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Recommend "Jurassic Punk" (2022) - the documentary about Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams who is featured in this interview. It covers T2 as well as Jurassic park and goes into the politics inside ILM,

Testament to it's appeal is when it's used by businesses to promote their ice creams/slushies.

Great use of typing in the editor, e.g., I like how it knows the references to template sprites so it can highlight the errors when calling functions with incorrect arguments.

Recently chrome started asking for permission to use MIDI, when before it did not. So lots of existing sites won't tell you that they will request MIDI, which is what most sites that request the webcam do for good UX.

Been using qimv instead of eog for a while now and love it, takes me back to the days of picasa which was the first time I ever had photos load _fast_.

Have an extension on the chrome store too and receive these emails regularly. Promising cash to turn your extension into malware. Mine is a small, specific project that took a weekend or so of work, so I'm sure others in the same position would be tempted to take them up.

Did a similar thing with engraver software (which had a parallel port hardware serial key dongle that DOSBox allowed access to) and a dBASE IV program at a client's factory. Amazing piece of emulation that enables "ancient" code to run forever in small businesses around the world.

I use this [1] HDMI Cable Extension which allows you to use and HDMI cable between them. Works perfectly.

[1] https://www.tindie.com/products/freto/pi-camera-hdmi-cable-e...

As an addition, you can make any window translucent/transparent in X11 (running with a composite manager) using transset-df, e.g.,

  # Lets you click on a window and sets it's alpha to half
  $ transset-df 0.5

Ah that is a cool way of checking where you are - very cool.

This app came mainly from when we were students (now we are self-employed so it's a similar scenario) and had a similar set up where had to go to our basement (where our computers were) and turn off a similar app there.

However, we soon just learnt to turn it off and go back to bed as there was no penalty for doing so.

So by making it be at a place of work/study/exercise that isn't your home, it means you have to really out get of bed to defeat it.

It's all about finding something that works for you.

Hmm maybe it should come with a tweeting from the grave warning...

Photos would definitely be cool, make it seem a bit more fun - plus writing is a lot of effort.

Would have to be careful about becoming the "Naked photo tweeter app" though.

I know what you mean. Biggest difficulty was trying and make it clear to the user how the app works. The more features you add, the harder that can get.

Yep it's cordova phone app that points at a meteor app. We used https://github.com/SpaceCapsule/Meteor-cordova-runtime to help stick them both together.

Made it a lot lot lot lot easier to make (and hopefully we'll be able to get an iOS version out of it too).

Ahh multiple locations. That is a good idea.

This is the way out at the moment.

What we thought of doing was your submit someone you wouldn't want to tweet and then have an account (the punisher account) tweet them the message saying it was written by you.

When we were at university we had it running on the machines there and it would just wipe your home directory or email your professor - harsh times but good times.

Haha, we'll put a request to Google to create a new app category for it.

It requires location information, but I guess your device probably has that.

It's a cordova application running a meteor app, so the .apk was generated from a config. We're pretty new to cordova apps so there may be some problems that we're unaware of.

The server sends the tweet so you could turn the phone off and it would still get sent out.

At the moment, a viable cheat is faking location on your mobile device.

Thanks for the feedback, an interesting point. I think we may change it to allow you deactivate up until say an hour before, and maybe a life system that gives you a "get of jail free card".

But you can't be given too many options as morning-brain will do anything to stay in bed.

Hi, one of the creators here.

At the moment you need to activate it every night.

We are thinking of adding a "lives" system which say gives you one free cancel, then perhaps the life regenerates every week.

We're work for ourselves so this app is mainly used to motivate us to get up in the morning, it is difficult to fight the lethargy of morning-brain when you are your own boss.

I'd be interested in knowing how much deep learning is changing the algorithms used in this field, given the performance of restricted boltzmann machines on the netflix data set http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hinton/absps/netflixICML.pdf.

Link to talk given by the host on the subject. http://vimeo.com/52332329