JohnIdol
Re:Show HN: Go-odbye – Twitter Follow/Unfollow Reporting Tool Written ...
on Monday August 29, 2016 @08:29AM (#12381391)
You unfollowed them back in revenge, of course.
Raspberry Pi with Ice Cream
Re:Ask HN: Do employers care how long it took you to finish a degree?
on Friday August 05, 2016 @09:07AM (#12231978)
They most definitely do not.
Re:Am I really a developer or just a good Googler?
on Sunday May 15, 2016 @10:55AM (#11701122)
Google is just an extension of our memory nowadays - it's not worth it memorising stuff you know you can google, eventually if you google it often enough it'll stick. And googling will do you no good if you have no idea what you are doing.
Re:Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation
on Monday November 09, 2015 @03:27AM (#10531897)
Jack Bauer would beg to differ.
Re:New $1.6B supercomputer project will attempt to simulate the human ...
on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @05:01PM (#5173560)
Actually if you read that link carefully - complete (or even complex) nematode behavior has never been simulated. Different teams have simulated different traits of behavior such as reaction to pokes on the head, non-spontaneous sinusoidal locomotion (there are different kinds of nematode locomotion triggered by the viscosity of the environment). Nothing resembling a learning nematode, indistinguishable from the real thing in terms of behavior, has ever been achieved (unfortunately).
OpenWorm Browser: cell-by-cell C.elegans in WebGL
George Boole's former home for sale as an 'investment site'
Re:Show HN: Our first iPhone app, built entirely in JavaScript
on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @10:22PM (#3592858)
Speed is not the only benefit of Titanium. I recently submitted a phonegap app it was rejected on the basis that "It would be appropriate to add iOS specific UI and functionality". I am pretty pissed-off. You made the right choice.
Ask HN: how do US software contracting rates compare to UK?
Here's daily rates in Dublin / London for development contractors (figures below are consistent with my experience, people I know and recruitment agencies):* Dublin: 400-500 EUR/day = 570 - 715 USD/day * London: 400-600 GBP/day = 653 - 980 USD/dayHow does this compare to contracting rates in major US cities?
First Artificial Neural Network Created out of DNA
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110720142501.htm
Molecular Soup Exhibits Brainlike Behavior
Massive Black Hole Smashed Into Milky Way 10 Million Years Ago
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27007/
Evidence is emerging that a small galaxy, with a huge central black hole, must have recently collided with the Milky Way
Evaluation of the Blue Brain Project and Human Brain Project (2011)
Re:Astronomers Discover Potentially Earthlike Planet Orbiting Binary Star
on Monday July 18, 2011 @10:08AM (#2776335)
I thought discovery of 55 Cancri f was published in this paper on the 11th of July this year --> http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1936
Re:Astronomers Discover Potentially Earthlike Planet Orbiting Binary Star
on Monday July 18, 2011 @08:45AM (#2776051)
"We're left, like the starving donkey equidistant between two bails of hay, unable to decide on what to celebrate" <-- the closest of these things is 20 light years :[
Re:Best cover ever in the history of programming books
on Monday July 18, 2011 @08:40AM (#2776034)
no kidding -- erotic nightmares!
Best cover ever in the history of programming books
Astronomers Discover Potentially Earthlike Planet Orbiting Binary Star
Lt. Data Will Be Born From Artificial Worms
Re:Programmer salary in mainland Europe?
on Thursday April 28, 2011 @09:48AM (#2493261)
dude, you should be making way more than that - in Ireland (not even dublin) senior (perm) positions are going up to €70K
Results of entanglement made visible to human eyes
Re:Programmer salary in mainland Europe?
on Friday April 22, 2011 @05:26AM (#2473630)
It really varies a lot in my personal experience - in the UK/ROI salaries are much higher than for senior roles, salary basically spans from 45-50K to 80-90K euros, but contracting you can easily make much more than that. In Switzerland you get good deals, but if you cross the border to Italy you go back to figures similar to the one you mention for Austria.
Re:Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @10:24AM (#2442321)
Nice one. Other than secret pools, it would be very interesting to have a global pool where people could indicate country, years of commercial experience and salary.
Social Wasps Show How Bigger Brains Provide Complex Cognition
Was Darwin Wrong?
Re:Show HN: A Genetic Algorithm I wrote in JavaScript to evolve "Hello...
on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @03:53AM (#2003580)
Nice.
I did something similar in javascript --> https://github.com/JohnIdol/WasDarwinWrong ... and C# --> https://github.com/JohnIdol/typingmonkey
Re:Ask HN: What do you want for Christmas?
on Friday December 10, 2010 @11:16AM (#1992075)
an iRobot Roomba, 'cause I am sick and tired of cleaning 'manually'
Re:Why IT Jobs are never coming back
on Friday December 10, 2010 @04:39AM (#1991161)
maybe because they're all in ireland
Re:Can a mutant douchebag change his life?
on Friday October 29, 2010 @06:29AM (#1846795)
teenage mutant ninja turtles did change their lives