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IdeaMonk
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IdeaMonk is a personal blog at ideamonk.blogspot.com about programming and culture. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link IdeaMonk's blog posts on reverse engineering, including patching a program without source code and an introduction to cracking. One comment recommends the cracking post as a good starting point.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
another good one to go for - http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2009/04/cracking-code-introduct...
Comment linking /2009/04/cracking-code-introduction-to-reverse.html
on “Patching a Program Without Source Code”Submitted Ask YC: How to Dazzle? as a story · 17 points
HN discussionhttp://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2007/06/ajax-based-supercomputi... nice indeed ;P
Comment linking /2007/06/ajax-based-supercomputing.html
on “Review my startup - Plura Processing: Web Traffic = Grid Computer”Submitted 17" MacBook Pro = A Car in India as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm using the freely available thinkpython.pdf from http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ here's my setup - http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/11/playing-with-python.htm... I just wrote a script to getch results of all my batchmates from the college result site... :) http://sites.google.com/site/ideamonks/Home/107result.txt
Comment linking /2008/11/playing-with-python.html
on “What did you use to teach yourself Python?”Submitted I did something awful tonight as a story · 3 points
HN discussionJPEG compression is producing pixelation type effects... I think it is bigger than this. http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/08/dazzle-hard.html
Comment linking /2008/08/dazzle-hard.html
on “Ask YC: How to Dazzle?”Submitted Review my 2d platformer - Nincompoop as a story · 2 points
HN discussioneversince I have seen http://tinyurl.com/6ddzjh , I have always wanted to automate creation of such images. such an attempt is http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/08/trying-to-dazzle.html But I am wondering how to perfect it. Right now it's just a rand() doing the magic. But there is something more to the original art. It seems that "the edges have a nice particle effect, the size of squares vary according to either l…
Comment linking /2008/08/trying-to-dazzle.html
on “Ask YC: How to Dazzle?”Submitted FOSS and the Digital Divide - Reducing it one phrase a time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionsome of my own experiments - http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/11/some-work-in-process-pr...
Comment linking /2008/11/some-work-in-process-progress.html
on “Processing monsters”Submitted Seeking answers... confused as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHave a look at these too, some better outputs. http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/11/another-processing-adve...
Comment linking /2008/11/another-processing-adventure.html
on “Some work in proc(gr)essing...”Submitted Back then in 2003 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSome people tend to raise such hot issues, people like me waste time reading their shit, and the ones who've commented above (include me) waste time writing replies, the author surely gets a nice entertainment and an engagement for _timepass_, for someone with power to learn and ability to dynamically adjust to any of these *nix, windows, os x, bsd, solaris, these matters are of no importance, for the purpose is in…
Comment linking /2009/04/foss-spreading-its-wings-2.html
on “Open Source Fanaticism = pure act of madness and sheer ignorance...”Submitted Anyone uses PowerPoint to make Mock-Ups ? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing a recursive algorithm by memoization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some work in proc(gr)essing... as a story · 1 points
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