robmil | 1 year ago | on: Corcel – Use WordPress backend with Laravel or any PHP application
I wrote one years ago, but I suspect the schema has drifted quite far out of sync: https://github.com/robmiller/ruby-wpdb
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robmil | 10 years ago | on: The History of the Hedgehog
Rory Stewart, the speaker here, is a slightly unconventional politician, having in 2002 walked across Afghanistan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Stewart
robmil | 11 years ago | on: Stop using tail -f (mostly)
Vim ships with a command called `view` that will start it in read-only mode, and makes it very much a viewer — not just an editor.
robmil | 11 years ago | on: Expect – Writing a Tcl Extension in Only Seven Years (1997)
…and Ruby has the PTY module which includes an `expect` method, which is in the same ballpark:
robmil | 12 years ago | on: Facebook’s F8 Agenda: Deep linking for mobile apps
mailto: is the same principle and has been around since the 90s.
robmil | 12 years ago | on: Replica Ferraris Raise Ire of Auto Maker
If you don't want to appear rich or a good robbery target, why buy a Ferrari in the first place? Plenty of other rich people somehow manage to get by without such extravagant displays of wealth.
robmil | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: now that Mavericks broke gmail support, what will you use?
I'm using MailMate[1], which is a brilliant client developed by the Danish coder Benny Kjaer Nielsen. It has too many neat features to name, but the one I absolutely couldn't live without is the ability to write emails in Markdown.
[1]: http://freron.com/
robmil | 12 years ago | on: How Did Snapchat Reach a Rumored $3.5B Valuation?
It's at such a fragile point, though. Monetising a previously entirely free service is risky at any time, but there's lots more risk than usual here (fickleness of audience, existence of competitors, fundamental simplicity of offering).
We've seen plenty of startups fail at this point before; is there anything to suggest Snapchat will beat the odds?
robmil | 12 years ago | on: Sustainable Micro Home that Costs Less Than $30,000
Isn't the problem that, while the house may cost $30,000, the land on which it would have to reside will inevitably cost far more than that?
robmil | 12 years ago | on: The Aha Moments That Made Y Combinator Possible
Did pg really invent backend web development?
robmil | 12 years ago | on: 58 percent of Americans favor legalizing marijuana
Mean, surely?
robmil | 12 years ago | on: Monkey Patching in Scala
Ruby is gradually adding the ability to monkey patch without polluting the global scope via Refinements:
robmil | 12 years ago | on: Myst Online: Uru Live Again
You don't need to take the brain-space — use a password manager like 1Password or LastPass, plus a YubiKey for two-factor auth, and you can use unique passwords everywhere.
robmil | 12 years ago | on: Be a nurse or P.A. instead of a doctor: the underrated perils of medical school
Such as doctors who are further on in their careers — it's actually rather a nice system, where those who have been lucky enough to be successful can help out those who need it, and all benefit.
robmil | 12 years ago | on: Europe and Japan Aiming to Build 100Gbps Fibre Optic Internet
Personal, with Hyperoptic. It's £60/month, but that includes a phone service.
robmil | 12 years ago | on: Youth Defence Site Hacked
Youth Defence are, in case anyone doesn't know and given that the defacement is now gone, a fairly unpleasant, far-right, anti-abortion group in Ireland:
http://www.conorfarrell.com/wordpress/social-issues/the-prob... http://www.politicalworld.org/showthread.php?14529-Youth-Def...
robmil | 12 years ago | on: Europe and Japan Aiming to Build 100Gbps Fibre Optic Internet
As a Londoner who recently got a 1Gbps up/down connection, I can't wait for this; the limiting factor in saturating my connection is now the rest of the 'net, rather than my own connection — which is actually oddly frustrating. Catch up already!
robmil | 12 years ago | on: Hosting git repositories on your VPS
There's also the issue of repository size; both BitBucket and GitHub have (entirely reasonable) fair use policies that seem to limit repos' sizes to 1GB or so. Yes, Git sucks with big files, but sometimes it's necessary to exceed this total size.
robmil | 12 years ago | on: Classical Sculptures Dressed as Hipsters
Yes indeed; it's particularly odd to see in the eyes, where the milky blankness we're used to seeing in marble statues actually used to have a painted iris and pupil on them.
It's hard to know whether it's just a bias from a life spent associating unpainted statues with high culture, but I much prefer them unpainted.
robmil | 12 years ago | on: 87 Months in Prison for Copyright Infringement: Fair Sentence or Utter Madness?
As ever, profiting (and in this case, presumably profiting wildly) from copyright infringement is usually enough to earn the ire of most decent people. "Information wants to be free" is one thing; profiting entirely parasitically from the work of others is another.
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