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greaterscope

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About greaterscope

https://alanszlosek.com

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    Comment #28048683

    I love this idea! Bookmarking "Terraform Graph Algorithms" and "HTTPie Download Progress" for later. Thank you!

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    Comment #28048627

    I've been creating something akin to Minecraft creative mode in the browser since 2016: https://github.com/alanszlosek/voxeling . It all started when I found the VoxelJS project. T…

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    Comment #22673904

    Great timing on this post as I'm looking for something to replace my aging Dell Inspiron 1420n from 2008. Thanks for asking! It sounds like you just need something to run an editor…

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    Comment #22033783

    I second the point that it's helpful to know the actual landscape, so the division within GE should definitely be listed. After all, if they end up contributing something positive …

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    Comment #14403975

    You made me lol. Thank you :-)

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    Comment #9912715

    I wrote a self-hosted tool that fills this need for me. Been using it since 2008. Content is written in markdown, though it doesn't have a fancy editor. Supports tagging and search…

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    Comment #9262853

    Seconded. He was on episode 199 of Software Engineering Radio two years ago ( http://www.se-radio.net/2013/12/episode-199-michael-stonebra... ), which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was …

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    Comment #5786514

    Two projects you may want to review for ideas are Redis and toybox. Redis comes to mind because it started out as largely a single file of code that has since been split and organi…

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    Comment #2470995

    Wish were able to download our ebs snapshots, which are supposedly hosted on S3. What does everyone else do?

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    Comment #2102315

    Recently bought the box-set of this series .... love it!

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    Comment #949400

    hilarious. but maybe a few people will participate (fall for it) and thus indirectly donate to jquery, postgres, or apache.

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    Comment #801831

    Sounds like you might have become disinterested in your project? Maybe there's too much on your plate? Maybe there's not enough risk/reward pressure going on? I don't think a piece…

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    Comment #783792

    starting off with "it's a sad state of affairs" sets a smug tone, begging for a smart-ass response. and the "FAIL" just turns it hostile. i'm not defending the station, but i do th…

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    Comment #614982

    We, my long-time girlfriend and I, are moving to Portland, Oregon, from Lakeland, Florida, in 1 month. A friend sent me that article a few days ago and all I could think was, "info…

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    Comment #594005

    From my post here: http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2008/11/11/intentional-soft... Back in 2002 I thought of "Intentional Software" as a company name. It was supposed to imply that…

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    Ask HN: Would a visual way to browse related and similar projects on ohloh/sourceforge be useful?

    I'm thinking a project would list its dependencies (or even better they could be discovered automatically from the code, makefiles, autotools files), and you could navigate those d…

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    Comment #451195

    Excellent, excellent movie. It always inspires me in some strange quirky way. Or maybe it just inspires me to be quirky.

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    Comment #408041

    amazing. i'm all for a less-cluttered field of choices. anyone know of another high-profile project that has merged with a "competitor"?

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    Comment #372433

    There are many products and services for small/standard storefronts ... but we're innovating elsewhere. I've tried to outline some of our differences on the website but it surely n…

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    Ask HN: Seeking pre-demo feature feedback on my storefront software

    I run Greaterscope, LLC, a (currently) one-man company that's developing storefront software with developers in mind. In other words, we're focused on several PITA features that ar…

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    Ask HN: Storefront software features to make your life easier

    I run Greaterscope, LLC, a (currently) one-man company that's developing storefront software with developers in mind. In other words, we're focused on several PITA features that ar…

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    Comment #343584

    To the parent: This where I've been. I've built many of my own tools and frameworks. Problem is, they're still related to the space that I no longer enjoy being employed in. It was…

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    Comment #343575

    You're right. It's just not for me. I'm a big self-motivator, and am learning more of what makes me happy and unhappy.