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by justinlilly 14y ago
Totally understood. I started out writing a DNS server. Turns out, DNS is flipping complicated. I do make backups to the hosts file before every write. For me, I don't have anything complex in my hosts file, except the stuff Randall adds. T
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Show HN: Randall, a micro-shortner for personal use(github.com)
4 points by justinlilly 14y ago|4 comments
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by justinlilly 14y ago
DIY in the US tends to mean "buy some things so I can DIY", so its really just a replacement for more consumerism. Rarely does the DIY market do something like "Don't throw out that XX. You can repair it for very little money!".
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by justinlilly 14y ago
I feel like it should be possible to host a server which will hold incoming sockets which proxies back to HTTP, thereby making a bolt-on solution for real-time. Then again, maybe I'm just describing a webserver. :-/
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by justinlilly 14y ago
Identify the market and sell to them. Who is your market? I would guess undergraduates. Selling to undergraduates sounds difficult. Instead, follow the first commenter's advice and make the teacher force them to buy it! :)
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by justinlilly 14y ago
Seconded. I used it for a simple website and I liked it.
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by justinlilly 15y ago
I was rather inspired by this and decided to write up my tmux config with org-babel as literate programming. Hope someone likes it: http://justinlilly.com/dotfiles/tmux.html
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by justinlilly 15y ago
I'd recommend reading "Being Geek" by rands. Its great. http://beinggeek.com/
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by justinlilly 15y ago
1. You may be able to get a teacher via skype in a timezone that is amenable to your time constraints. 5. Its never too late, assuming you have patience. Practice practice practice. I think there are mobile apps which are basically flash-ca
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Vim & Python: Making yourself at home(justinlilly.com)
184 points by justinlilly 15y ago|29 comments
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Django for Managers & Decision Makers(justinlilly.com)
5 points by justinlilly 15y ago|0 comments
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Writing a static site generator using org-mode(justinlilly.com)
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by justinlilly 16y ago
If you start one, I'll attend.
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by justinlilly 16y ago
Twitter with topics, groups and faster back and forth.
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by justinlilly 16y ago
This is only the case if productivity is your only concern. There are also considerations such as support, security, and familiarity.
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by justinlilly 16y ago
What does it actually do ? Executes the body of the case for the channel which has output?
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by justinlilly 16y ago
http://typekit.com/libraries/full?languages=english&styl... something like that?
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by justinlilly 16y ago
Have you played with the latest version of android's voice tools? They're amazing. Content creation should only be regulated to existing modes of input (keyboard) only if we don't come up with better input methods.
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by justinlilly 16y ago
With less, you can do: less myfile.log &ERROR # filter out any line that doesn't match the regexp ERROR F # capital f enters follow mode Now you're tailing a log with a custom grep, which is retroactive on history as well.
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by justinlilly 16y ago
You can make this much easier on yourself. First, just give them 64 feeds and tell them about it on some form of status bar. The "updating your feeds 63/64" progress bar, but maybe yellow with "We're only updating 64 of your feeds. [a href=
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by justinlilly 16y ago
I've been. It kicks ass. Tons of great little weekend projects (and more).
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by justinlilly 16y ago
and every other social network ever. who cares?
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by justinlilly 16y ago
Web frontend. Persistant users, where you can leave messages for people. Notification of interesting channels also on the network. Let me get it on my phone.
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by justinlilly 16y ago
Heatmap of your foursquare checkins. I'm sure these guys would be up for doing it for geotweets. http://www.weeplaces.com/
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by justinlilly 16y ago
You can manually attach browsers by visiting http://example.org:4224/ where example.org is hosting the test driver.
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Javascript testing using JS Test Driver(justinlilly.com)
10 points by justinlilly 16y ago|2 comments
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by justinlilly 16y ago
http://flask.pocoo.org/ That's flask. It's nice and simple, but still lets you do things. Give it a try, it has good documentation.
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by justinlilly 16y ago
C'mon.. don't you know about 2012? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/
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by justinlilly 16y ago
No kidding? I grew up in Clover, SC and thought the same thing. Such a small world.
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by justinlilly 16y ago
Nope. That's correct as well. Recursion is a much more elegant way of doing it. :-/

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