themullet

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The article has 1.5% per decade and that's over the past 2 decades, which could be accounted for by the measuring point, especially with an 11 year solar cycle.

Comment · 1 year ago

It's worth noting Neptune clouds are doing similar due to the suns 11 year solar cycle.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/neptunes-disappeari...

AI summary; "Yes, astronomers have observed that Neptune's prominent clouds have largely disappeared, and NASA scientists suggest this phenomenon is linked to the sun's 11-year solar cycle and its impact on Neptune's atmosphere"

Comment · 11 years ago

Point / function is it loads a website every x seconds. The obfuscation comes as it's utility, as it loads in an iframe in your browser you have the full pull of the site inc js etc, which if you wanted to could be used to semi obfuscate your surfing. i.e. creates a bigger haystack to find the needles of your surfing.

Simple Web iFrame based surfer / obfuscator github.com

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Comment · 11 years ago

Difficult problem, I do know what you mean about fitting messy life into patterns, that said some can still be invaluable at times.

Something like a singleton would be handy to stop multiple creation of an object, for web design mvc just makes life a lot easier by decoupling different parts and in theory for your project something like an observer pattern could be created to notify other systems to a state change. http://www.java2s.com/Tutorials/Java/Java_Design_Patterns/01...

In the end there's many ways and approaches, maybe even brushing up some class design stuff in another language might help.

Good luck on your journey, sounds like you'll be fine.

Comment · 11 years ago

Design Patterns! As you said your problem is "how to decompose into classes/methods/libraries"

Book wise, I learnt them from "Head first design patterns" which is useful and fun or for a quicker overview - http://www.java2s.com/Tutorials/Java/Java_Design_Patterns/in... .

Also remember if you have other people around you delegate / meet them / bounce ideas together.

Comment · 11 years ago

Would say general brain storming and inquisitiveness, i.e. how does this actually work and can I improve on it.

As an example of this thinking, I looked at ghostery a while back and thought it could be cool to work out what I would have leaked and to which websites. "Would have been tracked" was born, though still got to get around to coding, feel free to take it you want.

As a few other high level project suggestions; cloning programs for different languages, play around with electronics (there's years there) or pick a few open source projects to contribute to.