melloclello

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by melloclello 7y ago
Ted Blackman (one of the Urbit developers) recently posted a puzzle on Twitter, asking people to describe what a piece of code (written in this phonetic representation) does. [1] I was delighted to find that I still remembered the phonetic
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by melloclello 8y ago
Velvia makes people look far too red in the face.
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by melloclello 9y ago
Whoa, do you have a link to that Atkinson talk?
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by melloclello 9y ago
Ah, I didn't realise that was Puffin's use case.
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by melloclello 9y ago
Quite sincerely, they should just look into running WebKit server-side. That said, in my experience if Apple has secretly decided they don't like you, they tend to move the goalposts on you in subsequent reviews, so migrating their sys
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by melloclello 9y ago
Imagine if we nationalised Uber.
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by melloclello 9y ago
A pox on people that make me add closed source binaries to my apps! Adtech companies are the worst for this.
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by melloclello 9y ago
It also seems like they were trying to abuse/repurpose OS level functionality (the power button). I imagine that was difficult on Android, and the article completely fails to acknowledge that this is actually impossible on iOS.
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by melloclello 9y ago
We ran some casual benchmarks on this at work once, and it's important to note that the performance of AutoLayout dramatically improves based on the degree of nesting you employ. If you have sixteen views on a cell and their locations
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by melloclello 9y ago
A long time ago I put my Snapper Card (NZ equivalent) in a cup of acetone to get the chip out. I then stuck the chip in the back of my Nokia bar phone.
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by melloclello 9y ago
> It’s no secret that I really like Clojure and as a lisp, it was the easiest language for me to start the prototype with, but there’s no reason this couldn’t be done for any language with a dynamic runtime. The rest is mostly simple ana
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by melloclello 9y ago
"Design hubris" is such a common problem for mobile/front end developers and the source of so much wasted time I'm surprised it's not talked about more commonly. Shit's expensive, man! I am thankful that these
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by melloclello 9y ago
I find this 'Facebook = cigarettes' meme fascinating and hope it continues to propagate
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by melloclello 9y ago
Ostriches... is that up by that bizarre castle house that's been turned into a dog kennel?
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by melloclello 9y ago
As I remember, an early CSS proposal included the Cassowary constraints solver engine, but they decided not to go with it because either a fast implementation didn't exist at the time, or they were worried users wouldn't find the
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by melloclello 10y ago
Man, imagine if you could compose chinese characters out of radicals like this. I'm not sure if that would be a good thing or a bad thing.
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by melloclello 10y ago
I once built a calculator app where you could two-finger swipe to undo/redo: https://appsto.re/nz/oxLx3.i Previous/future states simply appear adjacent to one another so you can scroll through them easily. I
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by melloclello 10y ago
I suppose sonar could be an alternative worth considering.
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by melloclello 10y ago
I sometimes wonder what technology would look like if it were developed by an alien culture with no sense of vision.
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by melloclello 10y ago
You must have read about Urbit, right? Their VM's underlying language/bytecode/thing, Nock, is based on nested pairs of natural numbers, which is perhaps only slightly less unwieldy than operating on single bits. PS, if you&#
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by melloclello 10y ago
Wow. I hope that didn't kill your project? I wouldn't mind seeing the UI, if you have any pictures, it sounds way ahead of its time!
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by melloclello 10y ago
I've also been thinking about this for about as long (read this same article about 2-3 years ago), and came to pretty much the same conclusion. I actually think defining the grammar for turning text into a tree is likely to be the easy
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by melloclello 10y ago
I've never really seen breakfast the same way since I read Bukowski describe it as 'force-feeding'...
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by melloclello 10y ago
I kinda have a soft spot for ol' Joe Rogan and I see him hosting moon landing theorists on his show as not unlike Louis Theroux doing a show about UFO nuts. Interestingly enough Rogan did have Theroux on his show once, I was hoping it
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by melloclello 10y ago
A friend of mine is from Carbondale, Illinois - Fuller's home town. From what I understand it's a deadbeat midwestern hellhole now. He once told me a story about breaking into Buckminster Fuller's now-abandoned dome house and
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by melloclello 10y ago
I believe you are thinking of http://unisonweb.org
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by melloclello 10y ago
I grew up reading everything2 and I dearly wish the internet was still more like that Some links: * http://everything2.com/title/catting+weird+things+to+%252Fde... * http://everything2.com/title/Ho
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by melloclello 10y ago
They definitely spend a lot of time throwing ideas at the wall to see what sticks, I think (not everything sticks but it's interesting to see what does)
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by melloclello 10y ago
If one is Musk, then the scientist is doubtlessly Max Tegmark.
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Show HN: HOWL, a formant synthesizer (v2.0)(protonome.com)
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