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brickmorton New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity

Great move! HN is in dire need of this guideline. Someone could post the most amazing new project that they have worked months/years on, and the comments section would inevitably have comments like "this is rubbish, completely unusable, security flaws here and there" etc etc

brickmorton Ask HN: Review my startup, www.inair.tv

I love the idea. The product has a variety of directions it can take with emerging technologies and I can see it becoming a solid companion to viewing TV/videos.

Price is out of my range, but I don't think it's an unrealistic price tag, but at the current price, you'll only be gaining a certain portion of the market.

As for me, I don't watch TV and haven't owned a TV for about five years now. That's not to say I wouldnt mind trying this out when I'm watching a movie on my laptop, if and when thats be a possibility.

brickmorton Introducing Pebble Time

33 minutes later...$2.7 MILLION?!! I think this is gonna break a record!

brickmorton Ecuador becomes the first country to roll out its own digital durrency

Interesting, I completely missed that.

brickmorton If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers

ouch! As someone who's been on an 8-month long job hunt, this hits too close to home.

brickmorton Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2

Microsoft is playing a solid game of chess with their competitors.

brickmorton Show HN: Monthly earnings of 23 Twitch streamer

the 3 decimal places made that number look very misleading...

brickmorton LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006)

You mentioned that this person was a classmate of yours. Did you know him personally? Is there an article or some kind or obituary that you can link to?

I hate to play devil's advocate, but this story has been told time and time again in different settings. sometimes it's a girl, sometimes its a college student, etc. but it always ends up with the person jumping out of a window/rooftop because they've convinced themselves that they can fly. I'm not saying that this particular story isn't true, but it's become the classic anti-LSD urban myth.

brickmorton Show HN: Nickelodeon joins the effort to teach kids to code

That color scheme hurts my life.

brickmorton Nokia 215

the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe

The phones that I really like seem to never be available in the US. Admittedly, I have a unique taste in phones. I love the idea of a minimal phone OS with a qwerty keypad (or number pad). The new Blackberry Classic looks really nice too, but it's not available in the US and Blackberry has all but abandoned ship in the US market.

Nokia is getting so close to scratching that itch with this phone. I really hope there's a US version with similar specs somewhere up the pipe.

brickmorton What Makes Monopoly, World of Warcraft, and Mario Kart So Much Fun?

Years ago, I got ahold of an NES emulator and decided to try out a Monopoly ROM. I ended up playing that game for hours a day. My Monopoly marathon lasted about a week or two, but damn was that game fun.

I tried the SNES version some time later, and it just wasn't the same...

brickmorton A new Microsoft browser?

I don't mean to be so disparaging, but Microsoft really should just take IE out back and shoot it.

brickmorton Mond – A scripting language for C# .NET/Mono

NSFW link. Although it is an informative Wikipedia article, it has a picture of a woman's genitalia.

brickmorton Ask HN: I’m visiting Bay Area and I dislike the “hacker” culture. Please help

For what it's worth, You sound alot like me, but I've never visited California. On the other hand, I've lived in New York my entire life and I love it.

Come visit New York and see how you like it!

brickmorton Show HN: Iota – a text editor written in Rust

A text editor writing itself makes me think of M.C. Esher's 'Drawing Hands' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing_Hands

brickmorton Winamp 2 in HTML5

to quote a previous post of mine:

I have a special place in my heart for Winamp's classic UI (Winamp 2). In my opinion, it was the most intuitive interface for a music player. it had a playlist, equalizer, plugins, all of which were condensable to a fraction of it's full size. Of course, now there are a number of similar players that have the same capabilities, but shit, Winamp 2.x was where it started. Even today, it blows todays iTunes interface way out of the water.

brickmorton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2014)

Location: NYC | Long Island, New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes, depending on location

Technologies: Python (Django, Flask), Bash, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Processing, Java

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwagfa9ahgp0cmJtdXlZX241N3M...

Email: please see resume

Currently working in IT, but looking to move to a developer position. I'm bilingual in Spanish and English and consider myself an honest & sociable person. Feel free to contact me even if you just want to keep in touch.

brickmorton Bootstrap 3.3.0 and Bootstrap 4

This is the rhythm of the night!

brickmorton The Weather Channel's Secret: Less Weather, More Clickbait

The Weather Channel is one of the WORST offenders for clickbait ads. The whole website reminds me of a poorly designed spam wordpress site complete with 'has science gone TOO FAR? CLICK HERE!' ads.

brickmorton Time to throw ugly jQuery progress bars away

I'm running Firefox 32.0.3. Seems to be running fine for me.

brickmorton Ask HN: What is the most incredible UI you have experienced and why?

I have a special place in my heart for Winamp's classic UI. In my opinion, it was the most intuitive interface for a music player. it had a playlist, equalizer, plugins, all of which were condensable to a fraction of it's full size. Of course, now there are a number of similar players that have the same capabilities, but shit, Winamp 2.x was where it started. Even today, it blows todays iTunes interface way out of the water.

brickmorton Show HN: Nightmare – Simple browser automation

Extra points for page design!

brickmorton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2014)

Location: NYC | Long Island, New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes, depending on location

Technologies: Python (Django, Flask), Bash, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Processing, Java

Resume: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwagfa9ahgp0SkJlRjNra3NkQkk

email: please see resume

brickmorton What the Hell Was Megadeth, Arizona?

Megadeth's 'Youthanasia' was their first radio-friendly album, riding of the success of 1992's 'Countdown to Extinction', which was their most commercially successful album.

I discovered Megadeth in the 2000's and they quickly became my favorite band. I haven't kept up with them very much in recent years, but the band and the fans have always had a tight-knit community on the internet. It's interesting to see the impact that 'Megadeth, Arizona' had on the WWW at the time. We've really come a long way in the last 20 years.

brickmorton Ask HN: How long can you code before got stuck and start googling?

Yep, I'm always googling. No shame in that.

brickmorton When WordStar Was King (2009) [pdf]

I kept reading this title as 'When WorldStar' Was King...

brickmorton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2014)

Location: NYC | Long Island, New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes, depending on location

Technologies: Python (Django, Flask), Bash, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Processing, Java

Resume: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwagfa9ahgp0SkJlRjNra3NkQkk/...

email: please see resume

brickmorton Show HN: Play music by typing

i LOVE this. i want to hear this everytime I write code.

brickmorton Show HN: Whistleblower – Whistle-Activated WebAudio Game

Me and my bird are really owning this game.

brickmorton OpenStreetMap Then and Now

Truly astounding. 2007 doesn't even seem like it was a long time ago.