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RichClaxtonon Facebook Changed Everyone's Email to Facebook.com; Here's How to Fix It

Shameless plug, I use www.thebuckyball.com to handle all email contacts and social friends, but that's because I wrote the backend, (in erlang) for those interested.

RichClaxtonon Smartphones set to become the fastest spreading technology in human history

I actually worked on the 9000 Communicator when I worked for Geoworks in the UK, many moons ago.

We also worked on the Seiko Epson locatio, phone with PDA browser and GPS all in 1998, http://www.knorbury.co.uk/locatio.gif

RichClaxtonon DuckDuckGo is blowing up

That's why I switched from Google, the !bang feature is something I could not live without now.

RichClaxtonon On Erlang's Syntax

That is a really nice summation.

RichClaxtonon Every language fixes something - a DiGraph - just for fun

Nothing after Erlang, does that mean its perfect :)

RichClaxtonon Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?

I have just stared learning Erlang after more or less leaving Java, and the heavy weight world of J2EE. I was surprised how easy I have found learning Erlang maybe it just seemed to make sense, or it feels like the right way of doing things. I would be really interested in the book.

RichClaxtonon Conj Labs expands its operation

That font affect hurts my eyes.

RichClaxtonon Oracle Confirms Plan B for the JDK

OK cheers, I thought it was a bit drastic.

RichClaxtonon Oracle Confirms Plan B for the JDK

Am i reading this right, are they dropping Swing from JDK7 release?

RichClaxtonon Asteroids narrowly miss Earth

Also "Apophis, a 25 million ton celestial body will narrowly miss our planet three times in succession. The first near-miss is expected on the superstitious date of Friday 13th 2029" That's not the best day for it to happen is it.

RichClaxtonon Howfuckedismydatabase

It probably should display informix as an option, but got a row lock error.

RichClaxtonon Ask HN: What are you working on today?

Developing a statistics system for the football premier league in the UK.

RichClaxtonon ZX80 & the Dawn of 'Surreal' UK Game Industry

I also started with a ZX81, I still have all the docs that came with it, the ZX81 got binned while I was away at University to my horror. I used to play 3D Monster Maze on it all the time.

RichClaxtonon Data, data everywhere

Huge data sets is the new Oil, processing this new huge data is where the big money will be in the future.

RichClaxtonon Online tutorials for LaTeX

I have just started using LaTex for documentation at work, after years struggling with Word, its a real revelation.

RichClaxtonon The history of Norton Commander (and other early MS-DOS utilities)

That takes me back, I used to use NC on my 486 at university, great app in its day.

RichClaxtonon Google UK town that only exists online

It seems that there is a “Dummy 1325” and “Dummy 1456

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Dummy1456,+Burton+up...

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...