really don't think it's a new thing. If anything, it's less acceptable than ever. Even in the military, I think they've toned it down from the Full Metal Jacket-style abuse.
The outliers are 10000x more successful than quite successful people...
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Or personal health outcomes in themselves or people they care about. As we get older this should not be understated and bears out in personal bankruptcy applications. Good health is the ultimate privilege. Many factors that determine good health are rooted in real privilege (safe streets, clean water, quality diet, free from sexual abuse, etc.)
The reason they are asking you why you missed a payment is because creditors have hardship payment plans for people in certain hardships. They were trying to see if you were eligible.
And it was flagged, because why should we have a reasonable discussion about something that's controversial, right?
I see yours and raise you this: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070244837

"System and method for extracting value from a portfolio of assets" - a.k.a. The process of being a patent troll is patented.
Apple doesn't allow third party JIT. They allow third party rendering engines. Blink+JSC would be acceptable but I doubt anybody wants to put the work in to make that a reality.
Basically anyone with high income, making more than (a few) £100k per year.

I have a friend who has done a couple of SEIS investment deals that turned out ok-ish (only breakeven, but profitable considering the tax rebate mechanism).
Buuut I thought we already have bots that beat Civilization by reading the instruction manual?
Stoicism and many other Greek philosophies were much deeper than just thinking different ideas and concept in abstract and writing them down.

Stoic philosopher was someone who was living his life according to stoic philosophy. To learn philosophy and to become a philosopher was to enter training program where you live with the teacher and internalize the philosophy as way of life.

Why would anyone read books about philosophy of bodybuilding and how to lift weights for years if they are not going go to go to gym and actually train? In a same way, you can't really become a Stoic philosopher by reading the books.
Wow you can see the individual tire tracks
I want to condemn this, but given the current state in western countries, I'd feel like a hypocrite.

We have so much light censorship and politicians get to lie without any consequences. The institutions who play along are rewarded and those who try to speak out about it are discredited.

There's illegal surveillance that we only get to know about from whistleblowers.

Political correctness is used to silence millions of people and invalidate opinions without having to debate anyone.

Elections are won through illegal social media campaigns.

If anything, China is copying us.
I think one major difference between pvp games and games like mario/pokemon campaign is that in the former case, the machine is competing with a meat learning algorithm. That is, it doesn’t have to find a good enough solution to a static map, but best an alternative optimization strategy (powered by wetware) before it can reasonably claim success.

That, and ofc, games with a competitive scene come about because of their complexity: a pvp game is not expected to be “won” in the fashion that a single player game can be. In fact, ideally there would be no perfect/optimal play; merely optimal play given a particular meta, which should shift as the meta does (a near-optimal strategy is found, but as it becomes common, a normally weak but counter-strategy becomes more useful, in a perfect world this would be acyclic)
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>in the UK they will literally give you money to buy your first house, the government is so committed to the your-house-is-your-bank philosophy

No wonder, banks were lobbying the state for generations. House is a purchase like any other, having to pay your tax money for somebody's else default on his McMansion is stupid.

I myself have zero reservations about renting till I kick the bucket. My dumbest decision in life was to listen to parents who were coaxing me day and night for a few years into buying a house in my hellhole hometown in Russia with like 75% of my lifetime savings. Yes, I spent ~$80k just to make my parents to fuck off. That was when I was 23, in 2014.

To some extend, I admit, the decision had in part an intention to teach them a lesson, of what a disservice they were making me with their "expert advise," but I could not have imagined just how wrong the things can go...
Also, you'd imagine witnesses (and maybe juries, judges and prosecutors) would be relatively more confident/cooperative if the guy was in custody.
Sorry, such a discussion is not very interesting for me. I think you have a distorted opinion about our country. Read about the "Belarus Hi Tech Park" initiative and conditions for IT companies. A very serious and important work has been done here.
Neat, I shall incorporate this into my little side project that I did for fun: https://macaddresslookup.info
There may be more photons than you think. 10^^17 per cm^^2 per second at the surface of the earth.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2n6zo0/comment/...
Absolutely believable - I’ve been amazed at some of the foolishness of general councils at LARGE corps. They may know law, but they can suck at getting details right about engineering problems. Heck even when it comes to law, can’t tell you how many times I have heard “we will need to consult outside council”..
> If I had no other chance but to live near such criminals, I would try to suicide-bomb them

Your confidence that you'd sacrifice yourself heroically in circumstances it's utterly certain you'll never find yourself in is admirable.
You’re not going to write the next tomb raider but tools like this can be very good for fast feedback prototyping.
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I checked my PC's MAC prefix against the list in the CSV. It was in a block allocated from 2001, but my machine dates from 2017. Not sure how useful this is.
After TiddlyWiki classic with tons of plugins, I used SpringPad while it lived, then Evernote but markdown was able only via browser addon (Markdown here or something). OneNote never suited for my needs and finally settled down with Quip.com. It is like TW with all fancy plugins + live editing...
I think with the current indiepocalypse of game development, and Netflix creating CYOA type shows, IF is due for a surge in popularity and demand. Who's going to orchestrate those Netflix shows? They better have a good sense of IF mechanics.
Hotline was beautiful. It really took that Copland (Titanium?) OS8 feel to a new level.
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The original poster doesn't provide any substantive evidence of what they're claiming (since then they've posted a link to the document without further discussion). They have an account with very little activity so we don't really know who they are or how knowledgeable (and how biased) they are on these issues. I think some skepticism is very much warranted and I don't understand why their comment sits at the top of the thread. They're not making "arguments from the available information", they're just making a statement without providing evidence.

>But that this is no simple "engineer vigilante" is evident

It is not to me. It's plausible that he might not be but I haven't seen a conclusive demonstration either and I'd sooner trust Ars over "some anonymous poster on HN who says it's not true".

I tried reading the PDF provided and I found it very obtuse and verbose, but then again so are patent applications as far as I'm concerned. I'm genuinely incapable of judging the level of skill and dedication required to create something like that. If you are I'd very much like to hear about it instead of throwing vague accusations. Is is that implausible that a skilled engineer used to dealing with patents could come up with something like that on their own or with only minor outside help?
Unsuccessful startups, for me, are not the problem. The problem is:

a) venture capital coming from government which have very low incentives to not waste money (their goal is usually only to have X amount of start ups) - which leads that capital and talent is diverted to this bad startups

b) since they are zombies, they don't die quickly enough, the resources waste keeps going on (capital, talent, office space, bandwidth, etc.)
>laureates include first woman in 55 years
Completely irrelevant information, yet it has to be in the title. Are there any statistics on how many left-handed people, or vegans are laureates?
I'm pretty sure it's possible. My best sports coach was demanding and direct, but never insulting or abusive. It's not about niceness, per se. It's about speaking honestly to the objective aspects work while always valuing the person. You can be emotional and mad, just don't take it out on people, and if you lose it, own up to it.

Another example. My old CTO had a frank conversation with me about my management style. I cried because I knew I wasn't doing the kind of job I wanted to do. He never said a single word to me that was abusive or out of line. I didn't agree with every word he said, but I took his constructive criticism to heart.

You don't have to be an asshole to have a tough conversation with people. Reading this thread, it's so frustrating that people seem to think the two things are the same.
That would seem to depend on the leadership. You might get the leader’s former job.
If any crimes were committed, they might be able to get a match on the vehicle the perps were driving!
I don't, sorry.
And I guess there's no way to create a transaction between the file system and the sqlite db. I've often thought that would be a useful feature sometimes - maybe something in the sqlite API could write your file, and then commit when verified on the filesystem.
FYI, the mechanism you describe is (essentially) how TLS works...
I think your argument does not stand valid, telling someone to read a book is a road end.

I believe you shouldn't see it as cutting sleep but rather waking up early. I am not saying per se that from now on you'll wake up at 4.

But rather cut 10 minutes every month until you reach that goal.

For example I have school and some of it is really unnecessary. I'll rather study the first thing. Its called prioritizing and you can repeat it every time. The only down side to this is that you sleep earlier and miss out on things.
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I've always known CHAOS as the hmmm-that's-weird way of finding out which version of BIND was running:

$ dig @a0.org.afilias-nst.info version.bind txt chaos
;; ANSWER SECTION:
version.bind.	0	CH	TXT	"9.9.9-P5"

I never realised that once upon a time there was an actual Chaosnet protocol...
"Open core" and dual licensing are two completely separate business models. They should not be conflated.

Open core business models depends on selling non-free software. Normally all or nearly all development is done by a singular company. The core software could probably just as easily have been free-of-charge, and everything else would have been completely identical. (But on the other hand, if you're not making money, you might as well publish source code in this day and age.)

Dual licensing business models are much more like selling free software than selling non-free software, with that difference that large parts of your potential customers are not interested in copyleft. This is often the case for the embedded world for example. Here it's much more common to find multi-stakeholder communities, since copyleft can bring a much more level playing field.
Lua was made specially for non programmers. I think it is really intuitive and easy. I agree with the comment that perhaps understanding optmisation details is hard. But that's hard in every language.
Odd that it doesn't mention probably the most interesting and usable decentralised exchange: https://bisq.network

I do understand the point about UX; I wouldn't exactly describe Bisq's interface as "pretty". However it is very usable, and lacks all the shiny faffery usually associated with a crypto project these days. I don't think they even mention the word "partnership" on their website.
In what sense is it legal to send a covert SEAL team to enter a sovereign allied country and arrest/kill somebody? US has no such jurisdiction in Pakistan.
When I tried this game a few months ago my character got trapped in a character generation menu that couldn't be exited.
A world record, but reaching at least turn 1 of the game would be better.
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Yes that is the proper way to frame it :-) Being unsuccessful is part of the startup life. Being a Zombie is not!
If it's just because of different definitions of censorship, I would gladly take the downvotes. After all, people disagree on definitions and HN allows downvotes for disagreeing.

In fact I am happy that we found the root cause of our disagreement.

Edit: To be more clear, I would define censorship as denying legal means to access a piece of information.
>> I've had more success than many colleagues due to me spending time every day to improve myself

Conscientiousness is ~44% heritable.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8776880
GKE documentation says 25 % of the first 4 GB are reserved for GKE:

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/clu...

Is it what you observe?
"Right to be forgotten" is a core tenant of GDPR. It'd be interesting to see if the U.S. would enforce the hard delete of social media profiles upon opting out.
I'm not denying that it's special to many people, but this is true of many things in pop culture. I was answering the GG-parent with regards to "understanding" Pokemon. I'm arguing that it's easy to understand as a video game. As a pop culture phenomenon, the question doesn't really make sense, calling for a tautological answer.
Simple and nice user interface. Congratulations..
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These bindings are for node.js, not for the web.
> popularly known as Planet Nine

Poor Pluto...
"Hippocampus as episodic memory" is that well known fact or just to reinforce about his thesis.