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aeosynthon Magic: The Gathering API

I built a draft / sealed simulator, which scrapes Gatherer as part of the build step. There's thousands of draft results available for data mining.

https://github.com/aeosynth/draft

aeosynthon Identical Droplets in the DigitalOcean: Regenerate your Ubuntu SSH Host Keys now

That just shifts the problem - the VPN is vulnerable to the original attack.

aeosynthon Why I'm Returning Google Glass

That's possible today with e-ink tablets, like the Kindle.

aeosynthon Instant Bitcoin Purchases at Coinbase

I was told "Insufficient Data for Questions". I guess my public record is not juicy enough.

aeosynthon GorillaScript

It requires a runtime even after compiling: https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler/wiki/CompillingOf...

> The code generated by Traceur depends on a small runtime library containing Javascript code for things like creating classes, handling spread arguments, etc. To use code compiled from Traceur, you'll need to include that too.

aeosynthon GorillaScript

https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler

Requires a runtime, though.

aeosynthon Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father’s attorney

Evidence: the American Revolutionary War.

> We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

- Benjamin Franklin

aeosynthon Fish shell 2.0

set -e fish_greeting

-e to erase

aeosynthon Asm.js in Firefox Nightly

Any browser can run asm.js code, that's the whole point; it doesn't need special support.

aeosynthon HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

You could also try subway[1] and kiwiirc[2].

[1]: https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway

[2]: https://github.com/prawnsalad/KiwiIRC

aeosynthon Chicken Scheme

I use https://github.com/benmills/vimux for vim/tmux plumbing.

aeosynthon Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game

Reminds me vaguely of http://arv.github.com/jelly/.

aeosynthon Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit

Live demo: http://rc.getbootstrap.com/

aeosynthon Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit

Where can I preview Bootstrap 3?

aeosynthon Stripe launches beta in the UK

Bitcoin is available in all countries; maybe people should look into that instead of waiting for stripe to arrive.

aeosynthon Browser Wars, the game

What bugs me about all these articles is that there is no call to action - anyone who wants to defend against monoculture (whether or not that is a worthwhile goal) should start contributing to servo[1], Mozilla's experimental next-generation engine, written in their experimental new language, rust[2].

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/servo [2]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust

aeosynthon Airbnb Annual

Attaching a mouse re-enables scroll bars, I finally figured out.

aeosynthon GNOME project picks JavaScript as "first class" dev language

To quote the phonegap devs:

http://phonegap.com/2012/05/09/phonegap-beliefs-goals-and-ph...

> The ultimate purpose of PhoneGap is to cease to exist.

aeosynthon Practice typing for Code

The key to restart is sometimes enter, sometimes r; this should be consistent.

aeosynthon Simple launches Android app

I'll take an invite :)

aeosynthon Chrome 22 breaks things

I ran into a flexbox bug (which turns out to be by design):

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152386 `display: -webkit-flex` disables `overflow: hidden`

Flexbox in general is still experimental; only Chrome 21+ supports the new spec.

aeosynthon The lightbulb reinvented

Notifications were the only feature that made me think "wow, that's cool". Phone LED notifications are great, but sometimes my phone isn't visible.

aeosynthon Bower: A package manager for the web, from Twitter

> Isaacs has said that people should use NPM for client-side packages.

Link?

aeosynthon Bower: A package manager for the web, from Twitter

    $ bower lookup jquery
    jquery git://github.com/components/jquery.git

Web link: https://github.com/component/jquery

Since there's no authentication, the bower jquery package will always point to this url, which is not officially associated with jquery.

aeosynthon Bootstrap 2.1 released

THAT IS SO USEFUL.

aeosynthon Bootstrap 2.1 released

Apparently the CSS spec does allow delayed behavior - http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-transitions/#transition-delay-prop...

aeosynthon Bootstrap 2.1 released

But then you couldn't use the `:hover` pseudo selector; you'd have to replace css with javascript.

aeosynthon The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images

Contact lenses

aeosynthon Programmers think differently than non-programmers

It's also possible to have completely random answers, with a key at the bottom....

aeosynthon WTFPL

http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ Why is there no “no warranty” clause?

The WTFPL is an all-purpose license and does not cover only computer programs; it can be used for artwork, documentation and so on. As such, it only covers copying, distribution and modification. If you want to add a no warranty clause for a program, you may use the following wording in your source code:

  /* This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to
 * the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it
 * and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want
 * To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
 * http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details. */

How does this make life harder for hackers? Explicit permission is given to do whatever the fuck [you] want to, which includes hacking.