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148 karma · joined January 14, 2012

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rajington··on What3Words – Give Precise coordinates anywhere in the world in 3 words
Really wish they didn't do plural of words...
rajington··on Universal Install Script
Sure, why not https://github.com/universalinstallscript/universalinstallsc...
rajington··on React.js Conf 2016 [videos]
Thanks!
rajington··on React.js Conf 2016 [videos]
I tried submitting a reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/474odi/what_about_...), but it didn't get much traction... I think because the videos got pulled. I hope you guys don't mind if I ask this question here, and I apologize if I'm being naive in some way:

Aditya Punjani's later Flipkart talk (https://youtu.be/m2tvYGCdOzs) mentioned the importance of mobile web apps and 60 FPS.

Ben Alpert's talk mentioned (https://youtu.be/-RJf2jYzs8A?t=1378) "React Native for the web" would be awesome.

There was even a lightning talk on react-native-web which attempts to do this using the traditional DOM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBg2_uQE4KM)

Whatever happened to Flipboard's React Canvas (http://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/02/mobile-web/ and https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas) being a solution to these problems? There's pretty good browser availability and although there's currently no perfect solutions for things like accessibility, SEO, or server-side rendering... I failed to se a real "nail in the coffin". Did it just never gather enough momentum?

rajington··on Show HN: Pouces – alternate input method for iPhone
Interesting, how did you decide on which letters go where on the radial menus and is there any predictive aspect to it?
rajington··on Show HN: Using IBM Watson's Speech-To-Text API to Make Automated Supercuts
Absolutely amazing, I've always wanted to do something with syncing transcription and timestamps but was looking for some guidance. Thank you incredibly for making it open source.

Not sure why this isn't getting liked more, but maybe you could try some of the cheesy cuts like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zz-lTa1SAM

Either way, I'm sure the guys at comedy news shows will love this.

rajington··on Complete List of Best IoT Platforms
AWS IoT
rajington··on Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research?
AI Tutors
rajington··on How to Satisfy the World’s Surging Appetite for Meat
We just need robotic farmers that are powered from manure and use real livestock to fight desertification.
rajington··on Show HN: Birdseed – A silly way to get random numbers by hashing tweets
i know most people talk about the technical aspect of things, but i got to hand it to you, that's an amazing name
rajington··on Show HN: DEEP Framework – DYI Microservices on Serverless AWS (e.g. www.deep.mg)
Is this a https://github.com/jaws-framework/JAWS competitor?
rajington··on Mancy – Cross Platform JavaScript REPL Based on Electron and React
it'd be good if export to file exported it to a javascript source file rather than an array
rajington··on [dead]
Seriously, the Anti-carb agenda is in full swing and no one is standing up for it.
rajington··on Apple’s assault on advertising and Google
Google needs to release a content blocker for Apple Music's ads once it launches on Android.
rajington··on Show HN: Password Chef – Create a recipe for your passwords
also work on giving the chef a name please

but seriously, the problem that comes to mind is the crazy complexity requirements that some sites have (must have special chars) but other sites restrict (no special chars). i honestly can't think of a good solution to that though, i always wanted to make a collaborative database of password complexity for various sites

rajington··on Learning from building a React Native app
the ui is native
rajington··on Things mimicking other things
might want to space these csvoss submissions out a bit
rajington··on Show HN: Startup Championships
I think you need more emphasis on the prizes, at least proper links to what they are or a description to help sell them. Maybe it should include portion of all the application fees which seem quite substantial considering the costs of the prize and mechanical turk fees.

I'm also not convinced by the explanation that mechanical turk would provide effective feedback to a startup. Even if the scoring system did tell them where to focus, there should be another round of the top 50 or so with actual experts providing much more detailed feedback.

rajington··on [dead]
Funny, but fake: http://factually.gizmodo.com/shutdownify-is-fake-1725170019
rajington··on MapLatency.com – check latency to your website from any country
Really cool, might need to average more samples though. I used it to view changes from the server move for one of the largest games in the world: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/help-support/q8sJL...
rajington··on Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack
the pricing difference is huge too, AWS's PaaS Elastic Beanstalk took away the "server management" part for the most part but this allows a lot of power when you need it and absolutely no costs when you don't.
rajington··on Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack
'getObject' and 'putObject' using the JS AWS S3 SDK on Lambda, triggered by the API Gateway: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/S3.ht...
rajington··on Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
I'd like to use Riot's official API (https://developer.riotgames.com/) to scrape a BUNCH of game data, specifically "timeline" data, and see which players do things the best.
rajington··on Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos
I tried it doing it a couple of different ways and in the end the one I did with talking points felt the best to me, it wasn't scripted but it definitely was hard to have a natural one-way conversation (solo founder).

I wish I could've covered everything I wanted to cover naturally but in the end I felt a disconnect between what I wanted to say and what I was able to say. Then again maybe that makes me a worse candidate, but I hope I get a chance to show I'm not in interviews.

rajington··on Fuse – Write cross platform native apps using C# and JavaScript
You just search "Fuse mobile" and filter out a lot of stuff. I bet it was hard for Cisco people when iOS came out.
rajington··on Angular vs. React – the tie breaker
NOTE: This article seems to be a couple of MONTHS old. Look at the age in the comments section.
rajington··on Ask HN: My free app has gone slighty viral – looking for ideas to monetize it
Monetization just got a little tricker :( http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/04/facebook-lite-app
rajington··on The Most Popular Programming Languages in GitHub Since 2012
Dang, I really thought http://elixir-lang.org/ was that popular.
rajington··on Hex clock
I actually liked this idea so much that I made a real-life version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoLDBbEFCFw
rajington··on "Yosemite": the first open source modular chassis for high-powered microservers
This may have been in the works for a while. Internally it could have been called Yosemite for years, and marketing probably didn't see a conflict as Yosemite is a pretty consumer name.
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