tobych

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by tobych 16y ago
"Wikipedia is down, so I'll tell the story as far as I remember it..." Your introduction warmed my heart. An air-conditioning plant fails in Florida and the art of storytelling from memory is rekindled.
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by tobych 17y ago
Not about survival as such, but the "Plants for a Future" project catalogues 7000 "rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses." http://www.pfaf.org/
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by tobych 17y ago
I'd love to be able to understand some complicated bit of code by watching an Etherpad-style timeline, with audio commentary of the whole (test-first?) process. I love all those special characters, too. So much easier and quicker to read (c
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by tobych 17y ago
$1 - $0 = $1
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by tobych 17y ago
Fond memories indeed. Like gaius, as a kid I had a BBC Micro, and created many a pretend teletext page in MODE 7. In my final year studying computer science in the UK, for my dissertation project I chose to try to get teletext available on
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by tobych 17y ago
I'd be hugely embarrassed to be seen playing one of those things. It's like some kids' movie-tied toy gone huge and gone wrong. Especially with all those flashing lights wizzing up and down the fretboard. Ridiculous.
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by tobych 17y ago
Most memorable flight neighbor: "I'm a professional project manager. I get paid to worry." Now, obvious. But then, not.
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by tobych 17y ago
Here's a HN post of that article on DCI: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=525949
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by tobych 17y ago
A small proportion of data from four spaceships send data that is decompressed by my code. Oh, and I found a bug in code in the the same spaceships. Wrote an spreadsheet, and interactive disassembler, in BBC BASIC and 6502 assembler when I
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by tobych 17y ago
"we could just keep canvas bags in our cars." Or on our bicycles, indeed. Or our trouser pockets as we walk down to the local corner-shop.
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by tobych 17y ago
Nice domain name indeed. I can't see what I'm typing into the sign-up box. Probably because I've Firefox's (3.5.1) auto filling engine turned on. Here's a screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/MM7Vnoikb . Also, I don't really like the cutesy
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by tobych 17y ago
Academic start-up: Multicriteria Mapping. I'm in Poulsbo, a Norwegian settlement just across Puget Sound from Seattle, WA, USA, working (remotely) with Andy Stirling ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Stirling ) at SPRU, University of Suss
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by tobych 18y ago
I found myself cringing watching this talk. Berners-Lee seemed so nervous, stressed out. Certainly under strain, for whatever reason. I hope he is/was okay, you know, generally, and that it was just that big red timer and the VIPs in the au
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by tobych 18y ago
Despite having lived in the US for a couple of years now and beginning to lose my English accent, I think if I ever met the bloke who does this, despite my love of beauty, elegance and other good things, I'd inevitably end up slapping him h
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by tobych 18y ago
http://www.youshouldhireme.com/