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EyeballKid

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About EyeballKid

Recovering game developer. Day job: freelance coder - golang, c++, python, whatever

Homepage: http://scumways.com Github: https://github.com/bcampbell hnchat:DTDx3kSsW16z809fMXZ1

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    Comment #40434094

    In a similar vein, there's also this 2008 blog post about DPaint which nailed a UI concept I kind of sensed but couldn't articulate: "The importance of Exuberance in User Experienc…

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    Comment #40434033

    I definitely want Palette colour cycling! But getting some support in there for layers is my current priority. Development is driven by whatever missing feature currently annoys me…

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    Comment #40426548

    I feel compelled to plug my own DPaint-inspired app: http://evilpixie.scumways.com/ You can tell it's a really professional project because I wrote a press release for the last ver…

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    Comment #12631576

    SEEKING WORK - Christchurch, New Zealand or Remote Currently fluent in: golang, c/c++, python, php Looking for interesting part time or one-off coding jobs. Homepage: http://scumwa…

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    Comment #11509130

    Oop - thanks! I've had it running on OSX, but haven't tried it recently. I'd expect there to be a few hiccups, but nothing fundamental.

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    Comment #11508578

    You're not the only one who thinks fondly of DPaint! shameless plug: here's the paint program I've been working on: http://evilpixie.scumways.com/ (the most up-to-date code is the …

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    Comment #10348647

    Or, as Jarvis Cocker put it: "Shit floats" :-)

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    Comment #10294233

    But can't an adblocker just add: example.com/proxy/* to its list of requests to block? (of course, the URLs could be camouflaged to look like real ones... eg: http://example.com/a-…

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    Comment #10294097

    From their white paper: The technology used by Secret Media makes sure that each ad gets a specific URL that cannot be nor found not added to EasyList by the community. I don't qui…

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    Comment #10111668

    That kind of site appears to be soooo easy to get media coverage for. I wrote a blog post a couple of years back covering a similar UK-based site and how good they were at getting …

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    Comment #8897909

    It doesn't really have a depth buffer - only enough for a single scanline at a time.

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    Comment #8398067

    > Are there countries that use slashes for d/m/y? Oh yes, loads of them. Lots more than use m/d/y anyway. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country Canada looks the …

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    Comment #8398018

    Along somewhat similar lines, my own date/time-parsing library for golang: https://github.com/bcampbell/fuzzytime I wrote it to parse dates and times in news articles and blog post…

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    Comment #8181742

    Cool - will definitely install! I've been working on some projects along similar lines. First one is http://churnalism.com/extension Browser extensions which check news articles ag…

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    Comment #7153924

    I'm veering toward thinking of bootstrap as more of a naming convention than anything else. I've been using it recently and it's nice enough, but feels a bit heavyweight for the so…

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    Comment #6796452

    Penny Arcade have been running a public information campaign on punctuation for a few years now... http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/07/07 (and http://www.penny-arcade.com/arc…

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    Comment #6442121

    Don't forget about The Muppets!

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    Comment #5088530

    I'm running Ubuntu on a Thinkpad X230 (with the IPS screen), and loving it. The windows 7 install it came with was the usual crapware trainwreck, but not really my problem - the Ub…

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    Comment #4333136

    cough http://evilpixie.scumways.com cough