macca321
- Karma
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- May 15, 2010 (16y ago)
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As we're all going to be spending a lot more time indoors, and not seeing friends and family face to face, can we come up with alternatives to Facebook Portal TV for staying in touch? I'd like my toddler to be able to…
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With Christmas Jumper day rapidly approaching, and the news that the xmas jumper industry is contributing to the microplastic crisis (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50682657), there couldn't be a more timely time for…
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If you were charged with building a "Platform Team" to help (in say, an org of 30+ developers), what would your offering to the rest of the company look like? Requirements might include accountability, discouraging…
- REST APIs must be hypertext-driven (roy.gbiv.com)
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So supposing I have thought of a novel(ish) idea for reprocessing images, which if incorporated into a photo gallery app would improve photos. Maybe only a little, but enough that a mobile phone manufacturer could tout…
- TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong? (2017) (youtube.com)
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If I was to launch a SAAS product with a self-host option, what would be the best way to distribute it to customers? Examples of things I'm concerned about are ease of installation, ease of deploying updates, ease of…
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I'm thinking that it might be possible to reverse engineer handlebars-style templates by diffing a corpus of text/html responses from live (esp. legacy) websites, and looking for common structures. This would be a…
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As mentioned in the "What I'd tell myself about startups..." post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9333330), everyone has a set of unused domain names. What are yours, and what did you plan to do with them? Here…
- For Hipsters (twitter.com)
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I'm currently contracted at a medium size enterprise (100 developers, 500 other staff). Communication (within the tech team) seems to happen mainly through email (although there is a sharepoint, a yammer) and old…
- Run python code in-process with Node.js (github.com)
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If you were to launch a startup to take advantage of all the soon to be homeless igooglers, which widgets would be essentials? I have a work in progress CMSlike system I could repurpose to being an igoogle alternative…
- A killer feature for cloud storage (plus.google.com)
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I saw a beautiful, in-all-likelyhood-html5 webmail client that is stuck in my mind as "email for hipsters" but I can't remember its name?
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One of the big problems with online anonymous identity is that you have no way of evaluating trustworthiness of an anonymous person. I have this idea for a service which can solve this. Basically, if there existed an…
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I am an experienced programmer developing my own startup and am doing some part-time go-tech-guy consulting. My boss wants some kind of publicly available, secure site for hosting internal documents (like hr docs and…
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Supposing that this popped up in my inbox today: "I want to set up a network for getting confidential information and banned journalism out of [country X]. How?" after a quick phone call, i might have some requirements,…
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Is there a service out there who provide a module or app for IOS/Anroid/etc which will do background GPS tracking for you and push updates to your server?<p>I'm thinking of something which does for GPS what…