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   I would love to get some feedback from data-obsessed climbers (Expo/RN app)

   4 points by codesink 9mo ago|0 comments
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   by codesink 9mo ago

   Thanks! I might have posted it too early in the day, I'll try again :-)
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   Show HN: I built a climbing tracker for data-obsessed climbers (Expo/RN)(goclimbr.com)

   3 points by codesink 9mo ago|2 comments
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   by codesink 4y ago

   I can't believe this is getting upvotes on HN, this is buggy and a simple oneliner can do it.
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   by codesink 8y ago

   Parkopedia | Full-time in London, UK | ONSITE Parkopedia was founded with the mission of being able to answer any parking question, anywhere in the world. Today, Parkopedia is the world’s leading digital parking services provider used by mi
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   by codesink 9y ago

   Still, no linux client.
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   by codesink 13y ago

   ~/Dropbox/ideas.txt adding new entries at the top of the file. I wonder how many thousand ideas.txt files are on Dropbox servers :)
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   by codesink 13y ago

   Those are charges of eurodns; I called them and they said that they're just passing on me what the registrar charge them.
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   by codesink 13y ago

   That sucks. What also sucks is being asked for money to change name servers only : .gr: £46.64 (74 USD) .cz: £14.57 .dk: £24.29 .hu: £17.49 .ro: £17.49
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    Google Geocoding API V2 will stop working today (Sept 8th)(developers.google.com)

    1 points by codesink 13y ago|0 comments
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    by codesink 13y ago

    I spent quite a bit of time on AppLens, an icon matching app for iOS (take a photo of an icon --> download the app). The backend (in C) is pretty fast and stable (current uptime 384 days) and it can be used for other types of images (i.
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    by codesink 13y ago

    I stumbled over it few months ago and the issue was that readdir(), used by rm on the box I was using, by default alloc'd a small buffer (the usual 4KB) and with millions of files that turned in millions of syscalls (that's just to find out
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    by codesink 14y ago

    Thanks!! :)
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    by codesink 14y ago

    I made AppLens (formely AppSnap) a iphone app that lets you install any other iphone app by taking a picture of its icon (on other phones or laptop screens or anything else). It's a free app + ads, most of its users are from china and japan
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    Kindle Paperwhite is now available in Europe(amazon.co.uk)

    2 points by codesink 14y ago|0 comments
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    Well Google that doesn't seem right (googling "adwhirl")(i.imgur.com)

    1 points by codesink 15y ago|0 comments
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    by codesink 15y ago

    They don't like scrapers, they don't even allow links to their website without permission. From their TOS: "5. Links to this website. You may not establish and/or operate links to this website without the prior written consent of Ryanair.
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    by codesink 15y ago

    A good designer can score on the Appstore even if he is a novice programmer. Unfortunately that's not true for good programmers that suck at design.
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    by codesink 15y ago

    They managed to optimize their golang.org homepage to get the position #5 on the word "go". They must be good at SEO. BTW the video I mentioned is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i0hat7pdpk&feature=playe... (at the end during Q&#38
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    by codesink 15y ago

    I think google is working to move Android to Go as soon as possible; Rob Pike replied to a related question with "I cannot talk about it" and that sounds like a good clue :) Go binaries already run on Android/ARM, the higher level code is t
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    by codesink 15y ago

    A great resource to read about Fourier transformation and Wavelets http://users.rowan.edu/~polikar/WAVELETS/WTpart1.html
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    by codesink 15y ago

    Backends seem overpriced to me; their default backend is a long-lasting process running at 1.2Ghz allowed to use 256MB of RAM and it's priced $0.16/hour ($115/month). They can shutdown/restart/relocate your backend whenever they want so wha
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    by codesink 15y ago

    I've used 37signals tada lists in the last few months and the main pain points are: 1) no indenting 2) cumbersome reordering 3) editing sucks your tasskr fixes all the above issue, well done. for me what is missing to make the switch is sha
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    This weekend: Fosdem 2011, free hackers conf in Brussles(fosdem.org)

    3 points by codesink 16y ago|0 comments
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    IAMA: I am a hiring manager who hires hundreds of software developers a year. (reddit.com)

    2 points by codesink 16y ago|0 comments
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    by codesink 16y ago

    I loved Stevens' books: TCP/IP illustrated Unix network programming Advanced Programming in the unix environment
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    by codesink 16y ago

    Brilliant, with Chrome and Safari you can use it to search and open any bookmarked page.
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    by codesink 16y ago

    geospatial index do NOT work if you're using InnoDB; so you must choose between geospatial queries or transactions (that MyISAM don't support).
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    by codesink 16y ago

    true, the distance calculation must NOT be in the WHERE clause if you want to use indexes (and you want). What I'm doing, given a max distance and a search point, is to calculate the bounding box in which I want to search in filter results
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    by codesink 16y ago

    you can embed your own C code without the hassle to handle HTTP/S (or forkbombs) using KLone web server; it can easily handle thousands of requests per second. p.s. I'm part of the company whom made it.