imakesnowflakes

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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
You see, this already exists [1]. It costs around 2000 Rs, that is like $30, A wireless mouse and keyboard will cost around the same. So for $60 you will have all the component to make this work. Let me say this again. For 60$ worth of comp
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Yea. Totally same things. Paper and a display that actually emits light. For a bunch who calls themselves as "nerds" and "geeks", the HN crowd is becoming pretty dumb lately..
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
I am not sure I agree. Do you know what I do when I have trouble reading the text in a page. I increase font size. It is only a flick of your finger (ctrl+mouse wheel). So the point is if you have a big enough font size, white on black can
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Fantastic!
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
>That's a pretty narrow interpretation of "does not have a processor". Keyboards and mice have processors. HDMI adapters have processors. Wireless transmitters and receivers have processors. Damn. Is it really possible tha
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
>Additionally, light on dark is horrible for readability. I have a hard time understanding this. Staring at a bright background hurt my eyes after a while. White text on a black background feels much more comfortable to read. What am I m
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
It does not use a network. It uses direct RF link. Like wireless keyboards and mouses do. Imagine getting a wireless keyboard and mouse and a wireless hdmi adapter. You plug the transmitters of these wireless keyboard and mouse to your desk
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
>My guess is that this would cost at least 80% of a similar quality laptop that also includes "computer parts" and works as an actual computer. 80%? Without cpu, harddisk, memory, motherboard and without having to cramming all
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
No. Nothing like them at all. Please read more carefully. What I suggest does not have a processor. It just relays input/output.
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Is python3 meta programming features supported?
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Yes. That is what I am talking about. It seems like there are already cheap devices that can do wireless HDMI streaming [1]. [1] http://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps...
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
If you already love programming then go learn electronics and hardware design.
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
> it's going to be dreadfully slow as compared to doing it locally. We don't use networking. We use direct RF link. >Plus, the laptop would lose 90% of its mobility advantage, as it would always have to be in the (network-)
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
In the same way wireless keyboards and mouses work. You use a receiver/transmitter pair. It does not require any computational power. A receiver can be tuned to a particular transmitter. We might have to encrypt the display transmissi
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Not sure. VNC is a program that runs on a computer. But we don't need a computer to simply relay input/output to a desktop. What I am suggesting is such a setup. We already have cheap wireless keyboards and mouse. We just need a l
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Yes. I know about those. I am a software developer. Buying an ultrabook/laptop just for continence seem a bit overkill to me. Those are not exactly cheap. But that is not the point. The point is how much untapped potential is there in
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Ask HN: A Laptop that outsources processing to a Desktop?
6 points by imakesnowflakes 11y ago|34 comments
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
A machine that detects the toxins/harmful chemicals in food materials....
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Holy shit! You just read my mind!
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Virtual desktops for Windows(technet.microsoft.com)
2 points by imakesnowflakes 11y ago|2 comments
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
> I would be missing out on would be keeping up to date.. Know what? May be it does not matter. May be it is a "learned necessity". For example, you don't need to have facebook to keep up to date with all the family member
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
It takes text/articles in markdown format [1] and converts it to html with some basic html tags, like headings, anchors and lists. Where these should occur can be declared using markdown syntax. This html with simple html tags is injec
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Here is a simple html 5 app that I made, that lets you add watchers for HN and reddit threads as part of its functionality. http://z-petal.com/ceasium/#/hackerNews It runs in your browser itself, and stores all th
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
This is a simple html5 angular.js app for freelance programmers. It can do basic client/project management, payment management with currency conversion, time tracking, has notifiers for reddit and hackernews that can watch for new comm
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Wow. Great timing. This will pair nicely with an Html5 app I just posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10506149 Also, I always used to wonder why something simple like this already exists. Well done!
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Show HN: "Ceasium", An Angular.JS app for freelance programmers(z-petal.com)
5 points by imakesnowflakes 11y ago|1 comments
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Nice. I used to watch a lot of movies and in my experience, when a subtitle is out of sync, it is very hard to manually sync it, because of different frame rates and missing sections. So even if you sync it at one point, it will quickly get
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
>The other is developing a complex query and running it again and again, while watching the result... I created a small Python/Flask application with integrated Ace editor that run in tabs for this exact use case.. https:/&#x
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
>you can't select and execute SQL embedded in other source code files.. How is it possible anyway? Queries in source files almost always cannot be executed as such, because of placeholders/parameters. Or what am I missing?
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by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
Can I now refer to the same temporary table multiple times in a query?

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