ekoontz's comments

ekoontz | 2 years ago | on: Prolog language for PostgreSQL proof of concept

I did some something like this a while ago:

ekoontz | 3 years ago | on: Three Men Discuss Relativity (1926)

Nice to use the same idea as Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Ch...

ekoontz | 4 years ago | on: A word used only by Postgres developers

I think in the some cases like people mentioned above, it's no longer collaboration but more of a consultation. The benefit is only going in one direction: to the consultantee. In that case, you need some way to make the nature of that relationship explicit and valued. Otherwise these consultants begin to feel they're being put in a position of working for someone else without management recognizing that and compensating it as such.

ekoontz | 6 years ago | on: Landlord service Naborly makes blacklist of tenants who missed 4/1 rent (YC '18)

Did any of these legal (not to mention ethical) questions come up when they applied for YC?

ekoontz | 8 years ago | on: FCC Takes Stronger Aim at Robocalls

I pay $6/year for:

http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/

I actually get excited when I get telemarketers because the robot sometimes fools them enough to keep them on the line for a few minutes. The longer the conversation, the more irritated the telemarketers get, and that's quite satisfying. Here's some sample calls:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3OxCWLEmoIhNMm-hnvBm9Q

ekoontz | 9 years ago | on: 'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience

Hm, perhaps counting number of bits set to 1 in a multi-byte array?

ekoontz | 9 years ago | on: Robocalls have triumphed over the Do Not Call list

I agree - I pay $2/month to Jolly Roger and since then my robocalls have dropped to nothing. I actually miss getting them because it's so fun to hear Jolly Roger frustrate them.

ekoontz | 10 years ago | on: Complete tree of life visualization using d3 and Catalog of Life

Very nice.. Found my own species in a few click!

ekoontz | 11 years ago | on: A Traditional City Primer

I disagree - it is very much worth reading. Even without a single word the pictures make a powerful statement. It presents a typology of built environments and makes the important point that human-scaled, walkable environments are found throughout the world and share some important advantages that the recent places we've built do not.

ekoontz | 11 years ago | on: Libertarians/conservatives launch hackathon

Fair enough. What about the plantation land? Fair game for redistribution to the slaves, or would that be a violation of the plantation owners' property rights?

ekoontz | 11 years ago | on: Libertarians/conservatives launch hackathon

Lincoln seems like an odd choice for a libertarian role model. He suspended habeas corpus and expropriated the Southerners' private property (their slaves, plantations, etc). If he hadn't been assasinated, all of that plantation land would have likely have been divied up among the former slaves. Spreading the wealth, the horror!

ekoontz | 12 years ago | on: What 3 Words - A Standardized, Accurate Address System (Anywhere in three words)

I was born in shower brass field. Sure, it's not as well known as kicks pasta steer, but it was a great place to be born.

ekoontz | 13 years ago | on: Reference Check Job Candidates

"a good reference (where the candidate doesn't work out) gets you sued by the company"

Really? Has this ever happened with the plaintiff ending up winning in court?

ekoontz | 13 years ago | on: We are 2 Italians, in Treasure Island, and we are launching CoffeeStrap.

The "red mafia"? Who or what is this?

ekoontz | 13 years ago | on: DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform

I used Apache Fop (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/) to convert XML to PDF at a previous job. It was extremely painstaking work. On the other hand, it gives you a lot of fine-grained control over the appearance of your PDF.

ekoontz | 13 years ago | on: How Tracking Down My Stolen Computer Triggered a Drug Bust

Thanks for the introduction to Prey. Just installed it!

ekoontz | 13 years ago | on: Twitter crashes itself with commas

Not sure if this is related, but starting yesterday, I've had to switch from Firefox to Chrome for twitter - Firefox uses all my RAM and beachballs.

ekoontz | 14 years ago | on: BYOD is unstoppable. Smart companies must build apps

"The value proposition of the API proxy increases dramatically if it is able to map between the security protocol of choice in the mobile world, OAuth, and the existing security infrastructure in the enterprise."

The problem is that OAuth is only Authorization - you still need Authentication. It seems to me you'd want to use SASL with mobile devices so that your mobile clients can connect to your enterprise's Kerberos or Active Directory Server. Haven't tried this, but maybe this would be a good start for Android devices: https://github.com/koterpillar/android-sasl

(seen here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3327615/is-there-sasl-imp...)

ekoontz | 14 years ago | on: Play Framework 2.0 Final released

Some interesting criticism of Play here - seems similar to what's been said about the lack of unit tests.

http://whilefalse.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-im-moving-away-fr...

ekoontz | 14 years ago | on: City Layout Design: A programmer's perspective

Thanks, interesting site!