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samvasko@gmail.com

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bliker··on What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance?
I am honestly confused. I just checked RadioLab, Freakonomics and 99% Invisible and each one you can download as raw mp3s in <4 clicks.
bliker··on Always bet on text
Maybe you should try http://www.openscad.org/
bliker··on The Free Internet Project
I am quite sure whole EU has a net-neutrality law. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26865869
bliker··on Show HN: ContentBuilder.js – JQuery Plugin to Write Anything Beautifully
I am curretly working on similar project. I really like your concept. But I see some flaws.

- No list auto-creation

- Sometimes ugly html like <span font-weigth=>

- Does not produce nice htm5 like hgroups, sections and em/strong

- I cannot make a paragraph in chrome, just <br>s

bliker··on Live map of Russia advancing into Ukraine
Well there are soldiers of one country invading other sovereign country. Is that not true?
bliker··on Show HN: Steady – Shoot Cinematic Videos
I have some trouble with fonts on Elementary http://i.imgur.com/dYHPbvP.png
bliker··on Ask HN: Which podcasts do you listen to/watch?
Ohh finally something for me You are not so smart - Very nice podcast about cognitive biases, psychology and so on. (Last episode I heard was about dangers of alternative medicine)

99 Percent Invisible - About design of everything. From architecture to industrial design. (Last episode was about fire escapes and their history)

Radiolab - Quite varied but always amazingly produced stories about science (Last one was about brain stimulation using electricity)

Freakonomics - Great podcast about economics, amazing life advice. (Last one was about how to "Make you garden weed itself")

Hello Internet - Two dudes talking genre. Brady (Numberphile and more) and CGP Gray. (Last one was about flags of states of USA, ugh Maryland)

Pragmatic - Also two dudes. But on topic of engineering. (Last was about programming in military)

I also recommend http://www.shiftyjelly.com/pocketcasts for listening. Really great app.

bliker··on Lotus, a web framework for Ruby
You are forgetting that not all people are building thick-client applications.
bliker··on Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
I quite liked this article about the issue. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gb...

> The shocking thing about these DDoS-for-hire services is that — as I’ve reported in several previous stories — a majority of them are run by young kids who apparently can think of no better way to prove how cool and “leet” they are than by wantonly knocking Web sites offline and by launching hugely disruptive assaults. Case in point: My site appears to have been attacked this week by a 15-year-old boy from Illinois who calls himself “Mr. Booter Master” online.

bliker··on Why is 80 characters the 'standard' limit for code width?
For me those things are almost like a book cover. If I open a file and I see freakishly long lines I just assume that the content will be not well crafted.
bliker··on Talk of an Internet Fast Lane Is Already Hurting Some Startups
It is not allowed in EU so there already is a precedent.
bliker··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?
Looking from some summer job/project Slovakia | Denmark | Europe, Remote | Relocation, Any type of contract.

Stack: Web: PHP, CSS, HTML, JS, Ruby, Go Other: C, Embedded systems, Git, Linux, Regex, CAD Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign - Logos, Web, Posters, Magazines

Resume: http://bliker.github.io/Samuel_Vasko-Resume.pdf Github: https://github.com/bliker Contact: samvasko@gmail.com

I am looking from some summer job, as Iy am still at University. If you need some extra hands on code or design in Europe I am the guy for you.

bliker··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
I really want a nice wysiwyg markdown editor. Not the two column layout. I want syntax highlighting, but it should not only do colors but also semantics. Headings should be actually bigger and italics slanted.

I tried and failed to make this idea a reality. I got to partial solution using regular expressions. But it is far from functional and reliable but it is only like 200 lines!

You can check it out here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52646091/syntax/selectio...

bliker··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
I am using http://www.shiftyjelly.com/pocketcasts. That is really amazing. And the discovery have not failed me yet.
bliker··on PyCon US 2014 – Videos
It shows up as private to me...
bliker··on Show HN: An open-source, Raspberry-Pi-based Siri alternative
I think this is a great project! But Raspberry Pi might be a bit overpriced/overpowered for this task. Maybe something like Arduino Yún would be more appropriate choice. I am really hoping this movement of small GNU/Linux based home appliances will take off and lower the price.
bliker··on Progress Button Styles
I highly recommend all of tympanus/codedrops articles and examples. http://tympanus.net/codrops/category/playground/
bliker··on JXcore combines SQLite and Node.js for Raspbian
What are the advantages over using official builds for rpi? http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.24/
bliker··on How do you DRM a thing like a coffee pod?
It is very viable alternative! Contrary to sibling I think difference between Moka vs Espresso and Pods vs Espresso is about the same. And I suppose the marginal gain from buying expensive espresso over moka would not be that big for you.

But moka is: cheap, easy to clean, lasts forever, takes virtually no space and about as fast as my kettle.

bliker··on Ask HN: Do web app yourself – is it relevant?
I see JSON more as a hindrance than an advantage. Putting a function invocation in string in some other data format seems rather strange to me. It almost seems like you have created something like Lisp.

How about instead of trying to use some home-brewed pseudo language you try to extent something like coffescript?

bliker··on Why Does Backspace Go Back A Page?
Chrome[1] and Firefox[?] and probably others on Linux do not have this behavior enabled by default.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=144832

bliker··on Language Study: What is a foreign language worth?
I heard the podcast and skimmed this article. I found that their findings and conclusions are totally irrelevant for me and I think for many people in my situation/location.

I am from Slovakia, where you are never more than 3 hours by car from some border. Sometimes the neighbors speak similar language like Polish, sometimes you stumble into totally different like Hungarian. And not the mention the minorities in Slovakia.

Now I am living in Denmark, that is not much different So the list of languages that I yearly get in contact with is: Danish, German, Polish, Hungarian, plus languages I speak: Slovak, Czech and English.

I can see the profit of learning any one of them.

bliker··on Corruption Perceptions Index 2013
Hello there! I've got email in my profile. Maybe we can organize something!
bliker··on Corruption Perceptions Index 2013
If you are looking for more established companies I would suggest LEGO [1] and Danfoss [2]. You can find many positions on their sites that could be interesting for HN crowd.

[1] http://jobs.lego.com/en-us/searchpage

[2] http://jobs.danfoss.com/jobs/

And Denmark is a Microsoft-land as far I know. So keep that in mind.

bliker··on Chromium on Linux replacing GTK+
Yep, both of you are correct HNES: https://github.com/etcet/HNES

Pretty much vanilla Elementary OS theme with Source Sans pro front.

bliker··on Chromium on Linux replacing GTK+
What? I think it looks better than ever http://i.imgur.com/PJdqYfT.png
bliker··on Show HN: LiteScript
I did not know about Literate Coffescript. Thanks!

But I must say I found this link more informative http://coffeescript.org/#literate

bliker··on Show HN: Ghost UI
ui.ghost.org seems to be dead
bliker··on Show HN: Google Music for Mac
Can someone point me to some relevant information on this kind of problems? Like unofficial clients and their legality and pitfalls.
bliker··on Using Bootstrap the Semantic Way
I think this would be more semantic (with or without the classes)

     <section>
          <main> </main>
          <aside> </aside>
     <section>
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