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by neilbowers 1y ago
Beau Miles, a most entertaining Aussie YouTuber, is running a project where all ad revenue from this video will be used to buy tree saplings, which he'll plant.
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Converting YouTube ad revenue into trees [video](youtube.com)
3 points by neilbowers 1y ago|2 comments
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How do you prepare a talk?(neilb.org)
2 points by neilbowers 10y ago|0 comments
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by neilbowers 10y ago
That picture wasn't what I was expecting, which was more like this: http://i.imgur.com/Lx6OiIb.png solid arrows show chronology, the colors highlight compatibility, dashed arrows are backporting.
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A Review of the 2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge(neilb.org)
1 points by neilbowers 11y ago|0 comments
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CPAN is 20(blogs.perl.org)
183 points by neilbowers 11y ago|37 comments
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by neilbowers 12y ago
Simple Perl interface to this API is now on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::Prismatic::InterestGrap...
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The Perl QA Hackathon 2015(blogs.perl.org)
6 points by neilbowers 12y ago|0 comments
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Module Clean Up Ideas for the CPAN Pull Request Challenge(codeaffe.de)
15 points by neilbowers 12y ago|0 comments
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by neilbowers 12y ago
No, it's not. Several people have signed up saying "I don't know Perl, but this seems like a good opportunity to start learning it".
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by neilbowers 12y ago
Let me check if it's on github ...
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by neilbowers 12y ago
I gave up reading before I got to what it was he did to improve the development rate - TL;DR anyone? :-)
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by neilbowers 13y ago
One of the few titles on my list of books that I tell people not to read ( http://neilbowers.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/book-review-atlas... )
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by neilbowers 13y ago
$5 isn't a small monthly fee, for a newsreader.
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by neilbowers 13y ago
* might be an idea to have a feedback link (why I'm posting this here) * scrolling becomes tedious very quickly. Needs a better overview mechanism. Eg only show the first N lines of a story unless I'm interested. * Without some no
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by neilbowers 13y ago
Yep, OmniGraffle for me. I've been using it for the last 8 years.
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by neilbowers 13y ago
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” — Malcolm S. Forbes
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The importance of corporate transparency(cogendo.com)
1 points by neilbowers 13y ago|0 comments
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by neilbowers 14y ago
http://reederapp.com
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by neilbowers 14y ago
Much as I don't want Google to shutdown Reader (though I'm also relying on the http://www.reederapp.com author sorting out another back-end), I would suggest that the number of people signing the petition is going to be <= the number
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by neilbowers 14y ago
That's a terrible UI. I wanted to add some data, but couldn't work out how to, and gave up in frustration.
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by neilbowers 14y ago
That's a terrible visualization. It takes way too long to work out what "the story" is.
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by neilbowers 14y ago
Nice, needs a bit more complexity and slightly less frustration :-)
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by neilbowers 14y ago
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." - Howard H. Aiken http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Howard_H._Aiken
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by neilbowers 14y ago
Linux.CentOS
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by neilbowers 15y ago
Since you're being pedantic, the word you were looking for was "pedantry", not pedanticism :-)
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by neilbowers 15y ago
- The front page needs to offer me at least a one paragraph overview of what the service is. - Center-aligned text inputs don't work for me - the first few steps felt fine, being 'forced' to give details of team members etc started to annoy
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by neilbowers 15y ago
Now listed at £7.20 on amazon.co.uk (11th Jan 09:08)
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BBC's obituary for Steve Jobs(bbc.co.uk)
196 points by neilbowers 15y ago|4 comments
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by neilbowers 15y ago
Going back in time left-to-right feels wrong, though perhaps those who read text RTL may disagree :-)

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