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by scottjackson 17y ago
On the Nexus, can you double-tap an area on a web page to zoom in to that area? That's one way of zooming in with one hand that I like on the iPhone. I'm just curious to see if Google brought that gesture to Android with the recent update.
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by scottjackson 17y ago
The list of games written with OpenGL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OpenGL_programs Notable games: Doom 3, Far Cry, Max Payne, the Quake series, Red Faction, Runescape, Second Life, Spore, Star Wars: Jedi Knight and Star Wars: KOT
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by scottjackson 17y ago
"Successful technology isn't necessarily successful policy. We're still yet to hear a sensible explanation of what this policy is for, who it will help and why it is worth spending so much taxpayer money on."[1] -- Colin Jacobs, spokesman f
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by scottjackson 17y ago
I have some too, if zck runs out. Seems like Google Wave invites are worth about as much as Gmail invites are now. Are Google Voice invites still hard to get a hold of? I'm in Australia, so I can't even use the thing.
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What makes a "bad" sound?(words.scottjackson.org)
2 points by scottjackson 17y ago|0 comments
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by scottjackson 17y ago
I'm not sure what the distinguishing features are between a command-line app and a terminal app (I think that it's pretty pedantic to say that there's a difference, though I'm all for pedantry and I'd love to know what the difference is). I
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by scottjackson 17y ago
The thing is, I could , but because I'm not at all related to HN in any official way, it would be up to me to change how the API gets data from HN whenever HN changes anything at their end. That would mean there'd probably be a delay betwe
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Done - http://github.com/scottjacksonx/hnsh
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Update - the code has been uploaded to Github! http://github.com/scottjacksonx/hnsh
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Interesting ideas. They're the kind of thing I'd like to look at in the future. In the mean-time, I suppose you're aware of the "Threads" page for each user? http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=YOUR_USERNAME_HERE I use that for keeping
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by scottjackson 17y ago
At the moment, the most you can do with comments is open them up in your browser. Could you be more specific about the feature you're describing? Comments are an area I'd like to look at expanding on. I guess you mean tracking whether or no
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Thanks a bunch! It's getting pretty late now (just hit 3am), but check back at http://github.com/scottjacksonx/hnsh (or http://scottjackson.org/software/hnsh/ ) some time late tomorrow and the project should be hosted there, as well as y
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Oh man, here's the part where I show my total ineptitude when it comes to code licensing... Anyone have a link to a quick guide to code licensing for total newbies?
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by scottjackson 17y ago
I'm not accepting patches at the moment, but that's not out of fierce overprotectiveness of my code -- I just didn't think there'd be any demand for it. I've joined github, and this will be the first thing that I put there, so check http:/
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Just to be clear, you're trying to run the program from behind a proxy, yeah? Thanks for the stack trace -- having that makes a big difference :) I'm not sure I can make it work with an arbitrary proxy, but I'm pretty sure I could get it to
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by scottjackson 17y ago
The source code is in the .zip file, in the hnsh.py file that you run. That's all there is -- it's only about 550 lines or so.
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by scottjackson 17y ago
You're right -- lynx would do it (and even better with the markup change). Would it do stuff like remember the stories you'd read or the way you like looking at stories though? (totally legitimate question, btw -- I'm interested in this stu
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Neat! I hadn't heard of elinks before. Sounds like a good idea. Do you use it for many sites other than news aggregation sites like HN and Reddit? Do normal sites render OK?
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Unfortunately, yeah, I'm just getting the HTML of the home-page and slicing and dicing it. Oh, how I wish there was an API... I kept the HTML-getting stuff in its own class, so if HN ever adds an API, I can slot that right in there instea
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by scottjackson 17y ago
I can see it now -- a switch you flip that makes the program print "Do your work" to stdout every time you try to open a story.
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by scottjackson 17y ago
hnsh is a program I wrote to let you catch up with HN from the shell. You can browse the front page, open up stories and open up comments. There are a couple other nifty features, but they're all listed on the page for you to read, so there
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Hnsh - Hacker News from the command-line(scottjackson.org)
61 points by scottjackson 17y ago|45 comments
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by scottjackson 17y ago
It's an old Steve Martin bit. http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77imono.phtml (Video of it is a bit hard to track down, sorry)
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by scottjackson 17y ago
You say "Steve, how can I be a millionaire and never pay taxes?" First, get a million dollars. Now you say "Steve, what do I say to the tax man when he comes to my door and says, 'You have never paid taxes'?" Two simple words. Two simple wo
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by scottjackson 17y ago
http://www.obsessable.com/news/2009/01/26/android-applicatio... > The application has reportedly deleted all the contacts from the device's internal memory, as well as all data on SD cards on the device. I'm not justifying Apple's rev
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by scottjackson 17y ago
If there was an answer to this question, I don't think PayPal would be in business. At this point, PayPal is like Microsoft Office -- it's the de facto standard, no matter how crappy the product is. Sorry. I know this is a really shitty ans
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by scottjackson 17y ago
> It is the most popular free iphone app. That wouldn't be the case if it weren't well made. I believe iFart was fairly popular for a time (where popular is defined as "downloaded many times"), and it even cost money, putting a financia
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by scottjackson 17y ago
http://start.io Totally customisable, good-looking start pages based on a really well-designed CMS. You can make some of your links private and some public. I didn't make it, I just really like it. One of the guys that did make it works
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by scottjackson 17y ago
Here's the thing -- I could come up with individual answers to those questions based on arbitrary decisions that I make ("the user selects the source", "it's implied that a WiFi network already operates in the house", "the position is only
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by scottjackson 17y ago
That's probably fair. I honestly don't think we're at the point where we can abandon text files altogether, but you're right -- a lot of data could definitely be stored in slightly higher-level data structures. I still really like text fi

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