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The Fifth Estate tried to make things look realistic, so a fair number of CLIs have actually made their way into at least a movie

http://sciencefictioninterfaces.tumblr.com/post/160895580781...

oh hey, thanks! I'm excited this is something people still remember. I hope people get behind this, it's a lot more accessible and there seem to be a lot of people trying it out.

Studios keep pushing the UIs visually but we need to keep up with the ridiculousness

Were you thinking of this post? http://seenaburns.com/debugging-electron-memory-usage/ Curious if other people have more on it

Oh hey I run this, originally I was just collecting the fui designs for reference when trying to make my own as a desktop (https://github.com/seenaburns/dex-ui), but since then I've kept it going.

My personal favorite is probably still Oblivion http://www.gmunk.com/OBLIVION-GFX but if these are too over the top science fiction, The Bourne Identity's is pretty fun too http://coleran.com/gallery-category/fui/#the-bourne-identity

Any script you throw together to output floats works. One example I have (for linux) samples wlan0 stats every two seconds to test download kbps.

The code is here: https://github.com/seenaburns/stag/blob/master/examples/netw...

Trying out some of the examples for Spark is also fun: https://github.com/holman/spark/wiki/Wicked-Cool-Usage

This is an awesome idea! Is there any way to create a randomized list weighted with popularity (so for a given tag you can refresh to find new links, but still ones likely to be interesting)?

Are inline if statements considered good form? I rarely see them in use and I've heard people complain about them before.

For anyone interested, a few weeks ago, someone posted a paper on the popular data mining / machine learning algorithms that gives a brief overview of some common algorithms [1]. Someone also posted a few presentations on them if you just want a bullet point summary of the gist of each algorithm [2].

I just finished looking through both. They're both great if you're hoping to get some traction when it comes to learning ML.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4938162

[2] - http://www.cis.hut.fi/Opinnot/T-61.6020/2008/

I'm going to second snapping, even if it's just snapping to other elements on the page.

HN has really motivated me to start thinking about side projects seriously, even if just as learning exercise or solving my own problems. I only just started publishing them a few months ago, but I've had a lot of fun these:

Chroma https://github.com/seenaburns/Chroma - Python color handling and manipulation library

Desaturate https://github.com/seenaburns/Desaturate - Menu Bar app to force Mac OS X into grayscale display

Tungsten https://github.com/seenaburns/Tungsten - Wolfram Alpha API wrapper for Python

Open URLs In Tabs https://github.com/seenaburns/Open-URLs-In-Tabs - Port of John Gruber's OS X service to open links in tabs, modified to work for Chrome (/ your default browser).

Desaturate is definitely my favorite. Now for 2013, I have to learn to comment more and write more.