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by Stoo 11y ago
That's it. This is often called the module pattern. It's often used to avoid polluting the global scope with variables, e.g. (function() { var x = 1; console.log(x); })(); console.log(x); Would output: 1 undefined
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by Stoo 11y ago
I've used Crunch since I began contracting towards the end of 2009. So I was one of their early customers. I would say their software keeps getting better but their service as a whole has worsened as they've got bigger. That'
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by Stoo 11y ago
Still working on Storytella[0]. I'm currently working with a copywriter to get some much needed user guides in place. [0] https://storytel.la/
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by Stoo 11y ago
If you haven't seen it Andrej Karpathy's article on neural nets was posted on HN recently: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
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by Stoo 11y ago
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
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by Stoo 11y ago
Accelerando by Charles Stross ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando ). I'm mostly enjoying his look into humanity's near and not so near future and his views on business, economics and technology. It&#x27
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by Stoo 11y ago
I tried the infamous blue dress image and also got "instrumentation". Some sort of default fall back keyword, perhaps?
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by Stoo 11y ago
My main focus is still on Storytella[0]. I'm currently speaking to a copywriter about getting some good quality user guides set up. I set up writing-ideas[1] this week, just for fun really, and a chance to write some code without much
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by Stoo 11y ago
Actually, yeah, whenever I need to search for something code related I don't go to Google, I just redo the DDG search with !g at the end. The shebangs are incredibly useful for that.
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by Stoo 11y ago
I almost exclusively use Duck Duck Go ( https://duckduckgo.com/ ) as an alternative to Google. The only time it doesn't give me the answers I need is occasionally for code / bug related searches, in which case I go
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by Stoo 11y ago
I subscribe to the apostrophe / boing methodology[0] so "reboinglyeh". [0] http://issendai.livejournal.com/429293.html
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by Stoo 11y ago
If it's just static hosting you're after Amazon's S3 is worth looking at: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
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by Stoo 11y ago
I was in two minds reading Altered Carbon. I really liked the setting, the world building was great and the story worked well but the lead character just came across as too powerful for my liking. He was constantly getting threatened or bea
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by Stoo 11y ago
While that's all true it looks like the intellectual property belongs to A. So while A isn't responsible to the backers, B is, it's A's IP and reputation which is being damaged.
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Ask HN: Anyone making anything with the Oculus Rift?
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by Stoo 11y ago
I've just had a look at the Storytella editor using the === style of headers and it doesn't work. You can see it for yourself in the editor demo, here: https://storytel.la/demo/chapters/edit/
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by Stoo 11y ago
I've always used the starting hash header form: # Header ## Header So I haven't come across that issue before. Thanks for pointing out a possible issue!
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by Stoo 11y ago
Storytella[0] takes the same approach. It uses a Markdown editor in a single pane, no preview, which is also based on CodeMirror[1]. CodeMirror makes this kind of editor straight forward to build, with a lot of configuration and extension o
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by Stoo 11y ago
Recently read: Blindsight (Peter Watts) - Hard sci-fi with themes of perception and identity. Ancillary Justice (Anne Leckie) - More of a murder / mystery sci-fi with themes of gender. Reading: Green Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson) - Hard
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by Stoo 11y ago
The docs for Phaser are a bit lacking but I found just about everything I needed by reading through the provided examples.
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by Stoo 12y ago
I'm near the end of Green Mars at the moment. It's a fascinating story. I'm never sure if the science is accurate (not my forte) but it's definitely convincing and a compelling read.
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by Stoo 12y ago
I also write and make music, but not the generative kind. I'm interested in the generative fiction, what do you use and how does that work? What kind of stories come out of it?
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by Stoo 12y ago
I always thought the Internet Explorer branding was the one thing they got right. If you're not a technical person and you've got a new computer and you're trying to get onto the internet for the first time do you use: Fi
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by Stoo 12y ago
Sounds interesting, I'll check it out.
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by Stoo 12y ago
Also a writer. The first time I was given a writing prompt as a timed exercise I was surprised by what I came up with. If I'd sat and thought of what to write I never would have written what I wrote in a five minute unthinking flurry.
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by Stoo 12y ago
Some members of my family have the same problem. Their surname is Money and none of them can use it on Facebook.
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by Stoo 12y ago
The cost of incorporating in the UK is cheap but you're creating a legal entity so there's more to it than just coming up with a name and parting with the cash. I'd have a read of the following to get an idea of what it entai
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by Stoo 12y ago
AWS also has a calculator, which I only discovered yesterday: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html It allows you to enter your expected usage and works out costs from that.
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by Stoo 12y ago
Storytella[0] is running on AWS. Currently I'm trying to keep costs down so everything is running on micro instances which are free for 12 months for new sign ups. I have set up: EC2 micro instance running a django application EC2 micr
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by Stoo 12y ago
It wouldn't let me create an account directly and there's not enough information up front to convince me to sign in with Facebook or Google+.

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