mtimjones

Twitter has been systematically silencing voices on the right that apparently someone in their org disagrees with. Twitter is a political machine, and you'll see it used more and more in this way...

A civil war is likely the only thing that will turn the U.S. back towards the great country that it once was.

The Obama administration is the most open and transparent administration in history. Not.

Does anyone remember the unemployment rate dropping just before the 2012 Presidential election (and then rising again immediately afterwards)? These numbers can't be trusted, and are nothing more than a tool for party control of government.

Or this one.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430875/Barack-Obama...

Why not talk about Obama's war in Afghanistan, or increasing tensions with Russia, or abuse of spying? Way more relevant than a 12 year old letter...

I'm engaged in monthly projects, of which Piglet was the second of this year. I'm a big fan of Apache Pig, and wondered what a "small-data" version of Apache Pig would look like in code (though it's not a complete version of Pig).

This was implemented very quickly and is not ideal in some cases (RPN for expressions, for example). It's heavily assert-ridden to help in debugging and is not for the faint of heart. But you can see numerous examples to illustrate how it's used.

I'm curious what people think?

Thanks,

Tim.

What does this have to do with the "cloud?" Does it really mean "Internet?" The cloud is about scalable resources that can be elastically leased for short or long periods of time. That's different than the Internet, which is a means of communication...

I'm working on a side-project per month. I start each month with a couple of days of identifying which project to undertake, a couple of additional days to work out features that I'd like to see and the spend the rest of the time building it (while working a full-time job, part-time writing, etc.).

My first project, to start with something light, was a text-based game that crossed a Unix shell with an RPG (called RPGFS). You can find source and discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7198147

My February project is a simple data processing scripting language called Piglet inspired by Apache Pig.

Thanks -- and good point. From an RPG perspective, the (virtual) filesystem was the environment to explore, with non-directory files being the objects and enemies that you'll encounter. Shell commands are the actions over those directories and objects. I had fun with it, but it may not be fun for everyone...

I should have thought of that. Much of the work to build this (which honestly was a few days spread over a month) was building the list management for subdirectories and files...

As my January personal code project, I created an experimental game that considered what would happen if you crossed an RPG with a UNIX filesystem. The result is RPGFS.

You have some simple commands available (ls, cd, pwd, rm) and you fight "bugs" in the filsystem using the rm command (everything is a file). You also consume "items" with rm. The goal is to descend the filesystem to find a special file to unlock another command to destroy the filesystem.

This was written as part of a monthly project I'm undertaking in 2014, and represented a small amount of work (hack). It's written in C for Linux, and you can grab it at the URL if interested.

Typical argument. Obama knows nothing if there's any possibility that it could harm him. How many times will they use this argument.

Ultimately, he's commander in chief, and if we use the same approach as applied against Bush, then Obama is responsible.

Thanks for the detailed response. Good stuff.

Why would they? From their perspective, you're a risk, a leak, and a time-sink.