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by gmurphy 5y ago
This used to be one of my favorite Google UI Engineer interview questions - how to implement something like this as a content script. One of the fun "get away from math and into experience" bonus parts of the question was about ho
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by gmurphy 5y ago
I designed[1] the Chrome Omnibox, and appreciate a lot of the conjecture in this thread and other places - I wish I was as devious as many people assume we were. The short version is that while many users can differentiate, it's more a
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by gmurphy 5y ago
Double agree with this suggestion - as I've split my life between hemispheres, weatherspark has been enormously useful for explaining relative climates to new and old friends, but I always have to edit the comparison graphs myself to p
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by gmurphy 5y ago
Any tips on how to find/book those freelancers? I've been looking for similar help
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by gmurphy 5y ago
I held off doing PCB stuff for a long time because the tools seemed incredibly complex and intimidating, and now I wonder how I ever did anything without it. The things I wish someone had told me: - all a PCB is, is a flat version of your h
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by gmurphy 5y ago
I did a Show HN eleven years ago for something called Dropmocks, which was an early use of the HTML5 drag and drop API to make image sharing convenient - it sat at the top of HN for that weekend, got Techcrunch coverage[0] etc, which made m
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by gmurphy 5y ago
Like most of the earthquakes I felt in the bay area, I spent most of it thinking it was an unbalanced dryer in the final stages of its cycle. It roughly felt equivalent to the 2014 Napa Quake (which was also a 6). For normally geologically-
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by gmurphy 5y ago
It does a client-side guess based on vowels, and then hits the server for an authoritative version. The server has a word:syllables map I derived from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. In the "segue" case, it looks like the dictiona
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by gmurphy 5y ago
One night a few months ago, after two large beers I imagined up a domain name that was SO PERFECT that I HAD TO BUY IT and swore that this time, unlike all the others, I was TOTALLY GOING TO DO SOMETHING WITH IT. The next morning, looking f
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by gmurphy 5y ago
From the related links in this article, I learned that Visual Snow[1] is not what everyone sees at nighttime or when they close their eyes, as I have, for as long as I can remember. I just figured our eyes cranked their ISO sensitivity up.
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by gmurphy 5y ago
I was so mad at their cancellation dark patterns I cancelled my otherwise-useful subscription. I live in California, but still didn't see an easy way to do it, so I swapped my billing method to PayPal and then cancelled it in the PayPa
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by gmurphy 5y ago
I'm also from Melbourne, and have lived in California for fifteen years. I put what you describe down to how often people move in America vs Australia. In Australia, many people tend to stay in the same city for most of their lives, wh
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by gmurphy 6y ago
When I looked at it before it had a Netscape-gray background; now it's white (updated? different browser? experiment?) and so doesn't capture that same feeling at all
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by gmurphy 6y ago
Nostaliga really kicked in here - seeing things like this for the first time, and feeling the unfurling of the future and a thousand new ideas in front of you, one so new and beyond all of your sci-fi expectations, and yet so real. I feel s
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by gmurphy 6y ago
It's like when you read something hilarious and respond with lol in chat, but you don't actually laugh or even smirk, or like reading an exciting book without ducking and weaving - over time you just increasingly get more efficien
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by gmurphy 6y ago
Ahh, all those things I see when Arduino is doing its thing - I have some reading to do - thank you for putting me on this path!
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by gmurphy 6y ago
I 3D print them - quick prototypes I use my own printer, for more durable/nicer plastic stuff I go through Shapeways (~$20), and for the metal stuff I get them CNCed through 3D Hubs ($150). Here's an example of a volume controller
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by gmurphy 6y ago
I went through a few KiCad tutorials (it's improved a lot over the past few years), and a lot of trial and error. With PCBWay and JLCPCB making it super cheap and delivered in a few days, it means you don't have to worry about mis
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by gmurphy 6y ago
I love Lora - our apartment's garage remotes have a range of about 5 meters, and the gate opens super slowly. This is annoying for us and everyone around us as we live on a business street, so have to either be parked across a footpath
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by gmurphy 6y ago
This is great! One very naive (I'm trying to learn) question: You have a fixed timestep for good reason, which works great if you're displaying by doing interpolation (your display frames lag the physics and are 'catching up&
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by gmurphy 6y ago
The Pocket C.H.I.P. was built around PICO-8 https://shop.pocketchip.co/collections/frontpage/products/po...
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by gmurphy 6y ago
Totally agree - Turbo Boost Switcher has dramatically changed how I use and like my 16" MBP - no more fan noise, no more burning fingers or blanket, and practically no noticeable difference in performance (e.g. Destiny 2 runs fine with
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by gmurphy 7y ago
FWIW PCBWay generally gets my weekend orders to me within the week, and costs about the same as JLC ($5 for 5 boards plus $15 shipping). In some cases I've put an order in on Friday night and gotten them on Tuesday.
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by gmurphy 7y ago
FWIW, disabling Intel Turbo Boost (using Turbo Boost Switcher) has solved all my 16" MBP fan noise issues with no noticable performance impact for my daily tasks - you can even disable it in Bootcamp Windows (by setting CPU to 99% in p
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by gmurphy 9y ago
One of my favorite personal projects was to do this with an ADS-B receiver, Raspberry Pi, Android App, and a laser projector to show overhead flights on my ceiling: https://twitter.com/gmurphy/status/89186345800565
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by gmurphy 9y ago
Slight and continuous adjustments, though with a proper RC controller you can make faster and more accurate adjustments, so maintaining altitude would be much more accurate than all the wobbling you saw in the video :)
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by gmurphy 9y ago
It's a 2g frame and camera mount I designed - you can download the plans here (the button next to the QTY selector): https://armattanproductions.com/pages/product_details/12158 The TX is a Jumper T8SG + FrSky
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by gmurphy 9y ago
I design and build my own quads, though I'm not a particularly great flier. The thing I love about the hobby is that it combines three key things: * The control joy/mastery feeling you get from activities like car racing, riding a
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by gmurphy 9y ago
Yep, that was me. The reasoning wasn't that we didn't like it and wanted to kill hidden features (as above, I loved it), but more that all things, even small or hidden ones, come with small and hidden cost, and cost is the end of
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by gmurphy 9y ago
This is a great use of Chromium! Storytime! When we started designing Chrome back in 2006, and despite having spent the past year working on Google's Firefox team, my favorite browser was iRider, which was an IE shell with tree-style-t

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