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by mappum 13y ago
Does this mean YC will start accepting malicious startups? Something like a marketplace for 0days?
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by mappum 13y ago
Let's make a movement to call W "wub". It uses its own sound, it is one syllable, and it sounds like "dub" (as in "double U"). As a bonus side effect, "www" will sound like dubstep.
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by mappum 13y ago
Just because you can't perceive individual pixels doesn't mean you can't perceive higher quality. Imagine if you wanted to draw a human hair to scale, you would need some small pixels to make that look good. However in most s
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by mappum 13y ago
Good job, but I have one small suggestion: the name colors should be seeded by the name value, so people are always the same color. That's what IRC clients do so you remember people a little better.
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by mappum 13y ago
Wow, this video and the game are bringing back memories. This is the first experience with a computer I can remember. I didn't really realize what I was doing at the time, I would have been 2 or 3. Thankfully my dad cared enough about
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by mappum 13y ago
The OCR is really useless. I tested it with some reddit "advice animal" memes (because there is a need for transcriptions). You would think that text is pretty simple and easy, but the output I got was like: /\n\nnmrs w
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by mappum 13y ago
I found the idea that one person can make a huge difference really interesting, I will have to start experimenting with this myself. All the roads OP wrote about are where I drive, but the Lynnwood ramp he talked about recently got expanded
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Hacking a vending machine with a robot(newyork.grubstreet.com)
1 points by mappum 13y ago|0 comments
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Windows 95 Promo Tape(youtube.com)
1 points by mappum 13y ago|0 comments
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by mappum 13y ago
And now that kid will grow up to join Daft Punk.
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by mappum 14y ago
When you made that comment, it was the middle of the night here. Everyone was online at USA after-work hours. The reason the world was near-pristine was because I messed up the storage for this deployment, which made so every once in a whil
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by mappum 14y ago
I am leaning towards opensourcing it, but we don't want to do it too soon unless we realize we want to do a PaaS sort of thing.
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by mappum 14y ago
Haha, I almost waited to buy it. So how is your project the same?
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by mappum 14y ago
Well it's not technically Minecraft, but obviously heavily inspired. I'm pretty sure I heard about someone hooking it up to the real protocol.
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by mappum 14y ago
That isn't an MMO, it is just a server hosting service. However, if they wanted to add MMOs to Realms, they could acquire us. ;)
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by mappum 14y ago
Voxel.js is one: http://voxeljs.com/
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by mappum 14y ago
I plan on open sourcing it and trying to foster a community of modding/contributions, but first I would like to clean up the code. Also, we want to figure out our business strategy.
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Show HN: Redstone, a distributed Minecraft server that runs on Node.js(redstone.io)
125 points by mappum 14y ago|56 comments
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Brigade - Real-time path tracing engine(youtube.com)
2 points by mappum 14y ago|0 comments
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by mappum 14y ago
Well, the repo I'm thinking about using this on is private, so I have no pride and no shame. Wait, I guess this doesn't support private repos.
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by mappum 14y ago
I don't think counting commits is a good metric, because I know if it were me, I would start splitting my commits up into trivial changes in order to meet the count ("added comment", "added line break", etc). It supports going by issues, wh
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by mappum 14y ago
It already has been on the radio for a while here in Seattle. :) And yes, we liked it before it was cool.
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by mappum 14y ago
My only criticism is that there a million modals you have to go through, and some are even multi page, adding complexity. I would rather have fewer modals/pages that show more text at once. But overall, this is super handy, great idea :)
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by mappum 14y ago
This is reassuring for me. On a normal day, I only really do so much actual coding and intense thinking, and I usually wrongfully compare it to the crazy energy drink fueled all-nighters (which makes me feel like I'm not getting enough done
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by mappum 14y ago
Ironically, this DID get upvotes.
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by mappum 14y ago
This makes sense, because companies that don't take VC funding are the ones that didn't need it because they were turning profits from the start. However, there are a LOT more companies that don't get VC funding and never succeed.
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by mappum 14y ago
We made something very similar for Node Knockout (the 48-hour hackathon), http://foodhub.jit.su .
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by mappum 14y ago
The power of defaultism is why Internet Explorer still has 26% market share.
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by mappum 14y ago
I'm working at a startup right now, and I think this is pretty accurate. The freedom is nice (no hours, nobody telling exactly what to do every day). However, I will NEVER be able to have the passion for the product as I would if it was my
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by mappum 14y ago
Same here, I even switched to a Macbook with the same results. Mobile seems to be fine, though.

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