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prayerslayer | 7 years ago | on: What cracking open a Sonos One tells us about the Sonos IPO

Somewhat related question: I quite enjoy such articles where people take apart consumer electronics, although I don't know the jargon ("an extruded plastic tube with a secondary rotational drilling operation" - wat?). Does someone know accessible resources (as in "no dry textbooks") for mechanical engineering?

prayerslayer | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Tones.fm – Make synth music

Nice idea to provide only notes from a chord! It's really motivating if you never made music before. ("Wow I can do this!")

prayerslayer | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: How to Make an AWS S3 Static Website with SSL

I run the same setup. Probably don't get any traffic because I don't write blog posts anymore. My monthly costs are around $ 0.70.

prayerslayer | 8 years ago | on: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

> all the photos I will take will have been probably already shot by someone else

> Obviously not that realistic

Depends on how literally you want to take it. Lighthouses have definitely been photographed before. Photos depicting the man vs wild nature archetype too.

prayerslayer | 8 years ago | on: Convert ASCII scribbles to SVG

If you wonder where ASCII scribbles come from, I use http://asciiflow.com/ all the time for READMEs.

prayerslayer | 9 years ago | on: Spec-ulation – Rich Hickey [video]

I get your overall point that it's better than nothing, but you'll have to admit semver makes promises that just don't hold up in reality:

> because you know that PATCH and MINOR don't require your attention

:)

In 99 % of cases, they don't. But you're never completely sure.

prayerslayer | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: js.spec, a JavaScript implementation of clojure.spec

> Have you used js.spec or clojure.spec in production?

Not yet, but I have some use cases (mostly validation).

prayerslayer | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: js.spec, a JavaScript implementation of clojure.spec

Cool, thanks for sharing. I didn't know that one.

prayerslayer | 9 years ago | on: A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves

MUMEN RIDER!

prayerslayer | 9 years ago | on: JS MythBusters – An optimization handbook from a high level point of view

This handbook assumes that JS execution really is your bottleneck and not network, DOM, what not. I doubt this is the case in the majority of applications, so following these tips might be even counterproductive as they sometimes come at the cost of readability.

prayerslayer | 9 years ago | on: Pokemon Go API

I am just happy to see that the API has "trading" as a concept, looking forward to that feature.

Overall it's sad that most game mechanics of the original games didn't make it into Pokemon Go. Does anyone know how much time they had to implement it?

prayerslayer | 9 years ago | on: Wire open-sourced

Not sure if these are for realsies, but there are some API keys in the webapp repository:

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/blob/master/app/scrip...

prayerslayer | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)

Zalando | Europe | https://tech.zalando.com/jobs

We're one of the leading European fashion retailers (https://zalando.de) operating in 16 countries. Currently we have around 800 people in the tech department, but we need more. You will work in a reasonably small team ("two pizzas") and influence decisions accordingly. Teams prioritize their work themselves. We will help you with relocation. We have offices in Berlin, Dortmund (Germany), Dublin, Helsinki. Also you get 40 % discount.

prayerslayer | 10 years ago | on: GitHub Desktop is now available

So much this.

Github for Mac is quite good already for commiting and pull-requesting. I could stop using my browser (for Github, at least) if they put issue management (open, close, view, comments) in there too. Would be awesome and a more unified experience.

prayerslayer | 10 years ago | on: PurifyCSS – Remove unused CSS

An alternative to this is symdiff http://symdiff.github.io/ (Disclaimer: I'm the author).

The auto-remove part you would have to code yourself though.

prayerslayer | 11 years ago | on: The photographers who refuse to abandon traditional film cameras

The major reason for me to occasionally shoot film is that I find the haptic and usability of the cameras way better than current digital models. Depends on how much you're comfortable to spend though.

prayerslayer | 11 years ago | on: RQ – A small JavaScript library for managing asychronicity

+1 for tests.

prayerslayer | 11 years ago | on: GitHub unveils its Licenses API

I collected the most popular repositories and their license. This post includes a CSV dataset which you can process yourself: https://npiccolotto.com/2015/03/licenses-of-popular-open-sou...

prayerslayer | 11 years ago | on: Wallaby.js – An intelligent test runner that continuously runs your tests

Then the obvious question is: Why not have both? :)

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/538/731/0fc...

prayerslayer | 11 years ago | on: Wallaby.js – An intelligent test runner that continuously runs your tests

If this wasn't a commercial product I'd ask why it's a separate thing instead of a PR to karma.