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Re:2007 Boston Mooninite Panic on Sunday November 24, 2024 @12:07AM (#42226027)
I was taking a class around this time that involved programming and Atari 2600. I made a game based around this event.

http://nirmalpatel.com/hacks/atari.html

Same error MacBook Air and Chrome 23.0.1271.10 dev
Re:Collusion - iPad pen productivity solved on Friday June 01, 2012 @02:01AM (#4052175)
I asked about the lag and they responded with this tweet. https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/collusionapp/status/2083668457...
Re:Quick hack to focus all parts of a Lytro image on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @01:53PM (#3794007)
Sadly I haven't had time to dig into the full data file. Hence the quick hack using a few jpegs instead of all of the data. :)
Re:Netflix credit for recent disrupted service on Thursday March 24, 2011 @02:16AM (#2363082)
I actually didn't notice the outage. I didn't even click the link. Was the outage for 3% of a month?
Re:Open-source, JavaScript JSON HTML viewer released on Sunday March 20, 2011 @03:10PM (#2347045)
When I first started interacting with APIs that use JSON I wanted a JS library to automatically convert a JSON structure into, hopefully semantically correct, HTML which I could then easily style with CSS. At the time I couldn't find anything but I did write a simple piece of JS. I show an example of how I used it to style tweets on my site: http://nirmalpatel.com/json2posh/
Re:IPad 2 Wi-Fi Teardown on Saturday March 12, 2011 @12:11AM (#2316071)
Of note, the Nano uses the earbud cable as the antenna.
Re:Pianobar command-line Pandora client on Thursday January 27, 2011 @04:29PM (#2149575)
Should probably have linked directly to the github repo https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar
Re:Show/Tell HN: My (New Year's) Resolution Is on Friday December 31, 2010 @02:53PM (#2056274)
I don't have any resolutions but it would be great to have the homepage randomly show resolutions others have made. For example, "XXX's New Year's resolutions include YYY. (Click to see more)"
Re:Demo: Pure CSS GUI icons, no images (experimental). on Friday November 19, 2010 @06:29PM (#1923244)
On my blog I use "Have a comment? Contact me on Twitter or email me." with links for "Twitter" and "email me".
Re:Google Voice for iPhone Released on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @02:54PM (#1911355)
Guess I'm sticking with Boxcar for iPad push notifications.

Same here, except using Notifo.

Re:Conference Organizers Suck at Name Tags on Thursday November 11, 2010 @10:32AM (#1894083)
Just finished with a conference where the name badge had holes on both ends of the top edge of the badge. The lanyard part went through both. This doesn't completely stop the "flipping around" problem but does mitigate it.
Re:Conference Organizers Suck at Name Tags on Thursday November 11, 2010 @10:31AM (#1894077)
http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00gMKtuIrnhDoe/Magnetic-N...

Stick badge on one side, hold to lapel with magnet.

Re:Show HN: Critique my pro football (NFL) data webapp on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @08:17AM (#1890128)
I sent a link to my friends who play fantasy football to see if the stats were of use to them.

One thing I can say is that I love the attention to detail you put in the slider thumb labels. Especially for those where the labels would collide and you merge them into a single label showing an interval.

Re:Collapsible comments for Hacker News on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @02:24PM (#1865835)
To be notified when someone replies to me I use Notifo (http://notifo.com/) and put my Notifo username in my HN profile. I don't think you need a mobile device to use Notifo, you can install a desktop app that provides notifications when you get a reply. http://notifo.com/desktop
Re:8pen reinvents mobile keyboard on Monday November 01, 2010 @07:04PM (#1858590)
Sure thing. That is another way to hone in on the center. Some sort of tactile gravity well implementation. I think that if 5-ways on candy bar phones were actually joysticks instead of 5 buttons this may work better. And it could definitely work on devices with mini-trackballs.
Re:8pen reinvents mobile keyboard on Monday November 01, 2010 @01:23PM (#1857261)
Like the concept, reminds me of QuickWrite. However, I am skeptical of claims that text could be entered without viewing. At a minimum it seems that viewing would be required to target the center circle. Maybe this could be solved by "re-centering" the entire input space based on initial touch.

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