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by dhotson 18y ago
I'm a big fan of MOO.com They've got some really cool products and a really slick web site. I sometimes use them as a reference for my own web apps, which is basically a nice way of saying I've stolen ideas from them before. :)
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The camel has two humps. A test for programming aptitude.(scribd.com)
25 points by dhotson 18y ago|24 comments
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by dhotson 18y ago
Seriously, I don't know anyone who has made a video call for any other purpose than 'Hey Cool!'. Just because we're in the future already and we have LED's and video conferencing, doesn't mean it's actually useful. :P
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by dhotson 18y ago
The first time I came across Markov Chains was a blog post about generating Italian surnames. http://doubtingtommaso.blogspot.com/2008/03/markov-chains.ht... Very cool stuff.. it seems quite powerful given how broadly it can be applied.
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by dhotson 18y ago
Indeed. I'm from Melbourne and all the business here seems to be around finance and consulting. With some really great universities (RMIT and Melb Uni) and computer science programs, I can see a lot of potential.
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by dhotson 18y ago
This is a really cool idea. I'm guessing that the reduction in weight would make this car a lot more energy efficient also. It might even make it accelerate faster.
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MOO.com releases API(moo.com)
10 points by dhotson 18y ago|1 comments
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by dhotson 18y ago
Haha.. I actually LOL'ed at that. .. I hope you're not being serious.
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by dhotson 18y ago
I actually think this is going to be a fantastic opportunity for startups.. even though Apple has built some pretty high walls for developers I'm from Australia and mobile internet is currently just way too expensive and so nobody uses it.
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Technology is what makes us human(timhunkin.com)
1 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
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The T-Shirt History of Mozilla(intothefuzz.com)
1 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
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JavaScript Jabber Client Library(zeank.in-berlin.de)
1 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 18y ago
I think the rule of thumb is roughly 1 request every 2 seconds.
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by dhotson 18y ago
Apart from the copyright issues, if you're going to scrape or crawl someone's site.. it's best to be polite about it. I wrote a web crawler a few years back and at the time I didn't really understand the implications of having a crawler gra
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by dhotson 18y ago
I was just thinking the other day how great it would be to have a Hacker News meetup. I'd certainly be interested in meeting other like-minded people. That said.. are there any people from Melbourne (Australia) that hang out here?
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by dhotson 18y ago
I stopped taking TechCrunch seriously a long time ago. Absolutely no journalistic integrity.. even for blogging standards.
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by dhotson 18y ago
Very true. There is a a lot of potential for abuse of this kind of thing. I heard about this technique a while back in a presentation about javascript malware: http://www.spydynamics.com/spilabs/education/presentations/J... .. there's a w
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by dhotson 18y ago
Congratulations to the Mars Phoenix team!
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by dhotson 18y ago
This is quite a remarkable piece of software engineering, very impressive stuff. I'm really glad they're open enough about it to share their techniques. Also, I'd never heard of doing a "dark launch" before, but it sounds like a fantastic w
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by dhotson 18y ago
Obligatory xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/290/
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by dhotson 18y ago
I haven’t got this excited about programming language discussion in ages. It’s great to hear some honesty, there is still a lot of misinformation and stereotypes floating around. It's not even limited to dynamic lanaguages. I sometimes find
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by dhotson 18y ago
This is pretty sweet, I've been a big fan of Processing for ages. Processing reminds me of what was great about languages like QBasic. You could draw graphics on the screen and animate them without needing to understand how to use complicat
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by dhotson 18y ago
This is really interesting. I've personally found the 120-135 degree angle the most comfortable.. I'd previously thought it was terrible for my back, perhaps not! I've actually been looking for a way to use a laptop or PC comfortably while
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by dhotson 18y ago
I really love the concept of this contest.. putting all that random crap on your hard drive to good use. I must admit, I’m a compulsive hoarder of files.. I’m often surprised when I’m browsing through random folders at all the cool stuff I’
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by dhotson 19y ago
I originally found it on someones del.icio.us and posted it here. It's pretty amazing to see how this stuff spreads. :)
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Would you have answered this job ad?(groups.google.com)
93 points by dhotson 19y ago|55 comments
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by dhotson 19y ago
I really hope this works out well. Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood are two of my most respected programming heroes.
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Recursive Lakes(elbruz.org)
2 points by dhotson 19y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 19y ago
From what I remember, Digg first became popular when Paris Hilton's phone got hacked. They were one of the first sites to break the news with the leaked phone numbers.
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by dhotson 19y ago
Best comment I've read in ages! +1 I certainly agree with this. Paul's essays really struck a chord with me.. especially 'Why nerds are unpopular'. I've been programming since a young age and I used to love making little 3D graphic demo's i

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