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kindlyviking

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kindlyviking··on Pi Is Wrong
Tau day! http://tauday.com/
kindlyviking··on Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator
I'm really impressed by the dedication of this guy. Kudos.
kindlyviking··on SlimGems, a drop-in replacement for RubyGems -- now available
I'd love to see slimgems also make it easier to install and manage gems programmatically (without the CLI). Using the internal rubygems classes yourself is... frustrating.
kindlyviking··on Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR)
These guys are brave!
kindlyviking··on Does Facebook Make Businesses Any Money?
"Of the 24 companies interviewed, only 7% cited social networking as one of their most effective sources of customers."

That's 1.68 companies. Oops.

kindlyviking··on Like.fm (YC W11) Is A Social Network For Tracking Songs
I think I'd choose blip.fm over like.fm, personally.
kindlyviking··on RStudio,a new IDE for R
Looks like there's a bug report already http://bit.ly/epH9kt
kindlyviking··on RStudio,a new IDE for R
RStudio's binary is named 'rdesktop'. Oops! Although it's not in the default PATH, so it could be worse :)
kindlyviking··on Tired of explaining Linux's seemingly obtuse memory usage to confused newbies?
The article mentions this on the second page at the bottom: http://www.linuxatemyram.com/play.html
kindlyviking··on Makin' It Rain - How Raindrop Effects Work In 2D Games
Fair enough :)
kindlyviking··on Makin' It Rain - How Raindrop Effects Work In 2D Games
Excessive use of font bolding in this article.
kindlyviking··on Why 3D doesn't work and never will.
I couldn't read this article because of the stupidly large headshot at the top.