metastew | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Yarr – Yet Another RSS Reader
the makefile in the repo shows that there's a "build_linux" command so you could just use "make build_linux" instead.
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metastew | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?
Man, it's gotten so bad that I rely on Netflix to help me sleep. I'm also surprised they would release this. I think they're hedging on being transparent about the effects of screen time on people because there's probably a political reckoning waiting for tech companies if Trump lose this election, so they're trying to get ahead of this political possibility so they can stay under the federal radar and retain the ability to self-regulate.
metastew | 6 years ago | on: Tesla Cybertruck
Someone on Reddit made a good point. They might be copying Sonic the movie's approach to marketing. Release a ugly version now, and then later on, release an improved version.
metastew | 6 years ago | on: Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics?
Pythagoras could be the reason why. He founded a school(?) and many famous philosophers and mathematicians of that time period were offshoots from that school, but that's based on a hazy recollection of my teenage interests in ancient Greek history.
metastew | 6 years ago | on: Simple RPC framework in 300 lines of Go
Worth it to learn gRPC first or start with std lib RPC?
metastew | 7 years ago | on: Joe Armstrong: The Mess We’re In
Found a transcript for this talk, if anyone's interested: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/strangeloop/StrangeLoop201...
metastew | 7 years ago | on: Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the work of single author
Wasn't that how they caught the Unabomber? I saw a documentary about the guy who caught him by using this sort of analysis, although his method was quite analog (scanning through written letters and Unabomber's correspondences to the press).
metastew | 8 years ago | on: Net Neutrality will die, so let’s take the profit out of killing it
How is that free market or even capitalism?
metastew | 10 years ago | on: Google opens access to its speech recognition API
As a hard of hearing aspiring software developer, this would be a godsend for me if someone came up with a reliable automated transcription service. I'm often dismayed by the amount of valuable information locked in podcasts and non-transcribed videos and have to rely on goodwill of volunteers to give me transcripts.
Pycon did a admirable effort to live caption their talks last year but some of those transcripts never got uploaded along with the talks which is puzzling, but I suppose it could be due to lack of timecodes.
I've subbed to your blog and hopefully I can contribute whatever I can to make this work out.
metastew | 10 years ago | on: Hacking Servo for Noobs
I'm new to this, could someone give me a gist of why Servo is trending?
metastew | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Loopy Messenger – Communicate with Drawings
Why not Canada too? What's the reason for regional releases?
metastew | 11 years ago | on: Turf – A modular GIS engine written in JavaScript
Have you thought about porting it to Meteor's Atmosphere (https://atmospherejs.com/i/publishing)? You'd only need to set up a Meteor Developer account and then create a Meteor package file and export the library for Meteor's usage (afaik).
I'm curious if this supports Leaflet too?
metastew | 11 years ago | on: Stop Leaning In. Put Down Your IPhone. And HELP ME.
But does that even justify the police brutality though? He didn't want to leave without his friend (who was supporting the girl while she was getting up when the police pulled him off).
No, the police is definitely in the wrong here.
metastew | 12 years ago | on: Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?
I wonder if this designer is the one behind the recently unveiled 'Halifax' logo? The X looks remarkably similar.
Link for visual evidence: https://twitter.com/PaulRPalmeter/status/456165443363827712/...
metastew | 12 years ago | on: New Oculus Rift dev kit goes on sale for $350 today, likely ships in July
If I recall correctly, a devkit comes with a limited license key (1 year?) for Unity 3D. That was the case for DK1.
metastew | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: You want Atom invites/you have invites to give?
I'd like one too, cannonstar at gmail.com
metastew | 12 years ago | on: New Form of Spacecraft Propulsion
"the E-sail relies on charged particles such as protons and alpha particles in the solar wind. The idea is to generate an electric field around the spacecraft which deflects these ionised particles and generates a force that accelerates the craft throughout its journey."
I'm curious if this type of vehicle can travel toward the sun? My initial impression seems to be that it's forever destined to be repeled by the sun.
metastew | 12 years ago | on: Valve joins the Linux Foundation
What does this mean for Nvidia and AMD?
metastew | 12 years ago | on: Little-known directives of Angular.js
What does "Flash Of Uncompiled Content" means?
metastew | 12 years ago | on: NSA Files Decoded: What the revelations mean for you
I concur. Accessibility takes a backseat yet again.
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