ekoontz

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by ekoontz 2y ago
I did some something like this a while ago: https://github.com/ekoontz/psqlog
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by ekoontz 4y ago
Nice to use the same idea as Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Ch...
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by ekoontz 5y ago
I think in the some cases like people mentioned above, it's no longer collaboration but more of a consultation. The benefit is only going in one direction: to the consultantee. In that case, you need some way to make the nature of that
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by ekoontz 6y ago
Did any of these legal (not to mention ethical) questions come up when they applied for YC?
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by ekoontz 9y ago
I pay $6/year for: http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/ I actually get excited when I get telemarketers because the robot sometimes fools them enough to keep them on the line for a few minutes. The longer the conversation,
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by ekoontz 10y ago
Hm, perhaps counting number of bits set to 1 in a multi-byte array?
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by ekoontz 10y ago
I agree - I pay $2/month to Jolly Roger and since then my robocalls have dropped to nothing. I actually miss getting them because it's so fun to hear Jolly Roger frustrate them.
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by ekoontz 11y ago
Very nice.. Found my own species in a few click!
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by ekoontz 12y ago
I disagree - it is very much worth reading. Even without a single word the pictures make a powerful statement. It presents a typology of built environments and makes the important point that human-scaled, walkable environments are found thr
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by ekoontz 12y ago
Fair enough. What about the plantation land? Fair game for redistribution to the slaves, or would that be a violation of the plantation owners' property rights?
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by ekoontz 12y ago
Lincoln seems like an odd choice for a libertarian role model. He suspended habeas corpus and expropriated the Southerners' private property (their slaves, plantations, etc). If he hadn't been assasinated, all of that plantation l
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by ekoontz 13y ago
I was born in shower brass field. Sure, it's not as well known as kicks pasta steer, but it was a great place to be born.
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Show HN: my side project: translate random sentences from English to Italian(hiro-tan.org)
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by ekoontz 14y ago
"a good reference (where the candidate doesn't work out) gets you sued by the company" Really? Has this ever happened with the plaintiff ending up winning in court?
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by ekoontz 14y ago
The "red mafia"? Who or what is this?
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by ekoontz 14y ago
I used Apache Fop ( http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ ) to convert XML to PDF at a previous job. It was extremely painstaking work. On the other hand, it gives you a lot of fine-grained control over the appearance of your PDF.
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by ekoontz 14y ago
Thanks for the introduction to Prey. Just installed it!
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by ekoontz 14y ago
Not sure if this is related, but starting yesterday, I've had to switch from Firefox to Chrome for twitter - Firefox uses all my RAM and beachballs.
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by ekoontz 14y ago
"The value proposition of the API proxy increases dramatically if it is able to map between the security protocol of choice in the mobile world, OAuth, and the existing security infrastructure in the enterprise." The problem is that OAuth i
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by ekoontz 15y ago
Some interesting criticism of Play here - seems similar to what's been said about the lack of unit tests. http://whilefalse.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-im-moving-away-fr...
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by ekoontz 15y ago
Thanks, interesting site!
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by ekoontz 15y ago
It depends a lot on the circumstances. Here's a recent situation where the decision to make some streets in Chinatown pedestrian-only and removing parking on others (if only for a day) was supported and well-received by merchants: http://s
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by ekoontz 15y ago
Please also have a look at something similar I've done which I called "hsk" (Hadoop Starter Kit): http://github.com/ekoontz/hsk/
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by ekoontz 15y ago
"LISP has been around some 50-odd years without taking off despite several attempts at its revival... I suspect something is wrong with it" I laughed out loud at that.
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by ekoontz 15y ago
Very nice, thanks for creating this. Looking forward to playing more with Noir, and using it for my own little clojure side project: https://github.com/ekoontz/italianquiz . Comments: 1. Make "your welcome page" a link to "/welcome", and
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by ekoontz 15y ago
I noticed that the Ubuntu images on EC2 (search the Community AMIs for "oneiric") provide Java 7 if you want to try it out for yourself. I tried it out briefly and it worked ok for me on running Apache Zookeeper.
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by ekoontz 15y ago
17 years here and I am happy to make my acquaintance with Follow Mode! :)
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by ekoontz 15y ago
I applaud his effort to explain how to learn PHP, especially glad to hear that the #php community is polite and helpful. On the other hand, I would not recommend reading the manual as a way to learn a language. The PHP online reference is e
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by ekoontz 16y ago
Seriously though, I found it interesting and am glad it was on Hacker News. Social engineering is engineering, and engineering is Hacker News. You are minimizing the harm and cost in a society by providing a place where people can safely us
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by ekoontz 16y ago
It's late Saturday night in California? :)

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