pforpal
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13 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Where to find problems for side projects?
Talk to people around you (barber, barista, waiter, friends and family, etc) about the technology that they use. (smartphone, facebook, etc) The conversation almost always turns to complaining about how they wish things would work. Those are your problems to solve.
pforpal
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13 years ago
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on: Give HN: domain names
I'd be interested in cardnik.com and tapbrite.com
pforpal
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13 years ago
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on: Curiosity's first images from Mars
As far as I know, the cameras a folded in during landing which is why the view is of the wheels and rear.
pforpal
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13 years ago
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on: I Hate to Pick on Facebook, But …
It says he will be in the USA starting August 2013. Also it is extremely common in India to use celebrity pictures as profile pictures.
pforpal
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13 years ago
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on: Ridiculous Gigs
It is not surprising that people turn to exaggeration in order to stand out amongst the hundreds of other basically identical posts. For example all the $1 price and keyword spam in the forsale section.
pforpal
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13 years ago
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on: This file's a Win Executable, PDF, Java executable (or Python script), and HTML
Did you test how different antivirus programs respond to this?
pforpal
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14 years ago
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on: Ticketmaster: Rocking The Most Hated Brand In America
It's perplexing that they charge such a large premium when the industry must be saving many millions of dollars a year in printing costs, box office attendants, and sales.
pforpal
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15 years ago
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on: Sketch in 3D With Animating Lines on HTML5 canvas
Is there a way to express the depth of the cursor in the drawing? If I draw a circle on the left side of the canvas, I cant figure out how to draw a line through its center.
pforpal
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15 years ago
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on: Show HN: Google Charts done in Canvas, side project
could you recomment a tutorial or blogpost or source repo demonstrating how to do this?
pforpal
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15 years ago
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on: Spirit obit
The mars rover project is a source of inspiration for hackers everywhere. JPL should be applauded for the successful design and deployment of a "product" in some of the harshest imaginable conditions and then have it exceed expectations more than 10 times over. A testament to what can be accomplished with a billion dollars.
pforpal
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15 years ago
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on: NASA to abandon Spirit Mars Rover
I was similarly inspired by the original Pathfinder rover.
pforpal
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15 years ago
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on: Opal: Ruby runtime and library on top of Javascript
is there an associated product or project that this was developed along with? I am curious as to how this is being used
