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right2roam | 11 years ago | on: A girl who gets gifts from birds

I had a gift this morning, from a pigeon, onto my shoulder whilst waiting for the train to pull into the platform for work.

Supposed to be lucky - not sure for me or the pigeon though!

right2roam | 11 years ago | on: “We assumed every user had an IQ greater than 42”

Ah this takes me back. Many years ago, contributed to a few Ruby libraries, life was good. Then Rails hit their first RC post 0.13, and a new set of self-important developers rocked up, demanding all of your attention to add their demanded features, to receive their abuse as to why something worked as documented, and not how they thought it should.

There is a cadre of developers, and I use the word lightly, who Willl rock up and suck the fun out of your open source projects. Beware of them!

right2roam | 11 years ago | on: Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures

Looks good. Quick note - tried to view the module index; http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/py-mo...

But it is returning an error at the moment!

right2roam | 11 years ago | on: Privatised London: the Thames Path walk that resembles a prison corridor

I appreciate a few obnoxious folk might appear from time to time, as they do in all public places, but I think it is good they published this, and hopefully it will encourage more folk to do the riverside walks and explore London beyond the usual tourist, consumer and work zones. On a separate note - if any Guardian devs are reading HN these days - what happened to your site? Drowning in JS incontinence, so much so that instead of responsive design, you now have non-responsive design. KISS is not just a band, but a way to think about design and software engineering!