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by ether 14y ago
Could you explain why this is strange? To me it just looks like a fractal algorithm.
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by ether 14y ago
I don't think you need to learn really hard core math to do CS. In my experience, the one most important "genre" of math was discrete mathematics. My textbook was Elements of Discrete Mathematics, and I think it was a really great intro: h
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by ether 14y ago
Dejavu! :)
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by ether 14y ago
Wow this app doesn't just overlay a moustache image but the moustache actually follows you around in realtime. Never seen this technology before. Awesome!
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by ether 14y ago
Yeah I agree that privacy is a valid issue. I will think about it some more. Thank you for the feedback!
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by ether 14y ago
Just fixed the www problem. Turns out I erased aname record and that was causing the problem (I was just following the tutorial by Heroku guys!!)
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by ether 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback! And that totally makes sense. I will add that header message.
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by ether 14y ago
Yes that would not be difficult, it will be added soon.
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by ether 14y ago
Oh cool man. This was originally Talk To The Future. I just refined the UI and got a new domain.
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by ether 14y ago
Thanks for asking. I think it's more about the message than the alarm itself. The problem I saw with alarms is not that I never hear them, but most of the times I do hear them but just turn it off because that's the only thing you can do wi
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by ether 14y ago
Great to hear that! Can you elaborate on how it being a timer rather than a clock makes it easy to think about? That might be very useful feedback for me. Thanks!
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by ether 14y ago
Yes. By the way XHack hackathon was really awesome. Best host ever.
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by ether 14y ago
Thanks! Well I think the whole point of WakeMyself is it functions both as an alarm AND as a dream capturing tool, which means, you do know when you wake up--it's the time you set the alarm at. It's quite tricky, but I think there's a sub
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by ether 14y ago
Thank you. Yeah the reason that I've made this available for free currently is because I thought if I started out charging I would be fixed with that business model, and I don't even yet know what this can be used for other than my own case
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by ether 14y ago
Exactly! I actually had these two separate ideas, and they came together while I was trying to build the first idea. What was awesome was I was actually able to capture my dream on my first usage. You should try too! Would love feedback :)
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by ether 14y ago
Have you ever tried something that tells you what to do? I've tried things that wakes me up with music or all kinds of things, but the key here I think is the message you can write to yourself. If you could tell yourself all the things you
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by ether 14y ago
Yeah I kind of struggled with time zone thing for about an hour and decided not to bother with it, just to build the minimal version. But I think for the sake of usability, I should add it in the future.
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by ether 14y ago
How does your app do text-to-speech, if you don't mind me asking? The reason for building this as a service is because I thought there's more to this than just a single player alarm system if enough people want to use this. I just wanted to
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by ether 14y ago
Yeah, I think in my case the "calling" part is the most important part. It's not even about the calling itself but more about the message. If I get a call from myself and it says "Hey man you have a test today in 3 hours, you can't be sleep
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by ether 14y ago
Awesome! Thanks for the feedback! Yes I used Twilio API. I went to a hackathon last weekend and built this using Twilio API, and it was cool so I decided to refine it some more and release it. 1. Yeah currently it's alarm for hours and minu
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by ether 14y ago
Does it call you?
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Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterday's self.
76 points by ether 14y ago|58 comments
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by ether 14y ago
I'm sorry about that. That's weird. Is it just that page? How about other ones? Also I would appreciate it if you could tell me your browser and computer environment. That would help in debugging. Thanks!
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by ether 14y ago
Oh it's actually an animated gif I just found on the web. I don't know where it is :) By the way can you hear the sound? Just asking since you only mentioned the picture.
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by ether 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback! regarding #1: how about hiding them when you're idle? Would this work? (Just pushed an update, please check it) regarding #2: Is it still not playing? I visited that url http://daydream.fm/places/6a14bd5c7 and it
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by ether 14y ago
Thanks, the cool thing about this is that it's meant to be published (therefore reused by anyone else). For example, this rainy might be of interest to you: http://daydream.fm/places/a83101fc3 I've added a dozen tracks to it and will be a
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by ether 14y ago
clickable link: http://daydream.fm
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Show HN: Daydream.fm - build and share your own world of soundscape and music.
16 points by ether 14y ago|11 comments
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by ether 14y ago
My experience with topical subscription service is most mainstream people don't care much about realtime subscription. They come back time to time to read through stuff they are interested in. Of course, if your target is journalists or fin
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by ether 14y ago
I know realtime technology is cool and all, but I don't think realtime is what you should be doing. People are increasingly accessing RSS readers through mobile devices such as phones and tablets, and that's where opportunity is at. And thi

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