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Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
You weren't using it as a pejorative, but your pun was based on its use as a pejorative.
And? Some guy posted using the word "nigger". He may not be calling people "nigger", but he used a word that is racially insensitive! Booga booga! Jesus.
This has less to do with political correctness, and more the idea that posts like yours are just kind of annoying. The tone makes the site seem a lot less civil. It didn't add anything to the thread. Now all we have is you acting very annoyed that we didn't like your joke.
Humor is encouraged on Hacker News, but only when it is actually funny. Your joke wasn't funny.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
And? Some guy posted using the word "nigger". He may not be calling people "nigger", but he used a word that is racially insensitive! Booga booga! Jesus.
This has less to do with political correctness, and more the idea that posts like yours are just kind of annoying. The tone makes the site seem a lot less civil. It didn't add anything to the thread. Now all we have is you acting very annoyed that we didn't like your joke. Humor is encouraged on Hacker News, but only when it is actually funny. Your joke wasn't funny.
Yes, it was funny to no one. This is why the comment has +5.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
#234Working on a quickie startup using a domain name I've had since '03 which is foreverlist.com. It's a paid classified ads site where, for $5, you can list an ad with unlimited images that never expires and which you can change to anything at any time. So, as an example, you have a classic car which just sits in your garage collecting dust. You're somewhat interested in selling it, but only for the right price, and def…
I'd love to hear the reasoning behind down-voting this. In a thread with 225 comments, only my post and one making a pun about gays is down-voted to 0. If you have something to say, say it. sheesh
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
#235Working on our backup path. I run some Limbo[1] code using Windows Scheduled Tasks. This copies the contents of My Documents and Desktop (or wherever) to a Venti[2] server running on Linux on the LAN. The storage arenas of that server are extracted in 500Mb chunks and encrypted, along with the scores for accessing them, using GPG[3]. These are then copied offsite, via the internet and bundled into DVD sized groups and burned to optical when appropriate. As Venti arenas are append only this is minimum transfer, secure backup.
That's obviously just the Windows machiens that use Limbo. Unix likes have native clients. Our Venti store also contains data from other soruces such as the website and imap servers. Though it might make sense to separate them out, that's the decisions I'm working on as I go along.
I would also like to find an encryption method that uses fixed size chunks so I can upload only the appended data. That's something I need to look more into. I know they are around somewhere.
[1] http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/ [2] http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/venti.html [3] http://www.gnupg.org/
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
#236Working on photo upload in a new web app I'm working on. It spawns ImageMagick to do the conversion into multiple photos of different sizes. I had doubts about this until I read that it's the technique Flickr uses.
Here's something you might find interesting
Gamma error in picture scaling
http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
#237The Plan: Finish documenting the little i18n library for .NET that I built last week and release it open source.
The Reality: It's 95 degrees here in Cartagena and my fingers are sweating onto the keyboard. Cuba Libres sound like a much more viable option.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
#238Working on a quickie startup using a domain name I've had since '03 which is foreverlist.com. It's a paid classified ads site where, for $5, you can list an ad with unlimited images that never expires and which you can change to anything at any time. So, as an example, you have a classic car which just sits in your garage collecting dust. You're somewhat interested in selling it, but only for the right price, and def…
I'd love to hear the reasoning behind down-voting this. In a thread with 225 comments, only my post and one making a pun about gays is down-voted to 0. If you have something to say, say it. sheesh
I was wondering the same thing
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
#239Working on multiplayer Minesweeper, web-based: http://sweepminer.com
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
#240Learning Clojure (by reading Programming Clojure) - oh and trying to setup VimClojure and failing miserably (file detection is working, but everything else including syntax highlighting & indentation isn't).
- ask on freenode #clojure, the guy who wrote vimClojure hangs out pretty frequently
- the suggested "least stress" alternatives are netBeans/enclojure or emacs via ELPA/swank-clojure