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Re: Show HN: Buy stuff through your terminal

#15

Why does this even access a server (i.e. the hosted zinc api)? This could be done purely on the client side (= better privacy, security and performance), so I assume it's because zinc wants to add its affiliate id and earn a commission.

I'm one of the guys working on this.

We don't add an affiliate ID. A totally client-side solution would be really cool--we're thinking about making one but it does present a few more challenges. If it wasn't clear, this is more of a proof-of-concept than a practical solution.

If you have an idea that requires a fully client-side library, let us know and we can help!

Re: Show HN: Buy stuff through your terminal

#18

Cute! You can get a significantly higher resolution with Unicode Block Elements[1] and a half tone foreground-background algorithm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements

Ahh very cool. I'll have to add support for this to ihmage.com

Thanks for the credit. I've also got animated gif support somewhere in those gists (and a server for generating them written in Julia).
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