benhoyt

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CherryPy, ctypes, and being explicit(tech.oyster.com)
3 points by benhoyt 15y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 15y ago
That should be a great idea (I started down that path too), but have you run into the problems I describe with NSURLCache at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7166422/nsurlconnection-o... ?
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by benhoyt 15y ago
The content of PG's talk more than made up for his lack of flair. And besides, he was honest and funny. IMHO several of the more charismatic YC alumni spoiled their talks with Powerpoint abuse -- either not-actually-funny pictures or too
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by benhoyt 15y ago
Very unlikely. There class implementation can almost certainly do it with an O-1 operation, like "self._internal_count = 0".
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Luth3r hacks iChurch, makes Bible open source(aliensintheapple.wordpress.com)
6 points by benhoyt 15y ago|0 comments
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A tale of requited love(www4.ncsu.edu)
9 points by benhoyt 15y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 15y ago
Competition is good and all that, but from my vantage point it seems like a slow-loading and ad-ridden version of codepad.org: http://codepad.org/ Edit: That said, ideone does have an API.
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by benhoyt 15y ago
I've just finished reading Flatland by Edwin Abbott, a really good read in which a Square from Flatland (a 2-D land) gets pulled up into Spaceland (3-D land) and then down into Lineland (1-D land). This is Wolfenstein in Lineland.
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by benhoyt 15y ago
Sounds really interesting. I'm curious: how useful is the event likely to be if I already work at a (larger) startup? Is it mainly targeted at those who want to found new startups?
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by benhoyt 15y ago
A statement from within orthodox Christianity about this ( http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/248/are_god_and_al... ): God became man in Jesus in order to save us. So if there are also other intelligent beings, it’s not a
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Hotel startup Oyster.com launches tech blog: how their photo search engine works(tech.oyster.com)
2 points by benhoyt 15y ago|0 comments
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How Oyster.com's photo search engine works(tech.oyster.com)
3 points by benhoyt 15y ago|0 comments
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Bendable smartphone developed at Queen’s University(engadget.com)
2 points by benhoyt 15y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 15y ago
Here's what Google Webmaster Central says about schema.org: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe... "Google currently supports rich snippets for people, events, reviews, products, recipes, and breadcrumb navigation
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by benhoyt 15y ago
Yeah, that's a good method to detect "soft 404s". I wrote a Python library for DecentURL to do this some time ago: http://blog.brush.co.nz/2008/01/soft404s/ (Ironically, the original paper I got the idea from seems to be a dead link: htt
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by benhoyt 15y ago
As G. K. Chesterton said, "break the conventions and keep the commandments" -- http://www.chesterton.org/wordpress/?page_id=8
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by benhoyt 15y ago
About $100 per month for http://giftyweddings.com/ -- a website that lets you make your own wedding gift registry/list (not tied to a specific store). At this point my maintenance consists of answering about one email a month.
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by benhoyt 15y ago
Wow, that's great. Here's a video showing more taking off, flying, etc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8b0oR0-Pgo
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by benhoyt 16y ago
At least it's clear what he's saying, but I was surprised at this -- it puts Linus well and truly in the postmodern camp. He says ethics are completely relative and personal. (Which of course is not the case: if I try to kill someone, the c
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by benhoyt 16y ago
My mother-in-law tells a story of a doctor she knew who would tell parents-to-be he could always predict the sex of their baby (this was before scans were so common). He would tell them "boy" and would write it down on a piece of paper and
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Ask HN: Recommendations for New Zealand company to get U.S.-based contracts?
1 points by benhoyt 16y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 16y ago
Indeed. Hofstadter and GEB are very cool. I was geeky enough to have referenced Hofstadter's law in a margin note on my resume/CV: http://benhoyt.com/cv
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The Founding Fathers of the Silicon Valley(blog.brush.co.nz)
3 points by benhoyt 16y ago|0 comments
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The One True BDFL(aliensintheapple.wordpress.com)
3 points by benhoyt 16y ago|1 comments
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Should you use C++ for an embedded project?(blog.brush.co.nz)
3 points by benhoyt 16y ago|0 comments
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Xero, a really good web-based accounting system(xero.com)
1 points by benhoyt 16y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 16y ago
Why so? I'm not trying to be trollish -- I really don't see how this is the "most important single contribution to adoption..."
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Bing adds natural language flight search while Google bombs(tnooz.com)
2 points by benhoyt 16y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 16y ago
I'm not sure I'd call this "hacking" (I expected a bed to be pulled apart and turned into something else). This is a fun idea, but it's simply "decorating".
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by benhoyt 16y ago
It reminds me of the False programming language ( http://strlen.com/false-language ), versions of which I've implemented on small micros I've worked on for similar purposes. False is a tiny but fairly powerful stack-based language the autho

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