I made my gf a desktop application in Electron, but she left me for the QT dev she told me not to worry about
Hope you learned to avoid Electron apps :grimacing:
Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?
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#172Somehow on dating apps my most successful profile line has been “Message me if you want to learn an interesting fact about toast.” This led to me “researching” a lot of facts about toast and getting deeper and deeper into the bit. Long story short I now run toastfacts.com. I only have about 7 facts on there right now, but I “discovered” some more good facts last night which I plan to add to the site when I get home.
One of these is not quite right: > The word “toast” comes from the Latin word “tost” meaning “toast”. That's a Middle English word. You can trace its etymology further back to Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tostus#Latin but it won't be just "tost" in Latin.
There's a reason I put "researching" and "discovered" in quotes ;) That toast fact is exactly as correct as it's supposed to be.
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#174My girlfriend who is now my wire really liked the TV show American Idol. So I jailbroke my iPhone and wrote a robodialer so she could vote hundreds of times without touching her phone (which, for context, was a Nokia flip phone)
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of these is not quite right: > The word “toast” comes from the Latin word “tost” meaning “toast”. That's a Middle English word. You can trace its etymology further back to Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tostus#Latin but it won't be just "tost" in Latin.
There's a reason I put "researching" and "discovered" in quotes ;) That toast fact is exactly as correct as it's supposed to be.
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Re: Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?
#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of these is not quite right: > The word “toast” comes from the Latin word “tost” meaning “toast”. That's a Middle English word. You can trace its etymology further back to Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tostus#Latin but it won't be just "tost" in Latin.
There's a reason I put "researching" and "discovered" in quotes ;) That toast fact is exactly as correct as it's supposed to be.
voster clunis tostus est
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
One more that’s fun, though maybe doesn’t really count as “programming.” I got married a few years back. We built a wedding website for people to get details on our wedding and to RSVP. It was pretty standard (think we just used Squarespace) except we included tracking pixels for the largest ad networks (Google, Facebook, etc) throughout the site. We then bid on impressions from anyone whose browser had triggered the…
So... a friend just sent me this as I'm known as "the guy who pranked his roommate with Facebook ads [1]." I'm also getting married on 11/11. This is absolutely brilliant. My partner and I [2] thank you for this. PM me, we'd love to invite you and your partner to our (digital) wedding. [1] http://ghostinfluence.com/prank [2] http://partnersinpresence.com
> I'm also getting married on 11/11.
Ah, 光棍节, the most spiteful wedding date possible.
Re: Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?
#178I took all my moms hand-written recipes and made dithechef.com after she died. Never added any features.
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#179This maybe considered the opposite: live preventing coding.
I designed a matching algorithm for a dating website - okcupid - just before dating my (now) wife.
I met with their CTO and convinced him it’d work over lunch at Mary Chung’s. He gave me the keys to the source so I could start the implementation.
Unfortunately, for OKC, I met my wife with a manual implementation of the algorithm. And thereby lost all time and inclination to continue.
(For those that care, it was a naive TF-IDF approach. )
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#180Haha, I go beautiful mind on occasion. As a system administrator, I see the entire world as systems. Everything I do is for attainment of a higher state; smooth, functional, beautiful and no wasted energy. From Unix server design, the flow of home office and way I hone my body. " want a perfect body, want a perfect soul. Want you to notice... " It' my swan song to humanity. Mostly love, with a tinge of hate at times...