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sarreph
4,026karma·903submissions·July 21, 2013
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I make software, images (sometimes moving), and music.
Today, my focus is on personalizing the internet at Kenobi.ai (YC W22)
Reach me at my name (Rory) and my company’s domain.
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That sounds pretty cool actually... I have my --inspect flag baked into an npm command already, but I think I might just play around with that for fun haha
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Will give it a whirl, thank you!
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Yeah, it’s interesting how you point out it being a signal. And in that case I do wonder quite who it would resonate with...
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> When I read philosophy at Oxford in the early 1980s there wasn’t a lot of talk about consciousness. Is it really necessary to put your prestigious alma mater in the first line?
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It somewhat blew my mind the other day that you can add an '--inspect' flag to a locally-run node instance and inspect it via Chrome (chrome://inspect). After building a server for…
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I would argue that some completely separate (sourced) books in a fancy web-giftshop doesn't constitute a product alternative or range-extension. It's almost akin to a successful tech company…
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Show HN: How I used a recursive comment-bot to reap karma when GitHub is down!
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I spent all my life an omnivore, until the last two years I became vegetarian; 6 of those months vegan. I’m inclined to agree with you if you meant that a ‘satiated’ vegan diet is more expensive, beca…
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> the unfortunate circumstance that reality has become as absurd as the headlines of The Onion a decade ago So true... Google has a slew of articles pronouncing the death of conventional political …
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A great case in point for Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... …
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> which I think was the complaint Spot on, not that I know anything about Discord's architecture...
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You know how much of the community uses one messaging system when 15 minutes after it going down, it has over 40 points on the front page! This says a lot about how it's a single point of failure…
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> posting I don't think you're ever going to persuade a given HN user to stop posting content here. But to order 'we' to stop deeming content relevant and worthy for the rest …
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Good for you for wanting to think more critically. Sorry if this is anecdotal babble, but when I was in junior-high they put all of us that were ‘ahead’ (I.e. those that read too much instead of going…
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Is there word on Mojave's improvements to performance? I got bitten horribly by moving my 2014 rMBP to High Sierra from El Capitan... GPU issues galore, with a baseline CPU and RAM usage increase…
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You make a good point about the just-move-to-Git[whatever] being the entrenched social aspect of many repos! I can't imagine if, say the day comes when developers flee GH en-masse, it will be a…
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Erm, while I agree Skype wasn't the pinnacle of chat software pre-MS acquisition, I believe OP is referring to their absolute butchering of the consumer client[0]. Anecdotally, I stopped using Sk…
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As I much as I am growing tired of HN discussions about Apple products descending into a circle-jerk of "no more innovation" and "dongle-gate", I must state my two gripes that I re…
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If anyone wants a nice (8 min) video to watch — in the same vein — this one[0] is a great intro by Dieter Rams and the man he influenced at Apple: Jony Ive. [0] - https://www.dailymotion.co…
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Does anyone have a non-paywalled link? Thanks :)
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What's the sentiment on OS X being rechristened macOS ? Doesn't this count as a sort've era 2.5?
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Is it possible to add (Cryptocurrency) after ‘The Verge’ in the title please? I thought it referred to the news outlet.
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Tangent, but just wanted to thank you, Colin, for piquing my interest in Maths at a talk you held when I was at school. It was maybe a decade ago now, but putting 2 and 2 together and seeing you on HN…
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That’s an interesting meta-idea. Have any more thoughts on its implementation that you’d care to share? I started going off on a mental tangent about how an algorithm would extend a WiFi hotspot’s exp…
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Take it from an English / American that there are plenty of names of ours that, while reasonably rare, have only one person for hits. :)
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Nothing shy of heroic efforts have gone into making such a comprehensive and wonderful-to-use library! I look forward to seeing its future flourish! Thanks to all who contributed.