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by gmurphy 14y ago
FWIW, H1Bs have run out until October 2013. Lachy is Australian though, and could almost qualify for the E3, which is a far better visa (I'm still on it seven years on) though it still needs employer sponsorship and some level of university
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by gmurphy 14y ago
> Loyal customers were the last to hear about it I'm a Linode customer, your message is the first time I've heard anything about it.
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by gmurphy 14y ago
Apple released a firmware fix that makes the Capslock key behave normally if it's remapped in OS X. However, I don't use OS X, and the keyboard doesn't send the event until after the delay (if I just tap the key quickly, Linux/Windows don't
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by gmurphy 14y ago
Except there's a 200ms delay on the Capslock key to prevent accidental activations. Because this is built into the hardware, it means that even if you remap, if you press the second key really quickly after the first, the character ends up
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by gmurphy 14y ago
While Mount and Blade is one of my favorite games of all time, its sword fighting is pretty different to the simulation in Die by the Sword. DbtS didn't really have pre-programmed motions like M&B, it instead attempted to map 2D mouse p
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by gmurphy 14y ago
I believe this is what Blade of Honor (Tsurugi) did, though I can't find any deeper reference to the controller. http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10210
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by gmurphy 14y ago
I was skeptical too, but when I tried this app a few months ago, I compared it to my Garmin heart rate monitor at rest and after exercise - they were usually within 1bpm of each other. I was very impressed.
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by gmurphy 14y ago
I looked into the Neurosky and Emotiv headsets the other day for a side project. They've been on the market for a while, but most reviews are pretty cautious. The Neurosky headset appears to suffer from inconsistent readings, and is mostly
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by gmurphy 14y ago
It's hard to meet people like this because of attitudes like this. I have three designers on my team who are also world-class engineers, yet they often don't advertise themselves as such because they run into the "well if they do both they
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by gmurphy 15y ago
When I moved to the bay area, I noticed that fellow Australians who had been here for more than three years sounded weirdly sort-of-American, and thought "good thing I'm going back in two years!" I'm still here six and a half years later. I
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by gmurphy 15y ago
These are supposedly the links, though both sites are down. The third was just an "express an interest" page, as the supplier didn't yet have the appropriate page up. http://export.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-ras... http:/
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by gmurphy 15y ago
> You can't do that on Chrome Actually, you can do that on Chrome, and we've supported both it and automatic keyword generation since the beginning. I can type w<tab>webkit and get a Wikipedia search without looking. http://www
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by gmurphy 15y ago
Quake is also responsible for changing my life: after years of muddling around in BASIC and LOGO I started writing mods in QuakeC, which required me to write code, design a website, design and build models, and test and test and continually
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by gmurphy 15y ago
If you don't have an opinion on PyCharm, this is why I care about it: Most of the code I write is in JS, with a small amount of Python. For the longest time, I swore by Visual Studio + Visual Assist X for JS development - it's a weird combi
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by gmurphy 15y ago
Many other people have had success, but so far there doesn't seem to be a common thread between the people who've had failures.
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by gmurphy 15y ago
A small word of warning: I mostly use Windows 7 on my MacBook Air, but I decided to upgrade anyway. Unfortunately for me, the upgrade rendered my Bootcamp partition inaccessible (it doesn't show up in startup disks, and does show up in Disk
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by gmurphy 15y ago
The European Browser Choice screen was a good example of where this style of sorting can come and bite you - the browser choice screen was designed to display a selection of browsers in random order, but the above sorting code unintentional
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by gmurphy 15y ago
The lead frontend engineer on Chrome was previously the lead frontend engineer on Firefox, and many other people on the team worked on browsers forever - we all knew what 'chrome' meant in a technical context long before we called it that.
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by gmurphy 15y ago
As it took a small amount of searching, here's more info about the company (Magnet) mentioned at the end of the article: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/04/27/alfred-chuang... And their site: http://magnet.com/
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by gmurphy 15y ago
I'm an Australian living in America; I sometimes seriously cite the lack of an Australian Amazon (or real equivalent) as one reason not to move back. Other, more normal Australians don't disagree.
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by gmurphy 16y ago
I made this quick demo of using it for wikipedia search using a bunch of different public APIs: http://bodytag.org/perch/
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by gmurphy 16y ago
Here's one I made that lets you transition between URLs: http://bodytag.org/rollstate/ We didn't have the button/title flicker when it was first implemented though :\
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by gmurphy 16y ago
Growl is great for all the reasons you state, but Chrome doesn't use it because Growl doesn't allow HTML, and it would require us to ship Chrome with Growl for all the users who don't have it. HTML notifications can be powerful because they
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by gmurphy 16y ago
For me, it was the news (in 2005) that they were hiring JavaScript-specific engineers - JS was my true love, and though I didn't think I was anywhere near the CS-Genius stereotype I'd read about in the press, I felt I was pretty good at JS,
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by gmurphy 16y ago
I work at Google and I am an engineering-degree dropout who was referred by a music-degree dropout; we both now report to a VP who was a mathematics-degree dropout. That's not to say it won't be harder to get past resume screens and such, a
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by gmurphy 16y ago
Unfortunately for happiness, they reset my password after I'd already done so myself.
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by gmurphy 16y ago
I did it for fun for many years - had my work exhibited and in books, got to travel around the world, and met interesting people. Then it turned out I was doing it because my day job was so unsatisfying - as soon as I got a job at Google, m
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by gmurphy 16y ago
It was designed and implemented by Ben Goodger, the front end lead.
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by gmurphy 16y ago
:( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1703197
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by gmurphy 16y ago
I'm currently knee-deep in CSS gradient generation, so this is very welcome. It would be nice if there was a way to shift all the colors in a gradient simultaneously - for hover effects, you frequently just want a slightly lighter version o

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