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iambot

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Working at increasing my luck surface area.
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iambot··on Finish your stuff
But its so hard! :) my strategy is to have many 3-9 side projects on at any one time, each is really just practice and I judge the concepts based on how often revisit them.
iambot··on Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App
Just paid for pro, and up voting/ commenting from inside. I don't even care if I'm giving you my authentication creds. So gud!
iambot··on Icons of all main payment operators and methods
no gumtree but looks great otherwise.
iambot··on Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot
I guess the question then is: Sean, who is Erik?
iambot··on What are your favorite sci-fi and fantasy books?
Diamond age: a young ladies illustrated primer. Anathem. Halting state. Accelerando. Rant: an oral biography of buster casey. Enders game. The laundry files.
iambot··on Show HN: Bubbles – A minimalist visualization of what's new on Twitter
should probably remove stop words
iambot··on Joker – Torrents to streamable video
it is: https://github.com/feross/webtorrent
iambot··on A Notary Protocol for the Blockchain
Which in turn seems simliar (albeit more featureful) to http://www.proofofexistence.com/
iambot··on A Notary Protocol for the Blockchain
I suppose the fact that this inserts hashes into the Bitcoin Blockchain. makes it entirely different to what ethereum is, that is not to say that something like this could not be implemented using ethereum alone.
iambot··on Chancecoin: a decentralized casino built on top of Bitcoin
in theory it is: http://blog.ethereum.org/2014/03/28/schellingcoin-a-minimal-...
iambot··on Ethereum White Paper
see @mquandalle's reply re schelling coins, blog post by @vbuterin here: http://blog.ethereum.org/2014/03/28/schellingcoin-a-minimal-...
iambot··on Can Namecoin obsolete ICANN (and more)?
Doesn't that defeat the point?
iambot··on Cryptocat, Now on iPhone
b here, well worth a look, buddies list seems to be crashy, but very well designed with minimal features. worth checking out.
iambot··on Ask HN: Which tools do you use for invoice (freelancers and small biz)
Checkout http://invoiceomatic.io/ its a free invoice and reminder service provided by http://ww.freeagent.com as part of their marketing, onboarding, but its great and spam free.
iambot··on Chromecast update breaks AllCast
Check out https://github.com/lanceseidman/PiCAST
iambot··on Ask HN: Best ways to accept donations?
I'd recommend gumroad.com [1] as a simple button to accept micro payments.

[1] http://gumroad.com

iambot··on Show HN: A Codecademy for data analysis (with R)
I think you need to fix the achievement/completion placeholder images. because had I wanted to share my progress it would have looked silly. and would have cost valuable PR. just saying. looks good though.

I was a little disappointed by the "repl" on the home page, i had to basically type exactly what was asked else it had not idea what to do, not very good for learning.

good job

iambot··on Grep too slow? Use git-grep
Why is this? Would anyone with a better understanding of the situation care to explain why it would be faster?
iambot··on Nitrous.IO for Mac - Edit Code Locally, Run In the Cloud
Sounds good. Thanks.
iambot··on Nitrous.IO for Mac - Edit Code Locally, Run In the Cloud
Having just tried it out (for the first time, briefly) is it purely for development, not production? Its great by the way. But do you see it as a dev server with the user organising their own production boxes elsewhere?
iambot··on Nitrous.IO for Mac - Edit Code Locally, Run In the Cloud
This looks awesome. I had to stop playing the demo video, to go sign up immediately.

Nice free tier, but the rest looks a bit pricy.

UPDATE: After signing up and creating my first box, I cant find the mac application thats in the demo video to install :(

UPDATE2: I contacted them via chat, and while it isnt reachable by link once logged in, its at https://nitrous.io/mac

iambot··on Show HN: Bulletin, a fast, clean Google Reader replacement
clickable: https://www.bulletin.io
iambot··on Ex-NeXT Developer: Steve Jobs "Would Have Died Before Giving In To The NSA"
Coincidence... ? Hehe
iambot··on React: A JavaScript Library for Building User Interfaces
> This example constructs the component using an XML-like syntax called JSX.

Ew!

iambot··on Verlet-js - Open source dynamic body physics engine
Are you thinking of Physijs [0], which is made to work well with ThreeJS? Its a wrapper around Ammojs for ThreeJS.

It does look good and integrates well, but to be honest ThreeJS is so mature and battle tested with multiple renderers (canvas, webgl etc) that when building a physics engine, I really think it would be better to spend ones dev time on the physics and not waste* time reimplementing a portion of ThreeJS.

[0]: http://chandlerprall.github.io/Physijs/

*Obviously not actually 'wasted' time, hacking is great even just for the sake of it - but I'm sure you know what I mean.

iambot··on Verlet-js - Open source dynamic body physics engine
Looks great, thanks for sharing. One thing I would suggest is to not worry about rendering the physics on the canvas, threejs is good at what it does and lacks a good physics engine. It's just my opinion, but I think the project would benefit from either making it work with threejs or by not solving the render problem, and just focus on doing great physics, so that people can use the results in their threejs scenes.

Great work though

iambot··on Imperative vs. Declarative
I prefer the imperative style personally, I like things done the way I want ... I kid, great write-up though.
iambot··on The English-Likeness Monster Stalks a New Generation of Programmers
I personally like how cucumber tests look exactly like english but it's up to the test writer to explain (through the writing of "step definitions") what each type of phase means (in actual ruby) and then when you combine them you can perform any number of _domain-specific_ tasks. Kinda neat. and a halfway between actually writing a DSL and explaining to the ruby runtime how to interpret a subset of english for this domain.
iambot··on Zen Writing Mode
I wrote a short blog post [1] on what I found while trying out Github's new zen writing tool. Just using it was enlightening for me if you havn't tried it yet give it a go, or have a look at what I thought of it, then you'll want to give it a go?

  I realised that I wanted to be able to link to this. 
  Not the main github page of my code repository (although I will want to do that too 
  of course) but to this markdown rendered zen mode view of what I want to show them.
  be that code or prose.
Over all I think it's great and have tried to explain my thoughts more fully in the link provided.

[1]: https://github.com/christopherdebeer/zen/blob/master/README....

iambot··on Show HN: Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to
On my Macbook OSX Mountain Lion, it works great and started playing on load (Which didn't happen when i loaded in on iOS but thats to be expected)

One thing that REALLY bugged me was this: The link on each item that reads "View Original Article" just links to the service: SoundGecko - It doesn't link to the original article at all!! - Not even the HN post so the source and the context (HN Comments) is reachable AT ALL!!

Seriously this site is brilliant, BUT what you've done - In my opinion this is unacceptable, at least link to the original article author.

and then linking to the service you're scraping as a courtesy

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