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by follower 7y ago
Could you provide some more details?
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by follower 7y ago
> because GIFs cannot contain audio They can (publicly) now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19935900 Of course, there's no browser support for the Application Extension, so it requires a Javascript player for
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by follower 7y ago
What if I told you that is now (publicly) no longer true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19935900 ? :)
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by follower 7y ago
This project is super interesting to me for a variety of reasons and I spent a few minutes playing around with it--and have some thoughts, feelings and opinions as a result. :) Too many to get fully into now but here's a few roughly ex
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by follower 7y ago
If you prefer pretty pictures here's a direct link to the show reel: http://audiogif.rancidbacon.com/start (Note: Depending on your browser you may experience autoplay audio.)
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Show HN: Specification for “Audio for GIF” Application Extension(audiogif.rancidbacon.com)
1 points by follower 7y ago|1 comments
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by follower 7y ago
Definitely would make an interesting learning exercise--I learned way more about SMTP/POP protocols* than I did before when I implemented demonstration SMTP/POP servers for my libgmail library before Gmail offered alternate means
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by follower 7y ago
Yeah, there were a couple of different ones wrote a bit more about them in a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19917018
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by follower 7y ago
Yeah, there were a couple of projects that implemented that functionality (mentioned more in my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19917018 if you're interested). Also, "Utterly miserable experience with
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by follower 7y ago
I do! :) "Gdrive" (here: http://pramode.net/articles/lfy/fuse/pramode.html ) and the "Gmail Filesystem"/"GmailFS" (here: https://web.archive.org/web/200
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by follower 8y ago
> The message should be, "you need to learn how to control yourself." For someone with ADHD/ADD some combination of therapy, diagnosis & medication may enable them to learn how to manage their interactions with the w
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by follower 8y ago
> If it's ADHD, behavioral therapy isn't super effective, unfortunately (at least according to research I've seen). I'm surprised by that impression as my understanding was that it was "generally accepted" t
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by follower 8y ago
> When he eventually knocked something over and I sternly reminded him to sit down, he started hitting himself on the head, apparently rueful that he's disappointed me again. I'll admit that this was upsetting to read--your son
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by follower 9y ago
> I was just inherently lazy and unfocused and needed to just "man up" and figure it out. > [snip] > there's an entire half of my being that is just screaming saying "it's not a real problem, other people h
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by follower 9y ago
> To do lists, books, apps work for a while, until the novelty wears off and the dopamine return is diminished. I used to think this meant there was no point in trying out a new productivity system because I knew it'd only be effect
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by follower 9y ago
> how do we teach some of these concepts to our kids at a young? What does that kind of curriculum look like? To see one approach you might be interested in looking at the "Computer Science Unplugged" project: http:/&#x2F
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by follower 9y ago
You may not be aware but comments like this (e.g. "too expensive", "a few LEDs & a microcontroller") are pretty much a trope for hardware entrepreneurs these days. I think it's important for this to be pointed o
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by follower 9y ago
You might like to check out my other reply re:virtual pets... :) Also, if you haven't already, you might be interested in researching Dr. Janese Swanson the founder of the "GirlTech" toy company (from mid-90s to early 2000s,
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by follower 9y ago
FWIW a number of years ago I created a concept for a virtual pet toy that was aimed at exploring alternate approaches which might encourage girls--who may not have been previously interested--to learn to code and other computer science rela
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Show HN: “Nothing” Can Help You Be Productive [video]
2 points by follower 9y ago|0 comments
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by follower 9y ago
> there is free software out there If anyone is interested in a Free/Libre/Open Source Software option (cross-platform Linux/Windows/Mac) I've really enjoyed producing with LMMS over the past 18 months or so: ht
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by follower 10y ago
> A tracked vibrator does not accomplish that Note that the We-Vibe couples vibes are designed/promoted for use during intercourse, in addition to "solo" use--and we found design documents for future models that included f
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by follower 10y ago
A standard could certainly contribute to informed consent by the people who purchase/use devices. It's a complex concept to summarise and distill into iconography though. (See also my comment to parent post.)
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by follower 10y ago
> ultimately there needs to be some kind of 'privacy mark' in the same way films carry a cert to allow us all to instantly understand what using it will entail. That was the direction we were wanting to go with the Private Play
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by follower 10y ago
> Did this company violate their own privacy policy? The original suit claims "Defendant never informed Plaintiff that it would monitor, collect, and transmit her Usage Information" and "Plaintiff never provided her consen
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by follower 10y ago
It certainly appears there's a large element of that and one of the challenges of our talk was to get the audience past the "sex lol" stage and to take the issues & implications seriously. Overall we were pretty happy wit
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by follower 10y ago
> Has anyone done a security review of the device and the associated app? Partially, yes, here's our DEF CON 24 presentation about it: "Breaking the Internet of Vibrating Things": https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by follower 10y ago
> So is the moral of the story for a developer to make sure you have an updated privacy policy? Given that the original suit included claims that "Defendant never informed Plaintiff that it would monitor, collect, and transmit her U
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by follower 10y ago
> Perhaps this will make it clearer that controlling things from your phone currently involves somebody in the middle, monitoring what you're doing. As I mentioned in another comment, part of the original suit (the claims that the a
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by follower 10y ago
> Was an excellent talk Thanks. :) > but I felt it needed more jokes woven in. Oh, believe me, we had no shortage of jokes we could've included but because we wanted the topic & issues we raised to be taken seriously we err

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