duncanmeech
Re:Show HN: PlaceholderJS – Simple and Lightweight Placeholders
on Friday September 06, 2024 @02:23PM (#41468518)
Up there with leftpad as a library you probably don't need. https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-...
Re:Turbo Pascal Turns 40
on Friday December 01, 2023 @06:49AM (#38485745)
Borland! The only good thing about Hwy 17.
Re:Habitual GPS use negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guid...
on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @07:45AM (#32494951)
Habitual GPS usage also results in you frequently arriving on time.
Re:Google / FedEx can steal your money
on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:35PM (#26485112)
So I ordered a Samsung Note Ultra from Google Fi via expedited shipping signature required. When it is supposedly delivered the signature confirmation from Fedex claims it was signed for by 'C.NINETEEN'. Google then proceeds to immediately deny my claim for a refund of the ~$1000. Pretty nice scam these two are running?
Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research
on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:44AM (#24209388)
This sounds like a viable strategy...it certainly seemed to work for Norman Bates in Psycho.
Re:Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript
on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:08AM (#23153542)
The original app is on bitbucket
git clone [email protected]:duncanmeech/flying.git
Re:Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript
on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:04AM (#23153507)
Correct! If you play with the source on codesandbox you can disable the demo mode and actually rotate the Kollsman window using the BARO button. The calculations for pressure and resulting altitude are from standard physics texts.
Re:Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript
on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:35PM (#23146715)
Too bad, was only a thin wrapper at best though. Maybe time for a new open source SVG library.
Re:Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript
on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:22PM (#23146561)
Originally, the code was in this repo but its a full nodejs / express app. https://bitbucket.org/duncanmeech/flying/src/master/
Just the frontend part can be found here...https://codesandbox.io/s/six-pack-flight-instruments-fl7b8
Re:Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript
on Monday May 11, 2020 @02:08PM (#23145131)
I wrote these a while ago with some intention of creating flight training tools. I'm making them available to all the other programmer / pilots out there who might find them useful. https://codesandbox.io/s/six-pack-flight-instruments-fl7b8
Re:GM fungus can rapidly kill mosquitoes that spread malaria, study su...
on Saturday June 01, 2019 @09:18AM (#20069031)
This is a fast way to kill mosquitos and an even faster way of creating toxin resistant mosquitos.
The life cycle of HIV in 3D [video]
Re:The Shirky Principle (2010)
on Saturday April 28, 2018 @08:52AM (#16947419)
e.g. Tax preparation companies lobbying to prevent the tax authorities from supplying candidate computer generated tax returns for tax payers.
Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:20PM (#16505798)
what no <blink> tags?
Re:Ask HN: Are Glassdoor reviews a reliable indicator of a company's c...
on Friday October 13, 2017 @12:41PM (#15467227)
Have you ever been asked to provide a positive review for a place that you formerly worked at? I have, I suspect this is common.
Re:The Interface font family
on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:57AM (#15089320)
The interweb works better when you use things like <P> not <IMG>
Re:Front End Development Guide for Large Engineering Teams
on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:58AM (#14604897)
Yawn....just another React/Redux fan boy blog.
Re:Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned
on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:41PM (#13544895)
Needs more animated gifs. What was the blog post about again?
Re:Animated Algorithms
on Friday September 12, 2014 @08:55PM (#8311245)
agreed, but compiling the code does have the benefit of providing syntax checking and you are assured the full benefits of whatever JS engine your browser is running. How do I create new algorithms on you site? I could not figure that out.
Re:Animated Algorithms
on Friday September 12, 2014 @05:35PM (#8310584)
Wow, that is super sweet. I have been planning to add user interaction to algomation.com but have not had the time yet. The input mechanism would need to support validation and defaults so that algorithms could always run unattended but otherwise very doable despite the web workers that I use on the site.
Re:Animated Algorithms
on Friday September 12, 2014 @05:15PM (#8310508)
...working on a search term extraction algorithm as we speak :)
Re:Animated Algorithms
on Friday September 12, 2014 @05:05PM (#8310468)
Featured algorithms are on the homepage or these are good examples of the site:
http://www.algomation.com/algorithm/towers-hanoi-recursive-v...
http://www.algomation.com/algorithm/dijkstra-graph-shortest-...
http://www.algomation.com/algorithm/reversi-othello-engine-n...
http://www.algomation.com/algorithm/heap-sort-priority-queue
Re:Animated Algorithms
on Friday September 12, 2014 @05:03PM (#8310452)
more dynos added....should be smoother now.
Re:Animated Algorithms
on Friday September 12, 2014 @04:59PM (#8310434)
I added a few more dynos...nice and smooth now. Apologies.
-duncan meech