jsonscripter

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jsonscripter··on Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course

In my program, I had to sign a non-disclosure when doing an assignment for a local tech company. They didn't use anything I made, but I can't share it. It's basically gone for a minimum of 4 years.

I always feel like I've lost a little bit of myself when I lose code or IP I've created, even if I'm paid for my time.

jsonscripter··on Periodic table gets a new element

Shouldn't 118 have been the pinnacle of the island of stability? It's a noble element...

jsonscripter··on Libre.fm: Alternative to last.fm Scrobbling Feature

I would just like to note that Libre.fm seems to be API-compatible with last.fm. It seems changing your DNS or hosts file allows last.fm plug ins to work correctly with this site.

jsonscripter··on Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04

This will vastly improve the usability of LiveCDs.

jsonscripter··on Twitter's UID associated to each tweet will very soon exceed 2,147,483,647

I wonder what literally exploding growth looks like...

jsonscripter··on Twitter's UID associated to each tweet will very soon exceed 2,147,483,647

Why can't you just redirect the writes to a new temporary table and join the original and temporary on reads? (I'm not a database admin)

jsonscripter··on Ask Hacker News: Online BS in Comp Sci?

It takes thousands of hours to get a computer science degree and people are worried about the wording of the piece of paper they get at the end. I find that chilling. It also kind of shows you how useless that piece of paper really is.

Just to be clear, I believe a degree is extremely valuable but only because of the knowledge and skills you gain from the process. The end result isn't nearly as important.

jsonscripter··on Complete List of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Enhancements

That's actually eye-opening! I had no idea OS X lacked such basic features (and had such a "pop" bug).

jsonscripter··on Apps Are Booming as Companies Seek a Place on Your Phone

This just doesn't sound like NYT.

jsonscripter··on [dead]

A bit of schadenfreude never hurt anybody :)

jsonscripter··on Microsoft Releases Bing API - With No Usage Quotas

Windows 7 hasn't officially shipped yet.

jsonscripter··on Neat & Simple Resume Template

http://metalabdesign.com/*
"Hyper usable" made me smile :)

jsonscripter on Pattern Matching Your Source Code

The Wolfram icon strongly reminds me of the YTMND icon.

jsonscripter on Ask HN: Review my project: SitesInCommon

Lunchtime.

jsonscripter on Ask HN: Review my project: SitesInCommon

As someone who cannot access any private email accounts at work, I cannot view or review your site. Perhaps it should be more open.

jsonscripter on Did Bing Just Leapfrog Yahoo Search?

It probably is, but Google is at least on par, and that's why I feel "icky".

jsonscripter on Text of Y Combinator article in Inc Magazine

Kind of ironic that scribd isn't working right for this PDF in particular, I must say.

jsonscripter on Did Bing Just Leapfrog Yahoo Search?

For some reason I just feel icky using Microsoft products when there's a fine/better alternative.

jsonscripter on Useful command-line scripts for web developers (or anyone else really)

Is there any way to give grep some context? It's great knowing what file a word came from, but I've never figured out how to get grep to spit out the leading and following lines too.

jsonscripter on The Pancake: A Less Annoying Way To Move Through Google Street View

I'm not used to double-clicking on the internet, so it took a bit getting used to. Very nifty, though.

jsonscripter on Pricing a Simple, Useful Desktop App

It always has? 99% of all software sold is for the desktop.

jsonscripter on How Google Wave is Going to Change Your Business, Career and Life

And some more!
Google Wave in Erlang
PhD Student uses Google Wave to revolutionize something
Google Wave in the Cloud
Crowdsourcing Google Wave
Microsoft launching Wave-like technology?
Facebook bans Google Wave
China bans Google Wave
Ask HN: Review my new Google Wave API API App

jsonscripter on NILFS: A File System to Make SSDs Scream

How would you implement a swap on such a filesystem? You couldn't, could you?
Oh, and the jokes about having NILFS on your hard drive are going to be so lame...

jsonscripter on Median # of tweets = 1

Techcrunch should read this.

jsonscripter on Goodbye Browsers: What Next? How technical design for web apps is chaging.

An Erlang 'app' that interfaces with a CouchDB to create a real-time web API?! I think this blog just won buzzword bingo!

jsonscripter on Deliver something of value every week

Isn't this principle the basis of agile development? Who is this post for?

jsonscripter on When announcing your new web framework, don't be a douche

Haha, everyone knows assembly is the one true web framework.

jsonscripter on Bing Is Live

Bing makes the advanced search "clickable" but always in your face.
Google gives you the advanced search options pane, and then shows you how to format your search query so you can create the advanced search on-the-fly next time (such as by adding -, +, quotes and the like), as they see the command-line interface to their search as superior.

jsonscripter on Another Perl success story: The Swedish pension system

I propose a simple (from 2001) appended on to the title.

jsonscripter on Ask HN: Feedback on my app - SongTwit, it's TwitPic for music

What's supposed to happen when I click on a listing after a search? Right now nothing happens. There's also a blank grey rectangle on the right. I'm using Chrome 1.0.154.65. Do I need flash installed for something to happen?

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