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New comment by jefarmstrong in "23words.com"

jefarmstrong — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:59:09 +0000

Thanks, I'll make those changes

New comment by jefarmstrong in "23words.com"

jefarmstrong — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:36:03 +0000

Ok, I'll be shameless and throw my mine in: https://summit-puzzle.me

New comment by jefarmstrong in "Development story of puzzl"

jefarmstrong — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 20:11:07 +0000

I just wrote a blog post about using A* to solve puzzles in my game: Mondrian. http://jefarmstrong.com/posts/building-mondrian2-astar/ I think you might find it interesting.

New comment by jefarmstrong in "We hear you: Better commenting coming to YouTube"

jefarmstrong — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:48:25 +0000

Hey everyone, I'm also a co-founder of CueNotes. Try installing the chrome extension we built and then watch this Limp Bizkit video with comments by Fred Durst: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx9n-1ginEc

Wood Planing Competition Winner 2012 - 9 microns

jefarmstrong — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 03:40:53 +0000

Article URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Ad6tBdLbM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186170

Points: 1

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A science game for kids

jefarmstrong — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:19:38 +0000

Article URL: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2047751323/tornado-master-real-science-real-learning

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5030296

Points: 8

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New comment by jefarmstrong in "Wattvision: The Smart Energy Sensor"

jefarmstrong — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:13:42 +0000

These guys are in my backyard and are featured in a great documentary on sustainability which focuses on the Sourland mountains in NJ (http://www.sourlands.com/).

HN: Please check out my brothers new SciFi book: YARN

jefarmstrong — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:23:13 +0000

Article URL: http://www.jonarmstrong.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005584

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jefarmstrong in "How I'm Bootstrapping a Startup While Raising Three Kids"

jefarmstrong — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:39:57 +0000

You should subscribe to his podcast - http://techzinglive.com

It's a really fun tech podcast that is always one of the first things I listen to when a new one comes out. Just check out the list of recent interviews: Gabriel Weinberg, Derek Sivers, Jessica Mah, Patrick McKenzie, and more.

New comment by jefarmstrong in "DHH: Being at the right time at the right place is not the secret ingredient."

jefarmstrong — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:26:53 +0000

What he's trying to say, I think, is that you can only benefit from "being at the right place at the right time" if you have put in the effort to be ready to capitalize on that moment. If you put in the hard work, then there are many right moments and right places, otherwise they're just another moment that passes you by. DHH seems to be very angry lately, no?

New comment by jefarmstrong in "Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?"

jefarmstrong — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:29:54 +0000

One factor that I think the post gets wrong is that it's hard to make a bomb. The NYC "bomb" that just fizzled is a good example. From the limited descriptions it sounds like that thing would never have blown up. Catch fire and burn, maybe. You can't just throw some propane tanks, a couple of fireworks and gas together and expect it to blow up. The Oklahoma bomb was a huge undertaking. Also, the more time and effort you put into building a real bomb, the more likely you are to get caught - buying lots of (the right kind of) fertilizer is a telltale sign.

New comment by jefarmstrong in "Microsoft attributes $80-$100 million dollars in revenue to a shade of blue"

jefarmstrong — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:14:11 +0000

Yes, I was being sarcastic. :-)

New comment by jefarmstrong in "Microsoft attributes $80-$100 million dollars in revenue to a shade of blue"

jefarmstrong — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:09:28 +0000

So the article says that #0044CC is the $80 million color. But if you check bing.com they're using #0033CC. So what's up? Maybe it's a trick to get everyone to switch to the obviously inferior #0044CC color while bing laughs all the way to the bank with the real killer color!!

Bing - #0033CC Google - #2200CC DuckDuckGo - #3068DD Facebook - #3B5998 (what where THEY thinking? ;-)

New comment by jefarmstrong in "Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby"

jefarmstrong — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:17:33 +0000

It really still depends on your use case. At my day job I advocated switching from SVN to HG and the change has been great - now we "branch" and merge constantly and it really helped our processes. On my iPhone game at home I still use SVN with beanstalk.com and it works great.

New comment by jefarmstrong in "Penguin's Incredible Vision of Books on the iPad"

jefarmstrong — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:55:27 +0000

Very nice vision by Penguin. I can see the iPad being used by little kids all the way up to college students. I wonder how many colleges will give every incoming student an iPad?