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NHQ··on Shive Wave Machine Allows Visualization of Wave Properties
I learned some things from this video. Might need to get me a Shive Wave Machine now.
NHQ··on CSS Hexagon Tutorial
Can you apply css transformations to that?
NHQ··on Pow.js - Algorithmic sunburst generator via CSS, canvas and jQuery.
Very nice. Forked!
NHQ··on OSX For Hackers
This is what I was looking for. Thanks!
NHQ··on Show HN: Free Unlimited Private File Sending (Beta)
I hope this is legit!
NHQ··on Reinventing coding for the iPad : edit the parse tree
I really like that you have taken the typing out of syntax. Syntaxes could be distilled into icons and be put out of the line thought. I'd like to code like that.
NHQ··on An entire Mobile OS built using HTML, CSS and JS - by Mozilla
He is right about one thing: every device should be able to download and run html apps natively.
NHQ··on Interactive editor based on the 'Inventing on Principle' talk
very nice
NHQ··on Natural: Natural Language Processing in Node JS
This is awesome right here.
NHQ··on The jQuery Slider Plugin with Infinite Style
Very nice. forked!
NHQ··on Show HN: My MusicHackDay project. A MPC-esque JS drum machine (requires Chrome)
Pretty nice. Forked!

Is this it for the demo, or do you plan to continue development?

NHQ··on "They're Made out of Meat?" Short first contact sci-fi story
DAAAAMMN thats a fine definition.
NHQ··on Pac-Man Proved NP-Hard
Pretty neat. Is this rating based purely on the game's principles, or does the AI algorithms use--for controlling the Ghosts, or creating the stages--have a bearing on the Game's hardness/completeness?
NHQ··on The $40 Standup Desk
I built my own 3-tiered, sit-down or stand-up desk, link to pic below.

Seated, the monitor is the right height for me, so as to keep my head up and neck straight. When I want to switch to standing, I just move the keyboard to the top level. I make the switch once or twice per day. And I can sit cross legged on the lowest platform (I dont like bucket/office chairs).

That was v0.1 of the desk, constructed in a few hours. the As you can see it is not production ready :p

http://blog.angelinegragasin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/...

NHQ··on This is why I don't give you a job
More and more you are compelled to own the corporation that represents you in business. So we can get around onerous government regulation. We are taxed to pay for the private-public crony-capitalism complex. It may be costly or unconscionable for me to hire you--or to be hired and paid as an individual taxpayer--and let that money go freely into corruption. But we can hire the other's company. How your company uses its money and treats its employees is your business.
NHQ··on Visitor.js
Where can one get a database of IP locations any more? ipinfodb no longer offers a download of their data.
NHQ··on Microphone turns any surface into a multitouch interface
Contrary to the bloggers report, there is more info and source available:

http://ftm.ircam.fr/index.php/A_brief_introduction_to_FTM

http://imtr.ircam.fr/imtr/Gesture_Follower

NHQ··on Golden Ratio for Readable Web Typography
The author's results and auto-ratio-maker are based on an assumption ("educated guess") he makes in the middle about the ratio between line-height and line-width:

"With the help of basic mathematical modeling, you can make an educated guess that the relationship between the optimal line height and line width is exponential. Here’s the simplest equation to express that:"

The author chooses to square height to determine the "optimal" width, as the "simplest equation to express" the exponential.

But obviously the best educated guess would be W = Lh^GOLDEN RATIO

NHQ··on Introducing Sugarless - A Functional & Context Oriented way to write JavaScript
I don't like to play contrarian when the room is full of them ;), but I was just reading some slides from a conference about understanding various costs in javascript and how to optimize, and it was put forth that contextualizing with call() and apply() are quite costly, more costly than one or two "upward" context traversals in search of e.g. the "self" variable you created to point to the top context (var self = this). And arguments look-ups can be costly as well. I can't find the damn slides or website now tho, sry.
NHQ··on WebSockets is a stream, not a message based protocol
Hey, this article is better than a rant, if you don't know much about what's going on with the RFC, but are using websockets anyway. :D

Everything you send up or down is a message, or a packet, and the size of that cannot exceed the size of pipe (with bottlenecks or intermediary restrictions). Call 'em Quantum Packets, or a stream, or a message. The websocket protocol, as imagined by this developer, is meant to allow a continuous lot of Quantum Packs to "flow", without the application level overhead of parsing a bunch of protocol, headers, wackness. I want to get the data into my applications AFAP, cuz I still have to transcode it, analyze it, and all else to make the baby dance.

What we need as developers are minimum-for-reliability standards. No two people in different locations will have the same pipe. As a developer, I consider it my domain to write software on top of, or using, the socket layer to determine the potential through-put of the given socket, and to test such as needed through-out the simulcast. I don't even want the socket-layer-wrapper writers (may God shower them with blessings) intervening at this level, until everybody on Earth has unrestricted 10mbps/s up and down.

If that control is hidden from me, or not an option, or is nullified by protocol, then my app or media could break in ways I could not predict or understand, and so I would have to design my app using the socket layer in a lowest-common-reliability kind of way.

These are not the opinions of a WebSocket RFC acquainted developer.

NHQ··on Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby
I already got companies trying to pay me to learn Ruby. I say no thanks!
NHQ··on AT&T Drops T-Mobile USA Deal
The US Government should buy T-Mobile and turn it into a nationwide information super freeway.
NHQ··on Motorola Shutting Down 280 Slides
Which Motorolla? Google's, or Motorolla's? [context question]
NHQ··on Why you can't hire
Yes! This article just raised my market value by giving me new insight into the market.
NHQ··on The Secret Number
Bleem is three itself. Because three is more than an integer, or any number.
NHQ··on Wikipedia Considers Total Blackout to Oppose SOPA
I doubt there is a better PR mechanism in existence than the blacking out of Wikipedia. Count my support for this measure.
NHQ··on Two Congressional Staffers Who Helped Write SOPA Become Entertainment Lobbyists
Add their names and faces to the Public Shaming Website!
NHQ··on Fuck passwords
I like the idea of websites using public key encryption. Would the browsers have to implement it on the client side? Could a plugin handle that?
NHQ··on Node.js modules you should know about: dnode
I just built a browser version of the Redis client using dnode, to test it out. Fun and easy to use, and preferable to AJAX. Probably won't replace socket.io where I use it, but could be the foundation for CMS type apps.
NHQ··on Show HN: Version 1.1 of our $99 hackable Bluetooth smartwatch
Does it have a mic?
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