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by phowat 9y ago
I go to a crossfit gym where you have to "check in" for a spot in your desired class using their app. Sometimes these spots fill up fairly quickly so I automated that. I'm also in the process of making a web interface for my
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Tesla Remotely Extended Range of Drivers in Florida. That's Not a Good Thing(techdirt.com)
4 points by phowat 9y ago|1 comments
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by phowat 9y ago
This is a lot more time consuming than the average concert venue entrance. Doesn't it result in huge lines?
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by phowat 9y ago
Which social democracy is doing well here in south america? We are currently paying the price for all the post-socialist economical measures here in Brazil.It's not pretty.
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UK police arrest man via automatic face-recognition tech(arstechnica.com)
126 points by phowat 9y ago|65 comments
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by phowat 9y ago
I'd hate to be your coworker. You ought to Google your issues before interrupting someone else's flow.
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by phowat 10y ago
Very interesting. I'm currently going through the little schemer using Racket. I'm tempted to read this one after it.
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by phowat 10y ago
I got the same error searching after clicking the submission link.
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by phowat 10y ago
You can stack tabs in Vivaldi. It's pretty similar, good enough for me. One thing I miss from firefox is the tab groups feature though.
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by phowat 10y ago
After they essentially showed the middle finger to WebRTC I started thinking of Safari as pretty much the new IE.
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Doom on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar(iclarified.com)
69 points by phowat 10y ago|6 comments
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by phowat 10y ago
I'm really not into food. I force myself to eat. If it wasn't for me trying to bulk up I'd eat just one meal a day and be fine. I force myself to eat 2800 to 3000 calories per day and it's a HUGE pain in the ass. Since I
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by phowat 10y ago
I have high hopes for Akasha ( http://akasha.world )
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by phowat 10y ago
Refreshing alternative to Emacs.
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Once a Bucknell Professor, Now the Commander of an Ethiopian Rebel Army(nytimes.com)
2 points by phowat 10y ago|0 comments
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by phowat 10y ago
That's hardly a showstopper. They could easily remove the proprietary font when open sourcing. I doubt the heavy users of this app are using solely because the font is beautiful.
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Claims that China's Transit Elevated Bus Is a Scam(en.yibada.com)
27 points by phowat 10y ago|11 comments
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by phowat 10y ago
From the article: "However, experts believe that there is currently no way to prevent poached ivory from entering legal chains and then finding a way on to the world market." So no, it seems that you can't do both.
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by phowat 10y ago
Sure, let's not avoid killing thousands of endangered animals so people can keep restoring old pianos. Priorities, right ?
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A better way to indent and align (Swift) code(nickgravgaard.com)
1 points by phowat 10y ago|0 comments
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by phowat 10y ago
Any athlete aiming for an olympic medal right now is already basically forced to do-so to remain competitive.
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LinkedIn's Loss May Be Microsoft's Gain(taxjusticeblog.org)
2 points by phowat 10y ago|0 comments
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Airbar: Turns any laptop display in a touch screen(air.bar)
2 points by phowat 10y ago|2 comments
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by phowat 11y ago
We relied on Parse to send push notifications and since the announcement were looking for alternatives. We decided to go with pubnub (which FWIF we were already using for other stuff). I think it's worth for anyone who was using parse
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by phowat 11y ago
The only other one I know of is XING.
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by phowat 11y ago
Despite all the downsides of ebooks, I must admit I've gotten lazy and generally won't purchase a book if it's not available through Kindle. Having to carry around a book with me is a huge nuisance and I'd much rather ju
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by phowat 11y ago
Yep, it's down.
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by phowat 11y ago
Yes, tamagotchis did age and eventually died even if taken care of.
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by phowat 11y ago
If you want to see this in video, I recommend the documentary "Chasing Ice". It's available on Netflix.
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Mobile phones are the greatest poverty-reducing tech ever (in Africa)(theregister.co.uk)
7 points by phowat 11y ago|0 comments

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