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codazoda
4,739karma·1,614submissions·March 24, 2014
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Software engineer, entrepreneur, serial hobbyist, and writer.
Over 500 technical articles on joeldare.com generating over 10k monthly views. Creator of Neat CSS, the minimalist CSS framework with over 700 stars on GitHub. Author of Write & Publish Your Book, rated 5-stars on Amazon.
Joel Dare
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I don't think so. This is one company reducing the quality of their own content.
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I was about to chastise him for horizontal scrolling, but it's a personal blog written years ago. Guess I can ease up. :P
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I don't see it mentioned elsewhere, but Amazon could very easily disrupt credit card companies as part of this play as well.
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I am working on a pet project to build a slot machine. I'm looking at it from a regulatory angle as well. As such, I want to understand the code as much as possible. I did some initial tests in N…
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This is a breath of fresh air. I was born the same year as the author so I'm nearing 45. I'm so glad to hear that you retired and then continued to work on software projects you love. I adop…
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Seems like a lawsuit is the exact legal method that should be used to uncover the names that Facebook is seeking. As a Namecheap user who also sometimes uses whoisguard, I would expect Namecheap NOT t…
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Interesting that I'm not alone in this. I was recently searching for information on how Slot Machines are programmed. I had questions about the OS that they run, the languages used to program the…
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I had the amazing opportunity to sit through a training where Jack Welch came to our company and taught a dozen of us his simple time management system. This was back in 1996 and I’ve been using some …
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I recently switched back to Chrome on mobile because I NEED the ability to blacklist JavaScript from abusive sites. Hacker News links, in particular, are infuriating without it. I haven't found a…
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My Splash of Code book teaches JavaScript to absolute beginners by walking them through some type-in generative art projects. People really seem to enjoy it, especially non-developers who are a little…
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Same. Reminds me of the study on stork vs human baby births. That was proven wrong shortly thereafter.
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Where I live these cards are expensive. For example, I considered buying one for a $60 a year service. The card itself costs just $1, but there is a $6.95 per month fee. So it costs me $7.95, minimum,…
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Some of these suggestions are just settings. For example, you can turn off the Hangouts integration and turn off the tabs. I like some of the others, such as turning off ads and widening lines. One od…
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It did not. The Jaz had hard disk platters in the cartridge while the Zip had soft. The "Click of Death" was actually not a single failure. The drive would click once when the head came out …
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It was flash, however, that I think killed the Zip drive. Primarily in the form of USB sticks, CF, and SD cards. The digital camera played a big role, as these manufacturers were looking for photo sto…
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Love the nestalga. I worked at Iomega from 1990 to 1994 during the Zip Drive boom. The LS-120 was our only real competitor for most of that time.
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Thanks for mentioning it; I hadn't seen it elsewhere. Looks like it's being blamed on a mechanical failure at the moment. Could be a big story.
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I actually LIKED having a central repository, which many of us still seem to prefer (i.e. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket). I switched to git mainly because my colleagues were all using it. I found it diffi…
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Yup, my first thought was that I could fine my friends $0.25 for calling me... You know, just for fun. If a company calls me and I don't like what they said, $0.25 fine. Someone dials a wrong num…
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As an Americam, I'm free to move about, but I don't move jobs very often. I consider healthcare benefits when I move, but only that I have them and that my new salary pays for them completel…
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"There's money in confusion"
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Yeah, I've always hoped they would change their position on supporting markdown. Their big report on it says they will never support it. Looks like this might be why.
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He's staying as Consultant CTO for Oculus (which FB owns).
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Raises hand. If they still made an iPod like device that ONLY included data, I'd switch to it today. I can get my calls via any of the various online services. As it stands, my phone is in do not…
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I had the Charge and liked it. It's a bit "boring" for the price. The tech seems solid though, so maybe Google could inject some excitement into the products via software.
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Further searching the web seems to suggest that Nitrous oxide doesn't cause hallucinations, but I remember them pretty vividly. It's also pretty well documented that we can't rely on ou…
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> Me too, and it's definitely a result of taking psychedelics. I quite like it. I suspect that I could have always made those CEVs appear, but I didn't "know how" until taking p…
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Although I only skimmed it, this article is about hand-written dedications that you might write in a book when you give it as a gift. I went looking for some of the information about why authors write…
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I've never used f-droid, but decide to try it on my (original) Pixel XL. I clicked "Download" and the file saved. I pulled down the top drawer and opened the file with "files"…