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   Communist Principles in Design(zainshah.net)

   4 points by zan2434 14y ago|2 comments
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   Makers and Takers(zainshah.net)

   1 points by zan2434 14y ago|0 comments
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   Valve opening an office in SF(valvetime.net)

   50 points by zan2434 14y ago|8 comments
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   by zan2434 14y ago

   That it is. I'm not sure about the playback stopping either. It's just a quick hack to provide a cleaner interface amidst cluttered interfaces like that of Grooveshark and Spotify. I tried to minimize extra features in favor of that minimal
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   Show HN: a simple, instant online music player - puur(puur.tk)

   2 points by zan2434 14y ago|3 comments
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   by zan2434 14y ago

   You might be hitting enter instead of clicking go. The form isn't actually a form and I'm using JS to trigger the redirect on clicking the link, so the default enter behavior isn't active.
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   by zan2434 14y ago

   Is the appeal just that it's a strobe affect achieved in JS?
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   Minority rules: the tipping point for the spread of ideas(phys.org)

   1 points by zan2434 14y ago|0 comments
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   by zan2434 14y ago

   See my other comment. But yes, I'll add the ability to click Go with enter.
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    by zan2434 14y ago

    The front-page here is just to explain what it is. Use-case:you are sharing a url that you know will be the first search result for a simple word, so you just share http://bloo.tk/simple+word
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    Show HN: Bloo.tk - I'm feeling lucky in a URL(bloo.tk)

    6 points by zan2434 14y ago|8 comments
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    by zan2434 14y ago

    I, with some friends, created DOM: a bookmarklet that turns websites into 3D platformers using jQuery, Three.js and an accompanying multiplayer server with Node and Socket.io With it we won HackNY and presented it at NYTM http://tiny.cc/do
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    Apple Announces iPad Mini(gizmodo.com)

    2 points by zan2434 14y ago|0 comments
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    by zan2434 14y ago

    I'm loving what you Michigan guys are doing; met you guys at PennApps and HackNY. Great work at both hackathons. Which hack from PennApps are they turning into a full-fledged startup?
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    A Visit to HackNY’s Fall Hackathon(betabeat.com)

    17 points by zan2434 14y ago|4 comments
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    by zan2434 14y ago

    I don't think it's necessary to actively quell increased entrepreneurship. If these "starstruck entrepreneurs" really don't have the chops to survive in the market, they wont. Also I think one great benefit is that this increased celebritiz
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    by zan2434 14y ago

    I wrote my first blog post on the latter topic of your comment! Well, specifically, communist design principles and constraint driving productivity and creativity: http://zan2434.tumblr.com/post/32412314207/communist-princip...
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    Communist Principles in Design(zan2434.tumblr.com)

    2 points by zan2434 14y ago|0 comments
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    by zan2434 14y ago

    Can you manipulate future and past states by manipulating the current state? I'm not too knowledgeable about the matter but it seems like if the crystal's states at certain points in time are fixed from its inception then it can be manipula
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    by zan2434 14y ago

    haha I decompiled their jar the other day actually, and they basically just combined abc4j with the YIN method of finding fundamental frequency for sound and, a table between frequencies and notes. I doubt it works nearly as well as most al
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    by zan2434 14y ago

    I, too, was a hacker there. PennApps this year was definitely a great time, but the judging didn't really align well with the quality of apps. One of the most popular apps, PayTango, had a completely faked demo from what I saw (I saw the pl