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by shireboy 7y ago
Hey, thanks again for reporting this. I _think_ I have it sorted now. I wrote my own chess room.
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by shireboy 7y ago
Http://danielroot.info However I have to say I’m not as motivated to write anymore. For tech answers like what I used to write, stack overflow and related are really best imo. For other interests, like personal finance or art, t
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by shireboy 7y ago
Oh no. That's not how it's been working last week! It looks like rooms are being combined now at chessbase??? Will have to figure that one out! Edit: Looks like either a change at chessbase or a misunderstanding on my part that
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by shireboy 7y ago
Yeah, pretty sweet to be able to drop in video chat with just a few lines of javascript. I just wish it worked better in Safari and FF.
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by shireboy 7y ago
Yes I have this problem. No I haven't found a fix. One thing I do is keep a trello board of "product ideas". I have a couple hundred. I review them and move the ones I feel are best by various criteria (ease to build, val
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by shireboy 7y ago
Nice. That confused some users. Will definitely be doing that. Thanks!
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by shireboy 7y ago
It’s just an embedded board from chessbase. I just dropped their embed in and didn’t write that part. If it looks like there’s interest I may write my own that is more mobile friendly.
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by shireboy 7y ago
We’ll see :). The chat is jitsi’s hosted service. The chess is chessbase’s embedded app. So all server work is 3rd parties who are used to some load. The site itself is just a client side webpage hosted at glitch.me. Could put a CDN in f
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by shireboy 7y ago
Just made it so my kids stuck at home for quarantine could play with grandparents and friends. Will definitely check out Janus. Jitsi was easy to drop in, but mobile would be great.
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by shireboy 7y ago
Hah, maybe not. But My dad and daughter used it to play today, and my kids have used it to play with cousins. Maybe not competitive play, but for quarantined folks, I wanted to replicate playing at a park bench.
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by shireboy 7y ago
Yeah, Chrome only atm. The chat software it uses (Jit.si) doesn’t work in FF either..
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by shireboy 7y ago
Will definitely check this out. I did think about trying to roll my own no-timer version and possibly add other “low tech” games like checkers, etc.
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Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required(rootshirechess.glitch.me)
124 points by shireboy 7y ago|69 comments
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by shireboy 7y ago
Very interesting and nicely done. I could see lots of uses for this. One possible glitch. I searched for “.net” (as in the programming framework) and got no google searches. Maybe am escaping issue there too?
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by shireboy 7y ago
I have an MSDN subscription which gets me ~200/mo Azure Credit, I think. I use the F4 instance which is 4 core/8GB. I set it in azure to shut down around 10pm, and get an email asking me if I want to extend it. Doing this, I ha
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by shireboy 7y ago
Does this affect Cordova apps? They use WebKit and may store stuff like api tokens in local storage
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by shireboy 7y ago
I do something a bit different: I have a Surface Pro, which is OK in its own right. But I don’t develop straight on it. Instead, I spin up a VM on Azure with all my dev tools. I use RDCMan as a RDP client to connect to that, and code the
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by shireboy 7y ago
I'm working on customers' projects mostly. One personal project I'm excited about - I'm writing a childrens book about space. I plan for it to teach very young kids concepts like "space isn't just about going
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by shireboy 7y ago
What he advocates makes sense. Marketing for classical computers used to make hay about how fast the CPU was in Khz, Mhz, Ghz. This is done less now since people recognize that is just one of several factors when comparing devices. It&#x
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by shireboy 7y ago
I actually switched most of my "real" investing to https://www.m1finance.com/ a few months ago. It is also commission-free, but unlike Robinhood you can do IRAs as well as taxable accounts, and it automatically r
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by shireboy 7y ago
I published Trello Dojo https://leanpub.com/trellodojo a while back. I’m not sure it’s a complete failure: Joel tweeted it, it helped some people, and I made about 20k in royalties. But they have since added templates an
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by shireboy 7y ago
That shortage is mostly a myth: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/dire-helium-shortage-vastly-in...
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by shireboy 7y ago
It's for reconciling customers' items such as point of sale, payroll, and other systems with bank transactions. Each client item has date, description, and amount. Each transaction similarly has date, description and amount. Th
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by shireboy 7y ago
https://www.m1finance.com/
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by shireboy 7y ago
Mint and/or Personal Capital to monitor transactions and balances. Capital One Money Market for Emergency Fund and Capital One Checking for checking. M1 Finance for taxable and tax-advantaged market accounts. Amazon Prime Credit Car
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by shireboy 7y ago
I’d be willing to bet this is a job on their new “Jedi” contract with US Gov.
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by shireboy 7y ago
I actually have this problem in a work project: matching 1-n point of sale transactions, credit card payments etc to 1-n bank transactions for large companies. Ie “these three credit card payments totaling 300 match this bank transfer for
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by shireboy 7y ago
I was thinking that at first too, but the more I thought about it, maybe they do? For example if I GET /some/large/file.pdf, get 50% through, then cancel, the server is not going to _keep sending the bits_, is it? It should
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by shireboy 7y ago
I think in most cases in HTTP, the server does not "know" the browser has canceled and so continues to execute. I believe it builds the response but can no longer send it because the underlying TCP connection is closed. So server
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by shireboy 7y ago
I use this technique all the time. One caveat, though: if you're doing ajax calls inside that callback (ie for an autocomplete), you _also_ want to cancel those at the same time you clearTimeout(). Browsers only do so many XHR reque

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