jamesotron

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OSH Park - PCB ordering has never been so easy.(sociable.co.nz)
1 points by jamesotron 14y ago|0 comments
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by jamesotron 15y ago
Whenever chef deploys a new revision the site is broken until bundler has finished running. Lesson: don't deploy so frequently :)
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Splinch.it public beta - Network configuration in the cloud(splinch.it)
1 points by jamesotron 15y ago|4 comments
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by jamesotron 15y ago
Hi. Thanks for your feedback. I will be adding more details about the difference between free and pro over the next week or so. I am hoping that I can get engineers to use splinch for their configuration management for free and then find a
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by jamesotron 15y ago
doh! thanks for the catch.
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by jamesotron 15y ago
Thanks. All the text shadows or specific ones? I used it only in places where I thought that it made the text _easier_ to read because it helps increase contrast. I'm probably mistaken :) I'm really surprised by people telling me to make t
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by jamesotron 15y ago
Thanks! I've already made a few of your suggested changes to the site.
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Ask HN: Feedback on my product's pre-launch page.
5 points by jamesotron 15y ago|9 comments
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by jamesotron 16y ago
I am shocked and amazed to see one of my projects posted to HN by someone other than myself. Apparently someone else cares enough about what I'm doing to tell their mates about it. Thanks.
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by jamesotron 16y ago
I guess that makes sense, I would be pretty annoyed if Facebook sent me a notification every time they roll out some random new feature. I like the idea of bots, but I don't see a lot of consumer grade users using it. Seems more like a toy
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by jamesotron 16y ago
Nice work guys. I'm really impressed with the App updates today and the website update. One thing I was surprised by was that you don't have an option for "Allow Notifo to send me information about service updates and new features" and th
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by jamesotron 16y ago
It's one of the default themes from Roxen webserver (roxen.com).
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Ask HN: Payment processing in New Zealand
1 points by jamesotron 16y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: web dev houses, how do you handle continual improvement?
5 points by jamesotron 16y ago|2 comments
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Beautiful multipart HTML emails with Rails3's ActionMailer (example)(mashd.cc)
1 points by jamesotron 16y ago|0 comments
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Easy extensible graphing of your Rails app using Munin(mashd.cc)
2 points by jamesotron 16y ago|0 comments
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by jamesotron 16y ago
there are ~230k words. once it runs out will start randomly hyphenating two words togther. in the mean time I'm looking at using wordnik's API for word selection - apparently they have ~4M.
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by jamesotron 16y ago
Yes, it lets you use the same URL twice - bit.ly does the same. Potentially different people want to share the same link and see their own stats: http://s.mashd.cc/stats/nonsubstantiality http://s.mashd.cc/stats/mispage ...although I se
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Learn new words and shorten URLs at the same time...(s.mashd.cc)
2 points by jamesotron 16y ago|4 comments
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@tryruby(twitter.com)
2 points by jamesotron 16y ago|0 comments
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by jamesotron 17y ago
I have experienced this very thing with a SunOS box at the remote end of a satellite link. It was in the US and we were in NZ. Let's just say that you can do a lot with bash and a single root shell.
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by jamesotron 17y ago
Funny, I wrote an blog post about this last week. http://blogs.auckland.ac.nz/z00m/2009/11/24/signal-to-noise/
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How many of you are binge coders?
6 points by jamesotron 17y ago|3 comments
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Lockbox: secure secrets for your rails model using public key crypto.(mashd.cc)
2 points by jamesotron 17y ago|1 comments
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by jamesotron 17y ago
I contributed a lot of code to Caudium back in the early 00's even going to the Pike/Caudium conference in Paderborn, Germany in 2003 (which is quite an expensive proposition for someone from New Zealand). My biggest open source project at
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by jamesotron 17y ago
My most beloved hobby is radio controlled helicopters. I would love to do something involving autonomous aircraft. Control systems and navigation. Should have gone to school, I guess.
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by jamesotron 17y ago
(which of course you didn't)
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by jamesotron 17y ago
Pretty random rant, if you ask me.
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by jamesotron 17y ago
I found this academic paper on finding collisions in SHA1, but unfortunately I'm not smart enough to figure out what it's telling me. http://people.csail.mit.edu/yiqun/SHA1AttackProceedingVersio...
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by jamesotron 17y ago
Ahh, I see that you're generating an entirely new random string each iteration. Interesting. I've done mine in Pike, which will be faster (though not as fast as C). http://github.com/jamesotron/HashChallenge/tree/master

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