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michaelchum

39 karma · joined October 11, 2013

Software Engineering Student at McGill University

Github: https://github.com/michaelchum

Email: michaelhochum@gmail.com

Website: http://michaelchum.com

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michaelchum··on A game made with CSS/HTML only
Doesn't work on Safari (OS X)
michaelchum··on CodePush by Microsoft
I wonder how Apple is going to react to this. This basically allows developers to issue app updates and bypass the Apple App Store verification process.
michaelchum··on Experimental browser built in HTML
A browser running inside a browser!!!
michaelchum··on Scroll Slow. Have Fun
Nothing for me either with a rMBP
michaelchum··on Show HN: Chrome extension to navigate dependencies in Node.js projects on Github
Is there a similar tool for Python?
michaelchum··on How to learn new things using side projects
Great to see a software blogger from Montreal
michaelchum··on [dead]
Same thing happens to me. Once I received the confirmation e-mail and click on the link, the url on that page "continue to our website" brings to Designer Chat nor Hacker Chat
michaelchum··on Lenovo Y410 on sale for $279, PR stunt gone wrong?
http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/lenovo-canada-please-h...

This happen quite often with Lenovo... PR

michaelchum··on Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've read recently?
JavaScript: The Good Parts. Made me see JS in a much more elegant way. Coding JS is not trivial. I did use JS in webdev in general, and APIs. But really, I would have never known the mysteries behind it such as prototypal inheritance.
michaelchum··on Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
I'm surprised this IEEE article didn't even mention Git
michaelchum··on Show HN: My first iOS app – Permeate, the Twitter digest
Very nice app, simple, intuitive and clean design. However, I would definitely like more tweets! Preferably, an infinite scroll down/refresh, I'd say. Keep up the good work!
michaelchum··on Show HN: Spotsy – iPhone app to discover the world through Instagram
Wow, this is nicely done, very neat. Great job!

Just out of curiosity, is this a native app? I really like the animations of the modal windows, I wonder how you made them so awesome!

michaelchum··on Ask HN: How do you read your programming books?
I prefer the classical paperback, which you can easily highlight/write notes. However, I just carry a programming book to learn low-level details during my daily commute. Most of my learning is done during practice referring to online resources.
michaelchum··on Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
I remember your 2nd place win at HackMIT, congratz again. It was THE most useful hack by far and I'm glad you've made it a public product now, and free. Wow, it seems like you beat all those years industrial OCR products... and by far. This is simply amazing, keep on the great work!!!
michaelchum··on MorpHex, a hexapod robot
Amazing, looks like transformers will someday be a reality!
michaelchum··on Crate.io – Big Data SQL in real time
It seems like replicating NoSQL with SQL?
michaelchum··on Ask HN: F*ck HostGator. Can anyone suggest a better managed VPS alternative?
DigitalOcean!!! You can't get a better VPS for their price. Super fast SSD (you feel the difference), almost no outages, extremely easy to setup and you build the stack you want. Stellar customer service. https://www.digitalocean.com/
michaelchum··on ASk HN: I Need a Self-hosted blog platform
A lot of hackers use Octopress http://octopress.org/ it is a framework over Jekyll which lets you write posts in an easy way like Wordpress. It also contains templates so you don't have to take care of the HTML/CSS/JS like in Jekyll
michaelchum··on Ask HN: Why aren't Google, Facebook or Twitter CAs?
Sorry for my ignorance but what is a CA? Here in Canada, CA stands for Chartered Accountant.
michaelchum··on Ask HN: Broke up with girlfriend, how to get on track with projects?
Stay strong. The best way to stay focused is to follow your passion, keep doing what you truly like to do. During your spare time, keep yourself busy with things you enjoy. Always keep yourself busy. Don't hesitate up some friends, even those you didn't see for a long time. Set yourself goals which you'll enjoy following. Stay strong and enjoy everything you do :)
michaelchum··on A list of vendors at the PyCon job fair that hire remotely
I would volunteer to help out at next year's Pycon in Mtl if you're planning to do produce a similar survey
michaelchum··on How I resurrected my MacBook Pro by putting it in the oven
This is astonishing... But anyone else feels like this sounds like trolling? There is no actual video, but only pictures. And perhaps, maybe it's just me, but I don't see how high heat can resurrect the logic board?
michaelchum··on Domino's Uses Pizza-Smelling Thermal Ink on Rented DVDs [video]
Wow, ingenious! This is cool, but will my DVD cover go back to Argo once it cools down? If not...all the DVD covers will be pizzas.. We won't be able to differentiate them anymore.
michaelchum··on Linear algebra tutorial in four pages
Wow amazing stuff here, I agree with you that most math textbooks in our education system fail to explain concepts which are supposed to be very simple. Thank you so much for making things simpler. I'm having MATH 270 final next week at McGill, this is going to help a lot in studying :)
michaelchum··on Show HN: MMORPG in 55KB of Javascript
Amazing, reminds me of Runescape, the old days
michaelchum··on Empty-Stomach Intelligence
Same here, I feel more focused and have stronger mental acuity when my stomach is empty
michaelchum··on How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002)
Interesting educational read, wise experience from a programmer, definitively to read for beginner programmers like me!
michaelchum··on Apple Just Cannibalized the MacBook Air
Some people prefer the 11' MBA for portability and perhaps the MBA still has more battery life: 12 hours potentially 14-15 hours with Mavericks while the rMBP is announced at 9 hours. However, I think you would eventually be right, rMBP and MBA might fuse into one product in further generations due to their rapproaching similarities.
michaelchum··on Show HN: Meals/Feels - Log your meals and feels to spot food allergies
Wow this is awesome, I just recently started doing this but in my head, a lot of intolerances and mild allergies can only be diagnosed by self testing. I just discovered that I was gluten intolerant, and perhaps many more. This is going to be quite useful, thank you so much!
michaelchum··on Bitcoin explained
Very good initiative to explain Bitcoin, a lot of people like myself don't understand how this obscure currency works. Perhaps you should should further include P2P and how mining works!
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