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ColinWright

136,193karma·18,658submissions·December 14, 2009
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If you want to contact me, find me on the web. I am especially interested in math, juggling, programming, and education, and since there are other people with my name you'll probably need to include at least one of those terms in any search.

I was once a prolific contributor and commenter, but no more. I go through bouts of submitting stuff, but then go and disappear for lengths of time. If there is something you'd like me to see or comment on, you can email me. Don't ask me to upvote things. If it is interesting (to me) then I will.

Submissions do not imply endorsement.

My spam filtering is pretty severe, but I've put the word "Dysprosium" on the allow-list - quote that and your email will get through.

I used to have an email here but it got harvested by spammers - I'm looking at you, mbientlab.com - so it has been removed. This is a temporary one:

HN_a7dab8S4@solipsys.co.uk

Email sent there and quoting the element name will pass my spam filters. After that we can use "proper" email addresses.

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In the UK it is deemed that people have a right to privacy. This is overturned when it is deemed that information is "in the public interest," but knowing the sordid details of some "celebrity's" aff…
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https://github.com/thatch45/salt screencast: http://blip.tv/thomas-s-hatch/salt-0-8-7-presentation-518018... I can see that you're a newbie, but out of interest, why did you not put in the links f…
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Understood. I've not met many accountants who work as effectively almost entirely by email, but if you want more regular face-to-face then you need someone close by. Good Luck! Will you report your …
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I use an accountant in Cambridge. Virtually all our work is done via email with the occasional visit in person. I have found him to be efficient, clear, competent, and understanding. Reply here if y…
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I'm interested to know what people here on HN would do. My sense is that HNers tend to have an unswerving loyalty to the truth, and decide that the truth is right, and everything else takes second pl…
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If you like this, you'll like that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567222
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If you like this, you'll like that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567227
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Clickable: http://webifieds.net Out of interest, have you been trying to work out how to make your link clickable? If so, where did you look? If not, why not?…
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An old friend. There are a few comments on most of the previous submissions. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=555201 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=604463 http://news.ycombinator.com/item…
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I didn't go back to logic chips, but I built a Z80 machine with 8K RAM and 8K EPROM. I designed all the random addressing and latching logic from HC series chips, and wired it up to sensors and motor…
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