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Somewhat related question: I quite enjoy such articles where people take apart consumer electronics, although I don't know the jargon ("an extruded plastic tube with a secondary rotational drilling operation" - wat?). Does someone know accessible resources (as in "no dry textbooks") for mechanical engineering?
Re:Show HN: Tones.fm – Make synth music on Saturday March 10, 2018 @05:12AM (#16557938)
Nice idea to provide only notes from a chord! It's really motivating if you never made music before. ("Wow I can do this!")
Re:Show HN: How to Make an AWS S3 Static Website with SSL on Saturday March 10, 2018 @04:48AM (#16557896)
I run the same setup. Probably don't get any traffic because I don't write blog posts anymore. My monthly costs are around $ 0.70.
> all the photos I will take will have been probably already shot by someone else

> Obviously not that realistic

Depends on how literally you want to take it. Lighthouses have definitely been photographed before. Photos depicting the man vs wild nature archetype too.

Re:Convert ASCII scribbles to SVG on Saturday May 27, 2017 @03:11AM (#14429240)
If you wonder where ASCII scribbles come from, I use http://asciiflow.com/ all the time for READMEs.
Re:Spec-ulation – Rich Hickey [video] on Saturday December 03, 2016 @08:04AM (#13095509)
I get your overall point that it's better than nothing, but you'll have to admit semver makes promises that just don't hold up in reality:

> because you know that PATCH and MINOR don't require your attention

:)

In 99 % of cases, they don't. But you're never completely sure.

Re:Show HN: js.spec, a JavaScript implementation of clojure.spec on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @02:27AM (#13069079)
> Have you used js.spec or clojure.spec in production?

Not yet, but I have some use cases (mostly validation).

Re:Show HN: js.spec, a JavaScript implementation of clojure.spec on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @02:25AM (#13069076)
Cool, thanks for sharing. I didn't know that one.
Re:A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:31AM (#12433978)
MUMEN RIDER!
This handbook assumes that JS execution really is your bottleneck and not network, DOM, what not. I doubt this is the case in the majority of applications, so following these tips might be even counterproductive as they sometimes come at the cost of readability.
Re:Pokemon Go API on Sunday July 24, 2016 @06:57AM (#12152990)
I am just happy to see that the API has "trading" as a concept, looking forward to that feature.

Overall it's sad that most game mechanics of the original games didn't make it into Pokemon Go. Does anyone know how much time they had to implement it?

Re:Wire open-sourced on Saturday July 23, 2016 @04:46PM (#12150939)
Not sure if these are for realsies, but there are some API keys in the webapp repository:

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/blob/master/app/scrip...

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/blob/master/app/scrip...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015) on Thursday October 01, 2015 @02:44PM (#10313583)
Zalando | Europe | https://tech.zalando.com/jobs

We're one of the leading European fashion retailers (https://zalando.de) operating in 16 countries. Currently we have around 800 people in the tech department, but we need more. You will work in a reasonably small team ("two pizzas") and influence decisions accordingly. Teams prioritize their work themselves. We will help you with relocation. We have offices in Berlin, Dortmund (Germany), Dublin, Helsinki. Also you get 40 % discount.

Re: GitHub Desktop is now available on Thursday August 13, 2015 @02:33AM (#10052557)
So much this.

Github for Mac is quite good already for commiting and pull-requesting. I could stop using my browser (for Github, at least) if they put issue management (open, close, view, comments) in there too. Would be awesome and a more unified experience.

Re:PurifyCSS – Remove unused CSS on Saturday June 13, 2015 @03:45AM (#9710240)
An alternative to this is symdiff http://symdiff.github.io/ (Disclaimer: I'm the author).

The auto-remove part you would have to code yourself though.

The major reason for me to occasionally shoot film is that I find the haptic and usability of the cameras way better than current digital models. Depends on how much you're comfortable to spend though.
+1 for tests.
Re:GitHub unveils its Licenses API on Friday March 27, 2015 @03:27AM (#9275077)
I collected the most popular repositories and their license. This post includes a CSV dataset which you can process yourself: https://npiccolotto.com/2015/03/licenses-of-popular-open-sou...
Then the obvious question is: Why not have both? :)

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/538/731/0fc...

If this wasn't a commercial product I'd ask why it's a separate thing instead of a PR to karma.
Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs on Saturday January 03, 2015 @08:11PM (#8832751)
Awesome, thank you!
Maybe the author could comment on what's wrong with require.js (the most popular AMD module loader) and which problems DefineJS solves?
Re:A replacement for JavaScript's “alert” on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @12:45PM (#8422221)
Then there's also smoke.js

http://smoke-js.com/

Re:Pace – Automatic page load progress bars in pure CSS on Saturday August 23, 2014 @06:02PM (#8216994)
+1 a 100 times.
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup – itripd.com on Thursday August 14, 2014 @12:27PM (#8178229)
> I thought network effects were good. No?

They are. But you shouldn't rely on them in the beginning because they won't be there.

Nice work, I did pretty much the same thing about one and a half years back [1]. Didn't know it's still running [2], haha. I built it because I liked Favematic [3], but thought it didn't have enough "radio" like functionality.

I like your visual design better though, it's way cleaner. Also the track is better presented, but then again there were no pictures for tracks when I started.

Edit: Oh and btw I also had no clue how to describe what it does succinctly ;)

[1] https://github.com/prayerslayer/favsquare [2] http://obscure-basin-1623.herokuapp.com/ [3] http://ascott.github.io/favematic/

Re:Basil.js – Smart persistence layer on Saturday July 26, 2014 @12:20PM (#8090041)
What about lawnchair?

http://brian.io/lawnchair/

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