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Re:Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M on Friday May 28, 2021 @07:08AM (#27313948)
I built and host an open source project that sounds very similar, but instead uses Spotify Connect to play via any spotify device:

http://www.soundbounce.org/

I've been using this the last few weeks on a synthesizer side project and it's been absolutely fantastic. A well designed API and easy to customise, excellent docs and sane defaults. Bravo!

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/kxlzlqypn0nz8bw/Screenshot%202021-0...

I use this to show my type-1 son's continuous glucose monitor graph & numbers: https://github.com/pdaddyo/bitbar-nightscout. Wonderful tool!
Re:Show HN: Anycomplete on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:22PM (#13067075)
This is great, thanks for sharing. I've opened a pull request (#5) with a tweak I made here - hold shift whilst choosing an option to actually show the google results instead of pasting. Hammerspoon looks fantastic, can't wait to automate even more!
Re:Botnet Controls “Twitch Installs Arch Linux” on Saturday October 31, 2015 @09:28PM (#10485038)
Creator JRWR confirmed botnet in irc channel: https://i.imgur.com/qaWFUEH.jpg
Re:CefSharp – Embedded Chromium for .NET on Thursday August 20, 2015 @04:50AM (#10090620)
I've been using this for about a year on the Windows version of my social Spotify client, Soundbounce (www.soundbounce.org). I've been nothing but impressed with how easy it was to integrate and how well it runs (once you get over Chrome's memory use), so kudos to the dev team here.
Re:Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @06:49AM (#9413193)
Bloodline is absolutely fantastic, I've been recommending it to all my friends. I can't praise it enough - also glad there's a second season coming in 2016. Apparently the creators (KZK) have a 6-season arc planned...
Re:Show HN: Soundbounce OS X beta (Spotify Premium required) on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @12:58PM (#8789207)
More info available at http://soundbounce.org/
Re:Amazon Echo on Friday November 07, 2014 @03:49AM (#8571692)
Funnily enough, Google Now's voice search was originally called "Project Majel" for that reason - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Now#History
Re:Mono for Unreal Engine on Friday October 24, 2014 @07:59AM (#8503202)
But it does solve their biggest issue - ultimately enabling Unity projects to publish to the web without plugins (WebGL / javascript).

Once all code in a Unity project eventually ends up as C++ (even if it started as C#), they can leverage Emscripten, asm.js and related technologies to enable Unity devs to use C# in the editor, which is converted to C++, and ultimately Javascript. It seems crazy, but it might just work!

Since Google now own Waze, hopefully these features will be heading to maps soon.
Re:Seeding torrents from S3 on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @04:39PM (#7706943)
https://www.dropbox.com/help/4204/en

"For Basic accounts, the total amount of traffic that all of your links together can generate without getting banned is 20 GB per day. For Pro and Business accounts, the limit is 200 GB per day."

Re:Netflix to get its own ‘cable channel’ next week on Friday April 25, 2014 @04:31PM (#7648880)
For those interested, this is achieved using a standard called CEC that works over the HDMI connection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#CEC

Re:Valve demonstrates Steam Controller [video] on Saturday October 12, 2013 @04:46AM (#6537910)
With some acceleration it could - finer control with small movements, but quick movements provide more travel. Not sure how well this would work, but I like Apple's implementation on their trackpad (I realise I may be in the minority here!).
Re:Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to? on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @11:06AM (#5899627)
Agreed, the extension was very invasive and broke Chrome in many frustrating ways. Memory usage was also off the charts, and that's not something I usually pay much attention to in a browser. I'll try Yoleo, I had not heard of that.
Re:Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @12:32PM (#5140601)
Also nearly half of Feynmann's 2nd book "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" covers the shuttle enquiry in great detail.
Re:Google Nexus 4 Sells Out In Less Than An Hour (in Australia) on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @04:20AM (#4777161)
I'm sure this is pointing out the obvious, but it's 'sold' from a Dublin address due to the corporation tax breaks. It's effectively one massive tax dodge - google / amazon / dell etc put all sales through Irish shell companies, really does boil my blood!
I picked one up last weekend and it's surprisingly quick, at least whilst playing with things like WebGL and three.js.
Re:AnandTech: Microsoft Surface Review on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @06:57AM (#4692394)
I presume you just won't get the battery performance out of x86 version though? Surely it's going to struggle.
Re:The Amazing iOS 6 Maps on Thursday September 20, 2012 @11:12AM (#4548934)
Tagline is "The Apple iOS 6 Maps are amazing. Not."
Re:New Actionscript compiler from Adobe on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @04:10AM (#4447535)
A classic early bug that lost me hours and hours:

  if(true)  // i've forced this to true now
  {

     // this code is never reached because of that comment on the if() line

  }

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