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Re:How Big Is Mexico? on Thursday April 13, 2023 @04:09AM (#35552438)
A fun way to realize different country extends is this game where need to match moveable country shapes to their location on a mercator map: https://bramus.github.io/mercator-puzzle-redux/
Re:Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? on Monday June 24, 2019 @04:05PM (#20267860)
Have a look it at https://luftdaten.info/en/home-en/. Not exactly using an rPi, but the goal of the project seems to fit with your plan.
Re:The lingua franca of LaTeX on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:51AM (#20009365)
I liked that about v1 as well, but it seems like they have brought it over to v2 [0]. Trying it on a v2 project it only seems to have one commit for everything up until the first clone?

[0]: https://www.overleaf.com/blog/bringing-the-git-bridge-to-v2-...

Re:Write good git commit messages on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @07:29AM (#18663322)
I would recommend to also look at this guideline + tooling to create an automatic changelog based on your commits: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/
There is a project in Germany which monitors particulate matter. They provide a guide how to build a sensor using a SDS011 and a ESP8266: http://luftdaten.info/en/construction-manual/

Not sure if/how this would work mobile, though.

Re:On Password Managers on Thursday July 20, 2017 @03:31PM (#14815589)
Also they don't sell licenses for 1password 4 on Windows anymore. On Windows after the 30 Day trial your stuck or forced to go cloud...
Re:Mozilla Acquires Pocket on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:33AM (#13752263)
I also was/am a frequent Pocket user. But the removal of features (also pointed out by others here) and on the other hand the addition of the recommendation/feed thingy left me wondering where Pocket was headed.

Pocket for me was my archive of things for which I would love to have a great diversity of searching, clustering and organising tools. The addition of recommendation of things I may like is nice, but not a core feature for me - my content is.

I also tried Wallabag [0] which looks promising but hasn't the ecosystem around it yet. So I'm exited to see where this open sourcing of Pocket will lead us. ;-)

[0]: https://wallabag.org/en

Re:Show HN: Anycomplete on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @04:00PM (#13066242)
This uses the Google Autocomplete API which seems a bit risky to use [0] and according to this Google blog post should be already shut down [1]. Do you have any newer information on how reliable the API is?

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6428502/google-search-aut... [1]: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2015/07/update-on-autocomp...

Re:Show HN: Grid – Multiplayer Creative Workspace on Friday February 12, 2016 @07:28PM (#11091708)
There is a lot of movement on the initial viewport: fullscreen background video, changing text to the left and the demo video. I found it a little hard to actually focus on any of those.

The about page made it more clear to me, what it actually is: http://www.buildwithgrid.com/about [has autoplay audio/video]

Re:Introducing Neo900 on Thursday October 31, 2013 @12:24PM (#6647726)
"According to current estimations, the cost of motherboard should be somewhere between 500 and 700 EUR. Complete device will cost 100-150 EUR more, depending on prices and availability of N900 spare parts. Those prices are just early estimations and are subject to change" - http://neo900.org/faq#cost
Re:Now set timer on Google.com on Sunday August 04, 2013 @08:40AM (#6155454)
Google may redirect you to an other local than english in wich this function doesn't seem to work. With this link you enforce the english local: https://www.google.com/search?q=timer+10+seconds&hl=en
Re:Expected arrival times for Apple products on Friday March 01, 2013 @06:14PM (#5307582)
Nice, really like it! Think it would be cool if you could see the expected lenght for overdue products too. Something like that maybe: http://codepen.io/stroebjo/pen/aiLtd
Realy cool idea. Also like the hidden ASCII gem in the source code.

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Check out this awesome archive for more related ASCII art: http://geon.github.com/Programming/2012/04/25/ascii-art-sign...
Re:A Whole New Code Search on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @03:37PM (#5105129)
Facebook Graph Search, now GutHub Search, whats next?
Re:The Hobbit Filming Locations mapped on Friday December 14, 2012 @02:06PM (#4922614)
I think the usabilty could be improved if you could click anywhere on the map to close a popup and the videos were embeded.
Re:The Next SoundCloud Becomes SoundCloud on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:52AM (#4871441)
If you have an account you can opt in a experimental HTML5 player in the settings [0]. I'm using it now for a while, works like a charm.

[0]: http://soundcloud.com/settings/extra

Re:Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users on Thursday October 04, 2012 @08:40AM (#4611984)
That's also how Path came up the their maximum number of friends you can add: http://service.path.com/customer/portal/articles/659426-why-...
Re:CSS: The Good Parts on Friday May 04, 2012 @11:36AM (#3928845)
Quick and dirty one-line comments should be used very carefully. Before a block it can break the selector, so no styles get applied.
Re:Fluid windows on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @03:10AM (#3728159)
On Windows 7 you could also use the Windows + Arrow Keys to move the window back on screen.