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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.
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?
This sounds like a viable strategy...it certainly seemed to work for Norman Bates in Psycho.
The original app is on bitbucket git clone [email protected]:duncanmeech/flying.git
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.
Too bad, was only a thin wrapper at best though. Maybe time for a new open source SVG library.
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
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
This is a fast way to kill mosquitos and an even faster way of creating toxin resistant mosquitos.
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?
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 @05:03PM (#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