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carl8

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About carl8

Hi, I'm a software developer in SF. I can be reached through my website at carl.gorringe.org

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    Ah, well that may have well been a recent update. I'll have to try it again under chrome.* It didn't used to work at all unless I replaced chrome.* with browser.

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    I'm going through converting a Chrome extension to Safari 14, and the process isn't nearly as seamless as shown, although it's nice to have the converter tool. Chrome extensions on…

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    Comment #25133474

    I made something similar, called PlasmaJS which you can view here: http://plasmajs.com

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    Comment #23934849

    Back in 1995 I wrote a library for creating BBS Door games using RIP graphics, in QuickBasic 4.5. Also created a RIP Door Game of the classic Battleship game. It never went anywher…

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    I wonder how this would compare to Judy arrays. Would anyone like to benchmark this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_array http://judy.sourceforge.net To install the Judy C lib:…

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    Comment #20432054

    Back in the late '90's there was the All BASIC Code (ABC) repository, which was a large collection of the best Basic code at the time. Some of my code made it there. Found this cop…

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    > If I was Google I would be providing ... a loose social network that encouraged links to other sites (perhaps similar to HN on a larger scale) that would be easy for third-partie…

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    I had done some work on a RIP viewer in Javascript a year ago if anyone's interested. It's not yet complete. There's a link to a demo to view some examples. https://github.com/cgor…

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    I tried writing a RIPscript generator in javascript a few years ago. I thought it would be easy, but it's surprisingly not. It's unfinished, but here it is if you'd like to try it …

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    Was just going to site that last one: 2/8/12 "Today 92 percent of the taxi fleet is comprised of hybrid or CNG vehicles. There are 1,318 alternative fuel vehicles out of a total of…

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    Good Story! I have a little story of my own. :-) I met Logan Green the day that he first launched Zimride, at a student-run conference on climate change at UC Berkeley, in March 20…

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    Here's the solution that I came up with prior to following the link or reading any comments. We're given 1 million integers from 0 to 99,999,999. We only have 1MB of RAM, or an ave…

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    Every year someone comes up with an idea for a ridesharing website. There are over 100+ out there, so it's not like chris123 had this idea first. Some get traction, some don't. Man…

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    Thanks for posting my tribute to Steve! If anyone's interested in the source: At a prompt, type CATALOG to see a list of files, LOAD FILENAME then LIST to view a program's source c…

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