rdwallis

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by rdwallis 6y ago
A car license is required when driving or parked but the fine was issued to a parked car without a driver in it. I proved that I was driving the car when the ticket was issued so the claims made by the metro officer about how they issued th
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by rdwallis 6y ago
I used my whatsapp chat history to successfully contest a traffic fine. My parents wanted me to check on their house while they were away. I messaged them on whatsapp when I left my house and then again when I arrived at theirs. A month or
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by rdwallis 11y ago
Maybe you have to login so they can adapt the paper's conclusions to match your social graph.
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by rdwallis 11y ago
Imagine a site with users who are all absolute experts in their chosen field. Mathematicians / Writers / Lawyers etc. The popularity of a post will depend more on how it appeals to the majority than how it appeals to the experts.
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by rdwallis 11y ago
It got a lot of spam. Not sure if that shows that it doesn't work or if it needs a certain threshold of users before it can work properly. The database is on at the moment so you can try it out. I'll only turn it off if the spam
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by rdwallis 11y ago
Built http://www.thealetree.com a few years ago so not related to the current issue. But I'll turn the database on for a few days if people want to try it out. The source code is at https://github.com/rdwal
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by rdwallis 12y ago
For something more fun to read than my intro try Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson: https://www.watchwords.tv/read/Q6jQrky0m/Warbreaker
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by rdwallis 12y ago
Looking for feedback and first impressions.
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Show HN: Watchwords.tv, an auto scrolling ebook reader(watchwords.tv)
1 points by rdwallis 12y ago|2 comments
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by rdwallis 12y ago
GWT 2.7 has incremental compilation. During development, recompile takes less than a second.
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by rdwallis 12y ago
Wow the whole xapi project is great, thanks for the link. How much do the threads actually work yet? How slow are they?
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by rdwallis 12y ago
Thanks on first glance that looks like a much better solution than gwts' generators.
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by rdwallis 12y ago
In gwt, reflection isn't supported because it makes it hard for the compiler to do dead code elimination. Supporting reflection might make it difficult to reduce the compile size of the javascript code in the future. Or does c# reflect
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by rdwallis 12y ago
The decryption is probably being done by specialized circuitry on the chip. It might perform the operation faster than a much more powerful machine.
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by rdwallis 12y ago
More interesting for programmers: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=program.programme And programme seems to be having a very slight resurgence since 2012.
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by rdwallis 12y ago
Sorry for the delay in reply. I live in Durban, South Africa. Lots of people speed here and sometimes the fast lane will be moving faster than the limit. But I don't think I've ever been in a situation where all of the traffic is
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by rdwallis 12y ago
I've chosen to never speed because it reduces my cognitive load. Nobody speeds all the time. Even people who speed a lot will try to slow down for speed traps. So everyone who speeds even those who speed only every now and then have t
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by rdwallis 12y ago
Thanks Tim, I know it wasn't malicious. The only reason I decided to make the point was because it is a trend. And because I think to half the world it's an invisible problem.
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by rdwallis 12y ago
Ok so this is my first post on hn to get so many downvotes. I'm sorry if this annoyed you. To me the continued use of northern seasons for global events is an actual problem. You're welcome to downvote me without giving reasons
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by rdwallis 12y ago
Summer of Swift, Summer of Code, Steam Summer Sale. It's winter where I am. Unless your event is local please don't use seasons to denote a timeframe.
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by rdwallis 12y ago
That's an argument from survivorship. Just because they've been successful doesn't mean this code shouldn't be improved.
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by rdwallis 12y ago
You have a very small chance of being caught if you ride the subway without a ticket. If you are caught some countries will work out what to fine you by multiplying the chance of being caught by the price of the ticket you didn't buy.
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by rdwallis 12y ago
Looks like they're putting in place infrastructure for an API affiliate plan. To use the API you must display a copyright link whose href points at a url included in the API's response. Ignoring the nice boost this gives to Google
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by rdwallis 12y ago
Ok sorry if my question came off as snarky, the first example in your readme shows how mson can be converted to json which doesn't seem to be very useful. I think you should better highlight the connection to json schema. Also json sch
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by rdwallis 12y ago
What problem do you have that MSON solves?
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by rdwallis 12y ago
Thanks, this is a common suggestion and I've tried a version with a shadow below the line. It is far more distracting especially when you use the autoscroll feature (play button at the bottom right corner.) If you want to experiment t
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by rdwallis 12y ago
The line takes a bit of getting used to. The trick is not to use it to underline the text you're currently reading but to keep the line a good distance ahead of where you are in the text.
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by rdwallis 12y ago
Scanning and skimming is a problem caused by UI. The way we scroll text on computers and other devices destroys reading flow. I built an extension / bookmarklet that allows you to scroll websites in a different way and goes a long way
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by rdwallis 12y ago
I made this, the source code is at https://github.com/rdwallis/ChessAnarchy
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Chess Anarchy, inspired by Twitch Plays Pokémon(chessanarchy.appspot.com)
2 points by rdwallis 12y ago|1 comments

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