trevorah

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by trevorah 7y ago
React Native is excellent for web teams that are creating a new mobile app. If your team has more experience with React than native iOS/Android, then it's a no-brainer. However, in my experience you get diminishing returns once yo
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Show HN: Game of Life with Color(trev.sh)
2 points by trevorah 10y ago|0 comments
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by trevorah 13y ago
If that chat has already been created, then going to gitter.im/[org]/[repo] should be enough.
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by trevorah 13y ago
So something a little more formal than chat?
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by trevorah 13y ago
Yeah, we're currently building an irc bridge so that you can use it with your irc client of choice.
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by trevorah 13y ago
Yeah, github enterprise definitely makes sense, and it is something that we will look into. Chrome's notifications since v28 kinda suck. Browser notifications have always been difficult, and in fact our www.trou.pe native app was origi
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by trevorah 13y ago
Good point. The problem with a tier limited by the number of people is that you take away one of the best parts of a free chat service. Being able to freely invite _anyone_ into a conversation really opens up what you can do.
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by trevorah 13y ago
true, but it would be fantastic to merge those two cultures together. Having non technical people involved in open source projects is a good thing, and it is something that we are trying to encourage.
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by trevorah 13y ago
At the moment we have node + express + faye for rest api/streaming. The web front end is currently built with backbone, less and a sprinkling of bootstrap.
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by trevorah 13y ago
@gitchat on twitter for now.
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by trevorah 13y ago
Yeah, that barrier is a tough one to overcome. We've found that having an easy entry point (nothing to install, one click signup etc.) lowers the barrier a bit. Also having some kind of free tier could always be an advantage over hipch
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by trevorah 13y ago
There's always the webapp :)
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by trevorah 13y ago
Dev here! Yeah, we've been making www.trou.pe for while and have just added some github hooks after some user requests. We are just curious to see how far people want github integration to go...
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by trevorah 13y ago
I build web trading apps for banks. Big, big javascript apps that stream prices and handle trades. Not the kind of apps that require shakespearean spam though...
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by trevorah 13y ago
It's meant to interfere with your writing, like a backseat driver interferes with your driving. Your idea of separation is interesting, do you see it as a kind of translator?
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by trevorah 13y ago
Gibberish I guess. Doing a lookahead for letters was how I started, and its kinda interesting to see how it turned out as a quick project. Storing the probabilities for each letter given a string prefix is the limiting factor, and took a bi
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by trevorah 13y ago
Very true. I've just updated it now to handle misses. Its a bit of a ugly hack, but it stops the errors for now. You can check it out here - https://github.com/trevorah/backseat-writer/commit/b749d3154...
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by trevorah 13y ago
Yeah, only listing the top 10 chars to write next results in a few misses. Its also bit of a pain to test a recursive function that uses random numbers.
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by trevorah 13y ago
Good idea. I think waiting for a second would give a little more control to the typist.
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by trevorah 13y ago
Opinions?
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Show HN: Backseat Writer – write like Shakespeare and others(trevorah.github.com)
17 points by trevorah 13y ago|16 comments
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by trevorah 14y ago
Fork it and try it out! https://github.com/trevorah/usernique
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by trevorah 14y ago
Good point. This doesnt sound like a quick fix.
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by trevorah 14y ago
Yep, thats pretty much how it works at the moment (see https://github.com/trevorah/usernique/blob/master/server.js ). The issue is that the server is sending out quite a few of these hits to twitter, and twitter is smart enough to start re
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by trevorah 14y ago
Any tips to sort this out? How are things being rate limited? edit: just realised you meant that twitter/github etc are rate limiting my requests. Bummer.
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by trevorah 14y ago
Very true. This requires a little more work than my current hack. I'll see if there is a whois package for node...
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by trevorah 14y ago
github+heroku baby!
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by trevorah 14y ago
awesome, good find!
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by trevorah 14y ago
just checking the return code on a GET request. src is on github if you're curious. You're right though, looks like the domain lookups need a bit of work.
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by trevorah 14y ago
I've just added the .io and i'll add .com in a bit. Adding in the loop might be a bit much if you're not bothered about certain services - e.g constantly updating the page just because a twitter name cant be found.

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