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rrrrob··on Generating Word Search Puzzles
Neat! This sort of thing also is a really nice project for playing around with logic programming languages.

One missing feature is enforcing a unique solution, which is something you'd generally expect from a word search puzzle.

rrrrob··on I tried three apps that claim to make you more likable
Perhaps the question was whether the article on fusion.net itself is a paid placement. It certainly reads like it.
rrrrob··on Did Thomas Pynchon Publish a Novel Under the Pseudonym Adrian Jones Pearson?
Try reading the first few pages: http://www.amazon.com/Cow-Country-Adrian-Jones-Pearson-ebook...

This reads nothing like Pynchon.

I agree that the author of the article managed to convey a different impression quite successfully.

rrrrob··on Show HN: How I know what my neighbors uploaded on YouTube
Editing the URL to 1km works.
rrrrob··on RedditStorage
I'd love to exploit ad networks user profiles for this. I.e., store some bits as "interests", by running a few appropriate google searches or hitting a few web sites, read the bits by seeing what ads you're served. This would probably require a bit of learning and a redundant encoding to make it work, but...
rrrrob··on EU dropped plans for safer pesticides because of TTIP and pressure from US
But this would surely open the governments up for lawsuits in the TTIP courts...
rrrrob··on Wait, Google Sent Me
Oh my, that's a terrible site. So I have to watch a full page video to find out what I might want to install?
rrrrob··on Everyday hassles in Go
Fast compile times, for one.
rrrrob··on Even Tetris is hard to test
For example, 100% coverage won't help with the classic Windows Tetris bug where the score overflows at 32768.
rrrrob··on What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
Surprised no-one linked to sportsscientists.com: http://sportsscientists.com/2010/08/the-sub-2-hour-marathon-...

A line of thought that's particularly interesting there is that a 2h marathon has implications for 10000m and half marathon speeds, which make it seem quite a bit further off.