vnglst

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   by vnglst 10y ago

   Great question, I've been wondering about this too with all the attention for AI lately.
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   by vnglst 10y ago

   Twitter is pretty strict when it comes to bots and apparently they didn't like Terence's behavior(automatic following, lots of similar replies) and his tweets were no longer showing up in peoples timelines (replies).
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   by vnglst 10y ago

   Thanks, I appreciate it!! They're a lot of fun to create as well, you never know how people are going to interact with them. And I really hope that some day Terence's campaign really takes off without me really noticing it.
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   by vnglst 10y ago

   I had a similar "dumb" 1 million dollar idea, but with a emoji money and a Twitter bot called Terence: https://twitter.com/helpterence Sofar he has raised almost 8000, but I'm also looking for a way to get it
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   by vnglst 10y ago

   Can I use it in Europe?
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   by vnglst 10y ago

   How is this different from Digital Ocean?
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   Show HN: HelpTerence, a social media experiment with a Twitter Bot(helpterence.koenvangilst.nl)

   1 points by vnglst 10y ago|0 comments
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   by vnglst 10y ago

   Here's a clickable link to his Twitter page: https://twitter.com/helpterence
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   Show HN: HelpTerence, a Twitter bot that needs your help

   3 points by vnglst 10y ago|1 comments
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    by vnglst 10y ago

    Nice writeup, thanks for sharing! I think .then((path) => { return fs.readFileAsync(path) }) should be written as.then(fs.readFileAsync). Wrapping a function in an anonymous function doesn't really add anything - even with nice arro
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    by vnglst 11y ago

    Or use surge.sh $ npm install --global surge $ surge done!
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    by vnglst 11y ago

    +1, I love the simplicity of Caddy Server! Just a few lines of configuration and you've got a reverse proxy with SSL.
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    by vnglst 12y ago

    Right, that makes sense! And the Alcatel that Nokia is buying here, is much more than a producer of phones.
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    by vnglst 12y ago

    I don't really understand how this works. Microsoft bought Nokia for about $7B[1] and now Nokia pays more than twice that amount for Alcatel? Where is this money coming from and why is Alcatel worth so much more? [1] http://
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    by vnglst 12y ago

    It's not in ruins, but Germany's highways are definitely not as good as they used to be. Especially if you compare them to the roads in France or The Netherlands, for instance. The internet infrastructure in Germany needs work as
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    by vnglst 12y ago

    Agreed, but maybe this was due to the problems with the DNS servers? I managed to post my pledge and post it on Hackernews, but after that the site was unreachable...
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    Pledge to master coding or mentor another developer(hackpledge.org)

    4 points by vnglst 12y ago|3 comments
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    by vnglst 12y ago

    Well done! I've meaning to create this myself. I see you also used Angular. What did you use for the PDF creation?
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    My #codeyear as a translator(medium.com)

    1 points by vnglst 12y ago|0 comments