aaronrandall

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Ranking tech companies by their climate credentials(gosupercritical.com)
2 points by aaronrandall 3y ago|0 comments
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A brief history of the strangest emoji(aaronrandall.com)
1 points by aaronrandall 9y ago|0 comments
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by aaronrandall 10y ago
The Pigpen symbols certainly are distinctive, recognising them helped me get started. That's great to hear, hope your kids enjoy. Thanks!
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by aaronrandall 10y ago
Very cool! Although it doesn't solve either of them perfectly for me (e.g. "HEY BUYS" instead of "HEY GUYS"). Would love to read more about how that tool works :)
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by aaronrandall 10y ago
Great question :) Frequency analysis is actually still pretty useful for ciphers more complicated than a monoalphabetic substitution cipher. Take a polyalphabetic substitution cipher (similar to the one you described), where a key is used t
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Cracking the Adventure Time cipher(aaronrandall.com)
241 points by aaronrandall 10y ago|24 comments
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by aaronrandall 11y ago
That's a great question! My original plan that once I had extracted all the items from the plate, the app would then detect the average colour of the remaining regions and "fill" the gaps - that wouldn't work well with p
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by aaronrandall 11y ago
Awesome, glad you enjoyed it :)
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by aaronrandall 11y ago
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :)
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Show HN: An algorithm to automatically turn photos of food into faces(aaronrandall.com)
211 points by aaronrandall 11y ago|28 comments
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by aaronrandall 11y ago
I'd love to see someone build this as a bookmarklet - I wouldn't know where to begin with image processing in JavaScript. Maybe a project for another day...
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by aaronrandall 11y ago
That's a great idea. If I could get the image processing to run fast enough, I'd love to get to a point where you could have Screentendo overlay a video (of a scrolling level for example), and have the level blocks generate as the
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by aaronrandall 11y ago
Thanks, glad you liked it!
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by aaronrandall 11y ago
Yeah I played around with building levels in TextEdit while I was developing the app - it's a lot of fun watching lines of text turn into platforms for Mario, and it allows for iterating on level design really quickly :)
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by aaronrandall 11y ago
You'll need to install cocoapods (the dependency manager) using: sudo gem install cocoapods then in the project root, run the following to install the dependencies: pod install I'll update the GitHub repo with instru
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Turn any part of your screen into a playable level of Super Mario Bros(aaronrandall.com)
120 points by aaronrandall 11y ago|28 comments