kmort

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by kmort 16y ago
"I don't want it because it's too narrow. I think the right thing for the government to do is to give the TSA a lot less money. I'd rather they defend against the broad threat of terrorism than focus on the narrow threat of airplane terrori
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by kmort 16y ago
Such a thing is currently languishing as my #3 side project. The idea is a curated directory of topical resources that takes into account what you already know, and what you'd like to learn. E.g. the "Scala" topic may take into your self-as
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by kmort 16y ago
HN'er davidw runs http://langpop.com/ which determines language popularity from various sources statistically, rather than fan-based voting. He discusses it from time-to-time. http://searchyc.com/langpop.com
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by kmort 16y ago
And it's usually accompanied by the adjective "elegant", which I find rather baffling. "Cute" or "cryptic", perhaps.
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by kmort 16y ago
2 projects taking up most of my spare time and hoping to launch by February. Another long running one which I'm happy to to look at every couple of months or so. It takes a while to get back into the context but very enjoyable. And (checks
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by kmort 16y ago
The discussion on Reddit mentioned that it's a client for a Minecraft server's "Creative" mode (free-form building). This is the mode that is playable in-browser and lacks a lot of the world modelling that is available in the regular game m
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by kmort 16y ago
The domain may well have been unregistered. As HN'er nerfhammer noted: 1 digit + 3 letters = 83.8% availability. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1698035
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by kmort 16y ago
I don't quite understand what you mean by "other service". It's the job of your developers or support/sustaining team to identify issues and resolve them. Debugging can certainly include asking for advice on forums, but I'd like to think
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by kmort 16y ago
Very nice. I tend to steer clear of cheat sheets for Vim etc. as I try to program my motor memory fairly strictly (and use a look-up of the in-depth help system as both punishment and useful exploration). But when switching between language
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by kmort 16y ago
No, it's time for a move back to hyperlinks with anchor text. People who require tweets over SMS are welcome to stay in the past.
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by kmort 16y ago
I had always felt a little dirty using it, and resisted looking behind the curtain. This tweet has piqued my curiosity too much though. Its definition, for those interested: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_44_0/boost/foreach.hpp
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by kmort 16y ago
I've seen this question come up over the years, from Slashdot to proggit and always find it rather juvenile. For an activity that usually requires and benefits from clarity and concentration, I'd be quite surprised to hear of any beneficial
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by kmort 16y ago
Call me cynical but a very similar play happened with Kraft and their launch of a new Vegemite+cheese spread. They named it "iSnack 2.0", were met with strong derision, opened up a naming contest, and finally settled with the consumer-selec
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by kmort 16y ago
You may want to try posting this on a Roguelike, 4X or RPG gamedev forum. Some useful map generation techniques are often discussed.
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by kmort 16y ago
The site is blocked by my MegaCorp's proxy. (No reason given.) Accessing from my phone I really like the site, just thought you should be aware that you've made it to someone's blacklist.
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by kmort 16y ago
I find a great sampling of many essayists is the Edge Foundation's yearly "world question". Not only do you get a great set of short essays, but also some insight into many great minds on loosely the same question. http://www.edge.org/ques
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by kmort 16y ago
It's a little more Sydney-centric but http://siliconbeachaustralia.org is a start-up social group. http://supercoders.com.au is a Melbourne developer-focused job site. http://whirlpool.net.au/jobs/ is a decent IT-only job site. For ge
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by kmort 16y ago
Ugh. I recently went to a wedding where the Best Man read this out in its entirety as his speech (without any attribution). Lazy, in bad taste and very cringeworthy.
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by kmort 16y ago
Your linked page includes in your interests "porn", "ass" and "vulgar". Remind me why I'd want these sorts of things being automatically included in a generated profile page?
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by kmort 16y ago
My day job is Java and Bash with assorted UNIX utils. One major side-project is C++ and Lua. The other is Python(GAE), Django, JavaScript and Awk. The only problem is constantly switching Python and JavaScript code over several hours. I can
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by kmort 16y ago
I'm not sure what else to add. Windows/Firefox on one network, Mac/Firefox and my iPhone on another and there's just no widget displaying. Can you verify this from another point of presence? It seems like it may environmental...
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by kmort 16y ago
Do you feel that the Semantic Web concept now leads that charge?
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by kmort 16y ago
Either I'm taking crazy pills, or there's no widget in the bottom-left of that page. (Windows/Firefox 3.6.7) I can access the widget source at http://fezzlzuupyshh.appspot.com/zuupy/widget/pHb6pXZm1ga1dX... but something is failing to exe
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by kmort 16y ago
The given login doesn't work for me. Also, I think the beta login URL should be http://www.zuupy.com/ ? (I didn't see a login field at the http://shh.zuupy.com demo store.)
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by kmort 16y ago
http://ninite.com/
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by kmort 16y ago
Each idea is noted, some evolve into a long text file. The ones I really start to flesh-out get their own folder, and their multiple text files get C-tagged together with my own Vim format and tag system. But I do want much more. Some of th