smnl

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by smnl 10y ago
I've used Parse extensively as a backed for iOS apps before and lately started trying out Firebase as a replacement. Firebase seems like a decent alternative so far, but there's 2 important features that I'd like to see: 1. A
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How much do scientists understand bicycles? Very little, apparently(npr.org)
2 points by smnl 11y ago|0 comments
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Many tech startups are just making up their profit and revenue numbers(theverge.com)
1 points by smnl 11y ago|0 comments
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Parse is down(twitter.com)
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by smnl 13y ago
First of all, I realize this game is very similar to some existing games out there - I drew inspiration from puzzle games such as Candy Crush Secondly, this game was developed from start to finish in just 2 months' time, owing to Sprit
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Show HN: My first iOS 7 Sprite Kit game(fruitjamgame.com)
2 points by smnl 13y ago|1 comments
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by smnl 13y ago
Thanks! It currently doesn't track user analytics, but that could be something worth looking into
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by smnl 13y ago
Yea, the current version uses a webview to show the street view, and moving/shifting the street view tended to make the app crash, so that's why it's disabled. However, now that Google's added street view to their offici
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by smnl 13y ago
Yup, it was adapted from geoguessr.com, and I'm trying to extend the concept by adding different game modes and in-game hints In reply to your questions: 1. What do you mean by similarity measure? Currently, the scoring is just done on
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Show HN: GeoGuesser for iOS - Street View location guessing game(itunes.apple.com)
10 points by smnl 13y ago|9 comments
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Show HN: GeoGuesser for iOS(gg.smnli.com)
3 points by smnl 13y ago|0 comments
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From Lawyer to Programmer(erincodes.wordpress.com)
76 points by smnl 13y ago|39 comments
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by smnl 13y ago
I'm confused why they decided to immediately remove Summly from the App Store rather than use it to drive traffic to other Yahoo apps - anybody know why they did this?
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by smnl 13y ago
Cool technical presentation, but trying to optimize moving average trading strategies is a fool's game - you might find a set of parameters that work in all out-sample/cross-validation tests, but there's still a good chance it'll lose money
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by smnl 13y ago
What if my site uses e.stopImmediatePropagation() in any click/event handlers? Would this still be able to capture those events? And if so, how?
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by smnl 14y ago
Thanks for the shoutout for BlogRoll! :)
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by smnl 14y ago
This uses Backbone.js on the frontend, and each time you change sites on the left sidebar, a "pushState" event is triggered, which saves the current state of the page (and the back button will cycle through those saved states)
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by smnl 14y ago
Currently not, but I am planning to work on native mobile apps soon! I have tried to make the current website mobile-friendly, though it may be slower on older phones since it uses javascript to position the tiles.
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by smnl 14y ago
Sorry, it's currently running on a single EC2 instance so it may be slow due to today's flood of traffic, though I'm working on scaling it up
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Show HN: BlogRoll - Yet another replacement for Google Reader(blogrollapp.com)
15 points by smnl 14y ago|6 comments
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by smnl 14y ago
Seemed like this would eventually happen since Google stopped updating Reader (and its APIs) a few years ago I've also been working on a similar news reader app called BlogRoll: http://blogrollapp.com It can import your Google Reader feed
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by smnl 14y ago
Looks like some wages were probably incorrectly labeled as monthly rather than yearly, so that's why those are 12x what they should be
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by smnl 14y ago
Many large asset managers have mandates to sell their losers and cut losses, or may be window dressing before the end of the quarter and don't want to show to clients that they hold any FB stock on their book. So that may be contributing to
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by smnl 14y ago
From the article: "That means that Facebook's enterprise value is greater than 10x current revenue run rate and greater than 25x EBITDA. These are big multiples folks. I am happy to take those numbers for any company out there." The bigger
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by smnl 14y ago
Very interesting that that looks more like a tech startup than a bank office Especially in contrast to CS's NYC office, which is a very old fashioned investment banking/trading floor type office
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by smnl 14y ago
This isn't a big deal at all - it's basically just a market order. Whoever put in that order will just get filled at the best ask price - probably around $41.
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by smnl 15y ago
(still in beta, please give us suggestions or feedback, thanks!)
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by smnl 15y ago
You can wait for the timer to count down or click the arrow to the right of the timer to skip to the next day, then it will show your profits or losses for that day. The goal is to increase your money and experience over time, which will le
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Show HN: A simulation game for learning how to analyze the stock market(springfolio.com)
3 points by smnl 15y ago|3 comments