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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 recently shopped for a 5 door hatchback. There are VW TDI's all over Utah. My understanding, from sales people, is that VW bought many of them back, "fixed" them, and put them back on…
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I wonder if some of this is the moderate climate. I live in Utah and my house has 2x6 walls with lots of insulation. I suspect that's all about keeping me warm in the winter and cool in the summe…
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I wonder how this is reconciled. "Apple also says that it’ll use machine learning and Apple Maps to label stores that you use in the app, and use that data to track purchases across categories li…
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Do you know what the option is called?
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I use Firefox and I've never noticed this. On Google Docs, when you use the copy menu, it suggests that you use the keystroke combination, making me think it's unable to copy via JS. I haven…
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I've actually switched to an old school "counter" that I wrote myself. I just couldn't find anything that was modern and that I was sure provided privacy. I also don't need mu…
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I learned this when taking Vitamin E for an injury. I would have dreams that I remembered when I woke and that is unusual for me. I tried to buy vitamin E for the purpose, recently, and failed to repr…
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I really enjoy this type of article; technical facts about history. I'm also reminded that I miss similar stories from National Geohraphic. Finally, I'm impressed by the method of monetizati…
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It's more complex than that. From a technical standpoint, for many browsers, you probably want a few files but not too many. This is because the browser will download several files at the same ti…
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It was an odd thing to me but Chrome would not list DuckDuckGo until after you had visited DuckDuckGo.com manually. Once on DDG it became an option. That's been around for a while, as I've h…
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I also keep a list of things I've done. Typically I just add those things to my to-do list and check them off. There are other good ideas in this post and for me they're timely. I'm cru…
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Lower Lights was very big at the time. I think they had 12 lines.
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Another popular name I remember was Love BBS, which was run by two brothers with the last name "Love". They showed up not long before I gave it up and I remember thinking it was one of the b…
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Well, that kinda surprised me. I write a lot of random stuff but I typically think most of it goes into the void. I've never seen this page show up in any of my top page reports and I don't …
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Mine was called PoiZoN BBS.
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I ran a Utah BBS in the late 80's on a phone line I "found" in my childhood bedroom. I've thought, a bit, about setting up a "BBS" hosted on any computer connected to any…
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I think it's just about desire and passion. I'm a computer programmer, recently writing zines that teach programming by creating art, and I was pretty sure my kids would be technically incli…
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I never took an hourly contract and my customers didn't want hourly contracts. They wanted a total project cost or consistent monthly cost instead. I got almost every job I ever bid.
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Author, if you read this, skip Ally for business accounts. They do not allow them and may freeze your account and hold your funds when they realize you're using it for business. Their great for p…
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I'm also a maker and I'm currently working on a zine series. I commute 1.5 hours a day and take a lunch break, bringing my total "at work" hours to 10.5. It's difficult to sta…
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I recently signed up for a service. It's a service I wanted to try and might return to, but I found some alternatives I also wanted to try, some of them free. The cancellation was so difficult; p…
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As I read through the way payment amounts are handled I can't help but remember the owner of a company I worked for a long time ago saying, "there's money in confusion".
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Bewundersucht Rolls off the tongue a little better. I dunno if such shortening would happen. For fun, for example, in a friendly conversation where you make up your own words like "frenemy".…
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I absolutely love her zines and she's inspired me to create my own. My latest series try's to teach programming to beginners by creating art. It's like the type-in books and magazines I…
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The patent kills it for me even though it may just be for defense (I didn't look and it sounds like they didn't say).
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I started using Gumroad to sell zines that teach you how to program by creating generative art ( https://gumroad.com/l/splashofcode ). I love their product and I enjoyed reading th…