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sprsquish | 6 years ago | on: Formula 1 launches Virtual Grand Prix Series to replace postponed races

I think your point about not feeling the car is a big part of what makes driving a simulator so difficult. Every part of a real car is giving the driver direct feedback into various parts of their body. How hard they are on the brake and throttle. Small changes in lateral g-force let them know how close to the edge of traction they are. The screen isn't going to be the same as the real world. The only feedback you get from an (affordable) at-home sim is through the screen and wheel. It requires you to tune into different sensations.

On the last stream Lando Norris (McLaren F1 driver) was asked if it felt like the real thing. He was response was something like, "Not at all. Nothing is like driving an F1 car."

sprsquish | 7 years ago | on: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep

I agree that they aren't exactly up-front about their model. They do provide a link to a pricing page that lays out the tiers: https://brain.fm/pricing

sprsquish | 13 years ago | on: The Opposite of a Bloom Filter

This is almost exactly what our use case is. I slightly altered the implementation to be more GC friendly though: http://squishtech.posterous.com/addendum-to-the-opposite-of-...

sprsquish | 14 years ago | on: Twitter spam and motivation to report it

I work on the Trust & Safety team at Twitter and hate spam as much as everyone else. As with any large system the solution is never as simple as "implement this thing, problem solved." As Marco points out, what is or is not spam is a balancing act. Our head of Trust & Safety, Del Harvey, gave an interview to the Guardian earlier this year about this balance: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/07/twitter-int...

If you'd like to help us out we have several open positions on the team: Anti-Spam: https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=oBPbVfwg,Job Tools: https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=oSbdVfwV,Job Front End: https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=owPbVfwb,Job

sprsquish | 15 years ago | on: ⌘Q is too damn close to ⌘W

Happens all the time! I'm getting my nose moved though.

sprsquish | 15 years ago | on: ⌘Q is too damn close to ⌘W

Maybe it's a version thing, but Ctrl+Shift+T doesn't work for me. Cmd+Shift+T does. But will it restore all the tabs you had open when you accidentally quit?

sprsquish | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: 300 employees, what is Twitter doing with them all?

Jane answered this well on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Twitter-need-300-employees

sprsquish | 16 years ago | on: Hacker News, for iPhone and iPod Touch

Please please please add Instapaper support for this.

sprsquish | 16 years ago | on: Express: A Node.js web development framework

Check out CoffeeScript. It does exactly that. http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

sprsquish | 16 years ago | on: XML-RPC client module for Node.js (uses libxml.js)

I've been trying to model libxml.js after Nokogiri. I wanted to get something built and working first. The next step is to expose libxml2's html parser.

Someone else has started working on find-by-CSS a la Nokogiri. I'll merge that into libxml.js when it's ready.

BTW, I'm looking for more help on this project. A new job has diminished the amount of time I can spend on OSS projects.

sprsquish | 16 years ago | on: ShopSavvy Finally Comes To The iPhone

Agreed, it's a bit sensationalist.

sprsquish | 16 years ago | on: We raised a seed round with Cuban and Betaworks

Superfeedr has an XMPP API that allows you to subscribe to updates on a blog or really anything with an RSS or Atom feed. It'll provide push notifications when your subscriptions update.

sprsquish | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Open Source apps with lots of database tables?

OpenMRS is pretty big. I don't know the exact number of tables, but it's up there. http://openmrs.org/wiki/Data_Model

sprsquish | 16 years ago | on: XKCD Explained, One Strip at a Time

My interpretation of that joke was scatological. Though, I don't know if that says more about me than Randall.

sprsquish | 16 years ago | on: ABB’s Super Fast Industrial Robots Impress [Videos]

As impressive as the actual robots are, I'm more impressed with the "dance" they created to show these off.

sprsquish | 16 years ago | on: JavaScript Programming Patterns

I'm using the Javascript Tools bundle for TextMate. It runs JSLint every time I save a javascript file.

http://github.com/subtleGradient/javascript-tools.tmbundle

sprsquish | 16 years ago | on: JavaScript Programming Patterns

I've been burned several times by missing semicolons when minifying my code. Now I make sure they're always there. I'm also running everything through JSLint.

sprsquish | 17 years ago | on: Hey, HN. I put a lot of time and thought into this GUI. I'd love some feeback.

I could play with the low light switch all day. Love the transition effect.

sprsquish | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: How can I get up early in the morning?

My wife is out the door very early in the morning. I make sure I get out of bed when she comes in to say goodbye for the day.

My alarm clock has proven ineffective. I'll wake up an hour after it should have woken me up and realize I turned it off in my sleep

sprsquish | 17 years ago | on: Want your own Github? Check out the open source Gitorious.

Take a look at Redmine (http://www.redmine.org/). We're using it for all our internal projects. The git integration is a bit sparse at the moment. You can't browse around branches. But the basics are there.