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by nathanathan 12y ago
Idea: Git-story, a website that generates summary narratives from git commit histories and other github data. Here's a brain-dump with some ideas for the specifics: Use foreshadowing: "It all started with one person, X, spending m
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by nathanathan 13y ago
I made an open source tool that does something like this using a modified version of the Levenshtein distance algorithm: https://github.com/nathanathan/fuzzyTemplateMatcher Here's a demo you can play around with:
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by nathanathan 13y ago
If this kind of technology were to fall into the wrong hands would we even know? Would it appear as though the victims had a heart attack or stroke?
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by nathanathan 13y ago
Phonegap Build has some useful features for packaging, debugging and distribution that could eventually become available to Firefox OS Cordova apps.
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Anyone interested in making this remote storage business?(reddit.com)
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by nathanathan 13y ago
Maybe there is a a way to avoid the protection racket issue by a setting up the insurance organization as a self-governing non-profit. By self-governing I mean anyone who pays into the organization can submit proposals for cases that should
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by nathanathan 13y ago
I'm working on a game based on memorizing Chinese characters. It's cool because it uses the qualities that motivate people to play farm sims to encourage players to study a language. Players plant character-flowers and must pass q
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by nathanathan 13y ago
I experimented with using cfgs in a code editor before but with the aim of making it easier to code on touch screen devices where curly braces and the like are difficult to type. Here's a prototype I started for writing Json. http:&#x
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Why it should be free to place bounties on Bountysource(github.com)
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by nathanathan 13y ago
I really like the concept of building apps out of widgets connected by broadcast events. It reminds me of meemoo ( http://meemoo.org/ ).
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Apple Reportedly Opening R&D Center in Taiwan(iclarified.com)
4 points by nathanathan 13y ago|0 comments
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PhoneGap Build User Submitted Plugins(phonegap.com)
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Ask HN: Cloud printing for small print shops
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by nathanathan 13y ago
There's an idea I've been thinking about in the vein of the "create this" and api competition ideas (and the repo itself I suppose). I've found that on Stack Overflow questions of the form "Is there software th
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by nathanathan 13y ago
> It uses named nouns, yet in real world, we usually refer to things with adjectives and types. We say "pass me the red apple", not "that apple is called Jimmy, now pass me Jimmy". That's an interesting insight.