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Ask HN: How do you enforce coding best practices?
5 points by jacobevelyn 7y ago|2 comments
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
You're basically describing the Big Dog Backyard Ultramarathon (created by the same person who created the Barkley Marathons, which other comments have mentioned). To get a taste of this year's race (which just happened!), read th
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
For anyone curious about just how fast this pace would be for other distances: https://pace.ninja/marathon-in-1h59m40s
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
Hey, thanks for the kind words. I hadn't really planned to share this project today, which is why there's no mention of privacy on the site. To answer your question: all of the "computation" is done client-side, but depe
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
Yes, sorry! I was trying to just discuss the "iambic" part and ignore the "pentameter," which I'd assumed (maybe incorrectly) was not the source of confusion. Thanks for the clarification.
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
Thanks for checking it out! Limericks are actually a surprisingly ill-defined form, but I'll be adding what I consider an "80% correct" limerick feature soonish. And yeah, I mentioned Shakespeare in this other thread: https:
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
Wow, haha very cool that we're all trying to scratch the same itch!
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
Agreed! And thanks for the tip—a UI spinner of some sort would definitely be helpful.
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
Wow, your comment plus that link is a treasure trove of information! I have very little formal poetry education so I really appreciate your insight here. I'd love to make Versepad smart enough to handle these variations (similar to how
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
I feel your pain! I think a big part of the problem is that most of the iambic pentameter examples taught in school are actually not iambic pentameter (at least not with modern-day speech patterns). I expanded on this more in another comm
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
Wow, your search engine project sounds really neat! What a cool idea. Thanks for the tips re: Shakespeare and Hopkins. I'll definitely dig in there. One of the tricky things with poets like Shakespeare is that many of his sonnets'
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate your input. The console error I'm aware of (assuming the error you're seeing is `newTree should be an object`); it doesn't seem to be actually breaking anything (as far as I can te
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
Anyone who finds this interesting might enjoy playing around with the meter analysis feature of my side project poetry text editor: https://versepad.com (The meter analysis is the most complex part of the codebase, but that does
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
A few years ago I made a similar project with a slightly different twist: https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/git-self-blame I did it as a learning exercise, and if anyone's interested I documented the source in a lot
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by jacobevelyn 7y ago
Wow, I just wanted to say thanks for sharing this. These slides are great. Would you mind if I shared this link with some coworkers?
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by jacobevelyn 8y ago
I had the opportunity to take a scientific glassblowing course as an undergraduate. It was one of my favorite college experiences, period. The focus and precision, combined with the fact that I was working with my hands, meant hours could f
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by jacobevelyn 8y ago
I spent six months living in a rural New Zealand town when I was 11. About 95% of people there (including me) were barefoot everywhere—in the home, at school, at the grocery store, at the doctor's office. Some sports were predominantly
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by jacobevelyn 8y ago
This is so so true. Milk in cardboard containers just lasts dramatically longer.
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by jacobevelyn 8y ago
Since you brought it up, here's a shameless plug for something you might enjoy: https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/git-self-blame
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by jacobevelyn 8y ago
A related post from the late Aaron Swartz: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
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by jacobevelyn 8y ago
This is a really cool project! I don't need quite the power of eno (yet!) in my CLI journaling app[1], but I similarly value the power of users being able to just easily read and write their own data. (I went with Markdown for the data
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by jacobevelyn 8y ago
For what it's worth, my $9 bright pink Casio has netted me more compliments over the past six years (and it's still using the original battery!) than probably every other accessory/item of clothing I've worn over that ti
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by jacobevelyn 8y ago
Glad to see you're still working on Picnic CSS! I remember you being super responsive when I opened a few GitHub issues three years ago (wow, time flies!). Still love the look :)
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by jacobevelyn 8y ago
Thanks for all the info! Glad to hear I'm not the only pencil-user on HN :)
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by jacobevelyn 8y ago
Do you mean the "todo.txt" CLI ( https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli ), or just a file you edit manually? I've used the todo.txt CLI on and off, sometimes in collaboration with my (shameless plug) &quo
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by jacobevelyn 8y ago
Thanks, I appreciate it! Also I'd never heard of libcaca before—very neat!
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by jacobevelyn 8y ago
Hi HN! I built this six years ago (as a take-home assignment for an interview—they turned me down) and just discovered that it still works and could be fun to share. It might sputter a bit with really large images, but should mostly be func
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Show HN: Generate colored ASCII art from images(asciiator.com)
19 points by jacobevelyn 8y ago|3 comments
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Tricks for debugging nondeterministic tests in Ruby(engineering.panoramaed.com)
1 points by jacobevelyn 8y ago|0 comments
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by jacobevelyn 8y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for Dependabot! I'm excited to be trying it out with `friends` ( https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends ) and I really appreciate the quick turnaround you gave me when I found a small bug t

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