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redbluething

483 karma · joined February 2, 2011

Developer, Digital Cartographer, Sceptic, Enthusiast
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redbluething··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Yep. I Agree. I believe it's a question of economics, not technical challenges.

Google is absolutely smart enough to make these attacks un-economical. IMO they are unwilling to incur the loss in revenue this would involve (false positives, banned resellers etc).

redbluething··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Agree it's reasonable. I removed the ads :P
redbluething··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Yep. Same!! https://www.cannonade.net/blog/why-i-turned-off-google-adsen...
redbluething··on How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
Meanwhile on the publisher side, Adsense is unusable with the constant scareware content on the network:

https://www.cannonade.net/blog/why-i-turned-off-google-adsen...

redbluething··on Twenty Three Years of Books
I've been logging every book I have finished reading since 2003.
redbluething··on Cyberpunk Video Games
System Shock should be on this list.
redbluething··on Emacs appearances in pop culture
"Jokes on you, Lenny. I use Emacs with Evil-mode – the best of both worlds!" <fistbump>
redbluething··on Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
Thanks very much :) Glad you like it. These books are awesome I really recommend starting at Master and Commander and working your way through all 20 :P
redbluething··on Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
This is awesome!! I made a map of the events in the Martian many years ago (https://www.cannonade.net/mars.php) and when I read Hail Mary I wondered if something could be created for the new book.

You completely nailed it!! :)

redbluething··on Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner
I am not sure why this exists, but I am glad it does.
redbluething··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://www.cannonade.net - The Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project
redbluething··on Show HN: Reverse Pac-Man
Yellow Wizard Needs Food Badly!
redbluething··on Google Has an AI Problem
Search GPT nails the very tip of the long tail.
redbluething··on Four billion years in four minutes – Simulating worlds on the GPU
I finished that book yesterday. I had exactly the same reaction.
redbluething··on Google CTF 2019
Hehe. I kinda love this though :P
redbluething··on Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings
Also gclid and dclid. Not that I think this is a great idea.

:P

redbluething··on MacBook Pro? No
I agree with everything in this post. I rarely use my laptop as a laptop.

I stick it on my stand and plug in my Vortex Race3 and wait for Apple to make a laptop that doesn't suck.

redbluething··on Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
Yep. I have been working on mapping the Patrick O'Brian age of sail novels for the last 11 years.

http://www.cannonade.net

redbluething··on What Kind of Dog Is It – Using TensorFlow on Mobile Device (2016)
They're good dogs.
redbluething··on Latest update to my friend's 19 year side project
He has dabbled with the Rift:

http://pegwars.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/oculus-rift-integrati...

Not sure if he has ever had plans to sell the game. I think it is mostly a fun (and epic) project to work on.

redbluething··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
http://www.goCatch.com | Sydney, Australia | Full Time Senior Software Engineer | ONSITE

We will be able to help with relocating a successful candidate. We are a small team who prize themselves on writing quality, readable, maintainable code, and are looking for like-minded individuals.

Requirements: - Clojure (or a Scheme or Common Lisp), Willingness to work closely with collaborators (including occasional pair programming). Cloud hosted systems; deployment on AWS.

Nice to have: - Knowledge of the Clojure ecosystem. RabbitMQ (or similar message broker). SCALA. REST architecture. iOS or Android Development.

If you are interested, please get in touch with tom@goCatch.com.

redbluething··on Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 (2012)
It's a false premise that App Store approval = 6 month deployment cycle. Sure you can move faster on the web, but not that much faster.
redbluething··on Show HN: Four months of indie game dev
Maybe not unedited, but definitely commentary would be cool :)
redbluething··on Show HN: Four months of indie game dev
Thanks very much. Awesome getting such wonderful support from the HN community.
redbluething··on Show HN: Four months of indie game dev
I actually did it at the end.

Just went back through the Git history, found milestones and checked out those commits. Ran each commit in the sim and took a video. First time I have done that and pretty happy with how it turned out :).

redbluething··on Show HN: Four months of indie game dev
Yep. My premise for the project was that there are lots of these kinds of apps on the store (about 6 or 7) but I wanted to build one with no ads and a 'juicier' UI.
redbluething··on Show HN: Four months of indie game dev
Hehe. Yep. That was pretty much how it went.
redbluething··on Apple is not “recording your moves”
I agree. This is the cell tower data you get back from the significant change API (the low battery use location mechanism).

http://www.cannonade.net/blog.php?id=1482

I am not really surprised Apple doesn't throw this data away. I think they could have been a little more transparent about it though.

redbluething··on Collect HN: Aprils Fools
AOL acquires Forrst https://twitter.com/kylebragger/status/53634151336787968
redbluething··on How much is your app worth?
The more I read stories like this, the more I realise how random I have been with my pricing. Time to test some prices :)