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Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Life Goes On! A game, built in Unity, about sacrificing knights and using their dead bodies to solve puzzles. http://i.imgur.com/qeuo84C.jpg http://i.imgur.com/g1oFM31.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7PoX6th.jpg This game started at a game jam two years ago. It became an evening and weekends hobby, then it became a full commercial release, and we just launched on steam. ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/250050/ ) I thought…

I saw your game on reddit a long time back, I really enjoyed it! Thanks for the reminder to go pick it up (I got the mailing list updates but ignored them)

Do you think you will be releasing another game under the same name?

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%2020... A utilty for finding and exploring internal rhyme schemes in poems and songs. I made this in order to better show people just how complex a rap artist's rhyme combinations can get. This was created with CMU's pronunction dictionary ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary ) The screen shot shows a subset of the rhyme combos found in the…

Super impressive!

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

#194
Here's the 3rd side project I've been working on with a friend that was just released (I've been busy!).

The iPhone app is called 'Run the World' and it lets you create goal based on running from one city to another (for example run from San Francisco to Dallas).

Here are some screenshots: http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/50/ea/e5/50eae50f-7...

http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/6e/5d/08/6e5d0849-3...

http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/f0/28/0f/f0280ff7-fa...

http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/c2/7c/f7/c27cf75b-9...

http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/cc/dd/97/ccdd97cd-30...

Here is the App Store Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/run-the-world/id832500937?mt...

We both realize the benefits of running but find it hard to get motivated so we made this app as a way to get off the couch.

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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http://imgur.com/QUGUkxa PAGS: Programming Assignment Grading System. I'm a Msc student and a teaching assitant. Grading programming assignments of students takes so much time because of preparing files, environments, viewing code, multipe outputs etc. Besides my research, I developed this Docker based web application, where assignments are Dockerfile + run script + required/supplied/output files. Main motivation: I…

It's a really good idea to have something like this to create a canonical build environment. We've had quite a few issues on my course of "it works on my machine". The only thing I'm wondering about is GUI programs. Currently it looks like those wouldn't be possible, which is unfortunate, because several of the main programming assignments I've had have been Java GUI applications, C++ and OpenGL programs, etc. I wonder how these could be done?

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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I built, and am continuing to refine, a site that features one link (and accompanying discussion thread) per day. http://puu.sh/8p3D5.png I got the idea from an Idea Sunday thread, built the first version in a few hours, and I've been working on it on and off all week. http://threadaday.github.io

Awesome. A few things to think about: 1) Would it not be better to have one-topic per day as opposed to one link. With one topic, users can submit multiple links/sources. 2) Have you started to think about acquiring users? You definitely need to grab an email address and email the daily topic so we can get remember to come back. 3) Related to 2. I think when selecting links, topics, it is important to select somethin…

Thanks for the feedback!

1 & 3. I thought about this approach, but right now I like the idea of having one link, that way all discussion is centralized to the particular article at hand (and of course comments with links are allowed if someone would like to link to an outside resource). I have been trying to pick articles that have a strong thesis or present an idea that I feel would spark some discussion. I don't want to ignite any flamewars so I try to stay away from topics that are too controversial/not actually likely to produce useful insight (i.e. "Javascript Sucks Because X"). What are some topics you would recommend?

2. Collecting email addresses is definitely on my list of TODOs, right now I'm still roughing out the MVP.

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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http://imgur.com/QUGUkxa PAGS: Programming Assignment Grading System. I'm a Msc student and a teaching assitant. Grading programming assignments of students takes so much time because of preparing files, environments, viewing code, multipe outputs etc. Besides my research, I developed this Docker based web application, where assignments are Dockerfile + run script + required/supplied/output files. Main motivation: I…

It's a really good idea to have something like this to create a canonical build environment. We've had quite a few issues on my course of "it works on my machine". The only thing I'm wondering about is GUI programs. Currently it looks like those wouldn't be possible, which is unfortunate, because several of the main programming assignments I've had have been Java GUI applications, C++ and OpenGL programs, etc. I wond…

I have already evaluted this; You can expose VNC through a port, and use NoVNC to play it on browser over websockets. The problem is, it is too slow and would generate a big burden on server.

noVNC: https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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http://tinypic.com/r/4jampz/8 (original: http://www.damienhirst.com/minoxidil) http://tinypic.com/r/o0tcug/8 (original: http://www.eyestorm.com/Pages/Product.aspx/Damien_Hirst/Vali...)

Learning D3.js by implementing Damien Hirst's spot painting techniques. Fun way to learn about D3 and to appreciate the complexity behind seemingly simple modern art.

The latter uses a phyllotaxis algorithm that models how sunflower florets replicate (even though I think Hirst traced his from a textbook it's fun to implement the algorithm).

Random color selection is also a much harder problem than you'd think (how to avoid repeating patterns) and I'm seeing that Hirst's allocation is not quite so random (rumours of steganography - http://www.damienhirst.com/controlled-substance-key-paint for the key if anyone is good at cryptanalysis).

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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We're rebranding as Widgetic. We're called Blogvio now (http://blogvio.com/).

So personally I've been focused on building the new identity and securing the domain name, Twitter username (had to purchase this one from an existing user), Facebook vanity URL, Google, Vimeo and all the other accounts we needed.

The icon we've been working on, although not final, should help users see two things depending on where they look from (front, sides) - I'd love to hear your guesses - what do you see?

http://o7.no/1fhXfoX

Here's a more fine tuned / in progress version: http://o7.no/1hE7mOY

Once the rebranding is done we can finally release our API under the new name, so we don't break any integrations with our product.

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