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lightyrs

629 karma · joined May 11, 2011

Writing software, writing songs, building products and companies, meeting new people and learning new skills; staying interested and vital above most else.
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lightyrs··on Show HN: Bateman, a stock trading system I'm working on
_this is the first time I've ever felt like I understood something about algorithmic trading systems. Thank you.
lightyrs··on Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
Agree with most of the usability comments here but have to give kudos for the color selection. They are phenomenal. I'd love to see a bootstrap theme implement these. Maybe I'll whip up the sass vars file later.
lightyrs··on Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
Generally color swatches are paired to give a suggestion for a complementary or accent color that is determined according to prevailing color theory. Sometimes you'll see the primary color with 2 to 4 other swatches, depending on the color relation used (tertiary, complementary, etc).

I use compass-colors to apply this concept to my stylesheets.

lightyrs··on How to stop Time Warner Cable sucking at Youtube
This worked really well for me. Thank you!
lightyrs··on I'm a shut-in. This is my story
Although I think you overestimate your uniqueness, you have the potential to be a very good writer. Please keep the posts coming, Kay.

Of everything you wrote, this line was the most relatable to my own experiences:

"If you don't like who I am then you can go fuck yourself."

Once I adopted this mindset, all things became possible.

Good Luck!

lightyrs··on Cross Origin Madness
This is way over my head but seems very problematic.
lightyrs··on Introducing Boxen
This looks very promising. Thanks, GitHub!
lightyrs··on Making Sharing Better
This is a welcome change but I'm still irrationally resentful of Quora for not offering a legitimate API for accessing our data.
lightyrs··on Show HN: a conspiracy theory generator
I love this. How does it work?

> Salmonella helped beyoncé achieve a meteoric rise to fame and influence.

In 1750, Benjamin Franklin was observed by over fifteen residents of Philadelphia as he branded an unidentified man with an Illuminati insignia. He was overheard telling one of his associates, “my work will be done once beyoncé arrives to complete it.”

lightyrs··on Show HN: Pick a better background pattern for your website
This is really useful, thank you!

I built this tool to test out Adobe webfonts. I'd like to convert it into a bookmarklet like you did here. Thanks for the inspiration!

http://harrisnovick.com/cygni (move mouse to left browser edge for menu).

lightyrs··on Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling
Have you tried Google Hangouts? I've had some success with that lately over Skype.
lightyrs··on How SublimeText Bodybags vim+Terminator
Just installed this new EasyMotion plugin. Works well!

https://github.com/tednaleid/sublime-EasyMotion

lightyrs··on A student's grandmother is far more likely to die just before an exam
This is one of the best submissions I've seen on hn. So often these days, people are treating 'SCIENCE' as a completely objective enterprise when it is usually the interpretation of objective observations that is fed to the public, which is a very subjective matter.
lightyrs··on Developer Auction Hires 19 Year Old Thiel Fellow As COO
I'm not arguing about the semantic validity of the name. Brands are about more than their semantic meaning, namely, the perceptions they generate. Developer Auction makes me think of Slave Auction. That's not good.
lightyrs··on Developer Auction Hires 19 Year Old Thiel Fellow As COO
I think this is an interesting model and Sujay definitely seems like a talented fellow, however, am I the only one repulsed by the name "Developer Auction"?

It makes me think of another kind of auction of human labor — Slave Auction. I don't like the objectification of talented engineers or humans in general.

lightyrs··on Howdoi – Instant Coding Answers via the Command Line
This is amazing. Thank you so very much!

I was very impressed by responses to queries like this:

    howdoi retrieve the keys from an array of hashes in ruby

        hash = {"apple" => "fruit", "carrot" => "vegetable"}
        array = hash.keys   #=> ["apple", "carrot"]
lightyrs··on Sleek Chrome Dev Tools Skin
Gist: http://gist.github.com/4316646
lightyrs··on Sleek Chrome Dev Tools Skin
Screenshot: http://imgur.com/mbrqt
lightyrs··on Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown
I like it. Good work!
lightyrs··on Introducing Opened Captions
Thank you. This is a really cool project!
lightyrs··on Boyfriend Required
I agree that's probably the case but this seems like a good place to have that discussion.
lightyrs··on Boyfriend Required
I think this could be considered a 'hack' in the loosest sense of the word.
lightyrs··on Boyfriend Required
I love how some people think they're entitled to an outstanding partner simply by virtue of being them. This woman makes no attempt whatsoever at demonstrating her value yet demands the world of potential suitors. I don't care for this attitude.
lightyrs··on PPlanter: Rapidly deployable, reconfigurable public urinal and sink
Just curious, how would you go about detecting urine with sensors?
lightyrs··on Facebook the Devourer
I reap enormous value from Facebook and frankly feel that the tradeoff is well worth it.

Anytime I see an update in my feed that is either inane, useless, irritating, cloying, etc., I simply update the settings for that user's updates to "Only Show Important". After over a year of cultivating my feed, I am treated to a birds-eye view of the experiences of important people in my life every time I log into Facebook. This is nothing short of miraculous to me.

lightyrs··on Dear Silicon Alley, Let’s Get Earnest and Unsexy
tldr; valley is super cool b/c it's run by engineers (and they're so awesome, amirite?). new york is cool too but the people there are just kinda eh.

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For people who engineer but are not engineers, there is New York City. Life is bigger than technology and the culture that surrounds it. NYC is home to me b/c it offers a vast array of opportunities.

lightyrs··on Why isn't there a social network for hackers?
Earn my reply next time.
lightyrs··on Why isn't there a social network for hackers?
It _is_ GitHub.
lightyrs··on Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes
This
lightyrs··on Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine
I just bought 2. Does that make me double-foolish?
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