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phatbyte··on Polar watches/sportbands Python API
I just received my Polar A360 from UPS...came to HN and saw this post. Mind blown. Thanks for sharing this ;)
phatbyte··on Why most mobile development projects fail
Most of those design issues could be solved if they used (designer and dev) Sketch or Paintcode
phatbyte··on Document 17 Declassified – 9/11 attackers may have had links to Saudi Arabia [pdf]
The timing couldn't be better.
phatbyte··on Clementine: modern music player and library organizer
I know a lot of expert tools with complex features and with beautiful design/nice to use design. One thing is not a trade-off of the other. That's a fallacy that doesn't help the stigma that OSS tools should continue to do IMO.
phatbyte··on Clementine: modern music player and library organizer
I'm just saying that a lot of programmers have bad taste when it comes to UX. I see a lot of very OSS powerful apps but with horrible interfaces that I just can't use. Design is part of a app, not just beautiful code that the end-user doesn't even see.
phatbyte··on Clementine: modern music player and library organizer
So much better, thanks for the share.
phatbyte··on Clementine: modern music player and library organizer
This UI is horrible IMO. Open Source projects could really start to embrace UX designers instead of 100% programmers. A slice of orange has a slider...really? :P
phatbyte··on Deepjazz: AI-generated 'jazz'
Awesome work, and this is quite interesting, something worth exploring with more depth that an hackaton can't provide.

Having said that, and as a Jazz fan, the generated music is horrible. Keep feeding it more jazz tunes :P

phatbyte··on Amazon Echo Is Magical. It’s Also Turning My Kid into an Asshole
Ok, so in a nutshell this guy wants a machine to do parenting for him. Education should come from parents primarily. Not teachers, or friends and definitely not a machine.
phatbyte··on Free “Deep Learning” Textbook by Goodfellow and Bengio Now Finished
This book looks amazing. Thanks for this.
phatbyte··on Free “Deep Learning” Textbook by Goodfellow and Bengio Now Finished
This is exactly where I'm learning from as well.
phatbyte··on Free “Deep Learning” Textbook by Goodfellow and Bengio Now Finished
I'm mostly using Khan Academy at the moment. But I see several people already posted alternatives which is nice to have ;)
phatbyte··on Free “Deep Learning” Textbook by Goodfellow and Bengio Now Finished
Thanks for this. I'm currently re-learning statics/probabilities and linear algebra so your book will be useful in a few months down the line ;)
phatbyte··on Show HN: Datasets.co – Share and discover new machine learning datasets
This is awesome, as someone who is currently playing with ML this is a great resource for playing with Datasets. Thanks to everyone involved in this project. Keep it up.
phatbyte··on Deep Q-Learning: Space Invaders
This is one of my favourite topics recently. ML and AI is something amazing. A very nice skill to have. Good article also.
phatbyte··on Polaris: Faster Page Loads Using Fine-grained Dependency Tracking [pdf]
Doesn't HTTP2 solves this by using Stream dependencies? It seems to be a lot clean than using JS eval()
phatbyte··on 'Music' from /dev/urandom
I was listening to Esbjron Svensson Trio, and then I tried this...my ears...
phatbyte··on Bill Gates calls for terror data debate
I'm just going to be a little cynic here:

Bill Gates is still too attached to MS, of course, he build it. If Apple did what the feds asked it, this would back-fire Apple consumers.

1. People would just no longer trust Apple, which translates into less devices bought.

2. This won't prevent terrorist or whatever their excuse is. If terrorist know Apple does this, they will just use other devices.

At end, only us, the normal consumer loose with this.

This would just help MS and other companies to gain more market by screwing up Apple. Until the feds come after these other companies that is...

phatbyte··on Show HN: LennyFaces.net – Cheatsheets for lenny faces
Very similar to this: http://www.jemoticons.com/pt I wonder who came first. Very similar layouts
phatbyte··on Implementing the Elm Architecture in Swift
As someone who's currently learning Swift and Cocoa and have no idea what Elm is. Is this something actually useful that helps building apps?
phatbyte··on Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
Sorry to hear about that man, hope things improve soon.
phatbyte··on Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
There kinda is: http://devpressed.com/
phatbyte··on Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
Move!

Here's the thing: I love programming, I've been working has a web dev since I was 18 (34 now), but I always loved design and creating desktop apps. And recently I've been learning Swift and mobile design.

This year, the startup I was working with went bankrupt, and I just dive into depression and self-confidence as a developer. I couldn't stop thinking to myself: "oh no, not again all those web dev interview processes and more JavaScript, PHP code..."

I got burnout of web dev, I just couldn't see myself doing it any longer. I hate JavaScript and the whole current ecosystem, it's a fucking mess, I don't want to have anything to do with it. PHP bores me to death, it's getting more and similar to Java syntax. Traditional web apps are dead. Everything is an API with a frontend-app, and that's fine, but I'm done.

So I decided to move, I'm now learning design, UX, Swift, iOS. And I'm loving it. The creativity and motivation spark are back! I feel so free, the web was a burden to me, a constant pressure to keep up with frameworks and trends.

So before you quit, think of moving to something different. Learn a new paradigm, try something different. Tired of C++, learn Ruby. Tired of Ruby: Learn C# and Unity 3D. Tired of the web? Try building an iOS TV app.

phatbyte··on Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
$100 an hour? If u work 5h per day for 22 days it's like 11k per month. Unless you got some serious addiction/debt problems I don't see how can u be broke :P
phatbyte··on Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
You know, you have the freedom to NOT pick a framework at all. It's not like it's mandatory. Use components and wire things your way.

Don't like legos? Reinvent the wheel then. Go nuts ;), programming is a way of expressing yourself. Like an artist feel free to do whatever you want.

phatbyte··on Is It Time for Swift?
The verbose is what it makes awesome to read. Also, Xcode pretty much autofills this for you with just a few keywords.
phatbyte··on Swift is Open Source
I love this! I got say, that I've been a fan of Swift since the day Apple announced it. It's a such a beautiful language, with so many new paradigms implemented, safe and easy to learn.

I really hope this boosts the widespread of Swift. I'd love to use it for back-end dev for instance.

phatbyte··on English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
I'm From Portugal and can confirm this, and I'd say almost everyone especially people between 12-45 know how to speak english fluently.

Most of this is because we grow up watching movies and tv shows with subtitles. Heck, I even remember watching Cartoon Network without any subtitles at all.

Another thing I noticed is how good the english accent is from people from Portugal and Sweden.

phatbyte··on Jony Ive's Voice
This is quite possible the best descriptive domain name ever. And we think we you're going to love it.
phatbyte··on Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
This looks great, congrats to everyone involved, this is really exciting stuff. I got a couple questions I didn't quite understood.

1 - What prevents someone from altering a JS file and serve it to other peers?

2 - Is it possible to obtain all the version of an object and see it's history of changes (like Git)?

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