SethWilson

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Re:Show HN: my first Chrome extension (PenaltyBlox) on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @01:44PM (#3239489)

Love the "Feel Shame" reference from the movie "Slapshot" in your blog post

Re:Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor and tester on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @01:38PM (#2467560)

Adding this tool to my bookmarks

Thanks for the heads up

Show HN: This is what happens when you VNC into the machine you are VNCing from

Posted by SethWilson on Thursday March 31, 2011 @01:56PM
from the show-hn dept.

http://s1178.photobucket.com/albums/x379/sethwilson3/?action=view&current=vnc.jpg

Last night I was testing that I could VNC into my home machine remotely. I used the external URL to VNC into my machine using the built-in Mac OS X screen sharing tool, and within seconds my machine was spawning VNC window after VNC windowI had to snap the pic with my phone since the resources on the machine were quickly used up.I was wondering if I would be sucked into the digital vortex it...

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Re:Ask HN: How does having a baby change your life? on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @02:33PM (#1839849)

I only have one regret about becoming a parent....

I should have done it sooner.

Re:Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently? on Friday July 09, 2010 @08:28AM (#1500402)

Exactly why I've been putting it off. I thought about paying an old school barber for an hour of his time to show me the ropes and the "gotchas"

Re:Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently? on Thursday July 08, 2010 @05:09PM (#1498795)

I hear ya... I have no idea what happened in the last 4 months of 2006 and the first 6 months of 2007. My second son was born in August 2006 and he cried if he was awake until he was 8 months old.

Re:Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently? on Thursday July 08, 2010 @05:02PM (#1498770)

My most recent life goal is to learn how to shave with a straight razor... Don't ask me why, just seems like a cool skill to learn and someday pass down to my sons.

Re:Tell HN: The new yellow pages just got here -- and went straight t... on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @01:31PM (#1321848)

I agree it is a total waste.

The reason everyone and their half brother gets one is because these directories sell the ads based on their "circulation".

The more people they can claim to get the book, the higher rate they can charge for advertising.

So as far as the Yellow Pages are concerned, they held up their end of the deal with their advertisers. Whether you read it or not wasn't part of the deal.

A lot of these directories also offer a "combo" where you get advertising in the print edition and on a web site in order to bridge the 20th century and the 21st.

So until companies stop spending their advertising dollars to be in the 'pages it will be some time before you stop receiving it.