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flippanton Ask HN: Torrent client (Mac) recommendations?

I set up Deluge web on a server, and I use SFTP to transfer downloaded files to my Mac.

flippanton My favorite day of the month is bank statement day at my company

Off-topic: What are they doing that requires "hundreds of thousands of searches with the DMV" every month?

flippanton Show HN: Chessboardify – Make the grid a chessboard

What are you using Socket.IO for on the page?

flippanton Open-Sourcing Twitter Heron

- Erlang/Elixir

  - OP mentioned performance. Erlang is terrible for

CPU-bound tasks.

- Haskell

  - OP said non-esoteric.

- Rust

  - There's a significant ramp up before you learn to deal with the compiler and lifetimes.

flippanton Ask HN: How can Slack be disrupted?

I recently started using Flowdock after a similar experience with Slack and it seems to solve a lot of these problems with threaded conversations in channels.

flippanton Ask HN: Are you interested in “reading” podcasts?

I have a similar problem. I can't listen to podcasts while doing anything important and I don't have a long commute. However, I've found that listening to news podcasts at an extremely low volume immediately before sleeping to be useful. This allows me to listen to the podcast if I concentrate, and zone out and fall asleep if I don't.

flippanton Clojure 1.8

The JVM startup time is actually negligible. What you're seeing is the time it takes to load the clojure jar.

flippanton Ask HN: Are any startups working on text-to-speech?

I have the crontab set up to `say 'ay ay. ay ay. smoke weed. every day.` every day at 4:20.

I'm not even a stoner and folks seem to get a kick out of it whenever they're pair programming with me.

flippanton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2016)

Location: Canada

Remote: Prefer on-site

Willing to relocate: Yes (anywhere in Canada)

Technologies: Go, Javascript, Scala, Python, Java, HTML, CSS

Email: hn_@forward.cat

Github: https://github.com/marvelm

flippanton Show HN: Rabbit – Synchronized video playback

Yes, one user takes control and the other participants have their video synchronized whenever the user in control pauses and plays.

The setup is prohibitively complex. I'll invest some time into having hands-free fetch/setup (possibly using OTP releases) and resubmit HN.

Thanks for your feedback

flippanton Show HN: Rabbit – Synchronized video playback

I've been working on this during the holidays to watch Christmas movies with a friend. I mainly use it to stream h264/mp3 encoded videos. Inspired by Netflix Party, I decided to submit it to Show HN. It's largely unpolished, but the core feature (the ability for a partner to sync playback) works well.

Yesterday, I added a video chat feature. I'm not sure if it works exactly as intended because I don't have anyone to test it with this late at night.

Thank you for looking at my project.

flippanton Show HN: Netflix Party – Synchronize Netflix Video Playback

I created Rabbit[0] which allows me to stream h.264/mp3 encoded videos and synchronize the video with a partner. I recently added a feature that overlays a video chat using some simple WebRTC code.

[0] https://github.com/marvelm/rabbit-ex

flippanton Ask HN: What's your favourite personal website?

http://aprilzero.com/

flippanton Flint, MI: So much lead in children’s blood, state of emergency declared

It's a reminder to double-check with your doctor before taking the advice of a stranger on the internet.

flippanton Bullshit Startup Experiences

It might be because banks were forced to place a limit on withdrawals.

flippanton Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths

Sorry

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/liftweb/dead/lift...

flippanton Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths

Someone asked recently on the mailing list if Lift is dead.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/liftweb/dA5NUjkqB-4

flippanton Show HN: DocRev – crowd-sourcing document reviews

I'm not sure if this is the intended purpose, but how about you add the TPP agreements and post the link to Reddit.

flippanton Ask HN: How do you navigate a new codebase?

Look at the tests and see what breaks them.

flippanton Ask HN: How would you donate a few $20 bills?

I think you should volunteer at a charity that engages in work that you care about and then decide if you still want to donate.

flippanton Why Go is a poorly designed language (from a perspective of Go lover)

There has to be a better way of doing this:

  numbers = append(numbers[:2], append([]int{3}, numbers[2:]...)...)

flippanton Getting to “Philosophy”

Your project looks really cool, but it would be great if one could share a link to a query.

flippanton Ask HN: What's it like to live and work in New Orleans?

Your personal website is down.

>Status Code:500 Internal Server Error

>Error establishing a database connection

flippanton Comparing a web service written in Python and Go [pdf]

Erlang is mentioned as a solution on page 6.

>[Go is] way to easy to program than Erlang

flippanton Page Weight Matters (2012)

It's for the average user with a decent connection that skips parts of a video. This is tedious, but if you want to buffer a YouTube video try youtube-dl[0] or using VLC.

[0]https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

flippanton Tacit, a CSS Framework Without Classes

Off-topic: the link is https://github.com/yegor256/tacit?oct

Is the `oct` url parameter significant or just a typo?

flippanton Why Quirky Failed

Eggs in some parts of the world are washed. This removes the outer layer and as a result they need to be stored in the fridge.

flippanton Skype Is Down. What Next?

WebRTC is peer to peer. I'm going to guess that it's not particularly expensive to run the service.

flippanton I'm Begging for Work

He was led on with the promise of a better salary.

flippanton OS X Command Line Utilities

    say 'ay ay. ay ay. smoke weed. every day.'