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codejoust··on Show HN: Weekend Project - RingSong
Sorry about that, I had a callback error in the cron job that prevented call requests from being deleted. Should be fixed, and I thought the calls that got backlogged were only my test calls.

https://github.com/codejoust/ringsong/commit/45a032e90a858c6...

Shouldn't happen again.

codejoust··on Show HN: Weekend Project - RingSong
Source Code: https://github.com/codejoust/ringsong using mongodb, node, express, and tropo.
codejoust··on Primary pupils 'need nine hours of sleep'
Just a warning: I'm the same age and lack of adequate sleep came back to bit me hard last semester. (Getting about 4.5-7 hours of sleep every day, working out a lot, school, programming). It took me a long time to recover from some sickness and that required some sleeping - now things are so much easier / faster than before. The difference is incredible in terms of focus and work done. Now I'm getting about 6.5-8.5 hours of sleep, and it's much better. I still need to be better in terms of going to sleep, but going to sleep at 10:30-11:30 and waking up at 6-7 isn't bad at all.
codejoust··on CodeTyper - now you can type and sound like a hacker in the movies
I've heard a rumor that has to do with a finicky enter key. (Or you can view source).
codejoust··on CodeTyper - now you can type and sound like a hacker in the movies
codetyper ≠ hackertyper. This has a bunch of changes / improvements. It's a fork.
codejoust··on Hacker Typer - now you can type like a hacker in movies
Well - I've added those noises. The flash can use a ton of work, but it's there. (and an obligatory startup sound).
codejoust··on Hacker Typer - now you can type like a hacker in movies
If you want to add them: https://github.com/codejoust/codetyper I just haven't had time since I wrote it. (easter eggs: tab key + pressing enter twice).
codejoust··on Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze
Another Suggestion: I like the interface, but iCal sync and/or having it printable with checkboxes, etc. would be really helpful to get it OFF the computer (or cell phone interface, jQuery mobile, etc). I like how you currently implement the add to day interface, keep up the good work!
codejoust··on Hacker Typer - now you can type like a hacker in movies
Here's my fork, the site will be on github shortly: http://codetyper.tk/
codejoust··on YouTube Videos Now Served in WebM
Currently, it looks as if the gallery pages are using flash -- what about using native html for browsers that can play WebM video natively?
codejoust··on Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL
Finally, an easy and quick way to decode base64 hashes.
codejoust··on Ask HN: Anyone have a really smart way to organize css?
I've really enjoyed SASS/SCSS optionally with Compass. It lets you compile the stylesheets while still keeping the source files separate and organized. I've also seen the approach with one big file for the application with commented sections, however, the drawback to that approach is using a version control system with multiple editors on a large file (merge conflicts, etc).
codejoust··on Firefox 4 is here
I've been using the betas over chrome for a few months now. They've redone the UI, it's stabler, less memory intensive, and the UI is completely redone. It's definitely worth checking out even if you enjoy chrome.
codejoust··on [dead]
Thanks - this mostly was for clarification about what they were doing as there wasn't any status information to be had.
codejoust··on Email Use Drops by 59% Amongst US Teens in One Year
I am an younger person who sends a magnitude more emails than text messages and facebook messages. Email is useful for classes, coordinating groups, and etc. where facebook and text messages are too limiting to use. Email is also a useful tool to communicate to all age groups.
codejoust··on What happens when you're the #1 story on HN
And now he is, once again, on the front page of Hacker News. The résumé you posted earlier was indeed good-looking yet very good at conveying the important information.
codejoust··on Ask HN: Review our startup (esp. if you file 1099-MISC)
It looks great, but as stated earlier, the about pages would do well with a signup button/link at the bottom. Another random thing: the logo for the homepage seems to be wider than the rest of the pages - I'm guessing there's some CSS stretching going on.
codejoust··on Minimongo: A micro-ORM for MongoDB & Python
I've been pretty happy with mongoengine. It's quite nice to have schemas -- without them you probably would be fine using the plain pymongo library.
codejoust··on The Truth About Lisp
And it's hosted on an ASP blog. Quite Ironic.
codejoust··on Why I love math
I've used Teaching Textbooks (http://teachingtextbooks.com/) for math up to Precalculus. It's a self-paced, rather engaging math program with good word problems. For elementary school, their curriculum has a more interactive program with word problems, quizzes, etc. and in middle school and high school it becomes self-paced lectures with problem set / workbooks. Another good, similar program for high school is k12 which I've heard good things about too. There are some good / new curriculums out there for homeschoolers.
codejoust··on Run last command as root
Something else really useful: mkdir stuff cd !$

!$ takes the last argument from the previous command, instead of the whole thing.

chmod 664 site/* - changes the permissions for all the files in the site directory. * is a wildcard in bash for specifying directories.

Another useful feature of bash is brace expansion: mv site{,-old} => mv site site-old The brace expansion expands the argument with the values in a comma separated list: college pic_00{1,4,3}.jpeg college.jpeg yields pic_001 pic_004, pic_003

codejoust··on Ask HN: Why is there so little innovation in education?
As high school continued I did more social stuff such as Sports (Non-school affiliated teams or homeschool teams), Co-Op classes for a year, Taking classes at a community college later in high school, Homeschool extracurriculars: Mock Trial, Government Camp. When I was younger, I did field trips and events with a local homeschool group. Other stuff too like youth group, summer camps, etc.
codejoust··on Ask HN: Why is there so little innovation in education?
I've been homeschooled, and have taken online classes. With the internet, from Wikipedia to small websites on a certain topic, the internet has made research and homeschooling much easier. Yes, I still did use textbooks and read, but the internet itself has been a great learning environment to pursue at your own pace. Some of the learning management software I've used improved over time. Often, most of the learning management software was Moodle with a wimba classroom. The wimba classroom was not quite so good, but Moodle (despite being spotty at times) worked well for its purpose. With the Pearson network, they're running a custom system that technologically is different (webobjects and asp), however it isn't too distracting to show flash presentations, submit assignments for grading, run discussions, etc. If someone comes along and makes a great OSS or SAS solution for a learning management system there is certainly room to improve. The difference between my experience is the cost is a concern to those using these programs so they try to find the best and lowest cost solution.
codejoust··on Epic Animation Created Entirely in Google Docs
Sounds like three people have way too much time on their hands. That, or they are fascinated with the rich set of corroborative tools, (as rudimentary they may be4 for animation) in Google Docs.
codejoust··on HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome)
What version of chrome does this work on? Either I'm missing something or on an older version of chromium: Chromium 5.0.375.127 (Developer Build 55887) Ubuntu 10.04.
codejoust··on Facebook allows you to download all your data, log in via OpenID, and more
Can't you just run a bunch of API calls, then zip the result?
codejoust··on Grooveshark's new Javascript/HTML interface
No Problem. I think seen the widget before on make your own player page (which I've used because the old flash frontend was so very unstable on linux). And - the switches to HTML5 part - I would only post that if you somehow worked out how to use the html5 <audio> tag, but that has many drawbacks. Thanks so much for the work on the frontend - It's one of the few online music streaming services now that is decently fast and doesn't eat resources on linux.
codejoust··on Grooveshark's new Javascript/HTML interface
I just looked at the code - I'm pretty sure grooveshark is calling a flash object through javascript to play the music.
codejoust··on Grooveshark's new Javascript/HTML interface
As far as I can tell, it's written with PHP serverside, Javascript (jQuery JMVC) and HTML/CSS. The actual music player is a hidden flash widget, but the song selection, playback, and entire interface is in HTML/CSS not Adobe flash as previously. (And the adobe flash version had horrible performance on linux).
codejoust··on Grooveshark's new Javascript/HTML interface
It looks like they're utilizing js templates and localization along with a lot of jQuery and JMVC.
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