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by brotchie 12y ago
It's almost as if Dick Smith made exactly the same mistake as RS.
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by brotchie 12y ago
This is the vim C code compiled into Javascript. Not simply an implementation of vim behavour, but the actual vim source code compiled and running in the browser.
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by brotchie 12y ago
Nice, I had a crack at doing this a while back using emscripten, but couldn't get around that Vim's input handling is blocking. Looks like coolwanglu has found a way around this by hacking some kind of async transformation into em
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by brotchie 12y ago
All one has to do is look at the App info for the Uber app. It doesn't ask for permissions to access anything SMS related, or call history related. I'm assuming they've included the entire InAuth SDK, but not used most of the
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by brotchie 12y ago
I don't disagree, but I feel you're implying that obese individuals have complete "self-aware" autonomy over their decision making. I can pick an obese individual out of a crowd and go "That guy is fat because he ea
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by brotchie 12y ago
Pandas time-series library for Python is severely lacking good documentation!
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by brotchie 12y ago
http://www.magicleap.com/#/wizards-wanted Looks like they're heavily recruiting across the board. - FPGA / ASIC engineers; - Android developers; - Unity developers; - Raft of machine vision
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Consciousness is a Mathematical Pattern(youtube.com)
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by brotchie 12y ago
Max Tegmark has some really good writing on this. I quite like the idea that the "universe Hamiltonian" acts deterministic in phase space such that the universe's wave function evolves deterministic. From the "inside&quo
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by brotchie 12y ago
I really enjoy this theme of a struggle to communicate or make sense of non-Earth origin life. You mention the Solaris really changed your views of the universe. I highly recommend Diaspora by Greg Egan or Blindsight by Peter Watts if you h
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by brotchie 12y ago
Perfect description. Now on a Fluxxor+ReactJS stack moving from Backbone... couldn't be happier.
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by brotchie 12y ago
ApplePay: I do this every day and have been doing this every day for the last year with my Android phone in Australia! edit Admittedly the integration of all different types of cards with Passbook is good stuff!
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by brotchie 12y ago
Yeah, same here :( Could be something to do with CDN routing.
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by brotchie 12y ago
Go to the demonstration labeling interface here: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/ilsvrc/ Hit the "Use hard course". On the left hit "Show google prediction" consider the answers for
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Show HN: I've always wanted an Uber Android widget(play.google.com)
2 points by brotchie 12y ago|1 comments
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by brotchie 12y ago
Disappointed you can't make a Palindrome out of it :(
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by brotchie 12y ago
It would be interesting to see how quickly a quasi-random, low-discrepancy sequence converges to PI (e.g. a Sobol Sequence).
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by brotchie 12y ago
I wonder what their plans are for NFC / PayPass / PayWave? Are there technological barriers to it? Could a NFC enabled Smartphone act as a payment terminal? It's only on rare occasions now that I have to even put in a pin (in
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by brotchie 12y ago
I have been consciously using Google Now on my Android phone more and more to add notes, send messages, ask for directions, find out where I parked my car, find out the world cup scores, track incoming package deliveries, catch up on Tour d
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by brotchie 12y ago
http://howfastisthenbn.com.au/ Took about 12 hours total. Ended up with with 200k+ uniques within a few days of launch, 65k Facebook likes, ~8k Tweets, nation wide press coverage. Didn't change government policy though
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by brotchie 12y ago
Node.js / Express / Postgres / React & Fluxxor Really enjoying the Flux design pattern + declarative nature of React. I've been applying the Flux pattern to other applications (iOS) with great successful. The goal of
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by brotchie 12y ago
So this is a response to Nick Hanauer's post in Politico ( http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchfork... ) which is an awesome read. This Yahoo finance article completely misses the
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by brotchie 12y ago
List of my most frequently played Spotify tracks that I've fav'ed while coding. Mostly discovered through Spotify radio. Action Bronson - Shiraz Feed Me - Rat Trap Gammer + Whizzkid - We Killed the Rave Michael W
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by brotchie 12y ago
Clickable: https://github.com/brotchie/SwiftTableView
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Show HN: Populating a UITableView in Swift
1 points by brotchie 12y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Made this iOS app for Mother's Day. Ensures you're the favourite child.(itunes.apple.com)
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by brotchie 13y ago
An approach which I've had much success with is to make friends with people much higher in the chain and 100% ignore the office politics bullshit happening at your level. i.e. don't participate in rumour spreading, never talk nega
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Ask HN: Tips on negotiating a price for an app re-branding?
1 points by brotchie 13y ago|0 comments
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by brotchie 13y ago
Really impressive. Amazed at the voice actor quality you received for $25. We've typically paid $150-200 for ~60 seconds on voices.com. Next time we get voice done I'll definitely try out O Desk first.
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Ask HN: How do we get our app on Chinese app stores?
5 points by brotchie 13y ago|2 comments

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