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gabemart

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About gabemart

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    I made http://asoftmurmur.com

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    JS library to encode IP addresses as haiku https://github.com/gabemart/hipku demo is long since dead but the lib is just a file, should still work edit: demo - https://jsfiddle.net…

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    Comment #17470906

    It's using preact, the react.js alternative

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    Comment #17461165

    I've tested on a later iOS but not 10.2. I'll have a look later today - it's possible I'm missing a polyfill. All you should need to do for it to work is to enter something in the …

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    Comment #17456853

    It's supposed to show that the combination of the keyword and the suggested word is alliterative

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    Comment #17449911

    Thank you! I've found myself doing it manually too, which is where the drive for this came from. I think I would use it even if someone else had made it, if that makes sense

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    Comment #16374844

    Or play something more malevolent when people outstay their welcome... https://asoftmurmur.com/?v=003a6400000e00000000&autoplay=1

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    >However, for root components of a directory, use index.jsx as the filename and use the directory name as the component name I used to do this, but I find it really confusing havin…

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    >> Exchanging a single word for another may totally alter the effect of a passage > I think that describes code perfectly. I wasn't very clear here: what I meant was that exchangin…

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    The author consistently compares code language style to literature language style, but I don't think it's a helpful comparison at all. Literature operates by an intractably complex…

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    >you’re cutting it down for it’s screenplay being inspired by a fairy tale That wasn't my reading of the parent at all. Snow White the animated film wouldn't have been made if copy…

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    Comment #15896906

    It's a shame that there isn't a common word in English to distinguish between positive-expected-value gambling and negative-expected-value gambling. They are fundamentally differen…

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    Comment #15796835

    You could script something like this pretty simply with the DO api, and there might well be programs out there already that operate in a similar way. My own needs are modest, but I…

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    I'm a bit surprised by the replies talking about serving millions of requests a second, or needing ultra-consistent packet latency. Perhaps most of the HN demo is working for compa…

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    I ran some queries and it looks like there are only about 4 weeks a year when asparagus isn't being commercially harvested somewhere in California - the first couple of weeks in De…

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    Distances are being computed from a geopoint representation of each zip code (which is a bit out of date, but which I can update fairly easily) to a set of shape files representing…

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    Comment #15742007

    Ah yeah, the zip database I'm using is a bit out of date (as some other people have mentioned) and you're seeing this behaviour as it thinks 22003 is in Georgia. I had a hunch peop…

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    I haven't, but a few people have mentioned LocalHarvest, so I am definitely going to look into it. Thank you for sharing your experience, it's really interesting to hear from other…

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    I would say that the data I have at the moment are reliable in the sense that they are collated from informed, reasonably up to date sources (mainly US government sources at the mo…

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    Ah, that might explain it - I actually have varietal information in the database, but I'm not using it yet because it adds a ton of complexity and I really wanted to show this to p…

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    Almost all the data right now is pulled from various USDA publications which I scraped, combined, sanity-checked and cleaned up. It's not perfect, but it's the best I could do as a…