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__sb__on A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

The Fifth Estate tried to make things look realistic, so a fair number of CLIs have actually made their way into at least a movie

http://sciencefictioninterfaces.tumblr.com/post/160895580781...

__sb__on A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

oh hey, thanks! I'm excited this is something people still remember. I hope people get behind this, it's a lot more accessible and there seem to be a lot of people trying it out.

Studios keep pushing the UIs visually but we need to keep up with the ridiculousness

__sb__on Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native

Were you thinking of this post? http://seenaburns.com/debugging-electron-memory-usage/ Curious if other people have more on it

__sb__on Science Fiction Interfaces

Oh hey I run this, originally I was just collecting the fui designs for reference when trying to make my own as a desktop (https://github.com/seenaburns/dex-ui), but since then I've kept it going.

My personal favorite is probably still Oblivion http://www.gmunk.com/OBLIVION-GFX but if these are too over the top science fiction, The Bourne Identity's is pretty fun too http://coleran.com/gallery-category/fui/#the-bourne-identity

__sb__on Show HN: Stag, Streaming graphs inside your terminal

Any script you throw together to output floats works. One example I have (for linux) samples wlan0 stats every two seconds to test download kbps.

The code is here: https://github.com/seenaburns/stag/blob/master/examples/netw...

Trying out some of the examples for Spark is also fun: https://github.com/holman/spark/wiki/Wicked-Cool-Usage

__sb__on The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

This is an awesome idea! Is there any way to create a randomized list weighted with popularity (so for a given tag you can refresh to find new links, but still ones likely to be interesting)?

__sb__on Python Shortcuts for the Python Beginner

Are inline if statements considered good form? I rarely see them in use and I've heard people complain about them before.

__sb__on Final project reports from 2012 Stanford Machine Learning class

For anyone interested, a few weeks ago, someone posted a paper on the popular data mining / machine learning algorithms that gives a brief overview of some common algorithms [1]. Someone also posted a few presentations on them if you just want a bullet point summary of the gist of each algorithm [2].

I just finished looking through both. They're both great if you're hoping to get some traction when it comes to learning ML.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4938162

[2] - http://www.cis.hut.fi/Opinnot/T-61.6020/2008/

__sb__on Minimal wireframing tool - for free

I'm going to second snapping, even if it's just snapping to other elements on the page.

__sb__on All of my side-projects from 2012

HN has really motivated me to start thinking about side projects seriously, even if just as learning exercise or solving my own problems. I only just started publishing them a few months ago, but I've had a lot of fun these:

Chroma https://github.com/seenaburns/Chroma - Python color handling and manipulation library

Desaturate https://github.com/seenaburns/Desaturate - Menu Bar app to force Mac OS X into grayscale display

Tungsten https://github.com/seenaburns/Tungsten - Wolfram Alpha API wrapper for Python

Open URLs In Tabs https://github.com/seenaburns/Open-URLs-In-Tabs - Port of John Gruber's OS X service to open links in tabs, modified to work for Chrome (/ your default browser).

Desaturate is definitely my favorite. Now for 2013, I have to learn to comment more and write more.