alcoholiday | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?
alcoholiday | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Sshync – Auto-sync files over SSH
And fewer features.
(but a cool little project none the less!)
alcoholiday | 11 years ago | on: Gambit in Emacs in the browser
So wrong, yet so right. I would hire this guy.
(working swell in Chrome)
alcoholiday | 15 years ago | on: Remind HN: STS-134, Space Shuttle Endevour's last launch is at 8:56AM ET
We've been working on a project to capture the last flights of the Space Shuttle Program. It's meant a lot of time out with the bugs, heat, sun, gators and ever present pad security folks.
Once the sound hits, the maniacal laughter you hear is me!
Now we wait a couple of hours to see how our cameras faired. We're at the media center 3.2 miles from the Orbiter, our cameras are at 500-600 feet... I feel for them.
alcoholiday | 15 years ago | on: Poll: How old were you when you started programming?
My language path looked something like: Paper Assembler (hand assembled, hand executed), Basic. APL (on an IBM-5100 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100) National Semiconductor SC/MP Machine Code (hand assembled, and entered on hex keypad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Semiconductor_SC/MP), C, C++ (dark days indeed), Scheme (ahh... that's better!), Javascript (hey... not unlike Scheme), Powerpoint (became an "executive"), Perl, Python, Groovy (surprisingly awesome, been meaning to write a "Groovy is an acceptable Lisp" post)
Never done anything meaningful in Java (all the ugly of C++!), Ruby (just haven't had a reason) nor Haskell (but think it's kind of pretty)
Scheme is still my favorite by far since I find it the most beautiful and powerful.
alcoholiday | 15 years ago | on: Ymacs -- An Emacs-like editor for the Web
I cracked myself up when trying C-M-q using the Command (clover) key on my mac, which of course was seen as CMD-Q by the browser, which for you non OS X folks means QUIT.
