coconutrandom

1,250 karma · joined September 3, 2008

coconutrandomon Instead of eating lunch out every day, buy 4 iPads

Well we wouldn't want to be seen as wasteful would we?

coconutrandomon A C Heisenbug in the wild

Woah... so this is coercing it to a string and the address in hex is being compared. Am I off on this?

coconutrandomon Large German lobby organization supports ban on Bitcoins

I agree. But that seems a bit too intuitive for tax laws anywhere haha

coconutrandomon Large German lobby organization supports ban on Bitcoins

Where a thousand units won't move the market?

coconutrandomon Large German lobby organization supports ban on Bitcoins

Would taxes be paid on generated bitcoins? or just transactions?

coconutrandomon Large German lobby organization supports ban on Bitcoins

If it gets to the point you can do a significant number of transactions in bitcoin, it should hopefully be to a stable exchange rate.

coconutrandomon Higher-Dimensional Type Theory

For a second I was imagining Helvetica in 4D+

coconutrandomon Pelican - A simple weblog generator written in Python

Hyde doesn't actually use django despite what the homepage says.

coconutrandomon ClearCoin safer bitcoin transactions

So this give the option of chargebacks? This seems to be much less safe for merchants.

coconutrandomon Loud. Arrogant. Rebellious. Asian.

Meh, after reading the article this seems OT.

coconutrandomon Loud. Arrogant. Rebellious. Asian.

It's more than just the plumbing. Emotionally/hormonally women are different. Everyone should be treated _fairly_ but not interchangeably.

After a deep (albeit brief) introspection, I am quite happy to pull out chairs, open doors, offer an arm on the stairs, and date women.

[note the submitted link seems to be down I have yet to read the article]

coconutrandomon Why no looting in Japan?

Not a disaster quite, but in Houston everyone evacuated from the hurricane and no one I knew reported any looting happening.

coconutrandomon Download Our Latest Free Report: Engaging Online Communities

Is something wrong with plain pdfs? I cannot even view the slides without giving up info.

coconutrandomon What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.

I'm just happy they still love me unconditionally even though they don't get half of my jokes and of most of what I say during the day.

coconutrandomon Scientists propose one-way trips to Mars

Or colonize it like Australia was.

coconutrandomon World's largest association of pilots boycotts body scanners

I'm pretty sure that argument should be reserved for possible war crimes and not frisking people.

coconutrandomon Why Diaspora will fail

Ugh, this post is irritating. Did you fund Disporia? No? then why do you care about its success? or its funding? or the buzzwords? or whatever?

Let them try before condemning them to failure.

"By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you... just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?"

coconutrandomon Relativity gives gold its color

Thanks for the relatively (lol) concise response. But really, thanks.

coconutrandomon 5" Android Tablet $155

it'd be cool if you could keep the keyboard physically attached, maybe with a hinge mechanism of sorts.

coconutrandomon Timelapse Photography with your spare Ubuntu Box and Digital Camera

er... you'd leave your laptop unattended? but not a camera?

coconutrandomon Vagrant: A tool for building and distributing virtual development environments

This is so useful!!! I've been doing this manually for a select number of important projects. However, I'm not a Rails dev.

What would it take to work with [language/framework]?

I've skimmed over the docs and here [http://vagrantup.com/docs/getting-started/setup.html] it seems like instead of

  rails init

I could run

  django-admin startproject

coconutrandomon PiCloud : Cloud Computing. Simplified.

yay for the index! lol. (ahh i shouldn't post this)

http://docs.python.org/genindex-all.html

coconutrandomon PiCloud : Cloud Computing. Simplified.

how's that namespace working out for you?

coconutrandomon Tools to Help You Focus and Increase Productivity

and my favorite although ultimately ineffective

   /etc/hosts
   127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com ycombinator.com

coconutrandomon Minimalist Steps Towards Passive Income

  Let me absolutely clear: you can’t take this path if you’re lazy.

coconutrandomon Secrets of octopus intelligence

from the comment:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/01/the-secrets-of-octop.ht...

  "Turns out, on a scale of one to chimpanzee, octopuses are 
  probably somewhere close to matching wits with a dog"
  Interesting numbering system -- is one the only digit?

coconutrandomon Make something and sell it

2dBoy was more of an example of smart game developers changing with the times and gating paid. And for a while it was free (as in beer) if a customer wanted.

The reason I doubt it means opensource because that's the equivalent to musicians handing over their source files.

Ultimately those who can adapt, will adapt. And they will inspire others.

coconutrandomon Make something and sell it

Who said anything about opensource? The issue at hand is closed source and profit.

And check out 2dBoy.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/10/20/world-of-goo-sale...

coconutrandomon The social behavior incentive: how your app can be as addictive as Facebook

antisocial in a social network, yes. But then again we're not the target demographics of such apps.

coconutrandomon Djata: A Django REST Data API App

someone is carrying the torch

http://code.google.com/p/django-rest/