Show HN: Buy stuff through your terminal(zinc.io)
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Show HN: Buy stuff through your terminal
http://zinc.io/cli
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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
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).
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!
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!
I don't mean to use HN like SO but I keep getting the error:
"IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/private/tmp/pip-build-root/zinc/setup.py'"
Any idea why this might be? Looks awesome and wish I could try it!
"IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/private/tmp/pip-build-root/zinc/setup.py'"
Any idea why this might be? Looks awesome and wish I could try it!
Which version of pip are you using? It should work if you upgrade to 1.5.1.
I was getting the same error on 1.0, looks like I need to upgrade.
The install failed from PyPI using pip. Missing setup.py. Works fine from github though.
https://github.com/wangjohn/zinc_cli/archive/master.tar.gz
Make sure to use pip 1.5.1 and it should work.
Does this only support Python 2? I'm fully updated for pip, but I had to put it in a virtualenv and point it to python 2. You might want to mention that if it doesn't support 3.
I was hooked when I saw cheetos
It presumes one is using whatever pip is - its not in debian's repository .
Installing python libraries and programs through pip is pretty standard.
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Now you just need to integrate with those smart fridges so an order with Amazon Fresh is automatically placed when I run low on something.