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brainburn··on Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game
And/Or a youtube showing gameplay
brainburn··on WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links
Uhm, decent support on all your devices? (there's even a commandline client).

Versus that ridiculous hack where you can whatsapp in the browser, provided you scan a qr code and have the phone on the same network.

brainburn··on A Historic Day for the World of Competitive Rubik’s Cube Solving
Agreed. More interesting is the variant where people try to solve a cube in as few moves as possible.
brainburn··on The impact of syntax colouring on program comprehension [pdf]
Having colors for different classes of code fragment just helps to reduce the amount of processing of the code in the brain. Seems to me that this is a win, at least it is for me.

In daily life I use a very colorful scheme (darcula on steroids) and just thinking about monochrome makes my head hurt.

brainburn··on Fifth Amendment Flowchart
I guess law and programming aren't too different after all.

Just that one is about creating and the other about getting f*cked over.

brainburn··on Show HN: Wiki – Command-line tool to fetch summaries from Wikipedia
jq? links?

my osx install does not seem to have these things.

brainburn··on Generating Word Search Puzzles
Interesting, and familiar.

I had this idea a while back and made a puzzlegame for Android and iOs that does basically this.

The idea is to create puzzles on ANY subject that contain words relating to that subject.

- let user type, search wikipedia for articles starting with that text

- grab selected article, find out words in it that are links to other articles (they are probably related)

- generate a puzzle

I also do random placement, but I also add a score to the final puzzle, taking into account spread in vertical/horizontal/diagonal words. Then I just create as many random puzzles as I can in 4 seconds and take 'the best'.

More detailed writeup here: http://miscellany.codestare.com/WordsearchPlus/

Finished products: iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/word-search-plus-word-puzzle... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codestare....

brainburn··on Why Do We Admire Mobsters?
s/blame/praise :0

In the end only one's own gene-survival matters.

brainburn··on Google’s look, evolved
I think above all they test on fast internet connections.
brainburn··on Soylent 2.0
^ is your opinion.

Some people prefer not to spend time on cooking.

brainburn··on Improving Facebook's Performance on Android with FlatBuffers
I'm a bit surprised they decoded json on the main thread...
brainburn··on Fuse – Write cross platform native apps using C# and JavaScript
What the examples need is a link to the Playstore/Itunes so we can see how Fuse behaves on a real device.
brainburn··on Paw: The ultimate REST client for Mac
Somehow it does not understand what to do with my https://mydomain.io/blah url, it tries to fetch https://mydomain.io%0A/blah%0A

Postman has no problems with it though :)

brainburn··on Kubernetes: The Future of Deployment
According to the IO 2014 talk about docker/kubernetes, it was chosen because it means something like pilot/helmsman.
brainburn··on In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand
I've been eating our own type of soylent for the past year and a half now. 2 per day, morning and noon, and 'normal' dinner. The type I eat is ketogenic (meaning low carb).

I have to conclude that I feel better than ever before. Where previously I ate very monotonic (and one could argue, I still do), I did not get all the nutrients I should. I now do, and feel pretty damn good.

I do feel soylent is the future, but there are many varieties.

In my circles, the whole movement has sparked a lot of discussion, and many people close to me are now eating all kinds of soylent, homemade, joylent, jake shake etc.

Let's hope that someday the whole 'fat is bad' concept leaves the mainstream, it does not seem to do a lot of good.

Btw the variety I eat costs below 5 euros per day, with 2100 calories. And I think it tastes pretty great. Only wins.

brainburn··on Analysis of DNA uncovers a rough dating scene after the advent of agriculture
I suspect all that depleted uranium the US has been dumping in other countries via bullets is not helping the local DNA at all.
brainburn··on Inside a Chinese Bitcoin Mine That's Grossing $1.5M a Month
And what do we do with most gold?

We store it in vaults...

brainburn··on Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts
For one, in the US there exist a thing called 'private prison'.

Meaning prisons are run by private companies, with the intent to make as much money as possible.

Meaning laws are influenced by the money from these companies.

It's fucking scary, really.

brainburn··on A Heroin Dealer Tells the Silk Road Jury What It Was Like to Sell Drugs Online
Yeah I wonder what other purpose this testimony could have.

Seems to me a moment where a lawyer in the movies would shout 'objection, relevancy' or something.

brainburn··on Tough Times on the Road to StarCraft
He says the maximum number of units is 1600.

If 6 players mindcontrol a drone and an scv and build additional armies, the total number of units could way exceed 1600. Or what am I missing?

brainburn··on Computer Science in the DPRK [video]
"uhhh".

Makes it really hard to watch this.

brainburn··on The mystery of the disappearing Silk Road murder charges
Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law
brainburn··on Ask HN: What programming font do you use?
Cosmic Sans Neue Mono

Note there's an S in Cosmic :)

https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

brainburn··on Apache Wave on Sandstorm.io
I think where Google messed up was requiring invites for Wave.

Pretty hard to get people on board when they first have to scrounge to get an invite to something they do not quite understand. Network effect--;

It could have been so big and awesome. I'm sure after a while the speed issues would have been ironed out.

brainburn··on Updated MacBook Pros
You thought it was worth the price, so what's the problem?
brainburn··on Share: The Icon No One Agrees On
No reason the icon can't be animated.
brainburn··on Opera is really nice.
Opera WAS very nice. Fast, great keyboard navigation, native mouse gestures, native tabs on the left instead of above.

But sometimes it would just hang, some sites would not show properly.

I kept it around for way too long. Now I use firefox with a tab addon and curse its sluggishness..

There just don't seem to be any browsers that don't suck in some way.

brainburn··on Ad blockers: A solution or a problem?
You mean are merely costing the publishers money
brainburn··on Source Code in TV and Films
Assuming of course the programmer wanted to output an F.
brainburn··on You can now create a Bitcoin clone by filling out a simple webform
Where's the API ?
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