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glyphobet

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About glyphobet

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #9723864

    There's an improved algorithm that finds a better lock, one that can do 1,410 words: https://blog.glyphobet.net/essay/2770

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    Comment #8830728

    Yep, that was a joke. Should have had tags around it.

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    Comment #8830349

    It has to be an image, how else would they ensure that it shows up in Comic Sans in all browsers?

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    Comment #7654939

    https://lift.do/ does this

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    Comment #6871130

    Yes. A good team will recognize that your love for programming means you'll improve rapidly, especially in an environment with constructive feedback from tolerant team members. And…

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    Comment #6438205

    macports. :P

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    Comment #5644206

    It's Latin-1 encoded and then URL-encoded: >>> import urllib >>> print urllib.unquote('%1B%E7%F4%9D').decode('latin-1') çô

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    Comment #5520277

    Only a matter of time before someone writes a service hook for automatic 3-D printing of a model after each push.... That or Thingiverse integration.

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    Comment #5444389

    Yes, the illustration is accurate.

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    Comment #5443239

    These guys share an office with me, so I saw the packages. They all contained one tote bag and were nowhere near a kilogram.

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    Comment #5443226

    These guys share an office with us, so I saw the packages. The Atheist tape is standard packing tape, there's no difference in quality of the tape.

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    Comment #5436476

    This is great. Some thoughts: * It abbreviates "US" in "US Citizen" but not "United States". I would expect both "United States Citizen" and "US" (country) to work too. It uses "Br…

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    Comment #5063370

    It is a shame that the petition to pardon Swartz has 1/10th of the signatures that the petition to fire Ortiz has. Let's advocate for a government that forgives (alleged) crimes as…

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    Comment #4990544

    The problems are in the core implementation of Jython, not in using Jython to solve problems. For example: http://bugs.jython.org/issue1634167

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    Comment #4990247

    Jython. It's an unfinished research project/toy/proof of concept that never should have been used in a production environment under any sort of load. Unfortunately my predecessors …

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    Comment #4857688

    Commence shameless plug for my project, "fragments": http://glyphobet.github.com/fragments/ It could be used as a static site generator, among other things. But it uses version-con…

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    Comment #4728601

    This is a bit too simplistic. The rule of three really should apply to similar patterns that emerge naturally in the course of implementation. His example code consists of two four…