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fredley
12,119karma·1,819submissions·July 26, 2011
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While you're there, get in touch with the Cambridge Angels. They won't be scared by very technical ideas (as long as you can prove the market etc. etc.), but are extremely rigorous.
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Great game, but it took 50 levels to get more difficult. Suggest bringing in the new rules earlier on, I was getting pretty bored by about level 30 when I'd worked it out well enough to zoom thro…
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I watched Charlie Brooker's new Black Mirror episode 'White Christmas' recently, and it deals with technology not entirely dissimilar to this. Well worth a watch.
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Garbage Collector for tabs: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-garbage-collec... …
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This is not a demo, this is a video of you using it.
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Betteridge's Law of Headlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... …
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What is the No CAPTCHA problem? What's being described here are problems that apply to all CAPTCHAs. Whatever 'human' detection system you put in place, humans can always be hired to so…
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Or the much more common case of touch screens. I'm assuming it's fine - the fine pointer movements are just one aspect of it, and tapping/clicking with a pen are likely to produce small…
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I just tried the one ins0 linked above, and tabbing through, using space to select the checkbox, worked fine.
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That's spot on. Questions like "How should I do this" are harder to answer, require extended research and investigation, and a lot of communication back and forth. Stack Overflow is not…
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I don't think you would. The split between topics allows sites to cultivate communities with strong domain knowledge. In fact, the whole process that sites go through to be created[1] relies on f…
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I am a mod on a similarly hostile StackExchange site. The community has always been outright hostile to active discussion (outside of chat, the area of the site for specifically this) for all but a br…
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You're right, they do blend into the background somewhat. I can't imagine what it was like before modern devices though. When I get on the bus, usually no matter how crowded it is I can just…
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On my Chromebook I use JSTorrent: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jstorrent/anhdpjpo... …
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It took me a while, but I think this is a tool to automatically remind you to commit your work after making [20] writes. It is a plugin for vim.
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I would love to see a version of this with European (/rest of the world?) terminology. E.g. Crotchet, quaver, minim instead of quarter note, eigth note, half note etc.
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It's not even possible to win.
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[Here's the formula]( https://github.com/fredley/exponent/blob/master/main.js#L64 ), I came up with a basic exponential growth equation and tweaked it so that t…
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Creator here. Surprised to see this on HN. This was about a morning's work, intended as a joke incremental game. Please don't judge it too seriously.
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Yes, on the lines that are not so deep, like the circle, metropolitan etc. Cooling these trains down is significantly easier than the very deep lines, as the heat from the AC can be chucked straight o…
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Another reason [TagPro]( http://tagpro.koalabeast.com ) is an excellent game. It's implementation of this stuff is great - with a reasonable connection my ping is usually under 10ms, an…
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Soma FM is one of my favourite things. Their stations are among my top listening while working. The lack of ads/interruption and excellently compiled playlists make for wonderful listening that t…