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by winsbe01 3y ago
I've not put a ton of thought into a plan to open source it, but we've got comments from friends who also have a lot of genealogical info that it would be super helpful for their info, so maybe? It's basically just a CRUD Dja
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by winsbe01 3y ago
My family has historically been very into genealogy research, so we've got lots of family tree info. I've been working with my aunt to put together a webapp to create/edit info, see relationships, show ancestors/descenda
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by winsbe01 4y ago
"Vexing" feels like the wrong adjective here. IMO, terrorism is not a "harumph" situation.
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by winsbe01 5y ago
Apps like QRBot [1] have the ability to scan ISBNs (and barcodes generally), and have a "history" feature that keeps track of what you've scanned and lets you export (to CSV, among others). The app is free on both iPhone and
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by winsbe01 5y ago
I build a cli music player that can handle both local mp3s and Spotify tracks in the same playlist, because I wanted that. I also recently built a tool to help me keep track of my books (what I own, what I want to read, what I've borro
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by winsbe01 5y ago
Very interesting. Which client has the book review feature? I haven't yet dipped my toes into Secure Scuttlebutt -- I joined a Mastodon instance once upon a time, but it didn't hold my attention too well. I've always associat
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by winsbe01 5y ago
Great read! I also hadn't heard of TheStoryGraph before, so double points. I'm also very interested in owning my own data (particularly when it comes to things like book lists) and I'm thinking about how to incorporate someth
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by winsbe01 15y ago
i wouldn't say it's as low as country living, but it's not quite 2k/mo for a 1 bedroom
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by winsbe01 15y ago
i mean, it was purposefully acquiring money that didn't exactly belong to me. the Right Thing To Do would have been to report the error and get it corrected, instead of leaving it open for exploit, like when my friends or I needed quarters
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by winsbe01 15y ago
vending machine hacks, although both illegal and immoral, provide an immense source of joy in knowing that you _beat the system_, regardless of what treat may come out. here's my biggest vending machine hack: freshman year in college, there
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WBC to picket Steve Jobs's funeral(pcmag.com)
1 points by winsbe01 15y ago|0 comments
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Bash One-Liner: Grab AmazonMP3's Daily Deal(github.com)
1 points by winsbe01 15y ago|0 comments
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It's 4S, Not 4G(bathouselabs.com)
2 points by winsbe01 15y ago|0 comments
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by winsbe01 15y ago
i am very much like you :) "learning" something, i'm finding, is very hard to do outside of a school setting, so i've been trying to think of why that is. what i've found is this: in school, you're given assignments , little (or sometimes
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by winsbe01 15y ago
nice read! I wonder how much of it is still relevant today (i.e. gc speed in Java, relative superiority of its library, etc.). OCaml is one of those languages that interests me, but I don't know if I'd ever have a reason to learn it to do s
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by winsbe01 15y ago
i understand your frustration. however, like you said, they're on vacation ; one of the great things about that is you can relax and be yourself, and if you enjoy hollering at football in a bar, more power to ya! there are plenty of very s
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by winsbe01 15y ago
love it. gives me faith that the archaic machines i have serving can still hold their own!
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by winsbe01 15y ago
success is not just the sum of the features. offering something that other players have won't bring success, unless you can convince people it is significantly better, and _prove_ it. offering something competitors don't have also won't bri
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by winsbe01 15y ago
quite honestly, any of them. all the "big ones" i.e. debian/*buntu, fedora/redhat, etc. will have (nearly) any language's compiler/toolset in their package manager, and therefore just a couple minutes away from install. and even if they did
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by winsbe01 15y ago
i found your article to mean a lot to me, personally, as i saw a lot of the reasons for my past projects abandoned in your analysis. best of luck for the future!
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by winsbe01 15y ago
i think this is great. not that he was 13 (though it is impressive), but that he thought enough to challange the typical panel array that we've gotten solar power from in the past. it seems that he got some interesting results, too. sure, m
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by winsbe01 15y ago
Under 5gb, over 2gb. comes from streaming subsonic/pandora at work and on the road. without that, I'd be well below 2gb
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by winsbe01 15y ago
i ssh into a server, but i learned about using a local VIM instance to edit remote files yesterday (on HN, of all places) and will be doing it that way from now on. no more need to spread my fine-tuned vimrc to every server i use!
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by winsbe01 15y ago
this just proves how fast things can change in our industry. don't be afraid of the criticism, because you never know what will happen in 5 years.
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by winsbe01 15y ago
side-projects. wish i had the guts/savings to go full time.
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by winsbe01 15y ago
dogpile is still around? didn't know that.
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by winsbe01 15y ago
thank you for your in-depth reply, I really enjoyed it! I love you metaphor of Mona Lisa's smile, it works perfectly for describing how people feel about different approaches to the same "problem".
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by winsbe01 15y ago
haha, fantastic point :)
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by winsbe01 15y ago
I really like the "genius or fool" quote, it is perfect. thanks for sharing!
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by winsbe01 15y ago
very good point. thanks!

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