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by zephod 12y ago
When I was an undergraduate at Cambridge we built one during 2006 in a team of six people working under Alan Blackwell (the preface-author of the paper linked above). Now it appears on HN and I cannot find the source code anywhere :-|
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by zephod 12y ago
> because by making the code available on Github and inviting issues and pull requests I may have missed something but where in the original article did he say he was _inviting issues and pull requests_? The grandparent comment seems to
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by zephod 12y ago
I thought it was well-written, calm and thorough, carefully backing up each point and not descending into hyperbole. It's a difficult line to walk and I think this letter does a professional job.
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by zephod 13y ago
It's just a software engineering job to work on their CKAN+Drupal stack (Python and PHP, respectively). Basically there's nothing political about it. Source: I work in a similar team on data.gov.uk.
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by zephod 13y ago
So far this discussion appears to be mostly shill posts. Maybe I am just imagining it. Anyway. For a bigger library of real-world photographs in which to place your screenshot, I would recommend http://placeit.net .
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by zephod 13y ago
I think the Dose Espresso counter was taken over this week by another company.
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Building an RC Car using Raspberry Pi, an Xbox Controller and Lego(blog.zephod.com)
3 points by zephod 14y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Build an RC car using Lego, an Xbox Controller and a Raspberry Pi(blog.zephod.com)
4 points by zephod 14y ago|0 comments
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by zephod 14y ago
Did you even read as far as the "atomic wedgie" part?
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Hacking Scrabble(blog.zephod.com)
1 points by zephod 14y ago|0 comments
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by zephod 14y ago
In the general case, I agree. But working with Git you will very probably have to learn what's going on beneath the abstraction sooner-or-later (ie. when I'm working on a team larger than 1 person and the repo becomes a mess). So writing ab
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by zephod 14y ago
The discussion which followed part 1 of this article is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3347720 (I incorporated some of the things we discussed into this follow-up).
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Hacking Scrabble: Using a Python script to improve my game(blog.zephod.com)
2 points by zephod 14y ago|1 comments
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by zephod 14y ago
Your first paragraph ignores the central point of the screencast: How would you record those mouse interactions as a general, reprogrammable macro? He signs off the video with an important statement which hints at the 'zen' of using Vim for
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by zephod 14y ago
Visualising data is only one part of what Recline does; you can edit and refine data in the browser, and plug that into a visualisation front-end which renders a map, a graph, a timeline or ... (etc) [ disclaimer: i work for the okfn, but n
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by zephod 14y ago
A data explorer, designed to be highly flexible: http://reclinejs.com
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by zephod 14y ago
Just out of interest, how often are you really using the ctrl key in a Vim session? My CapsLock is mapped to ESC, which I hit at the end of every edit (so several times per minute), but I don't think I use ctrl much at all. OTOH I have hear
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by zephod 15y ago
I've got a pull request sitting on GitHub showing me exactly this. Awesome! I'm about eight months into Python but my knowledge isn't particularly deep.
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by zephod 15y ago
Author here. To be honest I posted it in the first place to hopefully generate some discussion about whether there might be a better way to do this(!). I think memorising 26 mnemonics is possible (and i disagree with the below commenter who
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by zephod 15y ago
That is incredible. I'm not really advocating that way of playing - I never really play a word I can't define. But I'm trying to justify an exception for the two-letter-words because they're so useful. They're a bit of a special case - know
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by zephod 15y ago
A very good point. Poor quality control... I can fix that now :-)
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Hacking Scrabble (part 1)(blog.zephod.com)
95 points by zephod 15y ago|50 comments