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leanthonyrnon GravityLight: Generate light with gravity

Can't you suspend a bed wired to one of these to the ceiling? At night before you go to sleep climb the stairs and get into the potential energy elevated bed. Then in the morning, after the bed descends, you have enough reading light energy stored for the next night.

leanthonyrnon Procedurally generated HTML5 3D world with day/night cycle

Great job! Now, if we can procedural generate a Dwarf Fortress game with a graphically HTML5 procedural generated world. Think Elder Scrolls Morrowind in HTML5. No-Mans-Dungeon.

leanthonyrnon Apple Watch sales down 90% since the opening week

I really wish Apple would have focused on some type of e-Strap. One that would coordinate with my $1000 mechanical Robert Weil watch. If the e-strap came from Montblanc, Google, Apple, or pebble I would not mind. As long as it matched my R. Weil style and gave me usable functionality. Also, when I sent it in to Robert Weil for service, they respected the e-Strap, even if it was from Montblanc.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/03/heres-a-closer-look-at-the-...

leanthonyrnon Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age?

I wish Apple, Google, and pebble would embrace the e(i)-strap and leave the timepiece, front-facing jewelry, to the watchmakers.

leanthonyrnon Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age?

I would love to have an e-Strap that coordinates with my $1000 mechanical Robert Weil watch. If the e-strap came from Montblanc, Google, Apple, or pebble I would not mind. As long as it matched and gave me usable functionality. Also, when I sent it in to Robert Weil for service, they respected the e-Strap, even if it was from Montblanc.

leanthonyrnon Shen-js Browser REPL

Has anyone written KLambda in erlang? Would be an interesting alternative to Lisp flavored erlang.

leanthonyrnon Florence Nightingale: Saving lives with statistics

Amazing presentation! As a nursing informaticist myself, Florence Nightingale represents the core of what we strive to do.

["Nursing Informatics is the "science and practice (that) integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, with management of information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families, and communities worldwide." (IMIA Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics 2009).]

leanthonyrnon The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up in the U.S.

It would be nice to have race as a filter/comparison in addition to gender. Very nice work.

leanthonyrnon Help kids from low income communities access careers in tech by hiring them

It would be nice if they had something similar in NJ. So close yet, so far.

leanthonyrnon Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example

any Emacs tool libraries that will mimic?

leanthonyrnon Open Source Clone of Theme Hospital in Lua

I thought ,at some point in the future, there would be an effort to recreate all of the game's artwork and sounds from scratch, at which point the original will no longer be required. Has anyone started this work?

leanthonyrnon Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)

Good discussion of the advantages of Arc versus Racket. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8555440/the-advantage-of-...

"I wish they had implemented Arc as a Racket module language since then you could actually develop in DRracket, debug, and make executables."

leanthonyrnon Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)

  Using either still keeps you in the Lisp universe.

Also, Greg Hendershott's rackjure library emulates a few "Clojure-inspired" ideas in Racket https://github.com/greghendershott/rackjure

leanthonyrnon The world's largest telescope is going to be built in Chile

Too bad the OverWhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) did not make it.

leanthonyrnon Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

When I was a kid I only knew of him as Mr Spock. Imagine my surprise when I saw him as Emil Vautrain in the Mission: Impossible TV series. I could not understand how he could be a vulcan science officer and a human secret agent, at the same time. He will be missed.

leanthonyrnon What Happens When Digital Cities Are Abandoned?

Could SL world data be used in other FPS games such as TF2, Destiny, and Unreal tournament? Just place the characters in this space for random battles in an ever changing VR space. This would allow for endless reply value and use interesting use of old creations.

leanthonyrnon 5 Tiles Keyboard

"Our brains were structured for 5 digits." I would think, if that was the case, we would first optimize our alphabet for 25/20/15/10/5 characters. Then this would be ideal.

leanthonyrnon HBO programming available on Amazon Prime

Watch Deadwood for the first time and the Wire for the second.

leanthonyrnon Antvr: All-in-one Universal Virtual Reality Kit

Interesting. So it is, out of the box, compatible with the latest systems. Replaces your television with an IMAX type view. Can be used by people with glasses. Paper specs match the other VR systems. Any pros of cons on this hardware?