Gnewt

7 ms·

31.
by Gnewt 13y ago
What was the event in April causing a spike in both searches?
32.
by Gnewt 13y ago
Nothing strange was found, some guy just looked at a McNugget with a microscope and called it 'creepy'. Absolutely no science or evidence here.
33.
by Gnewt 13y ago
I wonder if this would be a good system for backups of Linux boxes? That's $.80/mo to store 20GB. Could be really cost effective doing differential backups.
34.
by Gnewt 13y ago
Why would one implement this instead of using Android's builtin widgets? Android apps have always felt better to me when they use the UI recommended in the Android style guide.
35.
by Gnewt 13y ago
Is this for users accessing sites like LinkedIn without HTTPS, or do you suppose that the NSA is signing trusted certs?
36.
by Gnewt 13y ago
Fully agreed. I just implemented Stripe to take payments for my consulting business online, and it's really nice. My only complaint is that Stripe takes a week to initiate a bank transfer, rather than Square's one business day. I
37.
by Gnewt 13y ago
Are you hosting the site through Github Pages?
38.
by Gnewt 13y ago
More power to them, but I'm not sure why they're doing this. Pretty much every package manager included in current distributions is more useful than Homebrew. Homebrew only exists to patch a package manager into a system that isn&
39.
by Gnewt 13y ago
You should respond to your emails ;)
40.
by Gnewt 13y ago
Twist-Erase forever
41.
by Gnewt 13y ago
Cool! Requests has got to be my favorite Python library. There are so many times I have replaced ~80 lines of urllib2 ugliness with 2-5 lines of requests. Simple, Pythonic, pretty...
42.
by Gnewt 13y ago
I don't really think that's a valid argument any more.
43.
by Gnewt 13y ago
Slippery slope fallacy.
44.
by Gnewt 13y ago
Linode is straightup incredible. I've been with them for about 5 years now. Almost every year they've given some sort of free upgrade -- I still pay the same amount I did 5 years ago and I now have something like 10x the bandwidth
45.
by Gnewt 13y ago
Yeah, that's the issue I initially foresaw. I didn't try it but I know enough about non-realtime-OSes that I know it would not have worked consistently. Even on the Arduino, sometimes you have to change the timing a bit -- it&#x27
46.
by Gnewt 13y ago
That's incredibly cool! Thanks for that. I think my next project will be implementing Cheer Lights functionality.
47.
Show HN: Web-controlled Christmas Lights with Node.js, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi(gnewt.at)
51 points by Gnewt 13y ago|7 comments
48.
by Gnewt 13y ago
I am so, so tired of all this Koding spam. I've seen spam from multiple accounts (one of which was fka, who now admits to being a dev) on both HN and Reddit.
49.
by Gnewt 13y ago
Someone by the same name ('fka') has been posting stuff about Koding today on r/programming as well as a few other nicks. To me it seems like a bunch of shills trying to promote this crap project.