Carl Smith

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bio	website	piousoft.blogspot.co.uk
	location	Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
	age	34
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I used to write graffiti for a living, but then found hacking. It's far more creative, far more subversive, can be done indoors and pays better, so now I'm one of those free software guys.

I authored NotebookCloud last year, a web service for using IPython on AWS, and I'm currently divided between writing a browser based, Python IDE for Android, with support for Lego robots, and extending Markdown with web components.

My favourite spaces right now are Python, Android, Lego and the Cloud.

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2d	comment	Is there software that can determine whether I speak with a neutral accent? What accent are you trying to get rid of?
2d	comment	Is there software that can determine whether I speak with a neutral accent? If there was some way that a person could speak perfect English, without an accent, they'd sound like a psychopath anyway.
2d	comment	When should I use “a” vs “an”? Americans will usually write "an HTML document", where in the UK, it's normally written "a HTML document". Americans say 'aych', but Englishmen say 'haych', so it's entirely down to how you pronounce the word that follows.
2d	comment	What's the name of the color Just to be the pedant: Colours don't have 'official names'.
2d	answered	Is it correct to use the term paranoia when expressing overrated reaction due to fear of something?
Mar 16	comment	What is the word for thinking about what someone is thinking? +1 for anticipate
Mar 15	comment	“The more chickens in a farm the more crap and the fewer eggs” @EdwinAshworth: It's nothing really to do with the Law of Diminishing Returns. That deals with the idea that as you saturate a market, only the people who said no before are left to sell to. This suggests a relative decrease in productivity caused by overloading a resource.
Mar 15	comment	Is there a term which covers ATM cards, credit cards, and debit cards? Can you not just ask them How would you like to pay?
Mar 14	answered	Is there software that can determine whether I speak with a neutral accent?
Mar 14	comment	Is this grammatically correct? I said that the way it's written implies causation, and that's where a reader would expect the sentence to go. I assume MS Word picked it up because the sentence abuses tense. I'm happy to accept that this view is not shared by everyone, but I still have positive rep for this answer, so clearly some people agree with me too. People who read this thread can see there's different points of view and draw their own conclusions. Please continue this in a chat, or provide a more definitive answer that we can discuss.
Mar 14	revised	Is this grammatically correct? added update
Mar 14	revised	Is this grammatically correct? added update
Mar 14	comment	Is this grammatically correct? I never said it's wrong to use present tense at all, just that here it's not used correctly. The sentence is incorrect. If you can't see that, now that I've explained it to you, there's nothing I can do. This isn't the place for lengthy rants.
Mar 13	comment	Is this grammatically correct? See mine and Robert's answers below. The sentence is definitely incorrect. MS Word sucks, but it can not be blamed for green-lining this sentence.
Mar 13	comment	Is this grammatically correct? I agree, this sentence can not be made correct without rewording it, and it's the tense that seems incorrect.
Mar 13	comment	Is this grammatically correct? I hate it when people down-vote, but don't offer a comment. How is anyone supposed to learn anything from that? I guess it's a question for meta.
Mar 13	revised	Is this grammatically correct? added 198 characters in body
Mar 13	answered	Is this grammatically correct?
Mar 13	comment	Need we use “sums” in sentences whenever they describe the sum of plural objects? In the phrase "100 centimeters sums to one meter", the word sums is not a plural, it's a verb.
Mar 13	comment	What is the word for thinking about what someone is thinking? I quite like anticipate. +1