Hacker News: deathbob

New comment by deathbob in "Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs"

deathbob — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:38:54 +0000

It still boggles my mind that Anthropic would invent the MCP protocol but not fully implement it.

Especially when fully implementing it (prompts, resources, tools) is easily done in harnesses that don’t ship with MCP but allow good extension / modification like Pi.

Claude not being able to see its own usage or self invoke slash commands is also very frustrating.

New comment by deathbob in "Show HN: An algorithmic audio landscape"

deathbob — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 03:11:47 +0000

I don’t bother to log in and vote often, but this is such a cool idea AND so well executed. Fantastically well done. Thanks for sharing

New comment by deathbob in "Tearable cloth in asm.js"

deathbob — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:43:36 +0000

works well for me in chrome / os x. Used the 'a' key to cut / tear.

Cool demo! I don't know much about this sort of stuff, could you talk about what's going on in the vertlet.js file a bit?

New comment by deathbob in "I've got 10 btc for the best CoffeeScript/JavaScript Nodewar bot"

deathbob — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:13:36 +0000

"Create a species" doesn't seem to work, even with all fields filled out.

New comment by deathbob in "Poll: How much of your work time is typing code?"

deathbob — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:08:44 +0000

If you're spending more than 5-10% of your time typing, you might want to consider spending more time thinking, googling, or running tests.

New comment by deathbob in "Cellular Automaton Music Generator"

deathbob — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:56:00 +0000

What a beautiful and fun idea.

Here's one I did that develops really nicely.

http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=062m4l6s8q2p610...

New comment by deathbob in "On Using Debuggers"

deathbob — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:29:30 +0000

The print statements to debug was a constant in "Coders at Work" too. Also in that book I found interesting that everyone interviewed was asked what the most difficult thing they had to debug was, and almost all of them said something to do with concurrency.

Fascinating look at Vinyl vs Digital on Music-DSP mailing list

deathbob — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:23:02 +0000

I think the post about two turntables and a microphone being a universal interface for people with records vs the fractured digital interfaces is particularly interesting, here http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/music-dsp/2010-November/069349.html and also the talk about how the medium (vinyl) has dynamics requirements that force the signal to be compressed before it's put on record and that emulating that might give the same effect to digital music http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/music-dsp/2010-November/069388.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1951197

Points: 2

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New comment by deathbob in "The Mystery of the Tainted Cocaine"

deathbob — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:16:48 +0000

Without meaning a personal dig it's clear that you're quite ignorant about drugs. Anyone who's ever done any knows they're the original augmented reality. There are few drugs that one would take to escape reality entirely; the vast majority of drug use is social in nature and rooted in reality by definition.

New comment by deathbob in "Analysis of 50+ requests for my "Offer HN" conversion rate optimization help"

deathbob — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:59:36 +0000

The website seems to be down, anybody got a cached copy?

New comment by deathbob in "Firesheep usage leads to Idiocy"

deathbob — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:18:20 +0000

Yeah how do you use this? I see pcap here http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pcap/1.1 but can't seem to install it.

master>pip install pcap Downloading/unpacking pcap Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pcap No distributions at all found for pcap Storing complete log in /Users/bob/.pip/pip.log

New comment by deathbob in "Firesheep usage leads to Idiocy"

deathbob — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:34:49 +0000

master>python idiocy.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "idiocy.py", line 2, in import getopt, sys, pcap, dpkt, re, httplib, urllib ImportError: No module named pcap

Is there a python equivalent to RubyGems ?

New comment by deathbob in "Ask HN: Summer Reading Recommendations?"

deathbob — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:49:49 +0000

I think "Lamb" is my favorite Christopher Moore book.

New comment by deathbob in "Ask HN: Who is Hiring?"

deathbob — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:14:00 +0000

Richmond, VA INMUnited is hiring. We do Ruby on Rails and iPhone development mainly, and are looking for a senior developer with experience delivering large projects, although we'd love to hear from any devs who read Hacker News :D

I'm Bob, you can contact me at the email address in my profile.

A celebration of _Why, for whyday.

deathbob — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:59:51 +0000

A little bloopsaphone script I did on the train back from RailsConf after hearing the announcement of whyday.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1430408

Points: 1

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New comment by deathbob in "Demo a week, week 1: Waveride"

deathbob — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:18:26 +0000

Yeah please get it on youtube. I don't even know how to begin watching what is available on your site and pouet ;)

New comment by deathbob in "Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?"

deathbob — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:57:16 +0000

INM United in Richmond, VA needs Ruby on Rails || iPhone developers. blarrick@inmunited.com if you're interested. Mention HN in subject please.

New comment by deathbob in "Ask HN: review My 120k flex app done in one month"

deathbob — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:04:53 +0000

It works for me, pretty cool. Suggest you find some way to let one person be the photographer and the other the subject. Let the person with the webcam just sit there and the other person click when to take the picture and add effects. Maybe add basic paint functionality so they can add horns / moustache. Then share. Have to make it web 2.0 after all ;-)

New comment by deathbob in "Ask HN: How should I go about learning CS?"

deathbob — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:33:31 +0000

I also have a history (and now CS) degree. If you want to get into programming, do some programming. Don't worry about what language or what project, just grab something and do something.

That said, I found http://www.processing.org/ to be very useful in my transition. Nothing like a little visual feedback to keep the motivation high :) Clean syntax, great documentation, active community. Fantastic starter language, a great way to dip your toe in the pool and see if you really want to do programming before you buy a bunch of expensive books. Attempting to use one of the more masochistic languages (c/c++/java) can break your spirit before you even get going.

I expect you'll pick up discrete math pretty easy, and a lot of the analytic skills you developed in history actually will translate pretty well to CS.

I wish I had more time to reply but I have to run, final 2 tips, install linux and write a compiler. Have fun and good luck!

New comment by deathbob in "Ask HN: Which job to take?"

deathbob — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:35:07 +0000

No, I asked. I told them my experience was mainly with Linux and C++, and asked what sort of environment I would be working in for them, and they said most of the projects are on windows and use java. :(