Hacker News: zaf

Show HN: Modern-Retro Arduino-Compatible Game Clock

zaf — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 11:50:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tindie.com/products/omzlo/the-game-clock/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18315346

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zaf in "JSBeeb – JavaScript BBC Micro Emulator"

zaf — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:18:14 +0000

Have the hard copy, fantastic book.

New comment by zaf in "JSBeeb – JavaScript BBC Micro Emulator"

zaf — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:16:52 +0000

Unfortunately Granny's Garden is not available freely due to publishers denying permission to do so.

FartScroll.js

zaf — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:18:05 +0000

Article URL: http://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540081

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

NoCAN: the 'wired' IoT platform for makers

zaf — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:40:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1242572682/nocan-the-wired-iot-platform-for-makers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17346462

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Billing must be enabled to use Google Maps

zaf — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:01:06 +0000

Article URL: https://mapsplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-google-maps-platform.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16983667

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

RIP Bookmarklet (1995–2014)

zaf — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:59:34 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/making-instapaper/bookmarklets-are-dead-d470d4bbb626

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16429441

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by zaf in "The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes"

zaf — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:22:49 +0000

Thanks for that! Good story!

Apple fixed the iPhone calculator bug

zaf — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:34:36 +0000

Article URL: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-fixes-iphone-calculator-bug-that-said-123-equaled-24-2017-12

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16257094

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Adventuron: Text Adventure authoring system

zaf — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:11:09 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@model_train/introducing-adventuron-4f95909d6aaf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16212082

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zaf in "Today is the fifth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death"

zaf — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:00:38 +0000

The names of his machines "speed" and "mass". Very cute.

New comment by zaf in "Is AlphaZero really a breakthrough in AI?"

zaf — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 08:42:38 +0000

"However, the experimental setting does not seem fair. The version of Stockfish used was not the last one but, more importantly, it was run in its released version run on a normal PC, while AlphaZero was ran using considerable higher processing power. For example, in the TCEC competition engines play against each other using the same processor."

That does sound fishy,

New comment by zaf in "Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10"

zaf — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:45:46 +0000

It's in beta and you still have to use the bag of sh*t windows terminal.

I'll skip and continue supporting and using PuTTY.

The PuTTY developers should get a trophy for an essential dev tool that has been around for ages, free and just works.

New comment by zaf in "Donald Knuth's Christmas Lecture: A Conjecture That Had To Be True [video]"

zaf — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:39:04 +0000

I watched it with subtitles (hit the CC button).

Google search by time frame anomaly

zaf — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 08:41:00 +0000

Article URL: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/112563/google-search-by-time-frame-anomaly

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15877507

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zaf in "Front End Developer Conference – detailed talks on the main 3 JavaScript frameworks"

zaf — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:49:52 +0000

First one to view source and see content wins a free ticket!

New comment by zaf in "A Universe in One Line of Code with 10 PRINT"

zaf — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 14:08:45 +0000

That's because of HN formatting.

New comment by zaf in "A Universe in One Line of Code with 10 PRINT"

zaf — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:48:15 +0000

# Without unicode or pygame (using Python3)

  import sys, random
  while True :
    print( random.choice( [ chr( 92 ) , chr( 47 ) ] ) , end = "" )
    sys.stdout.flush( )

New comment by zaf in "Ask HN: How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?"

zaf — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:17:59 +0000

I've dropped using the heavyweights and have been happily using Bulma for some months.

Thanks for your efforts and may you reach a healthy v1.

New comment by zaf in "Netflix: Removing client-side React.js improved performance by 50%"

zaf — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:10:49 +0000

It is quite telling that you give the example of the component which has "one or two checkboxes on the UI" that "has some of the most complicated logic in the codebase".