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by jap 10mo ago
That page has special if/endif HTML comments to handle if your browser is IE 6, IE 7, IE 8...
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by jap 10mo ago
There was originally a bug in the GAlib random number generator... if I remember correctly, the guy who identified it told me this was found (or demonstrated) by making a scatter plot of generated numbers an observing there was a pattern to
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Creating a Gridogram: Hiding a Sentence in a Compact Grid of Letters(gridogram.com)
1 points by jap 11mo ago|2 comments
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by jap 11mo ago
Gridogram is a word game where the goal is to trace words in a letter grid to find a hidden quote. Behind the scenes, creating the letter grids for quotes is not obvious: the linked page describes the approach taken. There's a bit of l
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Creating a Gridogram: Hiding a Sentence in a Compact Grid of Letters(gridogram.com)
2 points by jap 11mo ago|0 comments
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Creating a Gridogram(gridogram.com)
1 points by jap 11mo ago|0 comments
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Imgur Access in the United Kingdom(help.imgur.com)
35 points by jap 1y ago|2 comments
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by jap 1y ago
Could happen to anyone, many thanks for addressing this quickly.
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Show HN: Gridogram(gridogram.com)
3 points by jap 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Gridogram – Find the quote of the day, hidden in optimised letter grid(gridogram.com)
2 points by jap 1y ago|0 comments
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by jap 1y ago
I was a big fan of Wave. One aspect I really liked that I haven't seen in other apps is other people would see the letters/words you typed as you typed them, making for very active discussions... But then some people also hated th
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by jap 1y ago
Really appreciate the feedback, and glad you like the quotations. I haven't settled on whether to add links, but the text not being selectable wasn't intentional - have pushed a change to allow selecting the text, I hope that impr
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by jap 1y ago
Thank you! Would never expect anyone to find all the words, but the full alphabetised list is useful to help box in the yellow words that are in the quote. Some of the words in the list are indeed pretty arcane, but I hope it can be interes
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by jap 1y ago
Thank you! Yes it is tricky... what kind of shortcuts do you mean? One optimisation I've done to narrow the search space is account for symmetry, that's a shortcut in a sense.
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Show HN: Gridogram – A quote for each day, hidden in a compact grid(gridogram.com)
3 points by jap 1y ago|6 comments
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Explain what a Linux command with given options does(mankier.com)
3 points by jap 2y ago|1 comments
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by jap 2y ago
And create a link to explain that command to others
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by jap 3y ago
If you don't have a terminal at hand: https://www.mankier.com/7/gittutorial https://www.mankier.com/7/giteveryday https://www.mankier.com/7/gitglossary https:/&#x2
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by jap 6y ago
Different data source, but a while ago I made a command to help explain other commands: https://www.mankier.com/blog/explaining-shell-commands-in-th...
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by jap 8y ago
I've spent a lot of time finding apps I trust enough to leave my kids mostly unsupervised with. For me it's mostly boiled down to finding trustworthy app publishers, I listed some here a while ago: https://medium.com&#x
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by jap 9y ago
I've integrated TLDR content into online man pages if you'd like to see both in one place. For example: https://www.mankier.com/1/grep
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by jap 9y ago
Sure, but that's much more work than adding a piece of black tape, which you can also simply remove to revert to the legit number.
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JQuery Mobile 1.5.0-alpha.1 Released(blog.jquerymobile.com)
1 points by jap 9y ago|0 comments
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by jap 9y ago
Came across an instance of this recently, I think on the FT's website... It took me a while to figure out what was going on with "smar * * * * ches".
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Evolve polygon pictures in your browser(dirtytriangles.com)
3 points by jap 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Dirty Triangles(dirtytriangles.com)
3 points by jap 10y ago|0 comments
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by jap 10y ago
Not exhaustive, but I've written code that processes 50,000 or so man pages and haven't hit one.
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by jap 10y ago
I wonder if "500M" is a silly way of saying all user account details were stolen.
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by jap 10y ago
I've been omitting optional tags for a while. One thing I've noticed is that bing webmaster tools will report "The title is missing in the head section of the page" when there is a title, but no <head>. Maybe bing
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Abundance(thereformedbroker.com)
5 points by jap 11y ago|0 comments

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