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New comment by inghoff in "Is there evidence that drugs can help programmers produce “better” code?"

inghoff — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:44:31 +0000

It just seems to me like relevant, interesting questions get closed all the time because just because. It's getting pretty annoying from the StackExchange network.

New comment by inghoff in "Naming Things with Hashes"

inghoff — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:56:36 +0000

For human-friendly URIs, I would've liked to see Doug Crockford's Base32 encoding (http://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html) instead of hexadecimal. Case-insensitive, but still more compact than hex.

New comment by inghoff in "Use Jekyll To Keep Your Blog From Folding Under Traffic"

inghoff — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:53:17 +0000

I've grown more and more into thinking having a database is maybe overkill for only a blog. I do use Octopress too and it really makes you think "do you really need a DB for that?"

If you compile your posts into HTML, use Javascript for more dynamic content (like comments by Disqus or a Twitter feed, for example), HTML files take almost no resources to serve, so you can handle a huge load without many resources.

New comment by inghoff in "Chrome Killed UserScripts.org"

inghoff — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:38:20 +0000

Ironically, it sounds exactly like what Apple is doing with iOS/iPhone. "All our apps should come from the app store because we review them and blah" Considering Android's position of "you can install APKs, but at your risk," I find this bizarre. Is Google slowly becoming Apple?

How earphone remotes (with play/skip buttons) work on a single wire

inghoff — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 06:58:23 +0000

Article URL: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/41989/11724

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184060

Points: 76

# Comments: 17

Protected article titles on Wikipedia

inghoff — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:47:40 +0000

Article URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ProtectedTitles&limit=500

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3969222

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by inghoff in "JQuery knobs"

inghoff — Wed, 09 May 2012 23:49:09 +0000

For quantities, yes, but for ratios, I'd prefer pie charts and knobs.

"75%/25% odds" would be nicer on a knob display, for instance.

New comment by inghoff in "Caller ID Made Simple"

inghoff — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:18:35 +0000

I just tried it for some numbers around Montreal. Apart from the delayed results issue, it works.

New comment by inghoff in "The Anorexic Startup: A Tale of Sex, Drugs, and C++"

inghoff — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:39:37 +0000

Double-spaced Word documents... can't stand those

New comment by inghoff in "There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format."

inghoff — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:03:58 +0000

ahem 192 kHz. We're talking sampling frequency, not bitrate.

New comment by inghoff in "Mercedes uses LEDs and a Camera to make "invisible car" for marketing"

inghoff — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:26:20 +0000

What's the song?

New comment by inghoff in "Why You Don't Need Venture Capital"

inghoff — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:38:34 +0000

Sooo... entrepreneurs should just make money appear?