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Re:Show HN: A text adventure for developers on Thursday June 12, 2014 @04:35AM (#7882379)
This is just a pet peeve of mine. I don't understand why you ask "Are you sure you want to leave this page" when I click back, or try to close the tab. I am sure - that's why I tried to leave.

edit: fixed typo

Ask HN: How can I get involved in AI?

Posted by gregchapple on Sunday May 25, 2014 @06:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.

In the past few months I've become really interested in AI. I am a software developer with a background in mainly JavaScript and Python. Most recently I've been dabbling with Go and C.AI (Artificial Intelligence) is something that I would love to get involved in, though I have no idea how to go about it. I do not have any formal qualifications, though I have over 5 years of full time software...

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Re:Prose, a content editor for GitHub on Saturday May 03, 2014 @05:02PM (#7692327)
Actually, it's a Backbone.js application. It uses the browserify library to load other modules, which is what the "require('blah')" bits are. this confused me too when I first read it. so essentially you can run this on a static file server like GH pages.

As far as I remember in order to get the GitHub authentication piece working you need to use an external app simply for the authentication with GitHub. DevelopmentSeed also wrote an app for this called gatekeeper (I think) which I believe is a node.js application.

impressive stuff.

Re:An editor is an editor after all Isn't it? on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @06:57AM (#7626883)
The simple answer is that Emacs has fantastic support for working with Lisp code. Have a look at this page for a more detailed explanataion: http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/emacs-ide.html#Slide-2
Re:Is Twitter down for anyone else? on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @02:20PM (#7381112)
down in Ireland also
Re:Intern at a YC Company on Monday March 10, 2014 @01:37PM (#7374382)
I've noticed a strange bug with the latest version of Chrome where pages sometimes don't render. Try opening the developer tools, this usually causes the page to render for me.
Re:Durr: A shivering unisex bracelet that investigates our perception ... on Saturday January 04, 2014 @09:48AM (#7011168)
better than the alternative: "vibrating unisex".
Re:What's the new hottness? EmberJS, AngularJS, BackboneJS, or somethi... on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @05:54PM (#6804880)
I can't recommend Angular.js enough. I've been working with it for the past few months and find it to be really enjoyable. The docs aren't great (though getting better), but I found these tutorials pretty good for getting up and running: http://egghead.io
Re:Gadget: A smallish web framework for Go on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @03:04PM (#6803796)
+1 for Martini. Spent some time looking for a decent framework like this, and was delighted when I discovered it.
Re:A WebGL game engine on Thursday November 21, 2013 @09:26AM (#6774767)
It could be a hardware issue too. My graphics card doesn't support it, even though my browser should.