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by tikwidd 10y ago
I was going to ask the same thing. How do you stop someone from owning a new Linode between the time you start the server and the time you disable password authentication?
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by tikwidd 11y ago
It reminds me of the Palm handwriting recognition system. I liked there was no pretensions of natural handwriting recognition on the Palm. The awkward way you had to draw letters with the stylus was part of the UI, so little stroke order hi
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by tikwidd 11y ago
Unfortunately not all forms of birth control are fully subsidised by PHARMAC in NZ, so not always cheap.
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by tikwidd 11y ago
Does anyone know of any interesting startups in speech synthesis?
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by tikwidd 11y ago
The author is a German speaker. German 'Seite' can translate to both 'side' and 'page', so it is a kind of false friend with English 'side'.
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by tikwidd 11y ago
I use PowerBuilder (of Sybase) at my job. We have a database centric stack mainly built with stored procedures and PowerBuilder works pretty well (PowerBuilder datawindows just represent a SELECT query or point to a stored procedure). It&#x
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by tikwidd 11y ago
Looking at the same single 13mm button on AliExpress from New Zealand, I also get the free shipping offer, 15-34 days via China Post Air Mail (I can also choose the DHL Express 3-6 day shipping for a mere $157.45 USD!) I've noticed how
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by tikwidd 11y ago
"Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_eYTctGZw8
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by tikwidd 12y ago
Tone is not phonemic in English. What you are describing is properly called intonation, which is the application of pitch (as well as stress, loudness, tempo and other markers) to distinguish more subtle conversational functions. Stress in
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Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit (2010) [pdf](jhalderm.com)
55 points by tikwidd 12y ago|7 comments
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CS340 – Operating Systems Lecture Slides (PDFs)(cs.auckland.ac.nz)
3 points by tikwidd 12y ago|0 comments
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by tikwidd 12y ago
http://www.fpga4fun.com has some nice projects for starting out with FPGAs.
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by tikwidd 12y ago
There are a few turnkey solutions out there such as NZ based mobi2go[1]. I've briefly looked into making something similar since restaurant websites tend to be so bad [2], but I don't know anyone in the industry and like you said,
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by tikwidd 12y ago
It looks like there's already a Chrome extension for this - "Hacker News Collapse".
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by tikwidd 13y ago
For German (and maybe English too?), I think splitting up compound words into their constituent noun stems could work.
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by tikwidd 13y ago
wait, what? you were at university as an 8 year old?
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by tikwidd 13y ago
This is perfect, thanks for the tip! I'm learning to code JS in my free time at work and I'm limited to using Chrome, so this suits my needs very well indeed.
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by tikwidd 13y ago
It would be great to have a web-based live js editor with github integration via the github api, so I could edit files in a repo and do commits without having to leave the editor.
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by tikwidd 13y ago
- (in my really early days) using flamingtext.com to make headers - using as much code from dynamicdrive.com as possible - .dhtml - pasting little flourishes like .·. .:· everywhere - phpBB and invision power board
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by tikwidd 13y ago
haha, I'm still messing around with the difficulty. Guess I've made it too easy now! Glad you enjoyed the game anyway.
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by tikwidd 13y ago
It's not really playable on mobile unfortunately
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by tikwidd 13y ago
Performance is indeed pretty bad. The code I adapted it from (floppy bird) just uses divs and css. Maybe I'll just rewrite it in canvas if I can't improve things :I
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by tikwidd 13y ago
I agree, next step is a more intelligent algorithm. Also plan to add options for selecting times tables and changing distance between pipes so it's friendlier for kids to play. Thanks for checking it out!
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Flappy Math Saga(lobe.io)
81 points by tikwidd 13y ago|38 comments
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by tikwidd 13y ago
This is the result of the High German Consonant Shift [1]. English - many accents, at least - retain the dental fricatives (th-sounds) that were shifted to alveolar stops (d and t sounds) in High German. Dental fricatives are relatively rar
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by tikwidd 13y ago
A couple of other English pronoun tidbits: - The third person plural set (they, their, them) was borrowed from Scandinavian (it's pretty uncommon for languages to borrow 'core' vocabulary such as pronouns). - Old English (Ang
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by tikwidd 13y ago
Who wants to make a javascript emacs? you could call it emscriptenmacs..
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by tikwidd 13y ago
Just be careful about biological material (NZ has very strict airport biosecurity) and you'll be fine. I'm a New Zealander and this is the first time I've heard of something like this happening at the border.
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by tikwidd 13y ago
What window manager is that?
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Ask HN: What should I do with lobe.io?
3 points by tikwidd 13y ago|5 comments

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