Skywing

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by Skywing 14y ago
But it could be the best...
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by Skywing 14y ago
Nothing directed at the writer of this one single blog post, but who are these bloggers to be talking about innovation? They all use the same blogging platforms and write the same articles. And why have blog posts of this topic started to a
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by Skywing 14y ago
Push notifications are not necessarily what I'm looking for, as far as I know. I don't want to have to subscribe and be available to receive notifications. The whole point is to ask for X amount of messages since the last message I saw, for
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by Skywing 14y ago
I use irssi, as well. The point of my app was probably lost in my wall of text, though. On the iPhone, an SSH client into screen and then irssi is pretty nasty. Now, on an iPad I might be able to put up with a nice, expensive SSH client, li
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by Skywing 14y ago
I guess after that wall of text I didn't mention that this is nice because the mobile client maintains no connection. No messages are missed while your phone is sleeping or dead, etc. Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/yMWVs Client source:
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Show HN: I think I re-imagined IRC on mobile devices
9 points by Skywing 14y ago|9 comments
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by Skywing 14y ago
And on NYE, to make it worse.
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by Skywing 14y ago
I recently switched from Mongo over to CouchDB. The reason that I favor Couch over Mongo is primarily because I felt like Mongo's querying capabilities suck when dealing with embedded documents and that Mongo's MapReduce is not their first-
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by Skywing 14y ago
Your comment doesn't make much sense, to me. It's obvious that they've thought about adding search to their client. What about it not being in, at launch, makes you think that it'll be slow? Why is it not worth discussing the mail client? W
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by Skywing 14y ago
Come on. Look at your post history. You post this website several times a week across different accounts and then you up-vote it using those accounts.
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by Skywing 14y ago
This is pretty neat. I think a minor tweak that makes it easier to glance at, and see the scores, would be to wrap the score in a span and style that span with a light colored background to make it stand out. Perhaps some light yellow-ish c
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by Skywing 14y ago
I don't think that's necessarily fair to say. I've been using Ubuntu since it first came out for probably the same reasons as most other people - aptitude was dead simple and generally seemed to "just work". It probably also won me over ini
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by Skywing 14y ago
You can follow all the checklists in the world, but it still boils down to passing the eye ball test. Just a simple test of judgement as to whether or not something looks/is high quality or not. This is the test that your visitors will be u
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by Skywing 14y ago
Happens for me, too. Mentioned for larger sample size.
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by Skywing 14y ago
I guess I just don't understand that logic. I also work in a hosting-focused industry. We host large amounts of files for paying customers in a much less sexy industry, but we still revolve around file hosting. As a result, we have a lot of
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by Skywing 14y ago
I don't see any ads anywhere, and this service looks entirely free. It's not cheap to host large files for people en masse, especially since you allow up to 250MB. For example, if this were hosted using Amazon's S3, somebody could literally
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by Skywing 14y ago
Does this compete with Picplum, now?
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by Skywing 14y ago
I am using Oracle's Outside In PDF export library, for which I have written a Node.js module for. My module is open source and can be found here: https://github.com/ryancole/topdf
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by Skywing 14y ago
I've been working on various underlying components for this for a few months now. The components are part of a larger vision, but this site is the start of it. This site is a very simple concept - upload documents and they're converted to P
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Show HN: The PDF Machine - My project website that converts documents to PDFs(thepdfmachine.com)
1 points by Skywing 14y ago|3 comments
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by Skywing 14y ago
Oops and I specifically meant to avoid doing that. Self fulfilling! I think I'll delete and repost.
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by Skywing 14y ago
I've been working on various underlying components for this for a few months now. The components are part of a larger vision, but this site is the start of it. This site is a very simple concept - upload documents and they're converted to P
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by Skywing 14y ago
I have a feeling the parent works for Aspose, the site he is plugging. I use Aspose at work, so I find myself spotting these responses whenever something like this is brought up. Every time, an Aspose employee responds, plugging Aspose with
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by Skywing 14y ago
One thing to notice about this module is that it's spawning a sub-process out to imagemagic itself. I'm not saying this is good or bad, I'm just pointing it out. There are also other modules that wrap the imagemagic libraries themselves and
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Convert documents to PDF programmatically with Node.js and Oracle libs(github.com)
1 points by Skywing 14y ago|0 comments
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by Skywing 14y ago
Reading this makes me miss the early days of learning to program. I would reverse engineer games that I enjoyed and write hacks for them. I spent hours and hours every night staring at ASM and network data. Man, how I'd love to somehow be a
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A node.js addon for Oracle's file id library(github.com)
1 points by Skywing 14y ago|0 comments
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by Skywing 14y ago
Personally, I never did like things abstracting the iteration for me. In Javascript, I tend to favor explicit loops over huge chains of method calls, or visually confusing abstracting like the Raphael example. Just looking at that Raphael e
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by Skywing 14y ago
I'm surprised that they emphasize the fact that the keyboard can be invisible or small. Personally I think that's the most confusing feature because it leaves you tapping on the screen, or website as in the video. That aspect to me is not v
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by Skywing 14y ago
I'm not going to type much here because I don't want to rant, but articles like these are why I quit reading TechCrunch and have never thought to read Pandodaily or any other recent startup-focused journalism site. They all just seem to pre

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