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tomdeakin

Re:The Invention of the AeroPress on Sunday April 20, 2014 @12:53PM (#7617473)
I can never work out the amount of coffee to put in the French press so that the plunger still goes down all the way and the coffee is a good strength. So if you go with a 7g scoop per cup in a (say) 8 cup press, then there is more coffee grounds than there is space for the plunger to go down all the way. Any tips?
Re:Ask HN: Which are the best freelancer sites? on Sunday June 02, 2013 @05:34PM (#5810187)
Thanks! Registered over there, and there does seem plenty of jobs going.
Re:Contactless 'charging errors' at Marks and Spencer on Saturday May 18, 2013 @07:56AM (#5728608)
From the commentary on the news today, it seems that people inadvertently held another card (maybe in a wallet) too close to the reader whilst trying to use Chip and Pin with another card.
Re:Rob Pike: Go at Google on Saturday October 27, 2012 @09:57AM (#4706116)
I spent a year working on a project in Go, so got pretty used to the language. One thing I did wonder though was how would it fare on very large systems; how could Go hook up to work like MPI across clusters of computers?
Re:Maily: Your Kids' First Email on Monday October 01, 2012 @09:14AM (#4596764)
Having watched the video my first thoughts were why can't (for eg) the child's grandma reply using her email client. Why does grandma have to login to the website?
Re:The Greatest Machine That Never Was on Friday April 27, 2012 @01:30PM (#3900149)
Really interesting talk. TED do some great talks in general imo.
Re:What's Dropbox going to do now? on Thursday April 26, 2012 @11:26AM (#3894343)
This may be a significant reason as to why people won't switch. Why go to the hastle of moving data just to use another service?

Plus, with referrals in Dropbox, the free space difference becomes negligible.

Re:Animated Bézier Curves on Thursday April 26, 2012 @11:07AM (#3894256)
Thirded. They is such a simple way to visualise this.
Tried the "Black and White Squares" one. Was pretty fun and definitely suitable for 'young folders'!
Re:My Git Habits on Thursday March 15, 2012 @04:11PM (#3710354)
git-add -p is new to me, but looks like something I'd wish I'd known about for a long while. The number of times I end up copying changes (like a new function) into some temp file while I commit is more than I'd care to admit.
It's always amusing asking for "Extra hot" and a slight look of panic as the milk is about to jump out the jug
Re:Linux From Scratch 7.1 Published - 3.2.6 Kernel + GCC 4.6.2 on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @06:46PM (#3677873)
I gave an old version of this a go a long time ago. It was really very time consuming. I would be interested in doing it again though now that I have more of an idea about compiling from source.. I was still very new to it then. I felt that you have to be pretty switched on to this before you start.
Re:Overlap Detection in strings, with code on Sunday March 04, 2012 @07:03PM (#3664672)
This kind of discussion is lacking in the article. It seems as if the OPs goal is optimisation and of course finding the right algorithm with the lowest complexity is the first port of call. However, the indexOf function seems to rely on properties of the data which may not be present (like the forced example in the middle).

There are other algorithms besides KMP too for this. I'm sure with some thinking on my part the linear time suffix tree algorithms could solve this too off hand.

Re:Rebuild of the Debian archive with clang on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @05:25AM (#3647297)
Would be really interested to see what caused those segfaults! But the link in the table just goes to the table.
Re:Raspberri PI Release Announcement on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @02:11AM (#3646855)
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120228006472/en/RS-C...

That's from RS's Twitter feed. Not exactly the praises I'd sing right now.