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misleading_name··on How I Fired Myself
It's not your fault. it's the fault of the person who cancelled backups, the person who didn't check that backups are being created, the "senior" people who let you work on the production database.... etc.
misleading_name··on Random walk illustrated with D3
Doesn't work on my Windows Firefox... got it working on Chrome though.
misleading_name··on Ask HN: How do you deal with Rabbit Hole Syndrome?
Catalog your rabbit holes if possible, and then review them before working on them.

What I mean is, if you see a problem to solve, and you are able to keep working on your current task and to solve the problem later, then do so... just note the problem. This will immediately make you much more focused.

Then at the end of the day, review your list of rabbit holes and try and determine which ones are necessary for the current project, which ones would be educational / you want to do, and which ones can be discarded.

Basically rabbit holes are a problem because they are long and narrow and do not offer an overview of the entire grounds, so before jumping down a rabbit hole force yourself to survey the big picture and to see if you can step over it instead.

misleading_name··on School of Haskell Goes Beta
just got my log in
misleading_name··on OXO, Crooks and Robbers?
I love that fact that the other company was actually recycling an idea from 1919 and thinking they were onto something new.
misleading_name··on Ask HN: How do you stop regretting?
I feel like you describe pretty often. I think the trick is to sleep, exercise, and concentrate on what's going on right now. You can't change the past, you can only change what you are doing right now, this second. You have control over that... hang in there. Also, rosser, you're answer seems very helpful.
misleading_name··on Easing functions cheat sheet
This is awesome. I just tried to submit it. Is it a new site, that we both tried within 15 hours?
misleading_name··on Show HN: API for detecting people, cars, and everyday objects in images
nice!

does a good job with painting too, but it did find the phantom neighbor peeping in as well:

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/347/screenshot20130111at5...

misleading_name··on I'm teaching an introductory 12-week class on Haskell
Awesome. Learning Haskell has been on my list for a long time, and I really appreciate that both books are available for free online. Thanks!
misleading_name··on Mosh: the mobile shell
yeah, seems pointless without an iOS implementation. (pointless for people on mobile Apple products that is (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch))
misleading_name··on Regexper: Beautiful regexp visualizations
but it doesn't show what is matched - as in a example matched string - which is the most important thing

also how do you put in the case insensitive flag?

misleading_name··on Study shows space travel is harmful to the brain
Doesn't seem too surprising. The atmosphere and magnetic poles do work pretty hard to insulate us.
misleading_name··on Top Blender Artworks from 2012 – open source 3D renderer
I hadn't known about it previously. Looks like the core is Python, which seems neat.
misleading_name··on Top Blender Artworks from 2012 – open source 3D renderer
Mostly for animation, but good for stills too.
misleading_name··on Bram Cohen: I have a question for the version control experts
I like the Quora/cats comment.
misleading_name··on Google Disabled map API access for Volkswagen website
maybe they pushed some code from their staging server? .... I wonder too. pretty funny
misleading_name··on Dangling by a Trivial Feature
I think this is where customer testing comes in. Watch 10 or 100 customers try to use you product, and observe the features they "reach for" but are not there - and the ones that are there, but they never use.
misleading_name··on WebGL: Pointer Lock and First Person Shooter Controls
Same here, but chrome works. I'm not sure it's a point lock issues, since that's supposed to work on FF.

In console, the difference I noticed is that FF has this error: Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at ws://./. - shoote...tBqO.js (line 57)

Chrome doesn't have that error.

misleading_name··on Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?
just converted my site from wordpress to jekyll, and I'm quite happy... mostly because of the simply syntax highlighting
misleading_name··on Skrillex Quest
Not very interesting on an iPad, black screen w dark gray writing and not much else.
misleading_name··on Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists
Ditto.
misleading_name··on Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists
Looks pretty, but I opened a 200 line python file on Mountain Lion and it crashed after 30 seconds. Also the scrolling was annoyingly "jumpy".... just not smooth.
misleading_name··on Poll: Do you select text while reading?
Usually - when I'm reading - I don't have my hand on the mouse... Just they keyboard, so no... Funny how many people do... It would seem distracting to me.
misleading_name··on Are github pages down for you?
Thanks, they just started working again for me too.

I have no idea what happened. For about 15 minutes I was getting github 404s for all github pages.

misleading_name··on I will pay you if you build an iLisp.
You could use phone gap, and compile you lisp to JavaScript with something like http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/