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I've been very keen on getting into Overtone for some time now, what kinds of stuff are you doing with it?

It may be wrong, but is it, perhaps, a harmless and useful way to understand Haskell?

(I have a friend who always tries to show me examples of neat stuff he's done in Haskell and I can never wrap my brain about it)

melloclelloon Xeer

I thought it was insightful and interesting!

melloclelloon Xeer

> please keep this trashy behavior off of HN

You might get more mileage by keeping trashy derails off of HN, instead. OP had some interesting things to say, who cares about the Ayn Rand thing.

melloclelloon Show HN: Survival Thriller Game that uses Echolocation

Looks cool, graphics could perhaps use a little improvement? I'm imagining it would be much scarier if there was a bit of base white noise instead of a pure black background. Messes with your imagination.

melloclelloon A thing that never was: ringback tones

This was huge in New Zealand for a while in the mid 2000s - I have no idea how you'd sign up for it nowadays, but sometimes I'll call somebody and still hear a tinny rendition of I Believe In A Thing Called Love before they pick up.

melloclelloon New Tab Experiments

I like my new tab to be empty. Because it's a new tab.

melloclelloon 2048, success and me

Good on you for staying cool man

melloclelloon Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

I think I broke it.

http://imgur.com/GFbIQKf.png

melloclelloon ChucK: Strongly-timed, Concurrent, and On-the-fly Music Programming Language

I took a course in ChucK at university. It was such an awful way to make music that all but three or four of around 20 people in the class dropped out.

melloclelloon Ask HN: Idea Sunday

meh @ that 'product'

melloclelloon Ask HN: Idea Sunday

Why not just photograph your notepad with your smartphone?

melloclelloon Ask HN: I am a good developer but have a serious gaming addiction

Block that shit from your hosts file g

melloclelloon Why I use non-American English voices in my text to speech

Alternatively - use the OS X 'Fred' voice (or even 'Zarvox'). It's been around since 1990, and it sounds like a robot should, not like a robot trying to sound like a human.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlainTalk

melloclelloon LSD, Reconsidered for Therapy

terrible, of course. but I got my UIPercentDrivenAnimatedTransitions working at last and was able to tidy them up later. I think I spent the whole time just reading apple API docs. christ, what a waste of good acid.

melloclelloon LSD, Reconsidered for Therapy

I have tried microdosing. Took a sixth of a tab and disappeared for eight hours. When I emerged from this fugue state there was all this code there that wasn't there before~

In retrospect, that probably wasn't microdosing so much as it was just coding on acid.

melloclelloon Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance

Booooo

melloclelloon Put.io

Thrice today I've clicked on a link to put.io (which was upvoted on a number of sites), scrolled around absentmindedly for a bit, and left. It was only just now that I thought, 'wait a second' and clicked back, to realise that your site is a bittorrent service (and one that I may actually use since my free EC2 instance (which I was using as a torrent box) just expired).

I guess what I'm saying is, you might want to unbold 'Hassle-free' and embolden the word 'torrenting' in your byline. Or something like that. Here's what my brain saw when I went to your site:

http://i.imgur.com/9D78Bx9.png

I'm not being snarky, but I am trying to help you see into the mind of a disinterested internet user in the midst of a mild social media daze.

melloclelloon An immutable operating system

Complimentary Loper OS link, too: www.loper-os.org/?p=284

melloclelloon Workers bought sugar from supermarket to slow cement flood on Victoria Line

I remember my dad telling me about working on a site where the homeowners had decided they wanted a brown concrete driveway to match the house - and subsequently used a large amount of brown sugar to colourise their cement. It never set.

melloclelloon [dead]

Because Gruber is a shameless Apple sycophant

melloclelloon [dead]

  Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow

melloclelloon Ted Nelson: It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC

If you'd like to read more inflammatory screeds from idealists who've never released anything, I highly recommend the blog of Stanislav Datsovskiy[1], in which he passionately elucidates the finer details of what might constitute a non-horrible operating system/programming environment[2].

> "I sometimes find myself wondering if the invention of the high-level compiler was a fundamental and grave (if perhaps inevitable) mistake, not unlike, say, leaded gasoline."[3]

As I gather, he's spent about the last five years or so trying to build a LISP machine from scratch on an FPGA.

(PS I see from your profile that you're an iOS dev too... I would think that anybody who writes Objective-C for a living would typically sustain an intense and burning hatred for the state of contemporary programming, and be otherwise eternally fascinated by any proposed alternatives. How do you do it?)

[1] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=8

[2] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

[3] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=55

melloclelloon Ted Nelson: It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC

It's not about who did and who didn't change the world, but the fact that the people who did change the world are not above (some pretty ruthless) criticism.

melloclelloon A keyboard that rises up from flat touch screens

I always mind of expected that someday we'd come up with something more sensible than a miniature Qwerty keyboard for text input on a phone. Something not unlike Swype (or any number of the other alternative keyboards out there) but with an interface which does away with the keyboard metaphor (note that Swype is the only one so far to catch on in any way).

(Also note that voice recognition doesn't count, as to compete with a keyboard your input mechanism has to be discreet)

melloclelloon Dawn of Autonomous Corporations Powered by Bitcoin: Part-2

I imagine a future dominated by the latter kind of corporation - once someone builds the first profitable self-owning entity (I dunno, maybe it engages in high-frequency trading or direct marketing all day long) that can rent its own server space and reproduce itself, it will spawn out of control.

melloclelloon What VR could, should, and almost certainly will be within two years [pdf]

> Content available for use on the Headset produces an immersive virtual reality experience, and users may have reactions to that experience, including simulation sickness (similar to motion sickness), perceptual after-effects, disorientation, decreased postural stability, eye strain, dizziness and/or nausea, and feelings of depersonalization (feelings of watching yourself act) or derealization (feelings that the external world seems unreal).

O_O

melloclelloon Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned?

I just want to put my hand up against the selection bias in this thread and say that I totally don't care about the broken links, and that rock-solid moderation is a far more important issue for any online community.

melloclelloon Never Going Back - A Week of Not Eating Lunch at My Desk

just wait until HN finds out nicotine is (technically) a powerful nootropic

melloclelloon Never Going Back - A Week of Not Eating Lunch at My Desk

i know right