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Borland! The only good thing about Hwy 17.

duncanmeechon Habitual GPS use negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation

Habitual GPS usage also results in you frequently arriving on time.

So I ordered a Samsung Note Ultra from Google Fi via expedited shipping signature required. When it is supposedly delivered the signature confirmation from Fedex claims it was signed for by 'C.NINETEEN'. Google then proceeds to immediately deny my claim for a refund of the ~$1000. Pretty nice scam these two are running?

duncanmeechon Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research

This sounds like a viable strategy...it certainly seemed to work for Norman Bates in Psycho.

duncanmeechon Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript

The original app is on bitbucket git clone git@bitbucket.org:duncanmeech/flying.git

duncanmeechon Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript

Correct! If you play with the source on codesandbox you can disable the demo mode and actually rotate the Kollsman window using the BARO button. The calculations for pressure and resulting altitude are from standard physics texts.

duncanmeechon Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript

Too bad, was only a thin wrapper at best though. Maybe time for a new open source SVG library.

duncanmeechon Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript

Originally, the code was in this repo but its a full nodejs / express app. https://bitbucket.org/duncanmeech/flying/src/master/ Just the frontend part can be found here...https://codesandbox.io/s/six-pack-flight-instruments-fl7b8

duncanmeechon Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript

I wrote these a while ago with some intention of creating flight training tools. I'm making them available to all the other programmer / pilots out there who might find them useful. https://codesandbox.io/s/six-pack-flight-instruments-fl7b8

duncanmeechon GM fungus can rapidly kill mosquitoes that spread malaria, study suggests

This is a fast way to kill mosquitos and an even faster way of creating toxin resistant mosquitos.

duncanmeechon The Shirky Principle (2010)

e.g. Tax preparation companies lobbying to prevent the tax authorities from supplying candidate computer generated tax returns for tax payers.

duncanmeechon Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

what no <blink> tags?

duncanmeechon Ask HN: Are Glassdoor reviews a reliable indicator of a company's culture?

Have you ever been asked to provide a positive review for a place that you formerly worked at? I have, I suspect this is common.

duncanmeechon The Interface font family

The interweb works better when you use things like <P> not <IMG>

duncanmeechon Front End Development Guide for Large Engineering Teams

Yawn....just another React/Redux fan boy blog.

duncanmeechon Mechanical Turk Lessons Learned

Needs more animated gifs. What was the blog post about again?

duncanmeechon Animated Algorithms

agreed, but compiling the code does have the benefit of providing syntax checking and you are assured the full benefits of whatever JS engine your browser is running. How do I create new algorithms on you site? I could not figure that out.

duncanmeechon Animated Algorithms

Wow, that is super sweet. I have been planning to add user interaction to algomation.com but have not had the time yet. The input mechanism would need to support validation and defaults so that algorithms could always run unattended but otherwise very doable despite the web workers that I use on the site.

duncanmeechon Animated Algorithms

...working on a search term extraction algorithm as we speak :)

duncanmeechon Animated Algorithms

Featured algorithms are on the homepage or these are good examples of the site:

http://www.algomation.com/algorithm/towers-hanoi-recursive-v...

http://www.algomation.com/algorithm/dijkstra-graph-shortest-...

http://www.algomation.com/algorithm/reversi-othello-engine-n...

http://www.algomation.com/algorithm/heap-sort-priority-queue

duncanmeechon Animated Algorithms

more dynos added....should be smoother now.

duncanmeechon Animated Algorithms

I added a few more dynos...nice and smooth now. Apologies. -duncan meech