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garycomtois | 5 months ago | on: Listers: A Glimpse into Extreme Birdwatching

For mature audiences, for nature audiences

garycomtois | 2 years ago | on: How do you make an addictive video game?

"This episode will change how you look at games. We talk to Ben Brode, the designer behind Hearthstone and Marvel Snap, about how a creative person learns to make the things they love, and about the secret ideas hiding in games as simple as rock-papers-scissors."

garycomtois | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is my landing page improved?

Getting an error: "The e-mail could not be sent."

garycomtois | 4 years ago | on: I want visually distinct colors!

Funny, I had just made a 20-color palette using mokole.com. Also notice you can choose to include black or white, so you might get something similar to the result by Sasha Trubetskoy.

garycomtois | 5 years ago | on: A coat check ticket, a magic spell

It's the same object, but by a different author. That can have some importance, if limited. A Van Gogh or a fancy hand bag not made by Van Gogh or the fancy hand bag maker might be valuable, but carries a flag that says this is not authentic.

garycomtois | 5 years ago | on: 'Exercised' Explains Why It Can Be Hard to Commit to Working Out

> 1. Absolutely no soft drinks at all... Same here! For the past 10 years I have only had a Coke maybe 3 times and each time was immediately following a long run (say after a 2.5 hour+ effort).

> 3. DO NOT treat exercise as a priority... I really like this philosophy. It's more or less how I've come to treat exercise, but phrasing in this way helps to justify and find reason for the habitual act. ("You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.") Cheers to continued health!

garycomtois | 6 years ago | on: Chrome Update Impacts Some macOS Systems

From the Google employee who posted this: "If your computer is on OS X 10.11 or later and you haven’t taken steps to disable SIP, this issue cannot affect you."

To find out if your machine has SIP enabled: csrutil status

garycomtois | 6 years ago | on: Langton's Ant

I came across while reading The Science of Discworld (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Discworld), in the chapter "Where do Rules Come From?" Learning more about the Ant was a fun little side quest.

garycomtois | 10 years ago | on: Academic questioned by American Airlines officials for doing math on plane

I've felt self-conscious writing code on a plane... However no one ever noticed or cared or I guess I looked 'safe.'

garycomtois | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Help us find a conference for mathematics and art in the US?

Good suggestion, thanks. I'm also going to look for a local opportunities to exhibit.

garycomtois | 10 years ago | on: Project Euler has been hacked

Checking answers is possible though.

garycomtois | 10 years ago | on: Types

2+2 returning DONE is my personal favorite.

garycomtois | 10 years ago | on: Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software (2012)

The tiddlylisp implementation is interesting. Seeing a Lisp compiler in my usual language (Python) is helpful. If nothing else, I'm really glad I read the article since I'm giving Lisp another try (via Land of Lisp, http://landoflisp.com/) after a 9 month hiatus.

garycomtois | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: My Desk Chair

Nice chair, but what's with the modified roomba?

garycomtois | 12 years ago | on: How to know when someone is in trouble in the water

The link was for the mobile slate site. This is the non-mobile version:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/family/2013...