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by awendt 12y ago
I could use some help over at https://github.com/awendt/memory-chimp I'd like to use a fixed-width layout like 2048 has but cannot get it to work. The code is in a feature branch, https://github.com&#x2
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by awendt 12y ago
Darn, I've heard that before. But it never happened to me so I forgot all about it. Can you send a pull request or give me any pointers how to prevent it?
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by awendt 12y ago
Yes, I've seen this sporadically. Problem is: The algorithm keeps a list of empty rectangles to draw the next circle in and sometimes the list is empty before all circles are drawn. I'll try to catch that and probably just attempt
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by awendt 12y ago
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXP8qeFF6A for a video that made me build this. Google for "ayumu chimp" for a number of articles on the subject.
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by awendt 12y ago
BTW, points are awarded for the time you take from the first to the last spot. Thus, using a mouse costs you points. Better play it on a touch device.
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by awendt 12y ago
Unfortunately, no :-/
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by awendt 12y ago
OP and author here. Over time, you'll get better. A lot. 8 spots is okay for me now, used to be next to impossible at first.
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Show HN: Memory Chimp – How good is your working memory?(awendt.github.io)
53 points by awendt 12y ago|53 comments
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Why won't you stay here? That's why(blog.till-westermayer.de)
1 points by awendt 12y ago|0 comments
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by awendt 12y ago
See “What Makes A Great Logo”, http://www.code-interactive.com/thinker/a112.html
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by awendt 12y ago
This has nothing to do with UX. Yes, eBay has a terrible UX but some people have stuff to sell and no time on their hands. Does Instamotor exist because of the terrible UX of car dealerships?
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Fact-checking Hillary Clinton's comments on Edward Snowden and the NSA(boingboing.net)
3 points by awendt 12y ago|0 comments
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Government offers school pupil data to private companies(wired.co.uk)
1 points by awendt 12y ago|0 comments
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by awendt 13y ago
The article is not about the fact that you can't survive without a car. However, having a traffic violation send you to jail for several years is an excellent intro for an article about modern debtors' prisons and the whole suppor
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by awendt 13y ago
> The worst part is that the people who get caught up in this are not exactly model citizens. Not exactly a clear case for sympathy. Are you saying you fail to sympathize with them because those people are poor? The U.S. have a reputatio
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by awendt 13y ago
After what happened to Mat Honan almost two years ago, having insecure systems like Twitter "confirming" my pubkey seems more like a nightmare than a good idea, doesn't it? And the fact that Keybase.io even suggests uploading
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by awendt 13y ago
I suggest you read "Thoughts on keybase.io" ( http://blog.lrdesign.com/2014/03/thoughts-on-keybase-io/ ), it touches the "roll your own" points as well as authentication and consequences lik