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   Daring Adventures with Passive Income #1(patrick-wied.at)

   4 points by pa7 14y ago|0 comments
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   by pa7 14y ago

   I also gave it a try to create a central summary of several open source licenses and what to do. Without a search, but just a list of the licenses and todos, maybe you find it useful too: http://www.patrick-wied.at/blog/how-to-correctly-u
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   by pa7 14y ago

   hey, I'm the author of the article. I didn't write that using dots in the property name is a bad practice, but rather that other parts of the code let me assume that they didn't know a lot about js
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   by pa7 14y ago

   I just wanted to say thank you for all the nice comments. great feedback!
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   by pa7 14y ago

   hey, thank you for your this comment. Regarding the point that based on your experience passive income means constant work: Yes, I agree with you, passive income is constant work, my target will be to reduce this constant work to a minimum
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   by pa7 14y ago

   I obviously didn't spend enough time to think about it hard enough and wasn't able explore the good sides of advertising. I had a web app and placed a big banner over it, the banner often seemed to show confusing buttons like "SHOW" or "DOW
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   by pa7 14y ago

   I'm currently doing contract work for a client in the US and well yeah this is some sort of approach for getting some extra money. Right now I'm studying in Germany and the german tax law applies to me. If the extra money gets over a specif
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   by pa7 14y ago

   thanks for the upvotes guys, but I'd even more appreciate some valuable feedback, tips, and would love to hear about your experiences in this field :)
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   Show HN: my weekend project, Heatmap Animator(patrick-wied.at)

   10 points by pa7 15y ago|0 comments
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    Felix Baumgartner's Test Jump from Space(youtube.com)

    2 points by pa7 15y ago|0 comments
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    by pa7 15y ago

    there is a reason but it's rather incompleteness than an actual bug. the current version of the script only visualizes the posts of the front page.
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    by pa7 15y ago

    I appreciate you're liking it, the only tool I used for it was vim. Thanks for the hint, makes sense to remove that from the archive
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    by pa7 15y ago

    You're right, the description on the site is not very helpful, I'll add that. TL;DR It's just a visualization layer above the HN frontpage. Hot means a post has either 'a lot of comments' or 'a lot of points' (configurable with the filter d
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    by pa7 15y ago

    drag the 'HN heatmap' link to your bookmarks bar, go to HN frontpage, click the bookmarklet, enjoy. It's basically just the visualization for now.
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    by pa7 15y ago

    thanks for the feedback, I should probably gather the row height of HN dynamically instead of having a hardcoded value that seems to work for my devices g You should be able to click on the links again after closing the heatmap (there's a
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    Show HN: What's hot on Hacker News?(patrick-wied.at)

    45 points by pa7 15y ago|17 comments
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    Stanford study suggests girls can 'rewire' brains to ward off depression(news.stanford.edu)

    1 points by pa7 15y ago|0 comments
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    by pa7 15y ago

    If anyone is interested in contributing: I'm currently implementing a more reliable and more complete implementation of nude.js, including a nodejs module for serverside nudity detection too. I'd appreciate any support ;)
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    by pa7 15y ago

    This is the paper: http://www.scribd.com/doc/47871173/An-Algorithm-for-Nudity-D...
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    How to dynamically access private members in closures (JavaScript)(patrick-wied.at)

    3 points by pa7 15y ago|0 comments
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    Interactive Typography Effects with HTML5(tympanus.net)

    2 points by pa7 15y ago|0 comments
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    by pa7 15y ago

    Works fine as long as you don't want to generate new QR codes when you're offline. I have to admit, if you're intending to generate QR codes only online, the charts api is the better way to go, since it's more likely to have users with Java
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    by pa7 15y ago

    Hey! I know and I also know that this isn't nice. It is because QR-Designer is using the HTML Canvas' toDataURL function to save the image. The download then gets initiated by setting the dataurl as the document.location.href. Unfortunate
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    Show HN: Generating a HTML QR code(patrick-wied.at)

    14 points by pa7 15y ago|5 comments
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    Show HN: Generate QR codes from your current position(developer.mozilla.org)

    2 points by pa7 15y ago|0 comments
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    by pa7 15y ago

    If anyone cares: I just added the DVORAK keyboard layout to the keyboard heatmap and open sourced the code. Here is the repo URL: https://github.com/pa7/Keyboard-Heatmap
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    by pa7 15y ago

    I just added the DVORAK layout to the keyboard heatmap and also open sourced it on GitHub, where everybody can contribute his layout preferences: https://github.com/pa7/Keyboard-Heatmap
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    Realtime Keyboard Heatmap now on GitHub(github.com)

    3 points by pa7 15y ago|0 comments
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    by pa7 15y ago

    apparently adblock+ blocks js files called "heatmap"
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    by pa7 15y ago

    thank you, I'll add it in my next session :-) (haven't heard from dvorak yet but it seems really interesting)