willismichael

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  1. I'm working on a new open source project. I want to use the GPL3 (and indeed I think I must use the GPL, because I'm incorporating algorithms that I'm learning from other GPL projects). I have this suspicion that as…

  2. I'm interested in doing a book club of sorts with my children. I'm looking for something in the sci-fi/fantasy realm that depicts characters with a variety of motivations, biases, and cultural backgrounds. I want to be…

  3. I regularly use Github's traffic feature to see how many people are visiting my open source project, and where they are coming from so that I can engage with them on forums that discuss the project. For months I was…

  4. I use Linux for my music hobby, and wanted a decent hall-style reverb plugin. I found that a good algorithm already existed in the Freeverb3 library, but it didn't have a native Linux plugin. I thought "how hard could…

  5. My nine year old daughter wants to get my eleven year old son a microscope set as a gift. We looked around at a lot of options online, and based on the reviews it looks like the cheap ones are nothing but frustration.…

  6. Haskell and Clojure (2012) (incrediblevehicle.com)
  7. Semantic Compression (mollyrocket.com)
  8. Remote code evaluation (hack-tastic.blogspot.com)
  9. Cricket chirps (treehugger.com)
  10. I have no idea what the population of HN is, not the global distribution thereof. I'm working on a pet project that I would like to show of at some point, and in the event that it actually hits the front page (unlikely…

  11. Ode to Review Board (hack-tastic.blogspot.com)
  12. High Tech Employee Lawsuit (hightechemployeelawsuit.com)
  13. Mostly this question is about the keyboard, as I already have some opinions about ergonomic pointing devices. After years of using cheap keyboards, I'm ready to invest in something that will be nicer on my hands. I see…

  14. Clojure is not a Lisp [2009] (jng.imagine27.com)
  15. The Sunk Cost Fallacy [2011] (youarenotsosmart.com)
  16. Fixing ‘too-big-to-fail’ (blogs.reuters.com)