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by iansinke 14y ago
There's probably a lot of complicated ways of doing this, but to keep it simple you could probably just downscale the image, convert to black and white, and have an array which maps lightness ranges to ascii characters
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by iansinke 14y ago
Am I the only one who finds a capital "T" very non-intuitive for "Dictionary"? Likewise "V" for "University"? That part of the whole logo branding I found unnecessarily concise.
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by iansinke 14y ago
Install the SublimeREPL plugin from Package Control. Works like a charm!
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Open in a public place; go fullscreen; mash random keys.(hackertyper.com)
6 points by iansinke 15y ago|3 comments
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by iansinke 15y ago
In which number system is 8 odd?
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by iansinke 15y ago
One thing I've always wondered about is the dials or sliders for temperature settings in the car. Many of them (especially the linear sliders) seem to be set up in a logarithmic way rather than a direct linear scale. Although I'm not sure w
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by iansinke 15y ago
Sure, that's a big issue. But it might not be as bad as it seems. The reason a native Gmail app is such great news is because of the special way in which we read and organize our Gmail accounts: Priority Inbox, tags rather than folders, sta
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by iansinke 15y ago
Agree completely. As a proof-of-concept it's amazing. But practically speaking, SVG is a far better way of doing this.
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by iansinke 15y ago
Really, they call this Hacker News and yet a headline with a blatant disregard for as simple a concept as relative error and significant figures makes it to #7 on the front page? What are we coming to?
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by iansinke 15y ago
tl;dr: Firefox is 2, Chrome is 2.5, IE is 4. (Out of 4, of course. And assuming latest versions.)
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Email Intervention(emailintervention.com)
78 points by iansinke 15y ago|55 comments
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by iansinke 15y ago
Brings back memories of programming QBasic in the MS-DOS shell on Windows 98. Ah, those were the days.
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by iansinke 15y ago
This reminds me of apps like Shazam. While they definitely serve an amazing purpose (recognizing songs by finding a similar region of sound) what I would really like is an app that could recognize my humming a song--which probably sounds no
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by iansinke 16y ago
Why is this a problem? When they request a password, reset the password to some typical password and pass that on to the authorities. They aren't actually going to ask to view your code/database, are they? They just want to be able to acces
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by iansinke 16y ago
"Most people would sooner die than think. And most of them do." -- G.B.Shaw. That's actually from Bertrand Russell.
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Ask HN: What's your smartphone data consumption?
1 points by iansinke 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What should I name my open source calculator project?
1 points by iansinke 16y ago|0 comments