m0nty

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by m0nty 18y ago
I'm going through the aftermath of one of my failures at the moment. It's been an interesting, illuminating experience. I've learned that I am (as I suspected) fallible. I've also learned that most "civilians" don't know what they want from
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by m0nty 18y ago
It would be an excellent tradition for people to post stories about their mistakes -- we live in such success-driven cultures that it's almost like admitting you're a loser if you ... well, lose occasionally. Yet, the more I develop softwar
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by m0nty 19y ago
Just to spell it out a bit: to criticise Microsoft or PC vendors is hardly the same as criticising whoever jrockway is. It certainly doesn't imply he's a hypocrite, since I don't know him/her and cannot, therefore, comment on their morals o
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by m0nty 19y ago
Please, get over yourself.
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by m0nty 19y ago
"With bugs. One thing Apple does consistently is release buggy Rev. A products. Every. Single. Time. It's almost like they try to do it." Yea, you could never accuse Microsoft and the PC vendors of sloppy work like that.
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by m0nty 19y ago
Note to self: must remember to do more group-think.
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by m0nty 19y ago
'A girl with some sort of mullethawk and a tattoo creeping up her neck asked me if I needed help and I almost said “no, but you do.”' You know, that seems a pretty hostile way to (almost) talk to a stranger. Maybe it's a cultural thing ...
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by m0nty 19y ago
"Because you're used to watching TV." I watch very little TV, so I can confirm your idea that you get used to doing more creative things if you cut it out. I do watch DVDs which I rent from Amazon, but that's different because I get to ch
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by m0nty 19y ago
> I mostly did it because it was a fun exercise in javascript Me too :) Although I'd recommend using jQuery if you have time to learn that as well. Makes DOM-related stuff easy so you only need to roll code for the things which are uniq
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by m0nty 19y ago
You might find the UK is about to have a "nasty turn" WRT the lending crisis, increasing inflation and rising fuel costs. Taxes are very high also, and the government seem a bit clueless about the relationship between high earners and entre
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by m0nty 19y ago
Thanks! We need a YC'er of the week award :)
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by m0nty 19y ago
Kind of, although more like reddit's "hide" feature. There's also a GM script to do like the extension you link, but it has menus so there's no need to edit an array. No time to find link but it will be on userscripts.org somewhere.
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by m0nty 19y ago
Maybe a reddit-like "hide" feature would be better -- doesn't affect anyone else, just let's you skip stuff you'd personally not see. I'm sure someone has the GreaseMonkey-Fu to do this without troubling the site programmers.
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by m0nty 19y ago
Site's down, so: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/04/the_uno_a_one_wheel...
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by m0nty 19y ago
Could you not send him an email (it's in his profile)?
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by m0nty 19y ago
"a government-backed project to provide a window into the UK's start up scene" Spot the obvious contradiction, right there. There are startups in the UK and just about anywhere you care to look, but there isn't a "scene" per se. If there we
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by m0nty 19y ago
I'll tell you what I love about Django: the whole damn framework. It wasn't that long ago that you had to handle everything yourself, using home-brew functions and funny little hacks and plenty of local knowledge. Most of a project was spen
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by m0nty 19y ago
I agree about the stupidly easy JSON handler -- I went from nought to finished app in about 10 minutes, when I wasn't even too sure what JSON was or why I should use it. Wikipedia helped a bit with the understanding, and Django just dumped
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by m0nty 19y ago
Good quotation: "Not enough is said, about the importance of dropping crap."
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by m0nty 19y ago
"I probably write three to four words for every one that appears in the final version of an essay." Writing is cutting. Most things are: a lot of crap is produced for everything worth keeping. "Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a p
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by m0nty 19y ago
"This is what happens when you let someone who is lousy at designing interfaces, design interfaces." Fixed that for you.
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by m0nty 19y ago
"As the dollar drops, outsourced labor costs more." But selling overseas becomes easier.
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by m0nty 19y ago
Thanks, I'll give it a try. I'm collaborating on a project which involves getting info from online financial markets, btw, but it's getting held up because of this scraping problem. So new ideas might help get it moving again.
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by m0nty 19y ago
"If something goes wrong with Microsoft, I can phone Microsoft up and have it fixed. With Open Source, I have to rely on the community." That's always sounded better than it is. My experience of contacting technical support with any proprie
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by m0nty 19y ago
"Also AJAX certainly has changed the way a lot of screen scraping is done." I'd be interested in how you tackle this one. I've always used something like Perl/Curl/wget etc for scraping, but (like you say) JavaScript messes that up. I've ha
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by m0nty 19y ago
This is why multitaskers fail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timothymorgan/62139938/
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by m0nty 19y ago
"The BBC's catch-up TV service can now be accessed ..." I think they've decided that "catch-up service" is a cool-sounding way to say you can catch up with all the programmes you missed. But to me, it sounds like they're playing catch-up wi
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by m0nty 19y ago
"misleading headline" Absolutely. Any fewl know it should be "pwned".
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by m0nty 19y ago
FFS, way to stifle competition, 37sig. I liked the look of HuddleChat way, way more than Campfire, and had started using it. So someone starts a brush-fire in teh blogosphere and we're all supposed to just give up and go away? I thought we'
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by m0nty 19y ago
I'm not sure I understand your question, but I think this might have been in those glorious days before sales tax.

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