benhoyt

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Ask HN: Do many people use PRWeb.com? Is it effective?
2 points by benhoyt 17y ago|1 comments
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Gatejumper: Q&A site about building online businesses(gatejumper.net)
5 points by benhoyt 17y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 17y ago
plinkplonk, apart from your comment being flamewarish, you're not interacting with the content of the sheats' comment. If you think Jesus is invalid, then state why -- interacting with the comment, the gospels, etc. lostsheep, I must say th
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by benhoyt 17y ago
I showed my two-year old daughter the Mandelbrot set, then this pic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mandelbrot_zoom.gif She said, "Is that all Mandelbrot's friends?"
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How to spam-protect DecentURL? (my URL nicifier inspired by a reddit comment)
2 points by benhoyt 17y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 17y ago
As I mentioned on proggit, that URL doesn't actually demonstrate cross-site scripting , but it looks like the page is vulnerable to iframe and scripting insertion too. Example: http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/?artistNa
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by benhoyt 17y ago
OTOH, I always find it refreshing when websites don't use tiny 10px fonts -- the "I've taken a graphic design course, and I think small fonts are cool" thing. In other words, 23px might be a bit big, but it's better than too small, at least
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by benhoyt 17y ago
True (thanks). Though illegal != sexist. Also: asking it might be many other things, but why is it "unreasonable"?
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Yes, but two things: 1) as I mentioned, the fact that they might ask the woman and not the man is simply due to the fact that more mums stay at home than dads, and 2) why is it devaluing her to ask that? Anyone who's got kids knows that rai
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by benhoyt 17y ago
I'm wondering why it's sexist (devaluing one sex) to ask who is going to take care of the kids. Isn't it quite possible it's concern for their family situation (because work affects family)? A guy probably wouldn't be asked this simply beca
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Very good. The 25->8 word exercise was a good little demo. Though I smiled when I saw "if you can spell ... int main(int argc; char* argv[]);" -- his first semicolon should be a comma in C. Also: the world is (more or less) spherical, n
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Weird, for me it just says "You are using Google Chrome 3" with no release date. In IE and Safari it tells me the release date.
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by benhoyt 17y ago
I see he's using Ajax to call his API to unshorten the URL. This is fine, but wouldn't it be faster (and less load on his server) if the JavaScript tried to follow the link directly, and looked at the Location header in the response? Or can
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Note that on http://www.mathim.com/translate/ when you type anything with a slash in it (eg: "x/2") it tries to go to http://www.mathim.com/translate/x/2 and fails, presumably because it's trying to interpret the slash as a directory se
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by benhoyt 17y ago
I would like to think this is true, but honestly find it difficult to believe. Do you have any evidence or research on the topic?
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Heh, I do have young children. :-) However, surely there's more to it than that, because plenty of people with young kids get sick less often than I.
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Ask HN: I seem to get colds/flus more often than most people. Suggestions?
7 points by benhoyt 17y ago|12 comments
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by benhoyt 17y ago
PostgreSQL stores everything in flat files too (on Windows, in a directory like "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\data\base\100929"), and I'm guessing MySQL would too.
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Code generation with X-Macros in C(blog.brush.co.nz)
7 points by benhoyt 17y ago|2 comments
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How to write a fugue (GEB meets Britney Spears?)(youtube.com)
7 points by benhoyt 17y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 17y ago
We've succesfully used John Hyde at http://www.sitedoublers.com/ See my comments about him here: http://blog.brush.co.nz/2009/08/site-doublers/
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rel="shortlink" - URL shortening that doesn't hurt the internet(code.google.com)
53 points by benhoyt 17y ago|41 comments
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Yes, for "protothreads", see: http://www.sics.se/~adam/pt/
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Are you sure the case-label-fall-through has been its most controversial feature? It's so obscure (most people haven't heard of it) and rarely-used -- I'm guessing there are other aspects of C that are more controversial, or at the very l
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Comparison of string libraries for C and C++(and.org)
1 points by benhoyt 17y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Meta HN discussion: this problem often crops up when people are doing "rate my startup" type posts. They want to post an intro blurb for HN people, so they can't link to the website. Does this smell of a feature waiting to be added to HN, o
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Yeah. Christchurch, NZ is the place to be! :-)
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by benhoyt 17y ago
No. Though the "meme" meme isn't too far behind. :-) Seems to me that "let's go shopping" is merely an expression or a figure of speech .
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Real men program in C (C is still very alive, especially in embedded)(embedded.com)
6 points by benhoyt 17y ago|1 comments
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Ah, that's better already -- somebody fixed that text size problem quickly! :-)

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