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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.

recent activity (18,658 total)
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Clickable: http://hnpoints.com/ How do I install it on Firefox 1.5.0.6?
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Previous submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2556291 No discussion.
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What does this return: try { return true; } finally { return false; } What Neil Fraser has to say about this is too good to leave out here: The result is consistent in Java, J…
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Previous discussion from 5 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2547254
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Previously submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2552537 Flagged dead - some discussion.
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That's an elegant way to express it - thank you. My method has more of the "TA DA!" about it, and tends to generate a sense of "Gosh!", but I like the quiet elegance of yours. Nice one.
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Perhaps it should say: URLs in comments become links. I think the document you reference is talking about submissions and comments. http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc …
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There is an infinite version of Ramsey's theorem. Suppose you consider the collection of pairs of positive whole numbers, and each pair is colored either red or blue. Then there is an infinite set S …
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But even though the OP doesn't have that, I was hoping the discussion here could, in effect, "crowd-source" such a contribution. So often in the past on HN I've seen relatively content-poor posts lea…
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I'm intrigued. As it stands, two people have claimed that this doesn't belong here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2552857 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2552812 One even flouts the gui…
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1791749 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1800876 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1802072 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1805419 <- This has …
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Much commentary from the submission half a day ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2549462
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Bad link - it'll be out-of-date as soon as the subject tweets a few more times.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=274469 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611583 <- This one has comments.…
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They all point to different URLs.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2135132 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134634 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1435946 …
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