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by kpgraham 7y ago
Oxalic acid is not very toxic. I've read it slows down the bees for a few days, but I've not seen any impact on population. You get oxalic acid in a rhubarb pie and it is harmless. Bees get a very weak solution dribbled on the top
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by kpgraham 7y ago
I am a beekeeper and I have not had a colony collapse since I started treating the varroa mites with oxalic acid solution. Colony collapse is a generic term for hive failure and not a specific disease. Varroa is the main reason why my hives
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by kpgraham 7y ago
I've built a half dozen Fender Bassmans and a few Fender Super amps over the years. I thought the article would be about this kind of amp building, but evidently not many hacker news readers play blues harp through a tube amp. Low tech
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by kpgraham 7y ago
I have 4 hives now out of 8 that made it through the fall. I can't seem to keep the hives alive in the winter even with treating. This spring it was Hive Beetles that killed them. I'll split any hive that looks healthy - walk-away
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by kpgraham 7y ago
How many times a day? I usually can't get away from being around the hives without a sting. Luckily the bees are usually calm and a honey bee sting is like a bad mosquito bite. It is not like a wasp or hornet sting. If I open the hive
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by kpgraham 7y ago
I raise bees and sell the honey. Good for a few thousand a year and the money makes up for the stings. I have a couple of dozen chickens and sell the eggs, but this makes very little money since eggs are so cheap in the super market. It pay
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by kpgraham 8y ago
Thanks. I have need something like this, but the web pages do not indicate anything about what it does, how it works or how to use it. I don't have Node installed, either, so it was a waste of time clicking through. I wonder why it was
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by kpgraham 8y ago
I started writing in COBOL in 1976. I wrote a lot of code and even started teaching COBOL in the local community college. The language is pretty simple, although wordy. I think that COBOL code would be pretty obvious to a coder today. They
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by kpgraham 8y ago
Who is going to write the app? It is sorely needed.
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by kpgraham 8y ago
This is not a big problem, but it is annoying enough that I downloaded the extension. I'd like to see a Firefox extension, too. I have been making little JavaScript extensions to do things like sift eBay results and remove sponsored li
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by kpgraham 9y ago
My company sent me to Boca Raton in 1983 to learn how to use the PC. It was a week long class with hands on experience configuring PCs and BAT file programming using "EDLIN". I had PC serial #7 in the class and serial #1 was at th
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by kpgraham 9y ago
My first programming job, also. One Christmas in the late 70s I had three 5120s set up in my living room. I was programming a complete accounts receivable system with reporting and data entry (I was an accounting major, long before small c
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by kpgraham 10y ago
In 1984 I was a PC instructor at a large paper company and I was called up to the 23rd floor to fix a senior vice president's PC. He stood there while I worked on it. It would not power up. I looked around the back of the desk and the
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by kpgraham 10y ago
Back in the days of shareware, around 1985, I wrote a program called TXT2COM. It was a simple way of turning a text file into an executable. All a user had to do was run the converted com file and the text file appeared on the screen with f
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by kpgraham 10y ago
I am using a model M right now. I bought three at a computer fair for $3 each about 20 years ago to save space on my desk. The advantage, other than the tactile and sonic feedback, is that my wife can tell when I am working.
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by kpgraham 10y ago
I remember sitting with John Dvorak at his private party in the Sands at Comdex in Vegas. John was buying and we got very very drunk. The occasion was a wake for the obvious demise of Wordstar, which we both preferred. Word Perfect basicall
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by kpgraham 10y ago
I worked with a programmer who cut his teeth on ancient iron in the 1950s. He had a computer that had 4K of ram and two 512 byte I/O buffers. He would set the loader for the program into the I/O buffer and then use that to load an
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by kpgraham 11y ago
I think it is quote from Gibson.
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by kpgraham 11y ago
In the early 1980s I was hired as the Manager of Micro-Development at Lockheed Martin because I wanted too much money to work as a programmer. In these days the section I was in had no PCs so I brought my old luggable (not really portable)
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by kpgraham 11y ago
I am 64. I wrote my first program in 1970 and have worked as a programmer since 1976. Programming was a good career choice. For many years I was a manager and pretty much hated it and returned to programming. I quit my job and went to work
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by kpgraham 12y ago
I have been using the Google Sky version of the API for many years now at my star finder astronomy site (eg. http://www.starsfree.com/view/91.025/-24.3/M8 ). I don't know of an alternative. There is a Mo
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by kpgraham 12y ago
With enough ingenuity the tricks in assembler can be automatically translated. I work for a company that converts legacy languages like COBOL and mainframe assembly language to Java or .net. The founder has a bunch of programs which analyze
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by kpgraham 14y ago
Ugly web pages are memorable web pages. I instantly forget the pretty sites. In the words of Evan Llewellyn Evans: Irritate!
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Amazon Kindle Asks Me to Unpublish My Books(cthreepo.com)
3 points by kpgraham 14y ago|3 comments
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by kpgraham 16y ago
Yeah, it is stupid. On one hand it is an interesting experiment and on the other, just dumb. If I get any takers it will a measure on just how weird social networks can be.
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by kpgraham 16y ago
I was going to let the domain expire and figured this would be a good placeholder. So far no takers, but I bet between now and next May I'll make ten bucks. I've already made a few cents off the ads.
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Weasel Word Detector(cthreepo.com)
2 points by kpgraham 16y ago|1 comments
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Convert a web page to a WordPress Theme in 5 minutes(blogseye.com)
1 points by kpgraham 16y ago|0 comments
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Wordpress Plugins Hijacking Facebook Pages(blogseye.com)
2 points by kpgraham 16y ago|0 comments
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by kpgraham 16y ago
The article wasn't talking about drawing or graphics, but rendering things like DIVs as Cubes and arranging standard html objects in a 3D space.

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