mooneater

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   by mooneater 19y ago

   MS desperately needs an internal search tool for their own enterprise info. You simply cant find anything on their intranet, its shocking. This is made worse by constant employee churn and re-orgs. It would literally be worth the price t
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   by mooneater 19y ago

   I loved Coupland in college and thought he was so damn smart. Then a few years later I saw him at a reading of JPod, and instantly changed my mind.
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   by mooneater 19y ago

   Thanks for the pointer to Swig, it looks perfect for wrapping C. Now what about wrapping an arbitrary language (ie, is there a "swig" equivalent for wrapping python, or any generic language X?)
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   by mooneater 19y ago

   These are really excellent data points, thanks SwellJoe.
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   by mooneater 19y ago

   Dumb typo. Thanks.
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   Exposing a language-agnostic API?

   7 points by mooneater 19y ago|8 comments
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   by mooneater 19y ago

   Having looked through the introductory texts, I am left wanting to better understand current state of various parts of field. Any suggestions on where to get more of that higher-level commentary?
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   by mooneater 19y ago

   Its time for facebook scrapers - distributed, with human-ish delays between click. Grabs names, pictures, emails (with OCR). Welcome to the downloadable social!
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   by mooneater 19y ago

   Chapter titles alone make an excellent and readable Top 20 list.
10. 550.▲
    by mooneater 19y ago

    averaging 85%. seems low.
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    by mooneater 19y ago

    Press for more stock.
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    by mooneater 19y ago

    Also see http://www.kiva.org/
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    by mooneater 19y ago

    git-svn makes it easy to migrate from svn to git, or to use git in conjunction with svn. This screencast was a great intro to git and git-svn (not free): http://peepcode.com/products/git
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    by mooneater 19y ago

    A tiny Win32 C program that would simply trigger print, then wait, then killed the app - used to call a "mission critical" app that always hung after print and thus couldnt be scripted, to automate the printing of hundreds of reports. Fave
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    by mooneater 19y ago

    thomasptacek, I read the submarine essay, and also googled for the "survey" trick, but I cant find it.. can you provide a reference?
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    by mooneater 19y ago

    left my job at microsoft today to focus on my startup. leaving feels like i just took a huge dump. i learned a lot there. but their approach seemed to be: throw more people and money at the problem. (please see "mythical man month".) whe