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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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Nice to see the "real world" use of math by someone who is clearly an artist. I'll be keeping that clip.
15y ago·view thread
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Discussed at length here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2418637 Eventually deleted because it's completely wrong.
15y ago·view thread
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I'd rather go for a real 'plane: http://www.google.co.uk/#q=cri-cri+aircraft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colomban_Cri-cri http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGRB2UsH3AE http://www.flight.cz/cricri…
15y ago·view thread
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Older hands are encouraged to scan the "new" page to upvote those that are "in sync" and "on topic," and flag those that are completely unsuitable. Lately, though, it seems that the older hands are s…
15y ago·view thread
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Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581487 <- 22 comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1556740 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1635499 <- 32 comments ht…
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Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2466556
15y ago·view thread
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Why has this suddenly come to people's attention? I've seen it now in several places, all within hours of each other. And this is a repeat of the itme that's still on the Front page: http://news.yco…
15y ago·view thread
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Forgive me if I'm about to mis-characterize you, but it sounds to me a lot like you've seen one question and decided on that basis that the person in question must be racist. Then it looks like you'v…
15y ago·view thread
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I can't believe this is posted again on Hacker "News". There needs to be a separate site that creates and maintains a hacker-oriented library of "Great Articles." So I'm building one. Let me know if …
15y ago·view thread
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Clickable: http://www.thesmartestpersonproject.com
15y ago·view thread
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http://searchyc.com/green+username?sort=by_date
15y ago·view thread
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http://news.ycombinator.com/best http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100 http://twitter.com/newsyc100 http://jeffmiller.github.com/2010/07/23/a-cure-f…
15y ago·view thread
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You can edit for up to 2 hours - go fix it!
15y ago·view thread
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Clickable: http://readytakeoff.com
15y ago·view thread
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That would deprive you of what I see as one of the greatest benefits of HN - exposure to ideas outside, but related to, your specific area of interest. I've found many interesting items that I would n…
15y ago·view thread
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Spooky! I feel an "I'm Spartacus!" moment coming on ... No, I'm not the Colin Wright referenced, I'm a different Colin Wright altogether.
15y ago·view thread
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On another forum I used to post under my real name. From a discussion where a disagreement arose, albeit be civil on line, the discussion turned nasty, and I was increasingly harassed until I was genu…
16y ago·view thread
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Do you have a connection to this site? Looking at you posting history you seem to post from it a lot. Just curious.
16y ago·view thread