SeamusBrady

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by SeamusBrady 9y ago
I use Alpine for the VM at the heart of my GPL WordPress tool InstantWP ( https://www.instantwp.com ). I spent six months reviewing all the smaller distributions of Linux until I found one that would boot fast enough to be usable
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by SeamusBrady 15y ago
I am sorry but that doing experiments like this on a living, breathing primate is sick. Surely there is somebody working on a way to develop mind-computer interfaces that doesn't rely on inflicting this kind of suffering on intelligent soci
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by SeamusBrady 15y ago
Hah! As someone who is nearing their forties I find this Silicon Value obsession with youth quite interesting. I live in Ireland and I have never even been in the States, so my opinions should be taken with a pinch of salt :) I know of plen
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by SeamusBrady 15y ago
As a fellow Paddy, I salute you. Looking forward to the service being available in Ireland.
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by SeamusBrady 15y ago
Here here. I have worked in places where they had a bog standard waterfall development process but used agile buzz-words like 'story'. The result? Can you imagine a cross between a giraffe and an car sized amoeba? Yikes.
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by SeamusBrady 15y ago
How about cringeworthy? Def: Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness I could feel my toes curling at certain points. Funny, but not perhaps what was intended...
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by SeamusBrady 15y ago
Some of the comments seem to revolve around the confusion of maps with territory - CF Lewis Carroll's map "the scale of a mile to the mile" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation#...
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by SeamusBrady 16y ago
How about Runtime Revolutions LiveCode? I have been a fan for years - never used the mobile version but they are a great little company and their other products rock. LiveCode is an offshoot of the HyperCard codebase and will run on everyth
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by SeamusBrady 16y ago
OK - I'll bite :) Could you qualify why you think it is easy to get 100,000 pageviews a month? I am intrigued.
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by SeamusBrady 16y ago
I love you (in a rational ironic way)
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by SeamusBrady 16y ago
Lets make a huge distinction between a people (The American People) and a political power structure (The USA). Look at the Irish people (generally a decent lot) and the Irish State (mostly a basket case morally and financially). People are
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by SeamusBrady 16y ago
Whoops! Well spotted. Somebody committed a political faux pas there. All these wet rainy island nations in the North Atlantic tend to blur together obviously... It is interesting for me as an Irish person to see this brought up as our gover
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by SeamusBrady 16y ago
Jeese - this is a tough crowd. I can think of several Irish businesses that I have worked for that would grab this guy straight away to train him. He may not be the worlds greatest programmer (he does not claim to be) but his attitude is gr
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25 Emerging Free Web Scripts to Watch(hotscripts.com)
3 points by SeamusBrady 16y ago|1 comments
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Timekeeping on Mars(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by SeamusBrady 16y ago|0 comments
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by SeamusBrady 16y ago
"It must have been relatively easy for him to not care what other people think." I don't think you understand how difficult it was to be an Emperor! An Emperor who was unpopular could be assassinated. An average Joe Soap who is unpopular ma
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After Money(thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com)
1 points by SeamusBrady 16y ago|0 comments
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by SeamusBrady 16y ago
Pity - I have been a fan of RunRev for years. Their software is great and their customer service even better. Maybe it's time that the Linux/Android wing of their products becomes the main focus. Apple does not seem to care that they are lo
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by SeamusBrady 16y ago
Trapped by a metaphor... a mind is like a computer, but a mind is not a computer. If you build a fast computer model of a mind, then you have - wait for it! - a fast computer model of a mind! Sentience is more than just a matter of modell
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by SeamusBrady 16y ago
I have always kept my own personal development machine a year or two behind what is considered bleeding edge as this is what my users will have. Makes it easier to spot performance issues if you are not using a desktop water cooled super co
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by SeamusBrady 16y ago
I am not sure if your comment about apologising for Stalin / MAO etc is aimed at Chomsky or not. But you should be aware that Chomsky is an anarchist socialist and not a Marxist. He has written and spoken some of the most illuminating and c
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by SeamusBrady 16y ago
I am Irish too :) Hurling is a popular native ball sport in Ireland which involves two teams playing against each other with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliothar. Think of it as ice hockey without ice / skates and the sliothar
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by SeamusBrady 17y ago
I make a prediction that the iPad will be popular for a while with the uber geeks but that ultimately it will be a damp squib. The market will get taken over by a cheaper, more open product that runs flash. That is my Nostrodamus bit done t
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by SeamusBrady 17y ago
OK, the title is slightly melodramatic :) I agree that Apple are doing well now , but that is not the issue. I think they may have damaged their long term prospects, which in IT is the next 5 years.
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Ask HN: The Walled Garden vs the Bazaar - is Apple dead?
4 points by SeamusBrady 17y ago|7 comments
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by SeamusBrady 17y ago
The contradictions of success! Don't get me wrong, I have worked with Rails - I admire what 37s have done and a good rate of churn in new ideas in any profession can be healthy and welcome thing. I just wonder if 37s have gone from being th
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by SeamusBrady 17y ago
Yes, I agree. 37s have become a slight parody of themselves. They used to point and laugh about how web business was done in an 'enterprisey' way by their example company Enormicon (I think it was called). Now we have a set of cliches for a
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by SeamusBrady 17y ago
Interesting that you consider HN a hangout for good guys only. A compliment!
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by SeamusBrady 17y ago
Perhaps space is not indexed - but our system of GPS satellites would seem magical to ancient sailors. We could speculate that if a civilisation has solved some of the problems of interstellar and possibly FTL travel, they may have an analo
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by SeamusBrady 17y ago
Exactly, or maybe not broadcast by the dominant players! The speculative possibilities for this are huge - if we assume that the Zoo Hypothesis for the Fermi Paradox is correct ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Earth_is_purposel.

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