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by okal 12y ago
Doesn't load in Kenya. Had to go through http://teleport.to
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by okal 12y ago
> "Moving quickly in software generally means less stability over time..." Rather broad statement, that. Care to qualify it?
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by okal 12y ago
Buru Buru Ph. II in Buru Buru ;-) The tone of the article rubbed me the wrong way, had a bit of that "White guy who discovered Mt. Kenya" vibe. I may have unfairly read some of that into the parent comment. Well aware of 58 as w
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by okal 12y ago
Matatus _always_ have route markers, in your case, 23 for Buru Buru. There's no magic to it.
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by okal 12y ago
On average? Not a lot, I'd imagine. But it occasionally will. This tangent we've gone on off on, for example, though I'm not sure you'd agree. I think @hemantv's assertion would have served the discussion better had
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by okal 12y ago
The guidelines don't unequivocally support your position, IMHO. Your comment, though, makes a good case for it. I'll stop now, since this is getting off-topic, but I appreciate you taking the time to clarify your stand. EDIT: I th
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by okal 12y ago
Are Nazi analogies to be rejected out of hand, even when grounded in fact? How does this hurt the conversation, in your view?
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Show HN: Getting Warmer! A POC for providing visual cues for password inputs(okal.github.io)
1 points by okal 12y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Heptatonia – An interactive diatonic(-ish) scale visualization(okal.github.io)
4 points by okal 12y ago|0 comments
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by okal 12y ago
Great work. I'm always excited by attempts to marry the centralized nature of the web with all we've learnt about P2P. Best of both worlds. Just gave it a try. The video was a bit choppy for me, on a ~3Mbps connection, but I'
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Timbre.js: A JavaScript library for sound synthesis(github.com)
17 points by okal 12y ago|0 comments
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by okal 12y ago
"Where are the Ghanaian Programmers" would have been a more appropriate title. I'm Kenyan. Articles like these presume we're operating within the same market conditions when nothing could be further from the truth. The d
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by okal 13y ago
I've read this twice so far. I found it useful, personally http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html .
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by okal 13y ago
Everything you said was golden, until the last paragraph. <sarcasm> Picasso really should have stopped faffing about with his silly brushes and gone to work in a canvas factory instead. The world really didn't need another bloody
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by okal 13y ago
Is it no longer open source? We considered using the FOSS version, but ultimately went with a monitoring SaaS.
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by okal 13y ago
Did something similar with an Ubuntu guest a few years back. Fun times.
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by okal 13y ago
Loved the second article too. A bit like the saying "Writers write." I keep looking for that point when I get lost in my work, a state of flow, and I abandon anything that doesn't take me there. Maybe it's not just abo
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by okal 13y ago
This is really inspiring, man. Great work, and good luck. I might do one of these solo hackathons myself, given all the stuff I have floating in my head that never gets to see the light of day. Sort of reminds me of http://hackal
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by okal 13y ago
Here: http://hackershelf.com/topic/visualization/ . I'm sure you can find more if you fish around the "topics" section.
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by okal 13y ago
Shameless plug: http://hackershelf.com/browse
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by okal 13y ago
Doesn't work for me :( The webcam was clearly on, and it was taking microphone input.
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by okal 13y ago
Kenya www.ihub.co.ke/jobsboard/
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by okal 14y ago
This looks interesting, but I'm not sure the creator understands how the MIT License works.
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Packery, a JavaScript layout library(packery.metafizzy.co)
4 points by okal 14y ago|2 comments
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Pillow, a better PIL(github.com)
2 points by okal 14y ago|0 comments
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by okal 14y ago
Thanks :) Well, there's that, but I'm less worried about being viewed as a potty mouth and more about stuff I did early on in the development process like having passwords in config files and such.
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Ask HN: Open sourcing a previously closed project
4 points by okal 14y ago|3 comments
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by okal 14y ago
Thanks :) The TOC sounds like a great idea, obvious in hindsight. The case sensitivity of the topics is just a reflection of my laziness, I should have taken care of that a long time ago. Hope you keep finding the site useful.
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by okal 14y ago
Thanks for all the feedback everyone. Some things I need to clarify: 1. The site was never meant to be purely for programming books. It says "free books for the intellectually curious" for a reason :) 2. Non free books are not allowed. That
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by okal 14y ago
I didn't submit the link (I'm the developer), so it may not be obvious, but the site was never at any point meant to be purely for tech books. As for the non-free stuff, all of that was added today while I was at work. I'm already culling t

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