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jcromartie

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January 30, 2008 (18y ago)
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I desperately want to apply my skills in technology to reshaping society into something more meaningful, sustainable, and desirable than what we see today. I am also fascinated with projects that use embedded systems to "bridge the gap" between the digital world of structured information and the analog world in which we exist. I am also very interested in educational reform.

"school – the reproductive organ of a consumer society"

  -Ivan Illich
  1. The Noodle King, or the Hunt for the Most Complex Chinese Character (cgilinguistics.blogspot.com)
    2 points 0
  2. HTML Canvas recreation of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover (jsfiddle.net)
    2 points 2
  3. Visualization of gTLD Applications (dl.dropbox.com)
    1 points 0
  4. Visualization of gTLD applications

    I created a simple visualization of gTLD applications using Graphviz. I used the domain of the applicant's email address to group common applicants, unless it ended with "mail.com", so that it handles gmail and hotmail…

    1 points 0
  5. Bcrypt is Not the Answer (jcromartie.tumblr.com)
    1 points 2
  6. Why do remote controls still exist? (jcromartie.tumblr.com)
    1 points 0
  7. Getting Started in Rails is Insane (jcromartie.tumblr.com)
    27 points 48
  8. Launching SmarterSeating.com

    This is a follow-up to my post last week about getting off of HN and Reddit and launching an app. Here's the follow up: http://jcromartie.tumblr.com/post/8576247461/launching-the-pre-alpha-of-smarterseating-com I'm…

    1 points 0
  9. Reading Hacker News is not launching (jcromartie.tumblr.com)
    133 points 51
  10. Gsd.sh - bash, add to blacklist with env vars, default OS X support (github.com)
    1 points 0
  11. Homeland Security Messages Coming to Wal Mart, etc. (rawstory.com)
    57 points 38
  12. Customizing Safari 5's Reader (jcromartie.tumblr.com)
    1 points 0
  13. My Experience With a Programmer Coding Test (Survey) (spreadsheets.google.com)

    Prompted by RiderOfGiraffes, I decided to put my programmer interview question in a Google Form and gather responses that way. I am concerned that no applicants have aced these questions thus far, although my peers seem…

    12 points 25
  14. Van Gogh was 32 years old when he painted his first major work. (en.wikipedia.org)
    3 points 1
  15. Ask HN: Why do we still have an Electoral College in the US?

    I live in Maryland. It will go to Obama (market predictions put the chance at 93%). If I vote for anybody else, I may as well just throw my ballot in the trash. Why do we not have a good, secure, nation-wide popular…

    1 points 4
  16. Ask YC: Software That Makes a Difference

    Let's face it: working in business software typically means writing code to line a few peoples' pockets (and sometimes not even your own). Much of Web 2.0 and social software is merely a distraction and only really…

    10 points 19
  17. Should a senior in Comp Sci know what a .tar file is?

    Today at work I met an intern who happened to be a senior in computer science at a well-known area college. While helping them to get started on an assignment, it struck me as odd when they were working in Notepad,…

    23 points 52