nickknw

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by nickknw 14y ago
If comics count, I think this one's pretty funny: http://www.explosm.net/comics/2083/
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by nickknw 14y ago
I had a problem, so I thought I'd use Java. Now I have a ProblemFactory.
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by nickknw 14y ago
I've heard this one phrased a bit differently: I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it..
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by nickknw 14y ago
As someone who just recently tangled with floating point error, that was hilarious!
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by nickknw 14y ago
Just curious, which way did the correlation go? Less contact => Longer entries?
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by nickknw 14y ago
I know it's a bit borderline, but thinking about how this was done was pretty interesting for me, and I thought others might appreciate it too. I also like the helpful visualization below that shows which part of the song it is currently us
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Infinite Gangnam Style(static.echonest.com)
373 points by nickknw 14y ago|109 comments
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by nickknw 14y ago
That's awesome! My project inspired by the Game of Life is quite a bit less ambitious (and still incomplete) - http://nickknowlson.com/projects/conways-revenge/ It lets multiple cell colonies fight against each other using a modified rule
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by nickknw 14y ago
Are you saying: 'someone not using javascript' == ('someone computer-savvy enough to figure out what that means' || crawler)? If so, yes that's the point. I don't want to give crawlers my email address.
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by nickknw 14y ago
Nope, my time has plenty of value and I'm pretty sure my hosting is still free. Patio11's article is a good one but just not relevant to my situation. I've spent 0 minutes managing hosting details since I first put my website live. That's j
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by nickknw 14y ago
I've been starting to see more and more octopress sites out there. I'm glad of it - the default template is a really nice looking, attractive one for blogs. My site uses Jekyll, but I set it up before Octopress was made. If I were doing it
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by nickknw 14y ago
Benefits of using static site generators from my point of view: * Don't have to worry about traffic at all. * Don't have to pay for hosting (it's free using Heroku or Github, probably other places as well). * Less moving parts, less to go w
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by nickknw 14y ago
I use github pages with jekyll and I'm pretty satisfied with it. I have an additional wrinkle - I have a jekyll plugin I wrote that I want to use, so I have to run jekyll on my own machine and then commit the plain html output to a separate
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by nickknw 14y ago
That's exactly why I use a combination method on my personal website[0]. By default it uses the JS method for a clickable link, but if someone doesn't have JS enabled it degrades to "Email: nick at this domain (For a clickable link, turn on
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by nickknw 14y ago
This just happened to me yesterday. I was surprised and delighted. ...Then a little creeped out. Overall I think it's great though.
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by nickknw 14y ago
Looks like Matt Brown's resume template: http://thingsthatarebrown.com/blog/2009/05/sample-resume-tem...
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by nickknw 14y ago
I sure hope not, that would be pretty misleading.
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by nickknw 14y ago
> It replaces a clear, concise table layout with a somewhat more verbose CSS version for seemingly no reason. That's interesting that you claim it is more verbose. The author measured the before-and-after and came up with these numbers
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by nickknw 14y ago
To be accurate it is published by The Pragmatic Programmers, not written by them as the title kind of imples. Maik Schmidt is the author of this book. > Maik Schmidt has worked as a software developer for nearly 20 years and makes a liv
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by nickknw 14y ago
Interesting timing on this; I just starting using almost this exact command (`ls -1tr`) days ago. Great for checking the last few things in that giant `Downloads/` folder
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by nickknw 14y ago
"(A customer had — I kid you not — a lightning strike hit her computer during checkout, and as a consequence the JS callback fired 36 times. This resulted in 36 transactions, which Stripe processed without complaint. Oops." I can't believ
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Day 3 of Prolog(nickknowlson.com)
2 points by nickknw 14y ago|0 comments
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by nickknw 14y ago
I'm blogging my way through Seven Languages In Seven Weeks. Reading this makes me really look forward to the Erlang chapter. Only the last bit of Prolog and Scala stands between Erlang and I now!
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by nickknw 14y ago
You can do standup meetings in lots of different ways. Our standups are maybe 5min max for a team of 6 and they're very worth it.
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by nickknw 14y ago
The slides on the linked page give information about the (lack of) load placed on myUCF servers.
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by nickknw 14y ago
That would be my guess as to what's propelling it so high.
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by nickknw 14y ago
I think there is a bug. I ran it on my own site ( http://nickknowlson.com ) which is pretty simple in terms of colour. I got a large list of colours (33!) that contains colours I can verify are not in the stylesheet or present anywhere on t
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Day 2 of Prolog(nickknowlson.com)
1 points by nickknw 14y ago|0 comments
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by nickknw 14y ago
To anyone who hasn't, I recommend downloading the sample PDF - the available first chapter is a decent size and a great read. I am looking forward to seeing the rest of it! Here's an excerpt: I’ll start by teaching you just enough Cloju
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by nickknw 15y ago
Exactly, I agree. Enough with the bikeshedding! There are much more interesting things about Rust to discuss than this.

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