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  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: preferred
  Willing to relocate: yes
  Technologies: php, python, javascript, mysql, bash, linux
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-smith-1963608/
             https://github.com/murrain/
  Email: patrick@nerdgeekhero.com

murrainon Rooms and mazes: A procedural dungeon generator (2014)

Tile-Based Map Generation using Wave Function Collapse in 'Caves of Qud' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdCgi9E90jw

murrainon WaveFunctionCollapse: Generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input

The game Caves of Qud uses this to generate maps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnFj3dOKcIQ

murrainon Ask HN: How can I become a better listener?

Speeding up YouTube to 1.8-2.2x really helped my ability to focus on it. I use a Firefox addon called Video Speed Controller.

murrainon HN: List of April Fools' Day Announcements (2017)

Nvidia G assist: http://www.geforce.com/gtx-g-assist

murrainon I've built a news app for iOS. Is it important to be on Android as well?

Even though there are more Android devices the iOS App Store has higher revenue.

"[App Annie]’s annual report claims that the App Store generated more than 70% more revenues than Google Play in 2014"

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/28/android-io...

murrainon Spent a couple o' days setting up a hacker news clone. How to build a community?

There's a lot of good information about community at CMX Hub: http://cmxhub.com/

murrainon What headphones are on your ears?

Check out http://www.head-fi.org/products/category/headphones

murrainon One-liner password generation in PHP

With that it will always contain 3 capital letters, 3 lower case letters, 2 numbers, and 2 punctuation.

murrainon One-liner password generation in PHP

$password = str_shuffle((substr(str_shuffle('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'),0,3).substr(str_shuffle('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'),0,3).substr(str_shuffle('0123456789'),0,2).substr(str_shuffle('!@#$'),0,2)));

murrainon A mesmerizing bottom-up approach to Instagram analytics

Being HN, I was expecting an article with numbers and stuff.

murrainon Ask HN: What's an app you'd pay $5/month for?

Try http://voicebunny.com/. They have an API, or listing the jobs on Mechanical Turk to be read by a human.

murrainon Show HN: ThemeForest for Twitter Bootstrap

https://wrapbootstrap.com/

murrainon Ask HN: What calendar app(s) do you use?

Google Calendar

murrainon [dead]

If I'm going to pay for a stake in the company I'd like to know a little bit about the people running it. There is no information about the company at all.

murrainon Ask HN: What headphones are you using?

Klispch S4

murrainon Why Twitter’s Co-Founders Are Betting Big On A Vegan Meat Startup

Source in San Francisco serves this. If I didn't know it was faux meat I wouldn't have been able to distinguish this from real chicken.

murrainon Confessions of a car salesman

I used to be the Internet Sales Manager for a dealership in the bay area and I can second that TrueCar is a powerful asset for the consumer.

When a dealership signs up with TrueCar they agree to give full access to their sales database. Now TrueCar has access to every car you buy and sell, new or used. They then aggregate this data to create their pricing information.

murrainon Ask HN: Ideas/Advice for a sole 18 year old hacker?

I'd like to help. Email me (it's in my profile).

murrainon YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music

The CEO of Rumblefish did an AMA on reddit as a result of all the press this story received: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/q7via/im_the_ceo_of_ru...

murrainon Ask HN: Living as a hacker in the bay area.

For housing, check out http://www.padmapper.com