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by pixelglow 10y ago
Mark Adler, he of zlib/gzip/Info-Zip fame, seems to think that zips cannot contain arbitrary data before and between individual files. http://stackoverflow.com/a/12393597/60910 Therefore the straightforw
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by pixelglow 10y ago
With LetterSnap, take pictures of text and extract the actual text. The app is powered by Google Cloud Vision, which lets it tackle weird fonts, Chinese + Japanese, colored backgrounds, text at an angle, most anything you can throw at it. I
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Show HN: LetterSnap OCR, iOS App Powered by Google Cloud Vision(lettersnap.com)
2 points by pixelglow 10y ago|1 comments
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by pixelglow 10y ago
You can definitely compose a zip file "on the fly" and stream it out. The central directory at the end of the zip file can be determined from all the content already streamed. The only wrinkle is that each entry has a header which
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by pixelglow 10y ago
Cloning, coding, eh. Much the same.
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by pixelglow 10y ago
I have the book too. It's interesting as a history lesson and initial motivations for Objective-C. In particular, in the beginning Objective-C was a lot looser typed at compile time than it is now: no NSString* or NSWindow*, it was all
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Good guys DeskConnect: patrons of open source(github.com)
3 points by pixelglow 11y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: PredicatePal: Swift DSL to build NSPredicate's via expression templates(github.com)
1 points by pixelglow 11y ago|0 comments
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by pixelglow 11y ago
I've been a Type 2 diabetic officially for 18 years but impaired glucose tolerance for longer. You're on the right path, there's a lot you can do to slow down the progress of the disease. I'm not a doctor however so take
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Epic diagrams for an epic screen(youtube.com)
2 points by pixelglow 11y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Instaviz Lite 2.1 – iOS diagram sketcher(try.instaviz.com)
3 points by pixelglow 11y ago|0 comments
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by pixelglow 11y ago
Curcumin is poorly absorbed but there are several ways to increase the bioavailability[1]. Otherwise too little will be absorbed to be effective, and you'd just be ingesting an expensive placebo. You could * Combine it with black peppe
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by pixelglow 11y ago
It's probably an informal use of the word "lying" prevalent in tech culture. When I was working in a moderately sized software company in Australia, engineers would often say, "xyz. Oops, I lied. It was abc." It&#x2
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Virtually every diagram I ever published could've been developed on an iPhone 3S(hubaisms.com)
1 points by pixelglow 11y ago|0 comments
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Untangling UIKit view transitions on iOS(twitter.com)
1 points by pixelglow 11y ago|0 comments
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by pixelglow 11y ago
Hi, this is a full rewrite of my iOS diagram sketcher -- it took 4.5 years, 30 features, 400 commits and lots of prayer. It uses Objective-C, Core Animation, UIKit, the works. The shape recognition is a custom C++ library I call Recog, base
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Show HN: Instaviz 2.0, a full rewrite of my iOS diagram sketcher(get.instaviz.com)
2 points by pixelglow 11y ago|1 comments
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by pixelglow 11y ago
Essentially, yes. In ARC, all strong pointers may have multiple owners. In C++11 RAII, the typical, defining use is for single owners (std::unique_ptr) but multiple owners are supported too (std::shared_ptr). In ARC, local pointers may be r
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by pixelglow 11y ago
> If the JoCo Cruise is a church, I am apostate. That’s why I couldn’t stop worrying and love the Sea Monkeys. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to be a nerd anymore. It was that I did. Or rather, that I already, inescapably, was. That boat a
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by pixelglow 12y ago
Interesting that "Spock" uses a lot of emotional language -- "prejudice", "lonely", "happiness", "frightening", "feel best about himself" -- contrary to the popular conception of V
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by pixelglow 12y ago
Matt 6:25.
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by pixelglow 12y ago
It's relatively straightforward (but moderately involved) to split out CPU-heavy operations in node.js so they don't block the event loop. A rough sketch would look like this: * Write the CPU-heavy code in C++ and bridge it back t
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Show HN: zipzap 8.0, zip file I/O for iOS and OS X(github.com)
1 points by pixelglow 12y ago|0 comments
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by pixelglow 12y ago
Actually, as a C++11 user, it's a lot like a lambda declaration: [capture](parameters){…}. Certainly the brackets are in the same order. The similarity between lambdas and Markdown URL's is actually a nice feedback loop when I&#x2
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Show HN: Fast Double Metaphone in C++11: 2M sound-alikes per second(github.com)
1 points by pixelglow 12y ago|0 comments
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by pixelglow 12y ago
clang has implemented modules as a replacement for monolithic precompiled headers, but they are marked experimental for C++. They are tracking the C++ modules proposal. See http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html and
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by pixelglow 12y ago
There's a previous implementation of itertools in C++: https://github.com/ryanhaining/cppitertools .
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by pixelglow 12y ago
Simple/common ideas should require terse syntax. Complex/rare ideas should require verbose syntax. Prefer "x = y + z" to "ADD y TO z GIVING x". Prefer "[[NSThread alloc] initWithTarget:t selector:s object:
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by pixelglow 12y ago
The problem with vectorization is that it cannot be applied to arbitrary code. You have to consciously design your algorithms, data and libraries to be SIMD-friendly. I once wrote a SIMD C++ template library based on valarray: http:/&
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by pixelglow 12y ago
You could try http://binaryfruit.com/drivedx , it's been pretty useful for me.

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