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by aarongough 17y ago
One of the common use-cases that pops into my head is as an equivalent for Flickr except massively de-centralized. There are obviously many dis-advantages to using a non-centralized system, largest in my mind is the loss of the community fe
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by aarongough 17y ago
One of the nicest points of this idea is that it leverages existing technologies really well. eMule requires both parties involved in the transfer use the same software. With Unite the receiver can just use their normal browser. I think tha
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by aarongough 17y ago
Well said. Unfortunately I really don't see the situation changing any time soon. Bands like Radiohead can afford to use alternative distribution models because they're already well known. Newcomers don't really have too many viable options
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by aarongough 17y ago
Fair point, but I think that it's a reasonable equivalent to the 'Band <-> Merchandise' comparison. I think it's worth noting too that with several years experience in the music industry* I found that most musicians I knew were unab
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by aarongough 17y ago
The same could be said of the open-source software model. Selling support is not exactly "monetizing the software itself", but it still pays the bills... I think that selling merchandise is a great way to get income, a friend's band (who ar
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by aarongough 17y ago
Yeah, it's starting to sound like something I'm going to just have to muddle through. The main reason I'm embarking on this project is just as a learning expedition more than anything else. So implementing everything from scratch is not nec
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by aarongough 17y ago
It's generally fairly steady at the moment, but I would like it to be able to handle motion in the future. I'm using the built-in iSight on my macbook as the camera, so theoretically I should be able to get some data from the macbook's buil
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Ask HN: Digital Image Stabilization Techniques
3 points by aarongough 17y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Web-development and programming tuition.
1 points by aarongough 17y ago|0 comments
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by aarongough 17y ago
That is certainly a valid way of doing it and is the methodology that I have used in several search-engine projects in the past (like this: http://intrasitesearchsupport.com/ ) However in this case I am offloading the work of building the
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by aarongough 17y ago
Good suggestion! I've been meaning to try out AppEngine for a while now but haven't had the chance. It would also be nice to keep any load away from my servers...
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by aarongough 17y ago
As far as I know most auto form-fillers fill the form based on values in the ID and Name attributes. I.E. The field named 'email' gets an email address. In my experience if your honeypot field has a nonsensical name or is named something li
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by aarongough 17y ago
Unfortunately I cannot come close to recommending Joomla. Looking through the core code of the system is an exercise in frustration at best. While the code is not necessarily all super-bad the documentation is lacking in the extreme. I woul
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by aarongough 17y ago
Noted! It may not be feasible for the first stage of the process though as the system does not actually know how many URLs are in the site. I'll definitely have a look into that though.
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by aarongough 17y ago
Difficulty with the W3C validator is actually why I designed this. Their validator doesn't allow you to check all of a site in one go. You have to go through page by page. Even on a relatively small site that can take a lot of time!
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by aarongough 17y ago
No, thank-you! I just hope that it saves some developers from unnecessary pain!
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by aarongough 17y ago
I also meant to say: re: "Framework isn't the issue in this case" I agree. It is possible to turn out nice code in PHP and write fast, reliable apps. That being said Rails has me addicted to the idea of unit tests within easy reach. I'm not
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by aarongough 17y ago
The reason that both validators are consulted is because they can pick-up different errors. The WDG validator is _much_ more reliable when it comes to finding unicode issues and that has saved my ass at least once. Your other thoughts are t
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by aarongough 17y ago
Yeah I'm pretty sure that I was storing all of the raw HTML for possible further analysis down the line. I haven't even looked at the code in months but it definitely needs over-hauling! Initially it started out as a 'what if I do this' kin
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by aarongough 17y ago
There actually is a limit of 100 pages per submission, however it is obviously not storing the data for those 100 pages too well. Looks like tomorrow is de-bugging day! I wrote this app over the course of a day a couple of months ago and it
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by aarongough 17y ago
Haha, Ouch. I hadn't thought of testing it with something quite as insane as Google. Nice catch!
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by aarongough 17y ago
I wrote this app to streamline the process of checking medium/large website for (X)HTML compliance... I basically want to get it out there so that other web designers/developers don't have to go through the pain of checking everything manua
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Ask HN: Review my mini-app. Easily validate all the (X)HTML pages in a website.(aarongough.com)
12 points by aarongough 17y ago|21 comments
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by aarongough 17y ago
Wow. I just looked back an realized I typed 'bug' instead of 'but'! That may look intentional but I promise you it was an accident!
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Macaque Monkey Controls Robot Arm via Direct Neural Interface(newscientist.com)
5 points by aarongough 17y ago|0 comments
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by aarongough 17y ago
Pivotal Tracker ( http://www.pivotaltracker.com ) I highly recommend it, I have nothing bug good things to say about it so far...
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by aarongough 17y ago
Wow. One of the links in the article lead to this: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14000-robomonkeys-use-... Researchers have several Macaque monkeys controlling robot arms via a direct neural interface and using the arms to feed th
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by aarongough 17y ago
I would say it would be an interesting experiment to see if the moderators on wikipedia now feel the the quote can be left there, seeing as it can now reference the newspaper articles that it spawned...
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by aarongough 18y ago
You might also get the occasional serious hacker who is just retarded at math (like me!)