kevinbluer

282 karma · joined June 23, 2010

See me walking down Fifth Avenue. A walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk. I'm an Englishman in New York (although I'm actually now based in Hong Kong). [http://www.bluer.com]

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kevinbluer··on Google Glass Lifestream

Awesome...look forward to giving it a try!

I started to play with a similar (although somewhat less automated approach) thing here: http://glass.bluer.com

Combining with other sources (Memoto, phone cameras, etc) could be interesting too.

kevinbluer··on What's Wrong with the iOS 7 Icons?

Agreed. I can't shake the feeling that, while a UI / UX refresh was absolutely necessary, this lack of polish and consistency would have never made the light of day with Jobs at the helm.

And the gloss on the Game Center icon is just downright bizarre!

kevinbluer··on Edward Snowden: Classified US data shows Hong Kong hacking targets

Just speculation, but any thoughts on the possibility of this being coordinated FUD put out there to discredit Snowden (although this would require some degree of USG collaboration with South China Morning Post)?

If this were the case it's already worked reasonably well in muddying the opinion / perception here on HN, and would obviously give significant ammunition to the mainstream media.

kevinbluer··on Dear NSA, let me take care of your slides.

Genius :)

kevinbluer··on Assange in 2011: "They have automated the process."

"CIA calls Facebook 'Reason We Invented The Internet'" [1], gotta love The Onion :)

[1] http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...;

kevinbluer··on BBC announces the closure of the Digital Media Initiative

Perhaps a slight bit of irony there that the TLA of "Fabric Archive Database" is FAD.

kevinbluer··on At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom

Already in the works... http://www.epiphanyeyewear.com

kevinbluer··on Facebook buys Parse

They also offer a full mobile back-end (increasingly referred to as MBaaS...admittedly not the nicest acronym): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backend_as_a_service

kevinbluer··on Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript

Wow, ridiculously impressive.

kevinbluer··on Curiosity images strange metallic-looking object on Mars

Couldn't agree more...this would be amazing.

kevinbluer··on Airbnb Annual

Fantastic, thanks for sharing!

kevinbluer··on Ping-pong gun fires balls at supersonic speeds

From the end: "do not, do not, try this at home"...e.g. "do" :)

kevinbluer··on China paper carries Onion Kim Jong-un 'heart-throb' spoof

Hilarious! Although amazing that it wasn't picked up on as a spoof...

kevinbluer··on Show HN: Instant Google Street View

I love that "news" randomly brings up a kebab :)