WillKirkby

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by WillKirkby 9y ago
For people using Apple Pay on the Oyster network in London, the speed of face recognition is absolutely gonna make or break this.
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by WillKirkby 9y ago
Whereabouts in the UK?
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by WillKirkby 9y ago
For more technical details on the exact LFSR used, there's this: http://belogic.com/gba/channel4.shtml
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by WillKirkby 9y ago
Forgive my cynicism, but why do you feel the need to be productive every second of the day? It's called a 'break' for a reason :)
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by WillKirkby 9y ago
why not AWS?
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by WillKirkby 9y ago
This is almost exactly what https://www.bricklink.com/ is for. Sellers post the listing of which parts they have, in what colors/quantities and at what price, and buyers can custom-order any permutations they need. To
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by WillKirkby 9y ago
Fun fact: all of the Pacman ghosts actually behave differently: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3938/the_pacman_dossie...
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
How's that going to work if the mugger steals your phone?
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
Sounds like their self-driving car tests are going great: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-tech-crash-idUSKBN16W...
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
At home, Logitech G710+. I love the Cherry MX Brown keys on it. At work, Logitech K120. The "we just buy everyone the same cheap keyboard" keyboard. I'm not particularly fond of it.
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
Why would a GUI library need a physics engine?
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
> The most annoying thing I'm dealing with at the moment is HipChat stealing focus of the play button. When that happens and I hit that play button, HipChat just plays the new message sound. Its so dumb. Yup, had this with WhatsApp
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
https://mastodon.social/
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
Ogmo Editor by Matt Thorson (of TowerFall fame) seems to have been created to fit exactly this niche. Exports to XML but it's open-source so you could always change that. http://www.ogmoeditor.com/
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
I'm reminded somewhat of the PS1 cartridge saving bug: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/M...
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
I interpreted it as "commuting is a repeated manual process, and thus should be possible to automate"
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
> Obviously, because Apple hadn't shipped a single USB-C product at the time the iPhone 7 was released, so it would be idiotic to give folks a USB-C cable. Except for the Retina MacBook released in April 2015 which has a single USB-
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
By blocking the door if you detect an oncoming cyclist, you've created a new problem. What if it false-positives? What if it false-positives and your car is on fire? What if hackers find some way to fool the sensor?
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
It's the headphone jack. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/K66DEwGnEsmayteb04wc6y2nEJ...
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
"We’re exploring a flagship project on scaling up DNS filtering: what better way of providing automated defences at scale than by the major private providers effectively blocking their customers from coming into contact with known malw
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
UK rather than US, I typically work 10:30-19:00 with a half-hour unpaid lunch.
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
probably relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence edit: dangit, beaten to the punch.
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVqLHghLpw
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
I find myself doing the exact opposite. The time I get paid for is mostly spent fixing bugs in a codebase of variable quality that I've inherited. The hobby projects I get up to are entirely my own code and thus I get to spend the majo
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Ask HN: Do you spend more time coding or debugging?
84 points by WillKirkby 10y ago|75 comments
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579757 which is actually linked towards the bottom of the article.
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by WillKirkby 10y ago
Some CSS tweaks that make it slightly more bearable (at least on my 1920px wide display) /* disable social sharing buttons */ .lf-selection-popover,.lf-thread-btn{display:none;} aside#social{display:none;} /* make
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by WillKirkby 11y ago
Given that Yahoo owns Tumblr, Tumblr's userbase is largely liberal, and the Daily Mail is very right-wing, that's not gonna end well.
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by WillKirkby 11y ago
Asie! Wow, it's been a while. Hard to believe it's been over nine years since I first signed up. A lovely little nostalgia trip for a lunch break. ~origamiguy
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by WillKirkby 11y ago
As of 6.0 Marshmallow, you can disable any permission you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZqDdvhTZj0

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