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Re:Ask HN: What is the best drone for hackers? on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @09:03PM (#6961921)
Stop calling them "Drones".
Re:Poll: What is your favorite programming font? on Thursday July 04, 2013 @01:21AM (#5989254)
There are some ugly ass fonts listed in this post.
Worked perfectly for me. Sucks for you.
Re:Programmatic Art on Saturday April 06, 2013 @11:55PM (#5506063)
How about the snarky ones like "Hacker News? Really Zac?"
Re:LuaJIT maintainer's take on Apple/Clang on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @03:51PM (#4357681)
What is the work-around? I'm trying to get luajit working on iOS 6+ on ARMv7 and above...
Re:One Thousand Dollars an Hour on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:37PM (#4346498)
I'm having lunch with Sam in 30 minutes… Any questions you guys want to relay?
Re:WebGL: 80,000 particles on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @02:45PM (#4009229)
Vertex indexes are 16 bit. It's probably set to 30000 for a very good reasons.
Re:The Hipsters are a Billion Dollar Industry on Thursday March 29, 2012 @10:16AM (#3771159)
Especially as at least one of them isn't even a startup but a privately owned company.

You know what else is of now value? That blog post...

Re:How The Cost of Computation Restricts The Processes of Life on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @11:03AM (#3766578)
It sucks living in the slow zone.
I've been to that part of France often (my mother lived about an hour outside of Limoges). It's very beautiful. Long straight tree lined roads, sleepy little villages, fields full of sunflowers. Limoges is a good sized town with a small airport (LIG) with flights to the UK and other locations several times a day.

As for a startup haven? Stranger things have happened.

Re:Approximate Regex Matching in Python on Friday January 20, 2012 @12:39PM (#3490298)
Bonus points for the racist project name too.
Re:The ugliest C feature: <tgmath.h> on Monday December 26, 2011 @10:41AM (#3393103)
For xplatform development on OSX & iOS tgmath OS great.

In fact clang recently added an extension to c for function overloading in a clean way.

Re:Show HN: Pulse — A simple pulsating indicator. on Sunday September 18, 2011 @12:13AM (#3009465)
A little bit (i.e. completely) derivative of the Maps app on the iPhone.
Apps may contain viruses? FUD pure FUD
Re:Show HN: my weekend project - sell files for bitcoins on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @12:43AM (#2409736)
You probably shouldn't use Mac oS X's zip file icon. Pretty sure that's copyrighted by Apple.
This is a good time to self-link to trundle: https://github.com/schwa/trundle

Trundle is my Objective-C (iOS! Mac OS X!) framework to communicate with CouchDB servers. The guys at CouchBase use it in the demo for Couchbase Mobile