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by joss82 11y ago
Should work much better on mobile now :) (tested on Safari, Chrome ubuntu and Chrome Android) Edit: (And Safari on iOS)
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Show HN: Paint a flag over your profile picture(flaggify.com)
7 points by joss82 11y ago|1 comments
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by joss82 11y ago
It's a simple canvas overlay with 50% transparency. Then the resulting image data is put in a URL and ready to download. There is not much into it, really ;)
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by joss82 11y ago
Sorry it's a quick hack and does not work very well on all mobile browsers. All feedback/bug reports are welcome, though!
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Show HN: Paint a flag over your profile picture(flaggify.com)
4 points by joss82 11y ago|4 comments
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by joss82 11y ago
Great idea, actually!
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by joss82 11y ago
I would love to play Factorio multiplayer with someone that is interviewing to become a colleague. Playing this game in coop is like programming in many ways. You see the result of your design mistakes, and you have to be able to communicat
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by joss82 11y ago
"Dream job" can also be understood as "a job people usually dream about".
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by joss82 11y ago
Hacking your own body can lead to health issues obviously. But... This may be the way everybody runs in the future. A bit like Cliff Young[1], a potato farmer that won the Sydney-Melbourne ultra-marathon. [1] https://en.wikipedia
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by joss82 11y ago
Have you tried Kerbal Space Program? https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/ You're welcome! ;)
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by joss82 11y ago
OP: Keep all this in mind and change your idea a bit, you have the will the do it, and that's already putting you above 99% of all people. Good luck!
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by joss82 11y ago
9.21 people, actually.
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by joss82 11y ago
> ... as simple as pasting a URL ... You need to do user testing when you watch your users use your product. Do it with your target audience. You will be floored by their lack of technicality. Then go fix your product so they never have
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by joss82 11y ago
Great idea for a website or app! Here in france, we have a website called On Va Sortir (We Are Going Out: http://paris.onvasortir.com ) that allows people (mostly newcomers from the rest of the country) to schedule meetups. It&#x
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by joss82 11y ago
This article explains so much. It is fascinating. It seems difficult to find a potent ideological hack that would tarnish isis. Such an elegant solution would save so many lives though.
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by joss82 11y ago
But Facebook publicly admitted that the service is powered by real humans: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/facebook-launches-m-new-kind-vi...
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by joss82 11y ago
It's sad that they don't talk about Uzupis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%C5%BEupis A nice little artsy pseudo-country in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Why do we sneeze?(news.nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by joss82 11y ago|0 comments
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by joss82 11y ago
But there the author is talking about people he loves. I perfectly understand that not everyone is loving all of one's family members. But love is probably one quite universal sentiment, is it not?
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by joss82 11y ago
Seriously? One week is too long to spend with those you love? Seriously? One week per year is barely 2% of your time! One week is too short!
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by joss82 11y ago
Should we stop interacting with computer and go build a motorcycle instead?
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No one asks to be buried with his ipad(newyorker.com)
4 points by joss82 11y ago|2 comments
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by joss82 11y ago
... that you can notice ;)
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by joss82 11y ago
It's a bit oversimplified, because exercising increase your burn rate (your basal metabolic rate), even when you don't exercice. But anyway: eat food, not too much, mostly plants ;)
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by joss82 11y ago
Yup, liquid sodium was scaring the hell out of the workers on the site, and rightfully.
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by joss82 11y ago
We had a fast breeder reactor here in France before, creating energy from nuclear waste. Oil/"green" lobbies made it to close: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superph%C3%A9nix EDIT: And also terrorists and
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by joss82 11y ago
'Aufschnitt' sounds German.
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by joss82 11y ago
Beef is tasteless there because it's probably made out of the older milk cows. I'm sorry.
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Camels and rubber duckies (2004)(joelonsoftware.com)
2 points by joss82 11y ago|0 comments
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by joss82 11y ago
Yup, exactly, it's not comfortable, but still a possibility.

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