benhoyt

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by benhoyt 17y ago
Oh dear! Good catch, that's embarrassing. I did a recursive "wc" but then read the wrong column. It's only 21,000 lines. :-| Fixed now: at 21kLOC, is it still a figure worth including?
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Fair question. Develop web apps, really. But I'm pretty open, and plan to leave my "what I want to do for you" for the cover letter when applying for a specific job.
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Thinking of applying for a job at Google. Any tips or feedback on my résumé?(benhoyt.com)
28 points by benhoyt 17y ago|49 comments
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Are his super() complaints really a problem in practice? I for one have always disliked the non-DRYness of typing "super(C, self).method(arg)", and Python 3's super() really improves on that for real-world cases. I haven't done much Unicode
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Weird HN caching bug: I appear logged in as other HN users sometimes
50 points by benhoyt 17y ago|9 comments
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MRO: Map Rows to Objects (tiny Django-like "ORM" for web.py)(blog.brush.co.nz)
6 points by benhoyt 17y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Is that uptime [Flickr's] acceptable to a bank? I would love a Flickr-like bank. Banks are only open about 8 hours out of 24, and (at least here in NZ) even when I do an online money transfer, it only goes through in their batch th
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by benhoyt 17y ago
A fellow Kiwi, sweet! Incidentally, I do have an electrical engineering degree. I didn't major in software in my degree, but I have in my job (I like programming more than circuit design, I guess :-). Still, it seems to me the term "softwar
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Are we "software engineers", "software developers", "programmers", or other?
3 points by benhoyt 17y ago|9 comments
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The SWYM programming language (has an "etc" keyword)(chalicegames.com)
8 points by benhoyt 17y ago|3 comments
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by benhoyt 17y ago
The Selenium plugin/system looks really nice. I just about wrote my own (the Python part, anyway), but then found this. :-)
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Selenium: web app tester. Record/playback tests in Firefox, dumps Python code.(seleniumhq.org)
3 points by benhoyt 17y ago|2 comments
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Yes -- though not yet, because they (weirdly) haven't replied to my "you've won the $50 survey prize" email. Either they thought it was spam, or they typed in their email address wrong. I'm guessing the later, and will move onto the next ra
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by benhoyt 17y ago
This is similar to a short survey I ran the other day: I wanted some stats about how many people used wedding gift registries, so I put an ad on Facebook (targeted at married females in NZ) that said "Answer 4 questions about your wedding a
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by benhoyt 17y ago
I'm curious: are you implying that that's what this apology does, or that the apology is lacking?
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by benhoyt 17y ago
No, the WikiReader doesn't run on Linux. It's a tiny embedded micro that doesn't really have any operating system -- just a little flash file system and a couple of small drivers for the LCD screeen, touch screen, etc. Also, as my article n
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by benhoyt 17y ago
That's great! I've usually used answers.com or dictionary.com, but they're slow and cluttered compared to this. Also, answers.com often gives you a Wikipedia entry when you want a simple dictionary definition.
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Go Forth and WikiReadit(blog.brush.co.nz)
18 points by benhoyt 17y ago|4 comments
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Email Standards Project: HTML standards for email, by the Campaign Monitor folks(email-standards.org)
1 points by benhoyt 17y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 17y ago
"Python 2 is fine now – but in the coming months and years new libraries, features, and performance improvements are only going to be introduced in Python 3, and I didn’t want to get left behind or forced to take on an expens
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by benhoyt 17y ago
As I see it, Knuth is to computer science what Tolkien was to literature. Neither man is what you'd call "hip and creative", but both produced a life time's worth of high quality, painstakingly careful work. (In fact, it'd be interesting to
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Presumably if one has permission it's both appropriate and legal.
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by benhoyt 17y ago
You're right, that would be useful information. However, Aaron was one of the reddit founders and I imagine gained a few pennies from that. Perhaps the project he's hired for is openlibrary.org? From http://openlibrary.org/about/people : "
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by benhoyt 17y ago
My wife (a good but amateur violinist) hasn't noticed or heard of this before, but says that her fingers get sleepy if she doesn't play for a few months, and that could explain it too.
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Darren has a great last name, too.
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Thanks -- actually, with PayPal you can only "Authorize and Capture" funds for 29 days, which isn't enough. A year would be quite nice. However, there are a number of payment gateways that microPledge can use aside from PayPal. At this poin
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Python + web.py, and PostgreSQL for the database.
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Very helpful, sir! Care to expand on that a bit? For example, why, and where you think we might focus our efforts, etc.
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Thanks for the tip. We hadn't actually heard of Flippa. We looked at Sedo, but it focuses on selling domain names. Looks like Flippa sells the platform/business too.
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Remember our startup microPledge.com? Want to buy it?(bizbuysell.com)
11 points by benhoyt 17y ago|15 comments

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