shearn89

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by shearn89 15y ago
Just tried this: 4 fingers with my thumb tucked across my palm worked fine for me.
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by shearn89 15y ago
+1 from me: smcFanControl is seriously handy if you do any sort of coding on a macbook. Was recently running a genetic algorithm on it and the app allowed me to bump the fan speed up to something ridiculous in order to keep the cpu at a com
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by shearn89 15y ago
EVE is ridiculous - I remember reading about a guy who spent months setting up an in game bank, and then stole all the funds and made about $100,000 of real money.
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by shearn89 15y ago
is it just me, or is the stylesheet 404'ing? http://basecamp.com/sprockets-c5fcdbcede3dff502006bc5d0d7bef... EDIT: Told the team about it in a ticket, JIC.
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by shearn89 15y ago
* goes to read post * * comments on it on the blog * * comes to HN and discovers people have already made my comments in the comment thread * Great minds...
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by shearn89 15y ago
Also just noticed this at the bottom of his resume ( http://homakov.blogspot.com/p/service.html ): "<s>Discount for girls</s>"
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by shearn89 15y ago
This is clearly a problem: with Rails' approach being 'right from the start', having no protection by default is not the right way to do it. This issue may be well known among the type of people that use github and read HN, but if someone h
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by shearn89 15y ago
Another useful toolkit for stuff like this (and anything to do with natural language), but only available for python at the moment is the Natural Language Toolkit: http://code.google.com/p/nltk/ It's a very powerfull toolkit, with a lot m
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by shearn89 15y ago
My absolute favourite album to code to would actually be the Tron Legacy soundtrack by Daft Punk, but I've also spent the last few years at uni listening to http://www.prettylightsmusic.com/ while I code: his albums are all available for
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by shearn89 15y ago
Spent about 10 minutes just staring at it, eventually looked at the source. Some good comments, and a really nice answer!
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by shearn89 15y ago
As @artanis0 (kind of) mentioned, it'd be great to see a HN post sometime soon called "How to write a good 'REST' API". Or even just some links to good tutorials that could get me (and others) started? I've recently built a DB driven site t
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by shearn89 15y ago
I love the part where he tries to get back on Mike (Krahulik's) better side: "Did I feed into his emails a little bit too much yeah ok . But it’s one person dude for real. No disrespect intended for you , My name is good in this industry an
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by shearn89 15y ago
Well, this seems to be fixed - the user posted in the image now only has SELECT privileges to the database. Unless my mysql is reeeally rusty and I misunderstood the output...
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by shearn89 15y ago
Am I the only person who find this comment (perhaps inadvertantly) amusing? "A small number have been spun back out... but only after careful consideration and considerable effort put into finding sources and establishing notability ." "Es