neilbowers
Joined 15 years ago
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361
Submissions
42
Member since
Feb 24
Recent submissions
Comment · 1 year ago
Beau Miles, a most entertaining Aussie YouTuber, is running a project where all ad revenue from this video will be used to buy tree saplings, which he'll plant.
Comment · 10 years ago
That picture wasn't what I was expecting, which was more like this: http://i.imgur.com/Lx6OiIb.png
solid arrows show chronology, the colors highlight compatibility, dashed arrows are backporting.
Comment · 11 years ago
Simple Perl interface to this API is now on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::Prismatic::InterestGrap...
Comment · 12 years ago
No, it's not. Several people have signed up saying "I don't know Perl, but this seems like a good opportunity to start learning it".
Comment · 12 years ago
Let me check if it's on github ...
Comment · 12 years ago
I gave up reading before I got to what it was he did to improve the development rate - TL;DR anyone? :-)
Comment · 13 years ago
One of the few titles on my list of books that I tell people not to read (http://neilbowers.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/book-review-atlas...)
Comment · 13 years ago
$5 isn't a small monthly fee, for a newsreader.
Comment · 13 years ago
* might be an idea to have a feedback link (why I'm posting this here)
* scrolling becomes tedious very quickly. Needs a better overview mechanism. Eg only show the first N lines of a story unless I'm interested.
* Without some notion of how you're going to define relevance, I quickly became way of disliking something.
* You could have a way to like/dislike the author, as well as the post. Ie a way to say "I always/never want to read stuff written by this person".