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rjwebbon Ask HN: what would you do if you did not have to work?

If I sat on a beach, I'd have to take a computer with me...

rjwebbon Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving on Bitcoins

Do thieves understand this?

rjwebbon 9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands, shaded according to year of construction

A successor to 3M? I suppose there's always the old "MM" notation, or it could be written "9m".

rjwebbon I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

Yeah, I feel like on some days I have no ideas and on others I can just churn out a whole bunch of them. Most of them are crap but as long as the average is >1/day then all's good.

Do you find yourself interacting much with people in the co-working space? I don't have much experience with work (period) so I don't really know what the atmosphere's like.

rjwebbon Ideas for Computing

Doesn't zsh do something like this? At the very least, it seems to be extensible enough that you could provide completion+manpage documentation if you wanted to.

rjwebbon Ask HN: programmer-analyst student looking for a great internship (Europe)

What specific areas are you interested in?

rjwebbon Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow

How Snowden is treated sets a precedent for future U.S. dissidents of any kind. You might not care for or about him, but what happens to him sure as hell matters.

rjwebbon Why we're building Loom

Almost as much as color.com?

rjwebbon Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age

Or the British term: "Champagne Socialist".

rjwebbon I Don't Want Your Fucking App

I like the content on there, I really do. But why the hell do you have to sign up just to read it?

rjwebbon This Page Is Why The Internet Sucks

Does anyone even use those buttons?

rjwebbon Why Watching DVDs on Linux is Illegal in the USA

What about Moonlight?

rjwebbon Code.org – Dedicated to growing computer programming education

I wonder if children will watch this video and think that if they learn to code, then they'll get to work in swanky offices with free salad and skateboards...

rjwebbon Ask HN: Has anyone tried to write a Bayesian classifier for stories?

I suppose you could train the classifier by having it record what you upvote, or which links you click on. Perhaps a Firefox/Chrome extension could do that?

Some people at Reddit were programming a recommender about a year ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/lowwf/attempt_2_w... It doesn't use a Naive Bayesian Classifier but it might still interest you.