peterhi

19 ms·

121.
by peterhi 17y ago
My formal education gave me the tools (or at least the knowledge of the tools) that I would need to make sense of things that interest me. Without it the bootstrapping would have been a great deal harder.
122.
by peterhi 17y ago
And I will now see how long it takes for prettypinksnowflake.com to become registered :)
123.
by peterhi 17y ago
This sounds like plain old domain squatting. Think of it from the "customers" point of view. I think that prettypinksnowflake.com is just the domain that I could use for my project only to find you have already registered it with no intenti
124.
by peterhi 17y ago
Well hg is the mercurial source control system. The ./all.sh is a script to go over all the projects (there are more than 30 active at this time) and check that they are you to date. vi is an editor, as is mate (cli accesses to TextMate on
125.
by peterhi 17y ago
Here are the commands I use most frequently. However I find lsof and pstree to be the most useful. Even if they are used infrequently. 60 hg 37 ./all.sh 30 vi 27 ssh 27 ruby 20 rm 18 mate 15 curl 10 scp 10 grep
126.
by peterhi 17y ago
Did you see that article on microcopy yesterday. It mentioned that adding that you didn't need to have a paypal account to pay by paypal improved the conversion rate. Maybe worth look => http://bokardo.com/archives/writing-microcopy/
127.
by peterhi 17y ago
Java is not going away anytime soon, knowledge of it would do no harm if you are looking to work as a programmer. I was trained in COBOL and FORTRAN. I used COBOL for all of six months (more than twenty years ago) and never used FORTRAN. Bu
128.
by peterhi 17y ago
So this is just a web bug? Whats the problem? I have worked at several companies that have inserted small images in web pages so that we can analyze the log files to provide usage statistics. To my knowledge there is no patent on this and I
129.
by peterhi 17y ago
You could jut visit the link and use delicious or read later. That way all your links would be in one place and no wheels get reinvented.
130.
by peterhi 17y ago
I tend to delete my comments if I feel that they wont have any effect on the discussion or if I don't think that I will have the time to come back and follow up. Or if I'm angry, that's always a good reason not to post :)
131.
by peterhi 17y ago
All we should really be asking for is that the site that a link is to is clearly labelled. Most Coding Horror links are marked as such, as are TC links. Perhaps this could be built into HN so that when people forget to put it in it will sti
132.
by peterhi 17y ago
What platforms or areas are you interested in? You know C, have you tried network programming or games programming or C on embedded systems? You can learn a lot by taking an existing language into a new area, it will sharpen up your skills
133.
by peterhi 17y ago
I have download lite versions of iPhone apps and then later upgraded to the full version. In fact I have never just bought an app just to see if it is any good. YMMV
134.
by peterhi 17y ago
You might want to look at how your cache keys are created, if they are designed correctly memcached will expire them automatically removing the need for a cron. Of course how much of a saving this will be is another question.
135.
by peterhi 17y ago
The first thing to note is that your position with regards to this has not changed. As he is still with the company he still has the contacts. Thus if this seemed ok when you were employed then it is still ok. The relationship has not chang
136.
by peterhi 18y ago
When the NYT required you to register to read an article that a blogger was discussing I did not bother reading the article. Lots of people did just the same, it is news, it's not like other news sources will not cover the same event. I jus
137.
by peterhi 18y ago
But what would happen if Google just removed them all from the indexes for a month or so. I for one would be giggling hysterically for quite a while :) Then the papers (or what is left of them) will be demanding that Google index them as an
138.
by peterhi 18y ago
It helps if you are going to deal with the harder stuff. Graph Theory tends to help no end, Complexity Theory (which you should get taught in a CS class anyway) is pretty essential, as is Logic and Sets. If games interest you then you will
139.
by peterhi 18y ago
Looks very nice. The fact that you got it up just using the standard tools rather than reinventing the wheel shows remarkable restraint for a coder (wish I could stop reinventing wheels :( ). Must look into blueprint, CSS frameworks seem to
140.
by peterhi 18y ago
I have a way with words, mostly because people seem to miss the point if it is subtle. A slap in the face will get attention, a polite cough is all too easily ignored. The OP has basically called the readership of Codinghorror worthless and
141.
by peterhi 18y ago
But what sort of greeting has rglullis sent out to all those potential readers coming from CH "that will contribute very little to the website"? I can think of a few :(
142.
by peterhi 18y ago
You are not suggesting consorship. This a clearly well beyond suggestion. You want Codinghorror banned but you do not have the spine to say this outright, so you propose a poll to make yourself appear reasonable. Even your second point is b
143.
by peterhi 18y ago
Very nice. A colour picker would be a very good idea. Perhaps display two buttons, one for the ordinary button, as you are doing now, and one for a selected version. If you are feeling brave maybe animated buttons which cycle several lines
144.
by peterhi 18y ago
708 days. Has HN been around that long! Doesn't feel like it, and personally if he does have 1505 karma then I doubt the value of karma as a measure of 'worth' (or whatever the hell it is for). The last ad was a drive by, in that he couldn'
145.
by peterhi 18y ago
Hey be careful there. Last time I pulled this guy up for his bullshit my karma went negative. There are people here who thinks that he is some sort of rockstar ninja fighter pilot sniper beast of a entrepreneur who's twitter/craigslist mash
146.
by peterhi 18y ago
Also if you go for a wiki like system then be prepared to moderate heavily, it will be a spammers paradise.
147.
by peterhi 18y ago
I've got to go with the name issue. Not sure if you were first or not but your name is too close to gizmodo. Also you need more content, not just on the front page but some of the categories are empty. Of the six people on the front page on
148.
by peterhi 18y ago
"I have an idea, and a couple sketches, for a site I'd like to get help on developing. I think it's a relatively simple idea to actualize, along the lines of a twitter/craigslist mashup. The idea's imagined success is found in its simplicit
149.
by peterhi 18y ago
Not a great deal of content in this message. It comes down to "This will be a paid gig", "kyro@kyrobeshay.com" and "dating site". The rest is just plain weasel speak. Hopefully you express yourself more succinctly in the spec. However there
150.
by peterhi 18y ago
Dull indeed, an old post about an even older post about some one's book list. Read it if you are bored and can't thing of anything else to do ... or you could read a book.

More ›