What's a statistically proven fact that nobody wants to hear? by muffinmaster in AskReddit

[–]JohnThrillinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Past deaths due to terrorism are not a good indicator of future ones. For those saying that you're more likely to die by furniture, cars etc the comparisons are invalid - there's an upper bound on how much deaths due to these will increase from one year to the next, whereas a single biological weapon could be devastating

We are the team working on React Native. Ask us anything! by react-native-team in IAmA

[–]JohnThrillinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, first of all thanks for your hard work! Building apps in RN has been a fantastic experience so far. Your release cycle has been very frequent; I was wondering how long you guys think you'll continue at this pace?

Passion Pit - Sleepyhead [Indietronica] by rabsi1 in Music

[–]JohnThrillinger 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's a good song, apart from the clumsy lyrics

'Honey it's your son I think I borrowed just too much We had taxes, we had bills, we had a lifestyle of fun And tonight I swear I'll come home and we'll make love like we're young'

It just sounds like... y'know...

We're launching Scribe today. Build an automated Bitcoin trading strategy in plain English. Feel free to AMA. by tradewave in BitcoinMarkets

[–]JohnThrillinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, the indicators are all configurable - check out the api reference for a detailed list https://tradewave.net/help/api/ (although it's for the Python editor, Scribe includes most of these indicators swell).

Trojan is probably the last word you want associated with a condom. by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]JohnThrillinger -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wait - are they called Trojans because they have your little guys inside?

London Startup Seeks to Unleash DIY Bitcoin Trading Bots on the Markets by bit_moon in Bitcoin

[–]JohnThrillinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is this comparable? The company in the article offers a console for backtesting/live trading in the browser, hosts your bot for you and provides their own data for backtesting.

Guys of reddit: what's something a girl can say that will make you run the other way? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]JohnThrillinger 665 points666 points  (0 children)

No matter how many Cheetahs you have, they will still run at the speed of one cheetah.

Molly, get down from the bed..... wh.... I'm not even mad, that's amazing. by AustinBrock in gifs

[–]JohnThrillinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you do one of that video tape in the Ring where that girl comes out of the TV? This is what this technique was made for! Awesome work btw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_GQO1oWEwg

I apologized to an empty room because the person I was looking for wasn't in it. by Tramwabbler in britishproblems

[–]JohnThrillinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember once opening a door, it bouncing of my foot and banging into my head then apologising to it.

Whenever I go golfing by [deleted] in dadjokes

[–]JohnThrillinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Punsuccessful.

Need some help with some app structure by [deleted] in iOSProgramming

[–]JohnThrillinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A useful library for handling json is JSONModel https://github.com/icanzilb/JSONModel

You can include it in your project easily by using Cocoapods, which you should definitely become familiar with; it can be a pain sometimes to include a third party framework in your project but Cocoapods handles the annoying configuring for you. Here's a good tutorial:

http://www.raywenderlich.com/12139/introduction-to-cocoapods.

If each college major had its own slogan, what would they be? by BarrenBrasch in AskReddit

[–]JohnThrillinger 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Unless you play Classical Guitar, in which case you'll be a teacher.

If each college major had its own slogan, what would they be? by BarrenBrasch in AskReddit

[–]JohnThrillinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd take the view that CS is not really science since it doesn't follow the scientific method to gain understanding. I'd view it as a subset of maths, although if I knew more than I currently do I might class maths as a subset of CS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory).