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HAL9OOO··on Ask HN: What is your favorite pocket knife?

The Benchmade Bugout is ONLY 1.85 oz, super easy to carry in your pocket without compromising blade size. Great for backpacking too.

https://www.bladehq.com/item--Benchmade-Bugout-AXIS-Lock-Kni...

HAL9OOO··on Ask HN: Fun project ideas to make $10?

Hey that's not a half bad idea. One of the first things I do when I go to a new subreddit is check the top posts for month and year. I wish I could look at the top posts from the last 3 months sometime. If you had a service that just archived top posts month to month, removing duplicates then people could access that anytime. Don't know if I would charge for it initially but it's a cool service at least.

HAL9OOO··on Ask HN: Fun project ideas to make $10?

Yeah I was thinking about something like that, might do it for the next project. I know a guy who buys 'high quality tea' from China and resells it with a fancy modern website.

HAL9OOO··on The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010)

This related comic is pretty good: http://www.sparringmind.com/supernormal-stimuli/

HAL9OOO··on A CLI application for controlling Spotify

Pretty interesting, giving it a shot now. Is there a way to upvote songs/add to saved music from here? What if I want to play the 'discover weekly' playlist for example and save the songs I like?

HAL9OOO··on Robert M. Pirsig has died

I never post here but this saddens me greatly, his ideas spoke to me on another level.

HAL9OOO··on Can someone please critique my developer resume after startup layoff?

Thanks for the advice! Yeah I hate the skills section in general. You end up using so many things at work but you can't list them all, plus I end up forgetting the languages I haven't used in a while anyway.

HAL9OOO··on Can someone please critique my developer resume after startup layoff?

Thanks man! Yeah I think I can explain it fine during the interview itself but was just worrying the small time frame might look bad + just general resume proofreading in general. Thanks!

HAL9OOO··on Show HN: Addictive puzzle based on “Graph Theory”

Pretty cool, it was a little annoying that the window that contained the game blended into the background, so I kept trying to pull dots outside of the game window. Do you have code available for this? Just curious on algorithms that might have been used.

HAL9OOO··on Buku v2.5 – Powerful command-line bookmark manager

https://pinboard.in/

Is a bookmark manager I highly recommend. It has lots of extensions/apps written for it and is a barebones but powerful bookmark manager with tags. I have about 4k bookmarks on it right now.

HAL9OOO··on Ask HN: How to get into game development

I would check out http://phaser.io/

You should be able to find a lot of tutorials on the phaser site itself as well as https://www.reddit.com/r/phaser/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/

It's a HTML5 game engine and I've used it to create some really simple games, game development is a lot of work/time however so see if you can get into it as a hobby and you will know if the enjoyment to work ratio is worth it for you.

HAL9OOO··on Ask HN: Can someone help critique my resume?

Thanks for the suggestions! I've been thinking of ways to show the impact of the projects but I can't think of any hard numbers for them. Most of the projects at my old job were for clients but I only ever had a vague sense of how much money we were billing them for and my current job is a government contract, I just listed that we increased the rate of study completion which we have since before the system didn't exist/wasn't digitized.

Also I graduated in 2011, but I did have a gap last year since I was hiking the AT/traveling. I've gotten mixed advice on whether to keep it on my resume or not hmm.

HAL9OOO··on Ask HN: Can someone help critique my resume?

Thanks for the suggestions! Changing that sentence around definitely sounds better.

HAL9OOO··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2016)

Location: Northern Virginia/D.C Metro Area

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes! Looking to relocate to the west coast. (Seattle/SF Bay Area)

Technologies: Java, Javascript, Python, C, Ruby, Scheme, Swift, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Adobe Flex, PostgreSQL, Git, SVN, Eclipse/RAD, IBM Websphere, Spring MVC, FileNet

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gaooqcdvqz5zswm/jahamed_resume.pdf...

email: javed.b.ahamed@gmail.com

HAL9OOO··on Algorithms and data structures in Swift, with explanations

Awesome, I will definitely be using this.

HAL9OOO··on HN top colors

What is this supposed to represent? Colors used on the HN board or was this a user poll?

HAL9OOO··on A game made with CSS/HTML only

Pretty cool, reminds me of CHASM: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

HAL9OOO··on Discord – Free Text and Voice Chat for Gamers

I have been using this app for a while, it's pretty useful. It combines the private room aspect of services like Mumble/TS/Vent with the feature of giving a link to someone so they can do a one time join to the room. Good for friends and pick me up games. I like their persistent IRC-like chat-room too.

HAL9OOO··on Addicted to Distraction

Is your extension available for download?

HAL9OOO··on Scientists argue that beer motivated our ancestors to start grain farming

This is a great book on this subject : http://www.amazon.com/A-History-World-6-Glasses/dp/080271552...

It's a pretty fun read, I recommend it.

HAL9OOO··on Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15

Well put, I frequently read stories like this and wonder if I could have done the same if I wasn't constantly being distracted by family arguments/being poor/being envious of other's situations or wasting so much time on video games. I feel regret almost every single day and constantly feel 1 or 2 years behind the curve. Even now I don't have a singular vision like this kid probably because I get so distracted by real life tasks.

HAL9OOO··on Ask HN: Where can I get interesting data sets online?

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful maybe?

HAL9OOO··on Computer Science Field Guide

Man where was this stuff when I was in High School? A general overview of a lot of comp-sci related subjects in layman's terms. I think the closest I got to reading something like this back then was C.O.D.E.

HAL9OOO··on Who was John Titor, the 'time traveller' who came from 2036?

Well he plays a pretty big part in Stein's Gate.

HAL9OOO··on Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill

It's interesting I was just thinking along these lines yesterday, I'm currently reading "The Trolley Problem" by Thomas Cathcart and realized that sometimes a self-driving car might have to kill you in order to save more lives. Ethics and philosophy will come into play a lot more in an A.I automated world as we will actually have to program rules in without really understanding the rules in the first place ourselves.

HAL9OOO··on Show HN: 10MinuteStorage – Filesharing simplified with three words

What about the chiptunes that went along with the key-gens?

HAL9OOO··on Turning a climbing wall into a video game

Cool project, I could see this type of idea expanded into showing real time replays on fields/training programs.

HAL9OOO··on Get GitHub followers

What's the real benefit of having more followers? If they were real followers I would understand but fake ones?

HAL9OOO··on Show HN: Word game I made up in High School

Ursine?

Interesting idea... got a name for the game? I'll try it out on my friends. Although making the puzzles might be a challenge in themselves.

HAL9OOO··on A Sokoban levels design programming contest

I'm not planning on entering the contest, but for curiosity's sake i'm curious what algorithms might be core to implementing Sokoban? +/-'s Just for my knowledge, I'm also curious how all these puzzle apps get their levels designed. Is someone hand designing them? Are they procedurally generated and if so how can you prove that their is a solution/it's a fun puzzle?

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