samlev

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by samlev 15y ago
Well. You got me. I'm a big corporate shill for GoDaddy. I've been sent here to turn popular opinion back in their favour. Good going, detective, now that you've outed me, I'll lose my job, and who will feed all of my 58 children? Seriously
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by samlev 15y ago
Devil's advocate here: The idea that godaddy appears to be intentionally stalling transfers is pure speculation. Not saying that they're incapable of doing it, but that whole "don't attribute to malice" thing. Let's not turn this into anoth
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Want to donate your time to charities? I'm working on a way to make it easy.(blog.code-for-causes.org)
2 points by samlev 15y ago|0 comments
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by samlev 15y ago
meek.ly isn't taken (according to whois)
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by samlev 15y ago
I (and a few others, I think) hang out in #cobol on irc.synirc.net (which is Something Awful's "Cavern Of COBOL" channel)
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by samlev 15y ago
You should try locking the tables first. Maybe other people connecting is slowing it down, so a full table lock would be a good idea. Remember to keep the lock alive after the query finishes, just in case you need to query it again...
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by samlev 15y ago
Most commonly I get: "So could you build me this iphone app? I have a really great idea!" followed by a partial thought and no research into the market. But then, I guess everyone here probably gets that.
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by samlev 15y ago
I think that, rather than removing software patents altogether, there has to be a rethink of what is 'patentable' (Finger movements? Probably not patentable. An entirely new protocol for transferring data? I'm fine with that being patented.
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by samlev 15y ago
Daily pickup could also lead to people throwing out more stuff because they don't have to ration their bin space. Where I'm living in the UK, there's four bins: Plastics, glass, cans (collected once a month); Paper, cardboard, etc. (collect
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by samlev 15y ago
My old one simply had an "exclusions" clause where developers could register things that fell outside the 'IP agreement' terms. It wasn't perfect, but that type of thing is a good idea. Technically, if you're consulting, then any code you p
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by samlev 15y ago
I released an Open source project ( http://www.samuellevy.com/mico ) which has had a few hundred installations; travelled through Europe; quit a job; got a job; became self-employed; started several projects (but got bored with/dropped most
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by samlev 15y ago
I would explain to your boss (together or individually) that you're planning on moving on, but that you don't want to see his company go belly-up in the process. Set out a hard timeline (2-3 months, depending on how long it would take to tr
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by samlev 15y ago
You say Cairns, but perhaps do you mean Atherton, or Tolga? Because that's where I grew up, and your name is awfully familiar.
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by samlev 15y ago
Yeah, Brisbane is suffering from too many people, not enough companies. We're not as out-of-the-way as say, Adelaide, but there's really nothing there to draw companies. Oh well, maybe if enough disgruntled workers get fed up enough, they'l
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by samlev 15y ago
It probably depends on where you are. In Brisbane, there seemed to me to be a noticeable lack of decent IT jobs going. There were a few out there, but most of them were either "Big Co./Government", or small dev shops which had a very high t
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by samlev 15y ago
Well... I'm starting to think that I may be slightly obsessed with this game. This is the second version I've made of it in as many weeks. Really, though, it's a nice/easy way to test out some interesting ideas (in this case making a real-t
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Multiplayer Conway's Game Of Life(gameoflife.samuellevy.com)
2 points by samlev 15y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How do you find new projects?
6 points by samlev 15y ago|4 comments
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by samlev 15y ago
I've spent a lot of time working in PHP. I largely enjoyed my time, because it provides a (mostly) easy-to-deploy, fast-to-develop platform for web development. What it also provides is a maintenance nightmare. It promotes sloppy coding, an
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by samlev 15y ago
I've worked at a hosting company before, and yes, it sucks when your site goes down. They know that, and it reflects badly on them if your site is down. It's quite possible that there's a problem which isn't just an easy fix. Once, the data
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by samlev 15y ago
I'm always concerned when a company says "We're popular and well liked, so we're going to change everything!"
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by samlev 15y ago
Another friend has been bugging me to make a slider/some other control for the rules. It may happen. It'll probably be behind a level/position editor, though.
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by samlev 15y ago
Turns out I had a minor bug in my logic. Fixed it, and returned to the original rules: 1, 5, 8. It tends to either die out quickly, or bloom and take up most of the grid. It also runs a lot slower now.
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by samlev 15y ago
I had spoken to someone else who had added "time" as a third dimension (and I suppose that that's pretty much what you've done there, too). I have, in my head, some interesting shapes that I think might react well given the rules I have. I
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by samlev 15y ago
Yeah, the rules don't scale as well as I would have liked. I started with scaled rules based on the original rules: Loneliness: sqrt(1)^3 = 1 Breed: sqrt(3)^3 = 5.196152423 = 5 Overcrowd: sqrt(4)^3 = 8 That didn't work out so well, so with
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3D Cellular Automation (3D Conway's Game Of Life in html5/JavaScript)(gameoflife.samuellevy.com)
26 points by samlev 15y ago|9 comments