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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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Brilliant - thank you. Thank you for the work in creating it, thank you for the work in making it easy to use, thank you for the work in making it easy to install, thank you for the work in sharing i…
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I certainly think it deserves more attention, but I also believe it's not in the interest set of the current HN audience. I strongly believe it's on topic, I just think it's ignored by people who are…
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I think this is the same as was submitted a year ago. Twice. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1322135 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197949 …
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Clickables: http://www.boldport.com https://www.boldport.com/docs/fpgaproj
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No problem - I'm reading the PDF now. ... OK - now I've skimmed the PDF - interesting read. I'd like more time to analyse it, but I'm too busy right now. Nice work, though. Good luck with it.
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Interesting that you didn't mention something that overlaps with this substantially: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022547 …
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Getting an item noticed on HN is now largely pot luck. It is correlated with quality, but it's also correlated with time of day, day of the week, number of current readers, and it's still got a hug…
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Hmm, 0xF6. Officially declared a hacker.
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9: 10+2*5: Work in short spurts of 10 minutes,
interrupted by 2 minute breaks. Use a timer.
Do this 5 times an hour to stay on target without
over-taxing your physical and…
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Again? Here are a few earlier submissions - there are more: http://searchyc.com/submissions/what+is+a+browser?page=1 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662105 <- This one has comments. http…
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Personal opinions only ... Scheme and its relatives in the Lisp family is seriously different, genuinely attitude and mind changing, and having it no longer an essential part of the curriculum makes i…
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Well, that's one point of view, but the ancestor comment to this, the original one to which I replied, contains no information at all except to spoil the one joke in the clip. It's content-free, exce…
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What you're saying is there is no real math in the curriculum, and you're right. There'll never be any real programming in the curriculum either.
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I was being sarcastic. The spoiler really did spoil the joke, although the joke was such a minor part that it didn't matter very much. The point remains. Many people read the HN comments before the …
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No! No, no, no no!!! I said: ... And I don't mean a video ...
I really hate videos. Really hate videos. They are slow, clumsy, and never show what I'm interested in. My advice is never…
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Assuming you want feedback, even if simply to decide it's wrong, for what it's worth I offer the following observations. I stared at the screen for some time trying to work out what to click to find o…
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You're joking, right? A sizeable number of people here on HN read the comments before reading the item, partly because the comments often have more information than the item, and partly because the t…
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Compare and contrast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521586 Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2520685 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511721 …