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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 get your point, but to be fair, none of these guys have, "1 year of experience". They've focused on playing ball most of their lives and did it very well for several years before anyo…
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I thought I was alone. Hello like-minded stranger.
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Does this link to the wrong article? I'm seeing a short post titled, "do things that don't scale". It doesn't seem to have anything to do with listening to end-users.
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Fluctuations in stork births can predict human births. Sidebar: Did you know that's why storks carry babies in cartoons? "Correlation is not causation."
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I have changed my phone to opt-in only by setting it to "do not disturb" mode permanently. If you're not in my contact list, my phone doesn't ring and you can only leave a message.…
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Then blame the government because telco's didn't used to allow number transfering. Then consumers complained and the government made it mandatory. /Citation needed/
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I've only spent 3 days in Amsterdam and I enjoyed the ability to walk the city. I covered quite a bit of ground there and most of the areas were void of cars. Pretty great for tourists; although …
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I heard a story about a guy who setup a fax machine in the 90's and used it to print money. He would just wait for spam faxes to come in and then he would research the company and send a form let…
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Fun fact, Utah has Prima Facia speed limits. This means it's legal to exceed the posted limit when it's safe to do so. You'll get a ticket anyway, but you can make the argument. If all …
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At first thought, this might be useful information. It might be less helpful for very inexpensive products where returning the defective item isn't worth the effort. I suspect sellers wouldn'…
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I work at a tech firm. We use these tools fairly regularly. Often, someone will ask a question the other person doesn't know the answer and will turn around and ask their phone. Works pretty good…
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WhatsApp was specifically designed to be encrypted and private. Facebook, however, seems to play fast and loose with data. Sure you can talk to John Doe, but you might hope no one else knows that you&…
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The the kids mess up the machine and keep the recovery option close at hand. Tell them to store everything they care about (homework) in Google Drive, Dropbox, or the like.
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This blog post reads like a public journal. It's kinda interesting. I wonder if any of his posts were meant for such a large audience. Yet, they seem to be, as he requires some Bitcoin for commen…
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I bet someone would buy it. I wonder if it helps that its origin is well known.
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Wut?
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USAA has their own set of problems.
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I wish these types of sites were not allowed on Hacker News. I'm not paying for every little news site I read on here (or the big ones). I usually click on the link, realize it's got this cr…
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I took a whack at trying to teach programming to complete beginners in the same way that I learned years ago. I give people a listing of type-in JavaScript code that creates a generative art project. …
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I'm a self-taught programmer and I turned that into my career. I didn't go to college and I didn't pay a lot of attention in Math classes in High School. I'm regularly reminded tha…
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This worked for me... In order to verify that the opener was running, I ran the following command. ps aux | grep zoom To kill the opener I ran the following. killall zoom Then I followed the rest of t…
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Run this: ps aux | grep zoom You'll probably see "ZoomOpener" there. It is running but it's not in the "Force Quit" menu. Then, to kill it run: killall zoom Then you can …
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That price seems a little high. I was selling these from a custom shop in 1994 and a pretty well equipped 486 and then Pentium was about $2,000 to $2,500. You could spend a bit more and get better aud…
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Super Thinking is also available on Scribd. All you can eat audio books similar to Netflix. No tokens to spend. I can't say enough about this tool for my daily commute. I love Scribd.
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I thrive on checklists and hate the ad-hoc way I do code reviews on my team. This sounds great, I'm going to go look for some basic formal checklists. I need language agnostic versions and/o…
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I think this response is really good. Now that we're all not picking it, however, I think they should remove the "People" section. They did a good job of adjusting process instead of bl…
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I think it's charge percentage. My Kia Niro seems to keep the battery between 50 and 80 percent charged. I've heard that the Tesla does similar (perhaps showing full when it's really 80…
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The average life of a car is only 10 years? Wow. I tend to use my vehicles much longer than that and I don't spend a lot on repairs. Maybe this average is a result of accidents after a certain ag…
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Lately I've just been using a directory full of markdown files. I store my personal collection in Dropbox but it would be just as easy to use git or any other tool. I've created an alias to …