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inmon Maslow 4: Large format CNC routing made accessible

Have had the parts for one of these sat in a box for a good few years now, but unfortunately have never managed to make room to build a frame.

Discovered the Lowrider 3d printed CNC a couple of months back which better fit the bill for me to be able to store (printing gantry on a shelf, bed suspended from the ceiling!) so hoping soon that'll enable some of the projects I had in mind for the Maslow.

inmon Moonshine – A lightweight Lua VM for the browser

A presentation given at the London Lua Group about it's development: https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/3820-developing-a-lua-v...

inmon The difference between a programmer & a hacker

I feel you there. For the best part of the last five years I've been commuting 3-4 hours on top of a typical 8 hour working day.

I guess it depends on your situation. I was fortunate enough to spend most of that on the train and typically able to get a seat so usually able to code, and always at the very least read, so I managed to make use of this time.

Other than that, I've put plenty of weekends into my projects too.

As Steve said, if you're passionate enough about it you'll find a way.

inmon There's no such thing as a free launch

Artistic license. I took a few minutes out in between the ceremony and reception to push a few changes to staging and have a quick chat with Steve because they were playing on my mind.

inmon There's no such thing as a free launch

I think the solutions we have in development will address the issues at hand here and are along the lines of what you suggest, better categorisation of postings essentially. The main thing that's making this a laborious process is trying to get the UX right (the posting process, discoverability for candidates).

The site is largely still in an MVP sort of state and we're trying to start off giving the message of 'being different' by way of our own presence and interactions with people. We release early and often (though it's been a busy couple of weeks since launch so we've not been able to do as much as we'd like) but not all the things on our roadmap are suitable for that. Some things, like this, we see as deserving more time to get right before rolling out.

inmon There's no such thing as a free launch

Jon, Steve's co-founder here and the development side of things.

Always interested in hearing any feedback, good or bad, so have at it!

inmon Hacker Jobs is live and we want your feedback

To follow up on this and what Steve's mentioned elsehwere, the locaation stuff is a prime example of the kind of thing we have in mind for future developments where we feel other sites lack.

Right now though this is just a minimal feature set. At midnight last night when I looked at 'add filtering to the search options' on my todo list I decided that with only a handful of jobs on launch day, this can wait. I guarantee though there will be better search filtering by the time the number of jobs has grown enough to warrant that.

inmon Personal Surveillance Drones are here.

There's a bunch more here from trappy.

http://vimeo.com/trappy

inmon OS X 10.6.5 update breaks PGP WDE preboot authentication

Unfortunately this email arrived in my inbox 24 hours to late.

Hope others are more fortunate.

inmon Announcing StartupMonth.org (our November "Startup Sprint" project)

And to add to what Matt's said, if you're meaning more than one to a team - we don't have the interface setup but we can assign more than one to a team manually, so post in the forum if that's what you're after and I can 'hook you up', as it were.

inmon Announcing StartupMonth.org (our November "Startup Sprint" project)

Yes, I think I even said 'you register your app later if needed' so I must have intended to add that link but forgotten.

I'll add when I get second, thanks for the feedback.

inmon Announcing StartupMonth.org (our November "Startup Sprint" project)

It should've been part of the sigup process - did that not go smoothly?

Either way, browse to http://startupmonth.org/apps/new you can add it outside of signup.

Will make a note to have that somewhere as a backup....

inmon Ask HN: Developing a recurring payments system, what do I need to consider?

I enquired the other day about Rails 3 support - he's working on it and expects to release it in the next few weeks.

inmon HN-Books

I originally posted that I thought books were exempt from charges, but then saw someone right below had already said (and with more certainty than me!).

Sorry, probably should have either left it there or deleted it entirely.

inmon HN-Books

One other reason to be make sure you cover locales properly, from the developer's point of view, is that you need separate Associates accounts for the different locales.

If you refer someone to the UK store then they eventually end up on the US store to buy then you won't get the sale (afaik).

inmon HN-Books

Removed (redundant).

Saw just after posting that a good few other people already offered the same information.

inmon Tell HN: hntrades.com

maintaining systematic password diversity is a high-cognitive task which imposes a barrier of entry to your app that's simply not worth it for me

You should really give 1Password a try.

inmon Automatically Compressing Your Amazon S3 Images Using Yahoo’s Smush.it Service

http://github.com/grosser/smusher

There's a bunch of others on Github but this is the only one I've personally used.