thomasfl

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   by thomasfl 11y ago

   I bet San Fransisco is going to be at least as common in a yearfrom now as Helvetica Neue is today. Because when Apple says it's the best for screens, then so it will be for most designers.
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   by thomasfl 11y ago

   "Always bet on javascript." --Brendan Eich, javascript creator Javascript is being used in everything from the Spotify desktop client to Visual Studio Code. Use babel.js to transcompile ES6 to ES5 and use OOP syntax in the client
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   by thomasfl 11y ago

   Would be cool ta have FOSS iOS apps made with this.
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   by thomasfl 11y ago

   +1 for taking on nokogiri with a pure ruby xml parser
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   by thomasfl 11y ago

   I miss more art projects using source code. Movies is one of the few exceptions.
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   by thomasfl 11y ago

   At least they have shown that it's possible to distribute movies on a massive scale with a minimum of infrastructure. When distribution cost is close to free, it could open up a lot of possibilities that could potentially benefit custo
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   by thomasfl 11y ago

   Detroit and St. Lous seems to be the most dangerous city outsite Latin America and Africa. I guess cities like SF, NY, Boston and Seattle are completely different, but for us europeans this kind of numbers look nasty.
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   List of cities by murder rate(en.wikipedia.org)

   2 points by thomasfl 11y ago|1 comments
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   by thomasfl 11y ago

   "Always bet on Javascript" - Brendan Eich
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    by thomasfl 11y ago

    This sort of thing is cool to read about. Now I have to go back to my web developer job and continue working on a site that won't need to scale . I guess this goes for the 99% of the planets web developers as well.
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    by thomasfl 11y ago

    Oh no, this could ruin death. Steve Jobs: '... because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent.'. Source: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct&#x2F
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    by thomasfl 11y ago

    I get terrible deja vu moments when I read Naggum's postings on the net. I knew him as a fellow student, long before I heard about his rants on the net and he actually had a very soft voice and spoke very calmly. Later I had the opprtu
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    by thomasfl 11y ago

    Surprisingly accurate
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    by thomasfl 11y ago

    I remember using javascript 19 years ago on an intranett project, where we could use all the features of netscape. If I only knew back then what this language was capable of. Who could tell it was this fantastic dynamic, class-less, prototy
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    by thomasfl 11y ago

    I really like the effort that has been put into ionic and material design. But still I would really like to see more projects like reapp.io which is a react mobile web (not native) extension for react. Reapp's launch was totally oversh
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    by thomasfl 11y ago

    Facebook instant articles is maybe great for users, but it's sad for the web. It will load articles much faster, but will create a more fragmented kind of web. But then again the web of the future may not be just a few general purpose
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    by thomasfl 11y ago

    Awesome web browser nostalgia and excellent animated infoporn!
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    by thomasfl 11y ago

    A great initative and a very useful site too. I'd love to see more services built on the api's http://developer.opensignal.com like better cell phone service buyers guides.
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    by thomasfl 11y ago

    The most exciting new products on HN is hardware in combination with software. it used to be mostly software and websites.
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    by thomasfl 11y ago

    Caffein is the most widespread psychoactive drug by far. It's surprisingly hard to stop drinking it after twenty years. For many people the body starts acting like it's been poisened, and you can't sleep a whole night through
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    by thomasfl 11y ago

    It's about time more people starts using ES6 class constructors instead of rolling their class definition hack. This is how it's done in the calculator demo: CLASS({ name: 'Calc' With babeljs you can use ES
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    by thomasfl 12y ago

    Every EDM song from Guetta to Avicii and Prydz would propably use tweaked versions of the sound to get that extra rise before the chorus kicks in with full bass.
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    by thomasfl 12y ago

    I'd love to see those 325 lines of code open sourced on github, ported to javascript and tweaked into a super awesome sound explosion of until now unheard proportions.
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    by thomasfl 12y ago

    It's really great to see you answer my question yourself! It seems to be much easier to create a business by using open source software, than writing open source software. Especially for small companies like yours that create complex s
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    by thomasfl 12y ago

    I wonder if BitKeeper owner Larry McVoy has ever regretted not open sourcing his software? Git tools is a whole industry now. The most promiment one, github, recently become one of the 100 most popular websites on the planet.
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    by thomasfl 12y ago

    Frustrating not being able to support this. The planet has a fever and religious US congress members, scynical chinese and russian cleptocrats won't do anything.
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    Facebook gets new $ button(techcrunch.com)

    2 points by thomasfl 12y ago|0 comments
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    by thomasfl 12y ago

    I recommend using the "Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License" (WTFPL). The simplest license there is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
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    by thomasfl 12y ago

    The problem isn't more automation but more concentration of wealth, making more people use more time restlessly searching for income instead of relaxing and reaping the benefits of more automation.
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    by thomasfl 12y ago

    I would be happy if someone could turns this excellent, but very long, blog post into a pretty PDF. It's a very good overview. Especially the section titled "Know what this is" is.