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by dhotson 13y ago
Semi offtopic, have you ever noticed on Chrome's new tab page.. the "most visited" section uses the dominant color of each page as a highlight?
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by dhotson 13y ago
There are a few approaches for extracting colors from an image. Shameless plug: I helped write a library called colorific to do it: https://github.com/99designs/colorific More about how it works here: http:/&#x2F
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by dhotson 13y ago
Very cool! :-) I built a similar search by color tool at 99designs and wrote a bit about how it works here: http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/08/02/color-explore... TL;DR I'm using R-tre
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by dhotson 13y ago
Steve Yegge made some excellent points about writing a resume: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2007/09/ten-tips-for-slig...
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by dhotson 13y ago
Very cool! I've been playing around with an animation concept for submitting a note: http://dhotson.github.io/envelope/ .. is it too much? :-)
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by dhotson 13y ago
Is this really going to protect you? I get the feeling it'll just give you a false sense of security. They will still know who you are sending email to and receiving from. The recipient metadata is unencrypted correct? As we've se
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by dhotson 13y ago
That's really interesting. I wonder though if signing would have a negative effect in terms of privacy? i.e with message signing, a third party can prove that a message was sent by you. Whereas with an unsigned email, you'd at lea
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by dhotson 13y ago
Encrypting the message content sounds sensible. But as far as I'm aware you can't encrypt the to/from fields. As we've seen recently, this kind of metadata is often just as revealing as the content. Encryption for email
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by dhotson 13y ago
Looks like iTerm2 is adding 24bit color support soon too: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/pull/133 Pull request is from less than 12 hours ago, so I'm not sure how long it'll take to get into a
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KORE – A fast SPDY-capable webserver for web development in C(kore.io)
110 points by dhotson 13y ago|58 comments
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by dhotson 13y ago
Maybe something like roflbalt? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoHmJfXqwbM https://github.com/pda/roflbalt :-P
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by dhotson 13y ago
Love this. Cool hack!
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by dhotson 13y ago
We're hiring designers/programmers/UXers at 99designs in Melbourne. http://99designs.com.au/about/jobs We're looking for a frontend engineer in particular at the moment, which might be a good fit. L
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by dhotson 13y ago
Also, the network feature works great when you subscribe to people who bookmark interesting stuff.
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by dhotson 13y ago
https://pinboard.in/popular/ I'm being serious. If you're looking for a raw source of interesting material—you can often find some really interesting stuff.
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SIGGRAPH 2013 : Technical Papers Preview(youtube.com)
10 points by dhotson 13y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 13y ago
I've been testing out some motion blur effects in the browser. Something that's kind of cool is that it’s simulating a camera’s shutter opening and closing. ie the shutter doesn’t open instantaneously—it takes some time to fully open. Pixar
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JavaScript motion blur demo(dhotson.github.io)
3 points by dhotson 13y ago|3 comments
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by dhotson 13y ago
“We promise not to screw it up.”
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Don’t get stuck(rc3.org)
2 points by dhotson 13y ago|0 comments
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Work Better.(medium.com)
3 points by dhotson 13y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 13y ago
This is small side project I made to visualise the 99designs worldwide community. It's using qgis to aggregate location data into a hex grid and I used MapBox's TileMill to design the maps. If you're interested in doing this with your own d
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Show HN: 99designs worldwide community(dhotson.tumblr.com)
1 points by dhotson 13y ago|1 comments
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by dhotson 13y ago
My guess would be they wanted to uncompress and process it in parallel? I doubt it was a question of bandwidth—probably more a question of convenience.
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by dhotson 13y ago
Welcome back _why. I had a feeling we'd see you again. :-)
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by dhotson 13y ago
You can achieve most of this with Euler integration to update the positions and velocities of the points—as well as Hooke's law to simulate the connections as a grid of tiny little springs. I've used similar algorithms in a graph layout lib
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by dhotson 14y ago
Yeah, we built it to work well on logos and vector artwork, but it might not work so well for photographs. Anyway, see what you think. :)
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by dhotson 14y ago
I helped write a library called colorific to detect a colour palette given an image. You might find it interesting. https://github.com/99designs/colorific We blogged a bit about how it works too: http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/
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by dhotson 14y ago
We do this at 99designs. Anything that isn't a core piece of domain specific tech related to running a design contest—we'll open source it. We don't just do it for goodwill either — it's a great design practice. It's good to design systems
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Posthaven — A reaction to the closure of Posterous next month(posthaven.com)
1 points by dhotson 14y ago|0 comments

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