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chrisallickon Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone

genius

chrisallickon Show HN: Turn a Google Spreadsheet into an API

no. cause then eeeeeeeveryone goes "oh cool I've done the same thing." so the only take away is that people don't learn from the past. sad.

chrisallickon Show HN: Turn a Google Spreadsheet into an API

Every year, twice a year someone posts this solution. We get it. You hack.

chrisallickon Google OnHub Review

The term "privacy" and "security" are not mentioned. TDangerousDR;

chrisallickon Ask HN: Are top developers just guessing?

Two options. 1) My guess is these people care as much about problem solving as yourself, but their problem is bigger than the code they are copying and pasting. So it appears as if they don't care, but they just care about something else. Lazy makers/coders often worry about the final solution and reflection time rather than how every line of code works. 2) they suck. which happens, fuck 'em they'll be gone eventually when they can't cut it.

The ultimate answer to your question is to stop looking at the people you don't like wondering why they are the way they are. Find the inspiring people, even if they are few and far between, and latch on to them.

chrisallickon The Go Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Alan Donovan

I was a bit surprised by the length. Not a huge difference, but one of the best things about the K&R book was how short it was. But, I too have been been curious to look into Go. This might be the excuse I needed.

chrisallickon “Giganews is an FBI Operation”

Unless something is verifiably true/false it should not be voted to the top. The conversation is the only valuable thing to the Hackernews community.

chrisallickon [dead]

https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-faq/dc-faq.html

It's not canceled. Please fact check before posting a URL.

chrisallickon Use Google Spreadsheets as a CMS

http://mynameisrage.com/ runs off of a SpreadsheetCMS I wrote ages ago. It's awesome and free :) I love that we get the off the shelf interface of Google Drive.

chrisallickon Hack SF is happening now

Cool :) that's a lot of money. I wonder if any of the projects will make San Francisco a better place. I hope so.

chrisallickon Hack SF is happening now

I don't think there are any rules to how a hackathon is conducted, but transparency is best in all things. The people participating know very well that they are doing so for the experience, exposure and out of goodwill.

chrisallickon Hack SF is happening now

Was posted some time ago. I think multiple times by different people. Sorry it wasn't on your radar.

chrisallickon Lick your phone: processing.js JavaScript communication.

Bummer. Don't own and the simulator sucks. Any suggestions for debugging those views?

chrisallickon The Greatest Job In Advertising

Wow! Thanks for the catch, we hit the gmail daily quota :(

chrisallickon The Greatest Job In Advertising

no mobile, part of the joke.

chrisallickon The Greatest Job In Advertising

Great feedback. We made the site on an incredibly short timeline so we glossed over a number of things trying to create an MVP, minimum viable punchline :)

with one more day we could have had it work on mobile as well :( we were able to respond to people's tweets with subdomain sites though :) rishi.work4rich.com

thanks for sharing.

chrisallickon Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)

Most Famous: The hacker from http://books.google.com/books/about/CUCKOO_S_EGG.html?id=0q1... hahaha.

chrisallickon An Interview Question Too Many Developers Get Wrong

job sounds boring.

chrisallickon Show HN: Hosted IRC for Teams (my first startup)

Have you seen http://trash.io

http://trash.io/room/whatever_you_want to make a new room

realtime, drag and drop images, youtube, vimeo and multiplayer html5 games.

ws, redis, on top of a rails app on heroku.

enjoy.

chrisallickon Show HN: TTS-API - Text-to-speech API

http://clubsexytime.com/projects/tweader/ done

chrisallickon Show HN: TTS-API - Text-to-speech API

http://clubsexytime.com/projects/tweader/

twitter tracker using tts :)

thanks, such an amazing service

chrisallickon IOS 6 Ajax image capture and upload

or domain rather, the url leads to an interesting example

chrisallickon IOS 6 Ajax image capture and upload

pardon the url :)

chrisallickon Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

langs = list()

f = open('langs.txt', 'r') content = f.readline() while content != "": line = content.strip() if line != "": temp = {} parts = line.split(" ") if "points" not in parts: temp['title'] = parts[0]

		nextline = f.readline().strip()
		parts = nextline.split(" ")
		temp['score'] = parts[0]
		langs.append( temp )
	content = f.readline()

newlist = sorted(langs, key=lambda k: int(k['score'])) print newlist

"""

[{'score': '6', 'title': 'Cobol'}, {'score': '6', 'title': 'Rexx'}, {'score': '7', 'title': 'Fortran'}, {'score': '8', 'title': 'Ada'}, {'score': '8', 'title': 'Pascal'}, {'score': '9', 'title': 'Groovy'}, {'score': '12', 'title': 'ColdFusion'}, {'score': '14', 'title': 'Delphi'}, {'score': '14', 'title': 'Tcl'}, {'score': '16', 'title': 'Shell'}, {'score': '18', 'title': 'Forth'}, {'score': '20', 'title': 'D'}, {'score': '23', 'title': 'Visual'}, {'score': '24', 'title': 'Smalltalk'}, {'score': '29', 'title': 'SQL'}, {'score': '30', 'title': 'Assembly'}, {'score': '31', 'title': 'OCaml'}, {'score': '32', 'title': 'Actionscript'}, {'score': '51', 'title': 'Lua'}, {'score': '57', 'title': 'Erlang'}, {'score': '74', 'title': 'Scheme'}, {'score': '92', 'title': 'Scala'}, {'score': '100', 'title': 'Other'}, {'score': '120', 'title': 'Perl'}, {'score': '123', 'title': 'Objective'}, {'score': '125', 'title': 'Lisp'}, {'score': '163', 'title': 'CoffeeScript'}, {'score': '187', 'title': 'Clojure'}, {'score': '192', 'title': 'C++'}, {'score': '194', 'title': 'Java'}, {'score': '205', 'title': 'Haskell'}, {'score': '235', 'title': 'PHP'}, {'score': '303', 'title': 'C#'}, {'score': '355', 'title': 'C'}, {'score': '515', 'title': 'JavaScript'}, {'score': '718', 'title': 'Ruby'}, {'score': '1133', 'title': 'Python'}] """