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sylvinus

2,816 karma · joined December 10, 2010

Founder/Co-founder/CTO: Pricing Assistant, dotConferences, Jamendo, TEDxParis, Joshfire

Angel investor in 120+ companies and 10+ funds.

Now working with the French government: https://sylvainzimmer.com/blog/2025/01/public-sector/

All my projects: http://sylvinus.org/

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/sylvinus; my proof: https://keybase.io/sylvinus/sigs/jQNfmDNeTbuL2y1OAPyyoDrd7JYaHnFzi650ZkAWWuw ]

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sylvinus··on The first open source multi-device development framework.
you don't "need" it but it will save you time by already packing all glue and standard code for the supported platforms (SDKs, specific video components on TVs, scrolling on mobiles, code for handling keyboard/remote keystrokes, ...)
sylvinus··on JsPlumb - pipe your UI elements together
There's also an excellent library for wiring components client or server-side in javascript : http://neyric.github.com/wireit/
sylvinus··on Sal Khan has started videos about Python
Hopefully John Resig (now working at Khan Academy) will help with that :-)
sylvinus··on Ask HN: What documentaries are worth watching?
His talk at TED was also quite interesting: http://www.ted.com/talks/morgan_spurlock_the_greatest_ted_ta...
sylvinus··on Ask HN: What documentaries are worth watching?
Banksy's documentary/mockumentary : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_Through_the_Gift_Shop
sylvinus··on Facebook snags Geohot
On top of that Geohot may have some past or future legal bills to pay ;-)
sylvinus··on Facebook snags Geohot
Facebook has tons of bright developers that other bright developers like to be around, and even if they're not all primarily motivated by the potential value of their options, it does create a self-sustaining black hole...
sylvinus··on What we learned from putting a ridiculous billboard on 101
The good thing about these internet memes is that nobody will come and claim copyright on the image ;-) (Or will they?)
sylvinus··on HN Meetup: Paris, France
also we'll send codes to the building by email so please register :)
sylvinus··on HN Meetup: Paris, France
I think it will be in english as we have a few live-abroads (skylar or mrspeaker)
sylvinus··on HN Meetup: Paris, France
Official website: http://parishackers.org/
sylvinus··on Understanding V8
One of the best presentations of nodecamp.eu
sylvinus··on Focusing on the next Linux client
I love how there's not one mention of Flash in the article :)
sylvinus··on HN Paris Meetup: First event mid-July, help us bootstrap
There is actually a doodle to decide what the best date would be for everyone: http://www.doodle.com/abqr32qk27k7pucp
sylvinus··on Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subscriptions
indeed :)
sylvinus··on Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subscriptions
Looks like Apple is (successfully?) copying Facebook's policy strategy... Two big steps forward, then one little step backwards!
sylvinus··on Failed entrepreneur, broke, unemployed, now taking care of aging parents. Help.
relocate close but not too close to your parents, and get a desk job where you actually have 50% free time to do whatever you want, start or contribute to some open-source software, rebuild your life for a few years then get back in the game, if you ever want to!
sylvinus··on Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Campus
and you can see Steve feeling sorry for them when he just looks back to his papers after a stupid question :)
sylvinus··on Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Campus
I second this, don't forget Jobs' experience with "creative" spaces like the offices of Pixar.
sylvinus··on GWEI: Plot to make Google eat itself
Well the revenue share from AdSense was revealed to be in the 65% range. So given a poor profitability by Google in the next few million years, it could still work.
sylvinus··on Nuclear reactor on Kickstarter
sadly, looks like that out of funds, he had to go back to a "normal" job:

http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/2011/03/20/new-job/

sylvinus··on Six months later, no one has found the Easter Egg on the Google CR48
I'm cranking my Cr-48 open right now :)
sylvinus··on France lobbies G8 for Internet control and censorship
no it's not?

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/actual

sylvinus··on ParrotBot reads your GMail to you
When I read the title I believed an AR.Drone from Parrot (http://www.parrot.com/usa/) would fly to me and read my mail ;-)

(They have an API I think so that may actually not be too far-fetched...)

sylvinus··on Google labs:word frequency in books over the last 200 years
Is this weird ? :)

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=google&year_s...

sylvinus··on Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN
I think given the severity and potential criminal lawsuits for this nobody will step out right away, however I'm pretty sure the geohot story pissed off some good hackers who found something to do in their spare time...
sylvinus··on Two Programs Enter, One Program Leaves
There you go !

https://github.com/joshfire/corewarjs

I've got imps and a few other running :)

sylvinus··on Show HN: Pacmaze v2 - Event More WebGL in Pacman
nice work! I think the camera angle should switch faster because it's a bit weird to direct with the arrow keys and the camera orientation delay
sylvinus··on Two Programs Enter, One Program Leaves
I've got the precompiler working quite well. Interestingly, it translates the redcode/pMARS code line-to-line to Javascript which is then executed to produce the assembly.

redcode is indeed a mess, clearly the result of an evolving and blurry standard :)

anyway, I'm spitting out assembly for 90% of the bots I've tried and have the Imp running. From now on it will indeed be a job of implementing each instructions and addressing modes. I'm definitely uploading this on github in a few hours and will be very happy to have some help ! :)

sylvinus··on Two Programs Enter, One Program Leaves
yep I'm currently wrestling with it. I've a prototype that precompiles EQU and FOR/ROF and I'll try uploading it to github when it's a bit more tested.
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