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Jim_Neath

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Ruby Hacker & Developer behind purifyapp.com
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Jim_Neath··on Tremor-cancelling spoon for Parkinson's tremors
As a sufferer of early onset parkinson's, it's great to see products like this being developed. Hats off.
Jim_Neath··on Csr.io - a better certificate signing request generator
Glad you find it useful!
Jim_Neath··on Say 'Ahhh': A Simpler Way To Detect Parkinson's
I developed a slight tremor in my right hand and had trouble moving my arm as fluidly as my other.
Jim_Neath··on Say 'Ahhh': A Simpler Way To Detect Parkinson's
If this works successfully then it would be great but as a 28 year old with Parkinson's, I'm skeptical.

It took approximately 12 months, numerous blood tests, MRIs and doctor visits to diagnose me as having YOPD, so I'm finding it hard to believe that this could be replaced with a telephone call.

Jim_Neath··on Namecheap.com: We say no to SOPA
I've been using namecheap for years and have yet to have a single issue with them.
Jim_Neath··on What's the one Linux command you wish you knew years ago?
mytop
Jim_Neath··on Engine Yard and Orchestra Join Forces
Welcome aboard, Orchestra folk!
Jim_Neath··on Ask HN: Who is riding his weekend project straight to profitability?
My most recent project is £18 in the black :D
Jim_Neath··on Show HN: Shoplove - A women's high street store aggregator
Alas I'm still 90% coder, 10% designer. The current site is the third iteration of the layout.

If I wasn't too stingy to pay a designer, I would :)

Jim_Neath··on Show HN: Shoplove - A women's high street store aggregator
Honestly, no I haven't looked into any of this.

I have noticed, however, that most, if not all of the sites offer product feeds that include the images. So I'd assume that there is no issue there.

Regarding Google, I honestly don't have a clue. I shall put some time into looking into it though

Jim_Neath··on Show HN: Shoplove - A women's high street store aggregator
I originally tried analysing the colours in the images and picking out the most common colours used.

In the end, I just ended up using the colours mentioned on the pages when I scrape them.

It works well generally but throws a few false positives.

Jim_Neath··on Show HN: Shoplove - A women's high street store aggregator
I've written crawler for all of the sites featured. Probably not the best/easiest way to do it but it works for me.
Jim_Neath··on Show HN: Shoplove - A women's high street store aggregator
Well she's pregnant again so she's finding it useful :D
Jim_Neath··on Show HN: Shoplove - A women's high street store aggregator
I am planning on expanding to men and kids later on. I just thought I'd keep it simple by targeting one section to begin with.
Jim_Neath··on Show HN: Shoplove - A women's high street store aggregator
At the moment, I'm aiming at affiliate sales. I'm open to other solutions though :)
Jim_Neath··on Show HN: Shoplove - A women's high street store aggregator
Clickable: http://shoplove.co.uk
Jim_Neath··on Ask HN: how to become a morning person?
Agreed on having a small child. I now get up at 5:30 everyday, even if I don't want to.
Jim_Neath··on It's grim up north for UK startups, but things are changing
I go to nwrug occasionally and hang out in #nwrug :)
Jim_Neath··on It's grim up north for UK startups, but things are changing
No way. I'm from Bolton also!
Jim_Neath··on Show HN: idle.fm - Spotify playlists based on your Facebook profile
Clicky: http://idle.fm
Jim_Neath··on Using Redis with Ruby on Rails
I've never used redis-objects but it does look interesting. I'll have a play around with it tonight and update the post.

Thanks for the heads up.

Edit: updated.

Jim_Neath··on Turn off ri and rdoc generation by default
This isn't Reddit.
Jim_Neath··on Ask HN: recommendations for domain registrars
I've been using namecheap.com for about 7 years and not once have I had an issue with them.
Jim_Neath··on Two Reasons You Shouldn't Use MongoDB
Unrelated comment: thanks a bunch for the speed optimisations pushed into the ruby mongo driver :)
Jim_Neath··on Rocket Engine - plugin-free browser game development
I used to love Games Factory and Klik&Play
Jim_Neath··on Murder: Fast datacenter code deploys using BitTorrent
I remember the uproar when I released a plugin called Shemail.
Jim_Neath··on Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete
Jammit, the rails asset packaging plugin has had the option to do this for a while:

http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/

Jim_Neath··on Ask HN: How will it impact my webapp if it is written in Python instead of PHP.
Don't forget PHP now has goto!
Jim_Neath··on Ask HN: We've just launched our bug tracker, Purify - what do you think?
Thanks. I'm inclined to agree with removing the plans link and putting more emphasis on the free signup link
Jim_Neath··on Ask HN: We've just launched our bug tracker, Purify - what do you think?
When we came up with the name we weren't aware of the use of the name by a somewhat related product.

Currently looking into alternatives.

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