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tropicalmug | 8 years ago | on: How Logos are Remembered

Think it's funny that the person who drew the Pizza Hut logo for Domino's is considered more accurate than the person who drew a domino.

tropicalmug | 9 years ago | on: Who Will Command the Robot Armies?

"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork."

Seldom Smith, from The Monkey-Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.

tropicalmug | 9 years ago | on: Lon.gs: A URL shortener in C

There are other needs for a shortened URL. Perhaps you have to hardcode a link in code and don't want to be tied to a page whose contents may break. If you control your URL shortener, you can hardcode your shortened one, and update the redirect as needed.

tropicalmug | 11 years ago | on: HTTP/2 Is Done

I wish instead of a protocol improvement that focused solely on network resources, the next version will also include improvements for users such as encryption by default and doing away with cookies.

tropicalmug | 12 years ago | on: Sublime Text 3 Build 3059

Open your user key-bindings (in OSX this is Sublime Text -> Preferences -> Key Bindings - User), and put

  [
    { "keys": ["ctrl+tab"], "command": "next_view" },
    { "keys": ["ctrl+shift+tab"], "command": "prev_view" }
  ]

tropicalmug | 12 years ago | on: Google Account Recovery Vulnerability

11 days? Two weeks? A month? Never?

Not every company values this sort of feedback from their users. Some go out of their way to prosecute those that break their services this way.

tropicalmug | 12 years ago | on: Bloom Filters by example

Another great Bloom Filter library not mentioned in this article is Bitly's implementation on GitHub[0]. It has the best of both worlds: a C implementation and higher-level wrappers (Golang, PHP, Python, and Common Lisp). If you don't want to play around with a fancier DBMS and really just want the damn filters, I would look here.

[0] https://github.com/bitly/dablooms

tropicalmug | 12 years ago | on: Loom (YC W12) Launching Cloud Storage for Photos and Videos

I'd love to be able to add the same photo to more than one album. This seems like the sort of thing that's a natural advantage of digital photos over regular ones.

Let's say I was taking pictures of friends at a baseball game, along with a couple of other shots of the surroundings. I want to put the pictures of friends in "friends" album, but I also want to put those same pictures in the overarching "baseball" album, or the album for that particular game. It seems as though you have nested albums, which is nice, but this would be a good usecase to look into.

Also, while I was playing around, I created an album that I wanted to get rid of. I deleted the album and it took all of the pictures in it out of my timeline. I probably should have figured that the albums act more as folders than tags when I discovered that pictures were assigned to a single album, but I can't figure out how to reupload those pictures. Any help?

Congratulations on the launch!

tropicalmug | 12 years ago | on: Impressions of Go

I am one of those programmers: I have no real idea how a compiler goes about its business, my university does not offer an accessible compiler class (only for grad students and very irregularly), and I have no idea where to start besides trying to force my way through the purple dragon book.

What are things I should know about compilers that I probably don't? What is suggested reading on compilers?

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