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almoston AI is always less impressive than is claimed

19x19 is the normal go board size, I've never heard of anyone playing on a bigger board. Computer players for smaller boards (13x13 and 9x9) have been very good for a while, it's a much easier game on this smaller boards.

almoston AngularDart is going all Dart

Your question is kind of nonsensical. The two languages have little, if any, overlap in use cases.

almoston Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2016)

SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Remote.

Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London). I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality.

I work a lot with Python and Javascript to build rich client browser based and mobile apps. I also do hardware based projects, I have experience with coding in Assembly and C on various micro controllers and Arduino development.

I build interactive web-based data visualisations (usually with D3.JS), there are some examples at tomparslow.co.uk and I can supply a few more by email on request. I have also been working React Native quite a lot since its release last year and have an email client app built with it in the App Store.

Please get in touch!

Portfolio Website: http://tomparslow.co.uk

Geeky and More Technical Website: http://almostobsolete.net

Github: https://github.com/almost

Email: tom@tomparslow.co.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 7951261227

almoston Facebook is wrong, text is deathless

Deaf people are an obvious example. As are people dealing with content not in their native language. Accents can also be an issue.

And then there are many people who would simply prefer to read something over heating it. Is that really so hard to understand?

almoston Vvvv – a live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development

vvvv is probably not what you're looking for. It's pretty painful (but still possible) to do standard crud things. That's understandable because that's really not what it's for.

almoston Vvvv – a live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development

Yes, that's about it. Sometimes that really matters and sometimes it doesn't matter at all. It seems like a lot of the time for the sort of things people do in vvvv it's not so important. I certainly found it a limitation but it's hard to know how much that's an actual need and how much it's just me thinking in the languages I'm used to.

almoston Vvvv – a live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development

I've worked with a few people who use vvvv and written (is that the right verb when it's graphical language) a bunch of of vvvv nodes to integrate with other stuff I was writing for them.

It's a a powerful system and seems to really fit the minds of some very talented and creative people. As seems to be common with graphical programming things abstraction can be a little hard unless it fits into the node-with-fixed-inputs-and-outputs mold but this isn't a huge problem for the sizes of projects I saw.

The really cool thing in my opinion is the live nature, coding and runtime are the same so you can see it all running as you change thing. Fantastic for both exploratory coding and performance coding. I used it once as a front end for playing with some head tracking code I was working in in C++ and it was a fun experience, pity it's Windows only!

almoston Are You Smarter Than a Quant? Questions from the MoMath Masters Contest

I'm glad I'm not the only one who misread it like that!

almoston Draft.js – Rich Text Editor Framework for React

Any chance that react native view code will be released at any point? Would be so useful!

almoston Regular Expression Crossword Puzzle

I had a lot of fun writing a program to solve this puzzle last year. I wrote about it here: http://almostobsolete.net/regex-crossword/part1.html

The Haskell code is also on GitHub

almoston The two Detroits: a city both collapsing and gentrifying at the same time

You can't understand why someone doesn't just get a bus ticket so they can turn up in a strange city with only the things they can carry and no contacts?

almoston Rockstar lib will make you a Rockstar programmer in 2 lines of code

People have even used it to create pixel art :)

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

almoston Donate to Chelsea Manning's Legal Defense

Whistleblowing almost always involves breaking at least one law. The general trend has been to bring in more laws to make it less likely that it is possible legally in any given situation. To say "I support whistleblowing but only if no laws are broken" is almost meaningless.

almoston Donate to Chelsea Manning's Legal Defense

That's quite an extreme view. I'm sure you've already taken into account the horrifying laws that have existed and do exist in the U.S. and other countries. I'm not sure why you mention multiple laws and good of the nation as you've already stated your position is that it doesn't matter what law is broken or what mitigating circumstances there are.

almoston Donate to Chelsea Manning's Legal Defense

Do you believe that if any possible law is broken by anyone under any situation the should always be punished or is it just this specific law? A stance such as yours seems to lack all nuance and would lead to some pretty ridicules outcomes if applied everywhere

almoston Three Dead Protocols

Yep, that's exactly what's happening. A little confusing because ruby doesn't require brackets for zero argument function calls.

almoston Three Dead Protocols

Server.accept will block (wait) until a new connection happens. Once the callback (in the form of a Ruby block) completes the thread will end. So it starts a potentially infinite number of threads but only one per connection and each one is terminated pretty quickly. This is a pretty common way to write a server that can handle multiple simultaneous connections.

almoston Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2015)

SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Remote.

Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London) but I'm also in Sheffield once a month. I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality.

I can help you with software development myself and for larger projects, or projects requiring more diverse skills, I have an excellent team I can bring on to a project.

Recent projects include an internet controlled football playing robot and various other Python, Javascript and hardware projects. So http://tomparslow.co.uk for more details.

A very non-exhaustive list of technologies I have built real things with (and enjoyed): Python, Javascript, Django, Node.JS, Backbone.JS, AngularJS, React Native, OpenCV, D3.js, Arduino.

I've been building stuff with React Native this month. I've released a couple of open source modules (https://github.com/almost/react-native-sqlite and https://github.com/almost/react-native-html-webview) and have written one article (http://almostobsolete.net/react-native/custom-ios-views-with...). Very interested in more work building React Native apps and helping you to understand where React Native can help you.

Please get in touch!

Portfolio Website: http://tomparslow.co.uk

Geeky and More Techincal Website: http://almostobsolete.net

Github: https://github.com/almost

Email: tom@tomparslow.co.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 7951261227

almoston React Native is now open source

I've built a basic wrapper for SQLite for React Native: https://github.com/almost/react-native-sqlite

almoston Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2015)

SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Sheffield, UK. Remote.

Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London) but I'm also in Sheffield once a month. I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality.

I work a lot with Python (often with Django) and Javascript (Node.JS and browser, often with Angular.JS or D3.JS) to build rich client browser based and mobile apps. I also do hardware based projects, I have experience with coding in Assembly and C on various micro controllers and Arduino development.

I can help you with software development myself and for larger projects, or projects requiring more diverse skills, I have an excellent team I can bring on to a project.

Recent projects include an internet controlled football playing robot and various other Python, Javascript and hardware projects. So http://tomparslow.co.uk for more details.

A very non-exhaustive list of technologies I have built real things with (and enjoyed): Python, Javascript, Django, Node.JS, Backbone.JS, AngularJS, OpenCV, D3.js, Arduino.

The last few day's I've been building some stuff with React Native, particularly experimenting with writing custom native views (in Objective C) and using them from React. I'm going to try and write an article about this in the next few days.

Please get in touch!

Portfolio Website: http://tomparslow.co.uk

Geeky and More Techincal Website: http://almostobsolete.net

Github: https://github.com/almost

Email: tom@tomparslow.co.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 7951261227

almoston Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2015)

SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Sheffield, UK. Remote.

Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London) but I'm also in Sheffield once a month. I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality.

I can help you with software development myself and for larger projects, or projects requiring more diverse skills, I have an excellent team I can bring on to a project.

Recent projects include an internet controlled football playing robot and various other Python, Javascript and hardware projects. So http://tomparslow.co.uk for more details.

A very non-exhaustive list of technologies I have built real things with (and enjoyed): Python, Javascript, Django, Node.JS, Backbone.JS, AngularJS, OpenCV, D3.js, Arduino.

Please get in touch!

Portfolio Website: http://tomparslow.co.uk

Geeky and More Techincal Website: http://almostobsolete.net

Github: https://github.com/almost

Email: tom@tomparslow.co.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 7951261227

almoston Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2015)

SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Remote.

Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London) but I'm also in Sheffield for about a week every month. I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality.

I can help you with software development myself and for larger projects, or projects requiring more diverse skills, I have an excellent team I can bring on to a project.

Recent projects include an internet controlled football playing robot and various other Python, Javascript and hardware projects. So http://tomparslow.co.uk for more details.

A very non-exhaustive list of technologies I have built real things with (and enjoyed): Python, Javascript, Django, Node.JS, Backbone.JS, AngularJS, OpenCV, D3.js, Arduino.

Please get in touch!

Portfolio Website: http://tomparslow.co.uk

Geeky and More Techincal Website: http://almostobsolete.net

Github: https://github.com/almost

Email: tom@tomparslow.co.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 7951261227

almoston Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind

A blind guy I met at a conference showed me something very cool with voiceover, try voiceover in the camera app then point the camera at some people.

almoston Category Theory by Tom LaGatta

Complaining about a Category Theory lecture being too abstract does seem a little like complaining about a river being too wet :)

almoston Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Sheffield, UK. Remote.

Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London) but I'm also often in Sheffield. I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality.

I can help you with software development myself and for larger projects, or projects requiring more diverse skills, I have an excellent team I can bring on to a project.

Recent projects include an internet controlled football playing robot and various other Python, Javascript and hardware projects. So http://tomparslow.co.uk for more details.

A very non-exhaustive list of technologies I have built real things with (and enjoyed): Python, Javascript, Django, Node.JS, Backbone.JS, AngularJS, OpenCV, D3.js, Arduino.

Please get in touch!

Portfolio Website: http://tomparslow.co.uk

Geeky and More Techincal Website: http://almostobsolete.net

Github: https://github.com/almost

Email: tom@tomparslow.co.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 7951261227

almoston Regex Crossword

Cool!

I had a lot of fun writing a solver in Haskell for a crossword like this a few months ago. Apologies for the self promotion but here's a link to the article I wrote about it http://almostobsolete.net/regex-crossword/part1.html

almoston Weekly Coding Interview Problems by Email

It did, at least the way I read it. That might say more about me than it does about you though :)

almoston Weekly Coding Interview Problems by Email

Lots of respect for replying to a pretty snarky comment and admitting that you were wrong with good humour, if everyone was like this internet comments would be a whole lot better :)

almoston Weekly Coding Interview Problems by Email

But wait, O(2n) and O(n) are the same aren't they? Eg both linear, constant factor doesn't make a difference to the time complexity. Or did you mean to write O(2^n) or something?

almoston Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Sheffield, UK. Remote.

From apps to robots, I can help you get it built!

I can help you with software development myself and for larger projects, or projects requiring more diverse skills, I have an excellent team.

Recent projects include an internet controlled football playing robot and various other Python, JavaScript and hardware projects.

I'm based in Brighton in the UK (50 minutes from London) but I'm also spending a little time each month in Sheffield if you're up that way.

A very non-exhaustive list of technologies I have built real things with (and enjoyed): Python, JavaScript, Django, Node.JS, Backbone.JS, AngularJS, OpenCV, D3.js, Arduino.

I released a couple of Node.JS modules recently: https://github.com/almost/through2-concurrent and https://github.com/almost/sqs-readable-stream

Please get in touch!

Portfolio Website: http://tomparslow.co.uk

Geeky and More Techincal Website: http://almostobsolete.net

Github: https://github.com/almost

Email: tom@tomparslow.co.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 7951261227