alex_marchant

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by alex_marchant 12y ago
Optionals are really interesting. In theory it's a really smart concept. In practice it seems to add a bit of complexity. Will be interesting to see if the concept pays off in the long term.
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by alex_marchant 12y ago
Great point, the fix is a WIP. Look for it in the next update.
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by alex_marchant 12y ago
> When is playlist support planned? Playlists are awesome. Hard to say, Plug is a hobby project so we add features as we can. But we usually prioritize features by how many requests we get. > Where can I report bugs? Hit us up at @plu
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by alex_marchant 12y ago
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7968066 :)
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by alex_marchant 12y ago
Also, credit where it's due, Glenn Hitchcock ( https://twitter.com/glennui ) is the evil design genius here.
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by alex_marchant 12y ago
Fair point. To mitigate this, we never store your password. Basically we exchange your username/password combo for a token from Hype Machine which is used to authenicate requests. The only data we store are your username and some basic
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by alex_marchant 12y ago
The Hype Machine team would probably have to be the ones to program in "Now playing", they handle all the last.fm api stuff. > Another question: Is there a reason why it's not possible to resize the window? Good question.
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by alex_marchant 12y ago
Side note: I recently ported all of Plug to Swift (dev build, not yet released of course). Swift is a great leap forward!
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by alex_marchant 12y ago
That actually already works. Just need to connect your last.fm account at http://hypem.com/find_friends .
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by alex_marchant 12y ago
Shoot, well, appreciate the intention. Glad you like it, keep in touch with us at @plugformac if you can.
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Plug – Native OS X client for Hype Machine(plugformac.com)
125 points by alex_marchant 12y ago|55 comments
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by alex_marchant 12y ago
Nice work, mute is genius. I work on Plug, since it's a hobby project, we've just focused on the most popular stuff from Hype Machine.
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Sharp Develops Free-Form Display(sharp-world.com)
1 points by alex_marchant 12y ago|0 comments
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by alex_marchant 12y ago
This is the same as the online documentation that's been up since release: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
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How Clayton Christensen crowdsourced "The Capitalist's Dilemma"(hbr.org)
1 points by alex_marchant 12y ago|0 comments
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by alex_marchant 13y ago
Ok adding www to the hosts entry worked, appreciate it
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by alex_marchant 13y ago
But seems like only the http connection is working, i get a warning in Chrome when visiting https://cloudflarechallenge.com . Isn't that the only situation where the key would be checked. That's the part that doesn&#x27
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by alex_marchant 13y ago
Can someone elaborate on what's going on here? If i replace his IP with some other random IP I get a 400 bad request error, so it's obvious that it works, but curious how that resolves.
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How did Stripe come up with its name?(quora.com)
2 points by alex_marchant 13y ago|0 comments
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by alex_marchant 13y ago
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/stripe/stripe-ctf3-wrap-up
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Stripe: Detailed walkthrough of the CTF3 levels(youtube.com)
2 points by alex_marchant 13y ago|1 comments
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A computer learns how to walk(kottke.org)
1 points by alex_marchant 13y ago|0 comments
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by alex_marchant 13y ago
Personally, i find the simple reminder that it's work time does the trick. I'd be very interested to see if it's the same for you.
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by alex_marchant 13y ago
Check out this post for previous discussion and hype about the course https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6101815
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by alex_marchant 13y ago
I whipped up a little ruby app to be able to do this and toggle it on and off (osx only) https://github.com/alexmarchant/stuffed .
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Judge: “NSA exceeded the scope of authorized acquisition continuously”(arstechnica.com)
26 points by alex_marchant 13y ago|0 comments
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by alex_marchant 13y ago
I haven't seen this before. If you can, shoot us a screenshot @plugformac or support@plugformac.com. If you click the share button and go to the hypem.com page for a track they have the option to buy the track. We'll have to look
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by alex_marchant 13y ago
> Scrolling seems very laggy when scrolling with the mouse wheel, although dragging with the scrollbar seems fine. This only seems to be happening in the Popular (Now), view. This is under 10.9. OK, we'll check it out. > When I f
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by alex_marchant 13y ago
They do have a public API http://hypem.com/playlist/popular/3day/json/1/data.js . Though if you want access to the mp3 url's you need an API key. We've worked closely with them to make this
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by alex_marchant 13y ago
A year ago I approached a designer on Dribbble about using his design ( http://dribbble.com/shots/595176-Hype-Machine-Mac-App?list=u... ) to learn Objective-C and maybe create a cool way to use the Hype Machine on OSX. W

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