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What Exactly Is Vegan-Mayonnaise Company Hampton Creek Selling?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by firasd 9y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 9y ago
I think of this as a prototype or exploration rather than the final form of the technology. What I 'dig' specifically is the attempt to explore wearables integrated into textiles.
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by firasd 9y ago
True! Hopefully such interfaces can eventually fit into the contact lens form factor.
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by firasd 9y ago
I dig it. Ever since 'smart watches' started I've felt like grown men wearing digital watches is a bit awkward. I'd prefer more subtle things like Google Glass or tech woven into clothing fabrics. We definitely need to g
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by firasd 9y ago
If you get a chance to take a look would appreciate any thoughts! The next steps I have in mind are to make it more standalone so people can sign in and get feeds reflecting their own profiles, a daily email summary, and perhaps reducing th
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by firasd 9y ago
This app shows the top tweets your friends liked, retweeted, quote tweeted, or replied to. It's not "self-serve" yet, but this is a link to the app running on Marc Andreessen's Twitter profile (ie. the people he follows)
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Show HN: Newsfeed for Twitter(flockpath.niceasthis.com)
5 points by firasd 9y ago|2 comments
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by firasd 9y ago
Good article. When I saw this I thought the UK press in general is really into panicking about the internet. Didn't they prompt the Youtube "Adpocalypse"? Not saying the concerns are irrelevant, but that the call-outs and sub
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by firasd 9y ago
It's a visionary hypertext project that doesn't really work yet, but the people behind it are happy to dispense snarky quotes about the how the web we all use is a poor substitute because it's a “bizarre structure created by
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by firasd 9y ago
Nice description how of Cat Stevens set the soundtrack to the writer's teenage years. I was listening to some music I haven't for a few years and it struck such a chord with me that I realized I should appreciate musicians more on
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The Anatomy of a Kickstarter(medium.com)
1 points by firasd 9y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 9y ago
Probably artificial/decorative... hence being randomly stuck on a balcony
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by firasd 9y ago
Okay just to help out my fellow long-suffering HN users I made a Medium account and posted these tweets there. https://medium.com/@thethreader/natural-history-museum-versu...
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by firasd 9y ago
It seems like internally they have a lot of 'product paralysis', unlike say Facebook which is happy to experiment with totally random things sometimes. That said over the last couple years things have been improving on the 's
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by firasd 9y ago
The JS just fetches the text over the network and transforms it though. The browser still renders HTML markup in the end. I agree with the rest of what you said but those are just design decisions. My point was that, regardless of the code
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by firasd 9y ago
The web platform has its virtues though. I can still load a webpage made in 1996 and at least read the text if nothing else; we can't say the same of erstwhile competitors like Flash, Silverlight, Java applets...
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by firasd 9y ago
I found it interesting that in an HN discussion about how to auto-update comments Alan Kay said, "How about a little model of time in a GUI?"[1] It ties into when he said of smartphone apps, "It's painful to see people u
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by firasd 9y ago
I used Elasticsearch. But I didn't use it as a primary datastore, more just a mirror of the MySQL data. It comes out of the box with a way to find "More Like This" https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ela
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by firasd 9y ago
Fair enough, I wasn't aware of MATCH... AGAINST will have to check it out. But although I'm not going to keep going back and forth on this in HN comments it really has been my experience that Elasticsearch can do some very cool th
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by firasd 9y ago
Sorry, I'm just not buying that it's about the file size of data. Right now I'm working on an app that works with tweets. I want to find all tweets that link to iTunes. When I was using: > select * from `tweets` where `url
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by firasd 9y ago
Do you have FULLTEXT indexes on those rows? I find it hard to believe that searching something like e.g. a fragment of text in Youtube comments can be as fast in a SQL system (even in RAM) as in Elasticsearch. As for the other stuff I menti
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by firasd 9y ago
Interesting quote: "we decided to compute all statistics on demand. This was something we previously tried in RethinkDB, but the results were not good... When we tried implementing statistics as SQL queries in Postgres, we were amazed
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by firasd 9y ago
I think when Matt says "long-term consistency with core" he also means consistency with the philosophical aspects of free software. Note that the piece starts with Facebook's reaction to the Apache Foundation's stance ag
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On React and WordPress(ma.tt)
543 points by firasd 9y ago|201 comments
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by firasd 9y ago
The key suggestion: "bury the idea that any developer who submits an issue or pull request is automatically entitled to the attention of a maintainer... If you’re the leader of one of these projects, charge an annual fee for community
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by firasd 9y ago
You can't say you cracked a mysterious coded text and then not provide the solution except to hand-wave it away by saying there's an additional reference that was lost. I can 'solve' anything that way. If Gibbs doesn&#x2
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by firasd 9y ago
I think the the critic who said there is “abundant choice reading for those who can skip a page now and then, judiciously” nails it. This book is a journey, and is like many works mixed together. I like this Twitter profile that posts rando
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The Original 1851 Reviews of Moby Dick(lithub.com)
81 points by firasd 9y ago|29 comments
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by firasd 9y ago
Pretty sure it's only being used on the front-end. Even their more established project React isn't used on the server.
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by firasd 9y ago
I think the reason AI & robots are so rich a concept for these fictional explorations is that humans vs robots are like (at least?) three significant archetypes: (1) Parents/children (2) Gods/humans (3) Owners/slaves Some

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