ryan42
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10 years ago
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on: Tatsuo Horiuchi: The 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist (2013)
“Graphics software is expensive but Excel comes pre-installed in most computers." Both of these are false. There are plenty of freeware programs that allow a user to draw vector or pixel shapes. Excel/Office has not come preinstalled on any computers I've seen in many years.
ryan42
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12 years ago
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on: Teeworlds for Mac, Windows, and Linux
This has become our go-to game for after work gaming/drinking sessions. It's very accessible to download in 5 minutes and start playing right away.
ryan42
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12 years ago
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on: Trademark: How Square Inc. shut down an event-finding mobile app
SquareJive was founded inside of the office that I work in. I personally knew all the founders, and even considered joining to help early on. I followed it from the idea stage to the end, and even though I was not deeply involved in it, I am very much affected by the outcome of everything. I am very upset to see the way things went at the hands of Square, Inc. It blows my mind that Square, on the surface, seems like a great service/company to work with. Yet, they go and do something like this out of public view. I wish this was getting more visibility on HN. I already started using an alternative myself and I'm going to do what I can to convince other small businesses taking mobile payments not to support Square anymore.
ryan42
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13 years ago
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on: Mark Zuckerberg's first website is still on Angelfire
exactly.. it would fade your text with a color gradient for the aol chat rooms. I wrote some with visual basic when I was in high school.
ryan42
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13 years ago
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on: New distributed fault-tolerant cloud provider u2601
On Chrome, the tab's title is an animated cloud moving across a line..
ryan42
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14 years ago
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on: Don't confuse it with Quickster, QuickStar, Quik-Star, Kwik Star, or Kwikster.
Don't forget Quixtar!
ryan42
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14 years ago
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on: Wow, that can't be legal
The game appears to be a location-based game where you plant 'virtual' bombs around town in various locations as a bad guy? I think the poster was saying that this game could be misunderstood as terrorism plot in the USA? or at the least another videogame in a long line that allows you to do things in game that could be viewed by the general public as 'very screwed up' or 'that should be illegal'
ryan42
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14 years ago
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on: [CSAIL - MIT]: New Wi-Fi security method does not require password
There is a way to do smart card authentication to a LAN,where you would not be required to enter a password to connect and everything would be wpa2 encrypted. I implemented it before in a MS environment. It required a ton of painful configuration. The downside, even though it worked, was that it was pretty flaky and refused to stay connected for certain users when we rolled it out. Ended up scrapping it for a wpa2+password setup with a better password than the old one.
ryan42
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14 years ago
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on: Canadian start-up based in Ottawa looking for next-level developers
Are you only considering those who live in the Ottawa area? Would there be a possibility of a remote position now or at some point in the future?
ryan42
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14 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Could you please evaluate my idea - tinytool.net
what about ToolPool?
ryan42
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14 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How do entrepreneurs find programmers to team up with for startups?
Startup Weekend is a big one that sounds like the perfect thing for you. It goes on twice a year (i think) in many cities. Just ask people you meet there what else is going on in the area? I have also used sites like meetup to find specific types of events for my interests.
ryan42
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Will a Hacker ever be electerd President?
Obama isn't a hacker, but he appointed people who made our government more transparent by using technology. Opening government data up a little for hackers to play with - data.gov, usaspending.gov
ryan42
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15 years ago
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on: After Dump, What Happens To Electronic Waste?
good overview of a sick situation. I've seen pictures on boston.com/bigpicture of those places where people cook up the PCBs.. messed up. I actually wrote a post this morning, because my college is offering a free e-waste recycling program sponsored by Apple where all the equipment is guaranteed to actually be recycled and not exported to places like these.
http://beeptc.posterous.com/indiana-university-offers-public...
ryan42
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15 years ago
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on: Google labs:word frequency in books over the last 200 years
