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deathbob

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About deathbob

larrick@gmail.com

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    Comment #49213646

    > for a glimpse at one possible futureverse, check out what the home assistant community is up to, how they assemble then update the ambient information displays on their walls. th…

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    Comment #48629964

    It still boggles my mind that Anthropic would invent the MCP protocol but not fully implement it. Especially when fully implementing it (prompts, resources, tools) is easily done i…

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    Comment #39578114

    I don’t bother to log in and vote often, but this is such a cool idea AND so well executed. Fantastically well done. Thanks for sharing

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    Comment #5602860

    works well for me in chrome / os x. Used the 'a' key to cut / tear. Cool demo! I don't know much about this sort of stuff, could you talk about what's going on in the vertlet.js fi…

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    Comment #5532853

    "Create a species" doesn't seem to work, even with all fields filled out.

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    Comment #2815077

    If you're spending more than 5-10% of your time typing, you might want to consider spending more time thinking, googling, or running tests.

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    Comment #2455289

    What a beautiful and fun idea. Here's one I did that develops really nicely. http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=062m4l6s8q2p610...

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    Comment #2123702

    The print statements to debug was a constant in "Coders at Work" too. Also in that book I found interesting that everyone interviewed was asked what the most difficult thing they h…

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    Fascinating look at Vinyl vs Digital on Music-DSP mailing list

    I think the post about two turntables and a microphone being a universal interface for people with records vs the fractured digital interfaces is particularly interesting, here htt…

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    Comment #1878168

    Without meaning a personal dig it's clear that you're quite ignorant about drugs. Anyone who's ever done any knows they're the original augmented reality. There are few drugs that …

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    Comment #1860649

    The website seems to be down, anybody got a cached copy?

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    Comment #1835607

    Yeah how do you use this? I see pcap here http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pcap/1.1 but can't seem to install it. master>pip install pcap Downloading/unpacking pcap Could not find any d…

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    Comment #1835431

    master>python idiocy.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "idiocy.py", line 2, in import getopt, sys, pcap, dpkt, re, httplib, urllib ImportError: No module named pcap Is the…

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    Comment #1569398

    I think "Lamb" is my favorite Christopher Moore book.

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    Comment #1439152

    Richmond, VA INMUnited is hiring. We do Ruby on Rails and iPhone development mainly, and are looking for a senior developer with experience delivering large projects, although we'd…

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    A celebration of _Why, for whyday.

    A little bloopsaphone script I did on the train back from RailsConf after hearing the announcement of whyday.

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    Comment #1218884

    Yeah please get it on youtube. I don't even know how to begin watching what is available on your site and pouet ;)

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    Comment #953247

    INM United in Richmond, VA needs Ruby on Rails || iPhone developers. blarrick@inmunited.com if you're interested. Mention HN in subject please.

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    Comment #414258

    It works for me, pretty cool. Suggest you find some way to let one person be the photographer and the other the subject. Let the person with the webcam just sit there and the other…

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    Comment #393581

    I also have a history (and now CS) degree. If you want to get into programming, do some programming. Don't worry about what language or what project, just grab something and do som…

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    Comment #381062

    No, I asked. I told them my experience was mainly with Linux and C++, and asked what sort of environment I would be working in for them, and they said most of the projects are on w…

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    Comment #380994

    Well the IBM position sounds like it would be kind of an easy transition, that I would not be thrown into anything too tough right away. NOt that there aren't challenges there, but…

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    Comment #380985

    First of all, I don't know anything about python, my first experience with it was doing the django tutorial last week. The small firm said they use python specifically because they…

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    Comment #380741

    "The IBM job may or may not be there in another 5 years. There will always be some startup opportunity available." Another good point, between this and what ken said I think I'm le…

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    Comment #380738

    I'm pretty sure I'm gonna learn an awful lot no matter which one I choose. The people I've met so far at both places were very smart and nice. I'm fortunate that judging on those c…