Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by __alexs on Friday September 14, 2012 @09:34AM
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Someone made a logic gate out of crabs? Ignore :(
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by sp332 on Friday September 14, 2012 @12:59PM
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Someone made a Turing machine out of Magic: The Gathering cards. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506865 Even more ignored.
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by nopassrecover on Saturday September 15, 2012 @01:37AM
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Both got decent upvote counts
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by sp332 on Saturday September 15, 2012 @09:27AM
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They do now :) The MtG post had about half as many upvotes when I posted the link, and I think the crabs one got an even bigger boost.
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by _suoiruc on Friday September 14, 2012 @06:12PM
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This made me laugh. Perfect follow-up.
That's the way to get the good stories onto the front page.
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by Evbn on Friday September 14, 2012 @10:06AM
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Wow, they found an even messier substrate than water!
... - transitors - vacuum-tubes - water - crabs - ...
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by andrewflnr on Friday September 14, 2012 @01:01PM
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It's a hack. HN is for (among other things) news about hacks.
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by peterwwillis on Friday September 14, 2012 @04:38PM
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It's not really a hack. It's slowly printing a GIF for a kind of really limited server push. If you want to send someone messages via server-push in an old-school way, use multipart/x-mixed-replace.
A hack would be taking the input of a TV tuner card, converting the video to .gif frames, and printing that out slowly enough to view a slow video over a DSL line to watch TV without a media player.
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by damncabbage on Saturday September 15, 2012 @03:56AM
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It's not really a hack. ... A hack would be taking the input of a TV tuner card, ...
No True Scotsman: Hacker Edition?
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by tcdent on Friday September 14, 2012 @05:17PM
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Maybe not a great enough hack for you, but it's still a hack by definition; using something beyond it's intended purpose.
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by jaylevitt on Saturday September 15, 2012 @02:45PM
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No, a hack would be doing all that while building an abstraction layer around Google Calculator to act as a primitive CPU to do the GIF encode.
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by nollidge on Friday September 14, 2012 @12:05PM
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I'm kind of OK with that.
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by tylermenezes on Friday September 14, 2012 @03:06PM
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It seems a bit arrogant to say "I don't like this particular article, therefore the community is primitive." An Animated GIF messaging library is certainly of interest to a majority of hackers.
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by jere on Friday September 14, 2012 @03:31PM
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I didn't say anything of the sort.
I simply made an amusing (to me) observation. I had earlier thought Pinterest seemed like MacGyver for people into crafts (at least that's the kind of thing my wife kept getting excited about). That's not to disparage HN or Pinterest or MacGyver for that matter.
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
by will_work4tears on Friday September 14, 2012 @11:40PM
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As a die hard McGyver fan, I'm offended you'd compare him to a subset of stay at home mom's pinning pictures of other women with flat abs as "motivation." Ok, occasionally they post some pretty cool stuff, but mostly it is the former.
Someone made a coffee table out of old crates? Pin. Someone made a fence out of old wood pallets? Pin.
Someone made a realtime messaging library out of animated gifs? Upvote.