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xelfer

1,443 karma · joined July 18, 2008

MLOps/Cloud Engineer. Wollongong, Australia.

nick @ triso.me

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xelfer··on The decade old Civ II save file has been posted
I would have posted this to the other thread but it's 14 hours old and it would probably get buried under all the comments there.
xelfer··on What Guide Books Tell Foreign Visitors to the U.S.
As an Australian any kind of expected tip is odd.
xelfer··on Shouryya Ray solves 300-year-old mathematical riddle posed by Sir Isaac Newton
I found this discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/u7551/teen_solves...
xelfer··on Codecademy - how not to do a redesign
I was doing each lesson weekly until I got too busy, and your site has since emailed me 3 times saying I should start my Code Year and presents me with info for week 1. I finished week 1 the day you launched, it doesn't seem to be checking my progress telling me to pick up where I left off.
xelfer··on RasberryPi review
Has anyone been able to purchase one yet? I've signed up to all those sites saying they'll let me know when I can purchase one and haven't received any emails back yet.
xelfer··on Tutorial on making a photo app using Parse
Probably, but like I said I'm still learning all about this, I have no idea how to do that.
xelfer··on Tutorial on making a photo app using Parse
This is amusing, as I've been using Parse's Facebook API for my app which looks almost identical to what this tutorial is creating. However I'm uploading the image to a web form instead of storing it in Parse, so it's viewable in a web browser as well. I'm still very new to it all though, would you use the Parse REST API to view these images on a website? Any chance of the next tutorial showing that?
xelfer··on Parse 1.0 is released
Parse is great, I had some trouble with their iOS Facebook documentation and they were all too happy to email me the changes that recently occurred and update their documentation accordingly.
xelfer··on Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter finishes at $3,335,250
and it still seems to be rising, not sure how that's happening after the time was reached, maybe some are still completing transactions?
xelfer··on Live ships map
This is great, I live near one of the biggest ports in Australia. Great to be able to identify the ships I can see from my house.
xelfer··on Apple releases Ipad 3
They upped it to 50mb today.
xelfer··on Making of an iPhone app design (Sharypic)
Thanks for the information!
xelfer··on Raspberri PI Release Announcement
Wifi sucks in my apartment, http://www.netcomm.com.au/netcomm-products/powerline/np504 solved the problem for me.
xelfer··on Making of an iPhone app design (Sharypic)
The app looks great. I was wondering how to create the facebook style side bar, as I hadn't seen any API's for it yet. I stumbled upon this: https://github.com/BenHall/ios_facebook_style_navigation - anyone know any others?
xelfer··on Confirmed: Windows Azure downtime caused by leap-day bug
How are these things happening? in Australia our Healthcare system had a bug too: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/292081,hicaps-bug-hits-health-...

I don't recall any of this occurring in 2008 or 2004.

xelfer··on Raspberri PI Release Announcement
I keep getting 'No price was found for product 2081347. Item was not added to basket.' on the au site now.
xelfer··on Raspberri PI Release Announcement
I couldn't even find it on the Australian site. I got it into a shopping cart on the UK one, but it died while trying to create my account.
xelfer··on All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately
Even though IMDB have a mobile site (automatically redirects you to m.imdb.com), it STILL prompts you to download the app every single time you visit. Extremely annoying.
xelfer··on The last few G+ features I would like to see
Event invites with Google calendar integration is one feature I'd love to see. Hopefully it isn't too far off. In fact my circles appear in the "add guests" search section of my Google calendar event creation. Selecting them does nothing yet though.
xelfer··on Namecheap.com: We say no to SOPA
$6.99 using the SOPASucks code. http://i.imgur.com/MDSHl.jpg
xelfer··on A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
thanks for this, my godaddy domains were registered for 10 years, so this makes it easier to switch. i thought they only gave me 1 year from the transfer date.
xelfer··on Show HN: I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds
Please post when you do, I'm just getting into cocos2d now trying to learn game development. Any tips/resources you can share? I'm working through this book http://www.learn-cocos2d.com/
xelfer··on Show HN: I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds
is the level editor your own or another product?
xelfer··on "Australian Exceptionalism": best performing and fairest developed nation
They need to change channel from Today Tonight to SBS World News :)
xelfer··on The Wiki Game for iOS
I grabbed the last one in the last, thanks!
xelfer··on How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code
I wrote an app to display traffic images for my local city - I followed all the correct avenues and got permission to use the images from local traffic authority. Part of our signed contract is that I'm not allowed to sell the application. I've had about 200,000 downloads and was number 1 on the Australian app store for a week.

There are people who don't seem to have followed any path to keep their applications and content legal (with the same app idea) and are selling theirs with the same content as mine, they seem to be on the app store with no repercussions. I guess I have that piece of mind that I won't get sued or asked to pull my app..

I've made about enough from my admob ads to pay off my developer subscription :)

xelfer··on What planes are flying over you right now?
Offline until 2012: http://science.nasa.gov/realtime-tracking/
xelfer··on New Boston Globe website design
This looks similar to the http://www.news.com.au redesign which was rolled out 2 weeks ago. Lots of white space and thin grey lines.
xelfer··on TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over
Just in case the article is pulled: http://pastebin.com/jGz78D1G
xelfer··on Fellow Developers: What's your salary?
I'm a unix sysadmin and I took a "junior" position because I couldn't find much around where I live (Australia) around here when I lost my job due to the financial crisis.

I'm on 57k, I could probably get 80-100k if I did a 2 hour commute each way every day, but it's not worth it. I can ride my bicycle 30 mins to work where I am, I'm 5 minutes from the beach and my mortgage is as much as people pay for rent in the bigger city area which have the higher paying jobs. It's all about balance and what makes you happy.

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