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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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Compare and contrast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521802 Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2520685 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511721 …
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Effectively the same as submitted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2517296 Much discussion there.
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Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2476789 What's more, it seems that it's your site, and you submitted it both times.…
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> Just look at math.
> Programming is even harder;
Wow. There's someone who has a substantially different idea from mine as to what constitutes math, what constitutes programming, a…
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Thanks for the spoiler.
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Earlier submission, much discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2517136 I honestly don't see how this is gong to encourage people, especially kids, to further wonder about how computers wor…
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I have read it fully, several times. I'm not complaining, I'm seeking to understand. I haven't flagged it, as I am reluctant to claim that my understanding is "better" than another's. So in reply, p…
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... I expect that the value of this post
will lie in the commentary.
I'll return in a few days and see. I don't expect that to be the case, but I hope my expectations are confounded, an…
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Can someone explain to me why this is getting upvotes, and why people think it fits the guidelines. How is it something that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." ?? ( http://ycombinator.com/news…
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From a month ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2392830 And before that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391971 …
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Can you give some examples? Also, have you read the guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ? Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something
(e.g. to ask us questions…
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Clever video. Artistic, compelling. Dreadful, dreadful, dreadful presentation. Hated it with a passion. It wasted 3 minutes of my life reading the same text as was presented in a difficult to read f…
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Lots of people say that in all sorts of situations, but it never seems to me that it ever helps. It seems that lawyers always make things more adversarial, they extract money whether they make things …
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http://inetpro.org/pastebin/10964/view/raw I've been trying to work out how I can best help, what advice I can offer, because I'd like to help. However, I hesitate because I've never been in your po…
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Actually, no, they don't. They do have a link to a page that discusses the differences, but they themselves don't on the page you reference. I'd appreciate it if people were more accurate in their tit…
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Oh God, not again: http://searchyc.com/feynman+connection
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It's in title and comments, but not furnature or boilerplate. Very odd.
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People have learned that something might look easily replicable, but end up having unexpected nastiness. Further, replication takes time, and requires assigning people to the task. In my company we o…
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As a datum - I have a flag link. PG has previously mentioned an "Excessive flagger" test - I wonder if you tripped it.