benhoyt

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by benhoyt 19y ago
Sweet! I learned to program by writing a Forth compiler. Was an excellent way to learn. I only discovered Lisp much later, and definitely like what I see, but haven't gotten around to learning it properly yet. Interestingly, Lisp people thi
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Ten things I love && hate about C(blog.micropledge.com)
10 points by benhoyt 19y ago|8 comments
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Fair enough -- I've changed it to make that clear. No hard feelings :-), but perhaps a bit harsh to bam it as spam?
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Does it really look like spam? Why? Several "startup types" have already found it useful, and at $3, you can hardly lose. To get a lawyer to write you something similar might cost you $300. I posted it because I honestly thought it might be
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Need a plain-English NDA for your startup? Just $3 for the one we put together.(micropledge.com)
5 points by benhoyt 19y ago|8 comments
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Simple XP tip: Turn off your beeps(blog.micropledge.com)
2 points by benhoyt 19y ago|1 comments
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by benhoyt 19y ago
The Fox article talks about protecting kids from "lurid photos", but the first thing I thought when I went to http://www.missamericakids.com/ was, "what, did I click on the right link?" +10 for PikLuk!
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by benhoyt 19y ago
I just went through half of this tonight, and it's superb. I had a working "compiler" in about an hour. Except I wrote it in C instead of Pascal, and it compiled to Forth (or really "stack computer bytecode").
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Let's build a compiler (dated, but very good)(compilers.iecc.com)
15 points by benhoyt 19y ago|2 comments
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Why does News.YC show xyz.domain.com as just domain.com? Eg:(blog.flickr.com)
2 points by benhoyt 19y ago|2 comments
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Oh dear -- linkrot!
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Not sure it matters too much for sites that have login page that aren't https, but better not to email people their passwords (clear text). It also indicates you're probably storing passwords in the clear, see http://www.codinghorror.com
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Paul Graham is so good, he's written 735 contributions to this list but hasn't even been tempted to send them.
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nobraces: Python-style indentation for C(blog.micropledge.com)
8 points by benhoyt 19y ago|4 comments
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by benhoyt 19y ago
If you need a plain-English NDA, here's the one we made and used for our startup (it's $3): http://micropledge.com/projects/plain-english-nda
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Speaking of hacker food, this is the breakfast I pretty much live off (but use less oil)(prismmagazine.com)
2 points by benhoyt 19y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Cause and effect is a complex thing, but at least partly because of Paul Graham, I quit a 9-5 job and tried to start a startup. Whether that was a wise thing to do or not, given the circumstances, is quite another question. :-) So PG's a
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Then again, even apart from the fact that a qsort() is built into most languages, Quicksort is very nearly as simple to implement as Bubble Sort.
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Python indentation: very nice explanation for the curious or skeptical(secnetix.de)
23 points by benhoyt 19y ago|27 comments
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Think "Forth", "RPN", that sort of thing. It got me for a while too.
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Relatedly, I've submitted quite a few of my blog posts both here and on programming.reddit.com, and they'll often get a good number of points here, but on reddit someone will almost instantly downvote them to zero, and they of course never
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Yeah, I guess it's no real language. The if clause is the weirdest -- it had me stuck for a while.
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Geeks wanted (neat job application puzzle)(telogis.co.nz)
3 points by benhoyt 19y ago|11 comments
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Learning to write from Mr Green(blog.micropledge.com)
5 points by benhoyt 19y ago|0 comments
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How do you implement password recovery securely?
2 points by benhoyt 19y ago|1 comments
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Good point. Similar to IP and TCP -- from an embedded programmer's perspective, IP is one of the most icky and hardware-unfriendly protocols around. When my friend was at university, they told them about IP just in passing, saying, "it'll d
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Move over mod_python, here comes mod_wsgi.(blog.micropledge.com)
18 points by benhoyt 19y ago|17 comments
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by benhoyt 19y ago
:-) Piano and voice for me, but the latter not very well. One of the reasons I like Douglas Hofstadter is his intertwining of computers and music.
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Yep, we're using it -- I think it was $20 for 20,000 queries. Which for us means 20,000 sign-ups. We're happy to pay 0.1 cent to get a sign-up. :-) And we like their simple "API" -- no icky SOAP, just a GET to a URL.
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The ground-breakingly new PayPal logo(paypal.com)
2 points by benhoyt 19y ago|2 comments

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