basicallydan

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   by basicallydan 3y ago

   Super fun! Obviously I wouldn’t do this on purpose because it defeats the object of the game but if you watch this on an iPhone, you can pull down the Notification Centre and it’ll show you the title of the video you’re watching as part of
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   by basicallydan 4y ago

   This is adorable. Great game! I got a 95 point landing after a good few goes then I saw all the fun people were having with the crashes so I joined in. Great job!
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   by basicallydan 4y ago

   > Interfacing with git sucks I disagree
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   by basicallydan 4y ago

   This is a very well written article, and thank you for the advice. Lots that resonates here.
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   by basicallydan 4y ago

   If they don't exist, this is a good idea for anybody looking for a project to write a programming book
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   Vancouver Special(en.wikipedia.org)

   100 points by basicallydan 4y ago|55 comments
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   by basicallydan 4y ago

   Hahahaha
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   by basicallydan 4y ago

   Hahaha. I see what you did there
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   by basicallydan 4y ago

   Oof yes, this is exactly the kind of beef I would like to see on VHN.
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    by basicallydan 4y ago

    This is excellent. Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something? - New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency - Show
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    by basicallydan 4y ago

    This isn’t quite what you’re looking for but I have a GitHub project to create various implementations, including for ethereum! https://github.com/conwaysgame EDIT: perhaps the GitHub’s main README could include links to va
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    by basicallydan 4y ago

    I suppose this doesn't fit on Wikipedia, but obviously one possible cause is that Cats are aliens from a planet abut 3.4 million lightyears away, and during that 7 million year period, all the cats left Earth suddenly because their pla
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    by basicallydan 4y ago

    The author lost me when they took a train from Moorgate to Barbican. Clearly doesn’t count as walking underground!
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    Ode: A poetry editor that shows you metre and helps you rhyme(jonathanfinerty.com)

    3 points by basicallydan 5y ago|0 comments
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    by basicallydan 5y ago

    Predictable angry comment about the stupidly large ad on this site for eToro: apparently my thumbs are too fat to close it, when do I get my complimentary dialling wand? So fat in fact that it opens the ad no matter what I do, only to be to
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    Show HN: Conway's Distributed Game of Life on Ethereum(conwaysgame.github.io)

    3 points by basicallydan 6y ago|0 comments
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    by basicallydan 6y ago

    Honestly I wish I had thought of that title ahahah!
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    by basicallydan 6y ago

    Hahah! Thank you! That name is much better :D
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    by basicallydan 6y ago

    Congratulations! I agree, it needs to be much more cost-effective. Someone In The Know told me that there's some attempts being made to make it more cost-effective with something called Optimism ( https://twitter.com/opt
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    Show HN: I Built Conway's Game of Life for Ethereum(danhough.com)

    5 points by basicallydan 6y ago|6 comments
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    by basicallydan 6y ago

    Hi! I have a public Trello board [0] with a list of projects I'm working on, or ideas I have, which from time to time people comment on! Currently I'm doing a version of Conway's Game of Life in Solidity for the Ethereum netw
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    by basicallydan 6y ago

    Thanks for sharing your experience. Yes, I like the sound of this model too, at least for now. It'll be interesting to see how it scales if it does indeed scale!
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    Ask HN: Content creators who've signed up for Brave's BAT, how's it going?

    43 points by basicallydan 6y ago|5 comments
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    by basicallydan 6y ago

    This is helpful, thank you. I will bring this up with my colleagues.
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    by basicallydan 6y ago

    This is new to me, thank you for sharing! It would fit the bill. Very interesting. EDIT: Hang on a second, Tom Forbes! Fancy bumping into you here yet again. It's Dan from Marvel!
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    A Continuous Integration Mystery(danhough.com)

    31 points by basicallydan 6y ago|25 comments
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    by basicallydan 6y ago

    A very nice sentiment! I think one of the most useful parts of this list of suggestions is to write or improve tests. You did allude to this, but I think it’s the most useful part (if test coverage starts out poor) because by doing so, espe
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    by basicallydan 6y ago

    Cool, thanks for confirming :)
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    by basicallydan 6y ago

    Is it just a coincidence or is Moderna’s name and stock ticker label (MRNA) intentionally supposed to reference the type of research they do? (mRNA)
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    by basicallydan 6y ago

    Hah, came here to make this comment!