tapostrophemo

5 ms·

1.
by tapostrophemo 10y ago
If you had a blog or other place to post your list, I would be interested in reading it.
2.
by tapostrophemo 11y ago
The oil industry is filled with examples of people not "knowing" exactly what they were doing. Choosing to drill in a given location often included the possibility that there was actually no oil/gas to be had...that the well
3.
by tapostrophemo 13y ago
"...cheaper...to just move to a better school district..." Unless, of course, you're stuck underwater in a house that you'd lose lots of money on if you sold it.
4.
by tapostrophemo 15y ago
Used it here - http://www.eastofcleveland.com/flashcards/notereading.php
5.
by tapostrophemo 16y ago
Don't discount PHP yet; the CodeIgniter community is great ( http://codeigniter.com/forums/ )
6.
I've been traveling a lot for work and miss my kids. I made them a game...(eastofcleveland.com)
3 points by tapostrophemo 16y ago|0 comments
7.
by tapostrophemo 16y ago
You mean like this? http://www.eastofcleveland.com/misc/hn2009sal.php Edit: I guess I'm cheating, in that it doesn't "automatically" update...but just visit that, and keep hitting F5.
8.
by tapostrophemo 16y ago
I noticed you're asking your users to enter a vimeo URL by hand. I know that during signup it's impractical to bounce the user over to vimeo to authenticate, but once the user is signed up do you give them the option of picking the video fr
9.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
These work great for keeping your pants cuff out of the chainrings: http://www.amazon.com/Pant-Cuff-Clips-Bike-Bicycle/dp/B000MM...
10.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
Pretty cool. I liked the sound of some of my pet projects. I just showed this to a co-worker. He asked, "How about the reverse? What's the URL for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony?"
11.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
taxes oh, I thought this was an "Ask HN"
12.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
What if the use of your computing resources were limited to only one mutation/tests? I.e., something that would slow your page load down a few milliseconds, then no more?
13.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
More a note to myself than anything: check out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112543
14.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
Oh, there are already many discussion/tutorial sites about yo-yoing. I don't intend to replace them, but to offer something they don't: a single place to coherently store pictures of, and more importantly, data about, your yoyo collection.
15.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
Looks interesting, and in the price range for a hobby site. Thanks!
16.
Ask HN: Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP?
14 points by tapostrophemo 17y ago|21 comments
17.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
I'm curious; is this ( http://timdorr.com/archives/2005/12/pgf-the-ease-of.php ) the micro-framework of which you speak?
18.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
"Code [is] written to be executed by a computer." Maybe. It also is to express the author's understanding, description and specification of the problem domain and problem solution to other humans. After all, most code will be compiled. The
19.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
PHP (cleverly hidden within the CodeIgniter framework). EDIT: Doh! It's too late at night, and I didn't catch what you meant in the title. My startup is bootstrapped, not YC-funded.
20.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
My personal pet peeve: s/independant/independent/g
21.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
Working the day job (in-house dev. at Nationwide Insurance). In process of incorporating an LLC with a businesss partner; our first project will deal with web widgets...should be live (selling from day 1) by the end of the summer. Fun recen
22.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
"...having an iPhone means never having to be bored..." Well, get a good one, learn a few "modern" tricks, and you can say the same thing about...the yo-yo! cf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS-jl0RlGLU , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
23.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
How do you know he wasn't a shill planted in the audience by the festival's promoters? </devil's_advocate>
24.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
For making web sites/apps, CodeIgniter (PHP framework) made the server-side fun again. Same for jQuery on the front-end. Especially with CI, I feel like I can get into a good groove and get lots done. Of course, I'm probably biased: at my d
25.
Ask HN: how to unit/integration test app that sends email?
2 points by tapostrophemo 17y ago|2 comments
26.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
See also http://www.firstdaycottage.com/Main.html . A friend of mine built one ( http://www.firstdaycottage.com/pictures/completed/Completed0... ).
27.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
"Most of the application is in the minds of the developers. Take away his source and ask a developer to re-write an application and you are guaranteed to get a better program." Well, not always. What about the edge cases the developer has l
28.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
Acme::Magpie
29.
by tapostrophemo 17y ago
Update: the Mojolicious docs are pretty thin at the moment, but a series of blog posts (one is http://www.simplicate.ca/blog/2008/12/using-mojolicious-with... ) will give me enough tips to get going.
30.
Ask HN: Equivalent of CodeIgniter, but in Perl?
2 points by tapostrophemo 17y ago|2 comments

More ›