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by fatboy 6y ago
I've noticed that people who don't identify as bikers are more and more opting for an ebike over an oldskool bike by default (and bikers too, as another steed in the stable). I don't think this is a bad thing for public healt
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by fatboy 6y ago
It acts as a digital window into our print guidebook catalogue. The books are mostly for the uk, with the rest spread across Europe. I take the finished desktop-publishing documents and extract and package the data to put into the app, incl
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by fatboy 6y ago
We transitioned the file format for the images in our climbing-topo app from a pile of files to SQLite (the images are tiled). Going from having high hundreds of tiny files on disk per topo photo to just one was an incredible boon to produc
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by fatboy 6y ago
Their developer-facing web stuff is a daily tax on my mental health. I can't imagine how useless an Apple search engine would be.
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by fatboy 6y ago
Thanks for the tips! I suspect PHPStorm/Doc may be the only one that flies for the legacy codebase I sometimes get involved with - turning warnings into errors would be suicidal...
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by fatboy 6y ago
The thing I hate about php is the inconsistency and unpredictability for new-to-php developers. camelCase? snake_case? nocase? Who knows what the global function will be. And who knows what order the arguments should go in. Sometimes the ar
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by fatboy 6y ago
I've got the big ooni oven, and use it pretty much daily for 1-5 pizzas. It takes 20-25 minutes to heat up, then maybe 90 seconds to cook a pizza. The gas burner states it uses about 450g per hour on max, which seems to tally with what
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by fatboy 7y ago
Yes, great video! As a non-German I found the author's accent and germanisms added to its charm =]
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by fatboy 7y ago
When I was at secondary school I was in a group that was big into warhammer. We spent more time war gaming than we did in higher education, but we never spoke about it at school! At that age it was hard to imagine any girls would even speak
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15 Sorting Algos, 6 minutes(m.youtube.com)
3 points by fatboy 7y ago|1 comments
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by fatboy 7y ago
Thanks for this. I've just subscribed.
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by fatboy 7y ago
I haven't read that, but I'd assume it was the other way around: somehow she lost control of her limbs whilst sleeping and it penetrated her dream. I've dreamt I'd lost an arm before, only to wake up to find out I'd
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by fatboy 7y ago
African countries are generally extremely homophobic too. Politicians in Uganda are currently trying to introduce a bill known as "kill the gays". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/15/u
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by fatboy 7y ago
WhatsApp currently has some weird layout bugs when swiping back to the root view for me. More annoyingly, it seems the changes to how multiple windows are handled has made it so any visible notification will prevent me from interacting with
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by fatboy 7y ago
Ah yeah, I'd not clocked your link takes us to the relevant App Store so I'd assumed it was an iOS only game. It's great by the way! I've played a bit of desert golf over the years after reading a HN comment about it, an
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by fatboy 7y ago
You can expand a section lower down on its App Store page to see what's the iaps are. In this case I think it said unlock full game.
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by fatboy 8y ago
From what I’ve been told by the web team at the company I work at, images get blocked by ad blockers if they match the industry-standard advert sizes for banners etc. We serve our own ads that we sell directly to businesses related to our c
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by fatboy 8y ago
We just transitioned our tiled images from using a directory structure to SQLite. Having a single file per very large image (for mobile) makes transferring them to the phone over USB around ten times as fast. I wish I’d done it years ago.
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Musical marble machine(m.youtube.com)
1 points by fatboy 8y ago|0 comments
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by fatboy 8y ago
There was a great jailbreak thing that predated this (and force touch) where you accessed the caret-placement mode by swiping across the keyboard. It was really great, and it never failed, which happens a lot for me with Apple's force
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by fatboy 8y ago
In macOS I use Keyboard Maestro, which allows you to create a macro that pastes the current clipboard by typing. Very handy for these no-paste text boxes.
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by fatboy 8y ago
I’d say the touchscreen is essential if only for text input. You don’t need it as often as you do with a smartphone, but not having it when you want to type pretty much anything is a nightmare.
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by fatboy 11y ago
I see the price at the bottom on this page: https://mubi.com/films/showing €4,99 per month where I am.
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by fatboy 11y ago
Hi HN. This is my first app. We're a small company in the UK that makes rock climbing guidebooks. The app works like a bookshelf of all our printed guidebooks, although not all of them have been converted to the app format yet. Current
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Show HN: Rockfax Climbing Guidebook App (iOS)(itunes.apple.com)
2 points by fatboy 11y ago|1 comments
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by fatboy 11y ago
The other one in a similar vein is pulling the search results down (before typing anything) to get 'Request Desktop Site'. It took a while before I stopped having to pause to remember where that was each time I wanted it.
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by fatboy 11y ago
I've never used emacs - Is that 'select word'? I have that system-wide by putting "^w" = (selectWord:); into '~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict'. There's a load of inf
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by fatboy 12y ago
They're esoteric enough that I'd be surprised to see a reasonably-priced one. I've made a simple desk in the past with an ikea top like this one http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S
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Scientists wipe out malaria-carrying mosquitoes in lab with male-only offspring(www3.imperial.ac.uk)
2 points by fatboy 12y ago|0 comments
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by fatboy 12y ago
It's been possible to develop AppleScript-ObjC applications using Xcode and Interface Builder for several years. I think you define properties in the AS code that Interface Builder recognises as IBOutlets to allow you to connect it all

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