whimsy

507 karma · joined August 16, 2009

Seattleite.

whimsy··on OkCupid Finally Comes Up With Worst Idea Ever

No, they got bought by Match.com in 2011

whimsy··on Ask HN: what are your best (relatively) passive, non-stock-market investments?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains

Wow; I remember this game. This game was pretty awesome when I was 7. I'm not surprised to hear that it was a full conversion of another game.

whimsy··on Show HN: v0.1 of my book "Why programmers work at night"

Check out f.lux

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

whimsy··on Yeoman: Modern workflows for modern webapps

https://github.com/yeoman/yeoman/wiki/Manual-Install

There is a manual installation process provided on the front page; Yeoman itself appears to be a Node.js module in the node package manager npm.

whimsy··on Going Colo

Hey, you spelled prgmr.com wrong. (You got it right in the <a> tag though.)

whimsy··on Show HN: Pre-configured Django project, Git repo, and virtualenv with 1 command

You're right, I should be using these. How's the learning curve? Should I find a tutorial? Which should I choose, and why?

whimsy··on Show HN: I have no friends so I created Strangers for Dinner to make friends

LastPass is free, you know...

whimsy··on Why I'm thrilled Mark Zuckerberg is annoying the bankers

But didn't programmers do it because they didn't trust "the suits"?

Is it really ironic that they STILL don't trust them?

whimsy··on Software Engineers Will Work One Day For English Majors

Perhaps, but he's no English major - didn't support his thesis.

whimsy··on "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."

Actually, billing is pretty automated, but shutting down your account is not.

whimsy··on "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."

lsc owns buyvm, too? I don't think that's true.

whimsy··on DNS Changer

Yeah, Paul Vixie is kind of a badass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie

whimsy··on Did You Hear We Got Osama?

Got invites for HNers?

whimsy··on Tell HN: RAM Requirements are going through the roof

Doesn't 1) contradict 3)? If freeing memory is expensive, and memory is full, then there is certainly a cost of having full memory.

whimsy··on Waking up at 5am to code

Do you have a source you can cite for this? I'm keenly interested in how this works.

whimsy··on Totally drug-resistant TB emerges in India

I don't understand why this was downvoted. This is an excellent question.

whimsy··on About CeroWrt

Very cool! Based on the site, it looks like the public release is slated for the end of January. I'll definitely be trying it out.

whimsy··on 52 books in 52 weeks (with data tracking)

Oh, man... this alone makes me want to get a Kindle/iPad.

EDIT: Looks like it doesn't work with a regular ol' computer. Is there another site that has more multi-device support?

whimsy··on 52 books in 52 weeks (with data tracking)

>I've only just this minute taken a mere six steps to get from Jack Lemmon to Samuel Pepys

I wonder how often a path between two pages on Wikipedia is unique once its length is known. (You know, assuming no cycles were abused inbetween.)

whimsy··on Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation

I think there's something to be said for starting out with this sort of confidence, especially when you're self-taught. That sort of confidence can provide some incredible motivation. If we realized how much it work it would take to become well and truly good at things like coding, would we start down the path with such fervor?

Point is, SOPA sucks.

whimsy··on "Ender's Game" movie happening

Might I suggest you watch the 2D version? I don't get queasy; I would love a 3D version of this movie.

whimsy··on Dutch Railway Commuters Slide to catch their trains.

The bar is a "transfer accelerator facilitator." Really, it's just something to help you sit down in the slide.

whimsy··on World's First 128 Gb NAND Device

Yes, but the fact that we can exploit that - and that we use the same physics for read heads as those we use for calculating flight - is pretty impressive, is it not?

whimsy··on DesktopBootstrap: like Twitter Bootstrap, but for desktop apps

Windows desktop apps.

whimsy··on Tell HN: I want to teach you web development. In 8 weeks. For free (sort of)

I have some modest experience. None the less, I'm interested. How much do you hope to teach in eight weeks? What should a Junior Rails Developer be able to do?

whimsy··on Nginx server not safe against ldos | feedback from sys admins?

Go ahead.

whimsy··on BananaProd: Sell your products on your website in 7 minutes flat

How much does it cost? I saw no mention of that during my three scans.

When will you offer a payment processor that isn't Paypal?

whimsy··on $19/month cell carrier Republic Wireless overwhelmed on release day

$35

whimsy··on Review my startup: TheWP.Co - WordPress / Frontend Dev

Typo on the order page:

W'll create an enticing store-front for your products. We'll even polish the window for you.

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