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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 played on CGA and EGA monitors in the late 80's and early 90's. This filter does feel a little exaggerated to me but maybe I simply forget how bad they were.
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TlDr; GDPR isn't to blame, GDPR is to blame. GDPR doesn't require them but an existing law does and GDPR is causing companies to notice.
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PrivacyBadger blocks all of these but you're right, it does seem hostile. I figure most US companies that run ad's have similar setups. After about 10 blocked calls to geo.yahoo.com it stops…
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I've permanently turned on Do Not Disturb and configured it to allow calls from people on my contact list. This won't work for everyone but it works really well for me. I no longer get unwan…
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I've setup a second monitor on my desk. I rarely use it, because I'm away so much, so it just shows art or whatever I'm into at the moment. I also threw a folder onto Google photos and …
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I was just hacking on something like this a few weeks ago. I was using Imagemagick and a bash script. In the end I wasn't to happy with my results and figured I was spending too much time. This l…
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What if Amazon got rid of reviews?
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I was pretty surprised that editing the registry to change stuff like this is still a thing.
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I don't mind subscriptions but I do fear the day when my favorite subscriptions start to run ads on top of their monthly fee.
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Latin America got close in the 50's and 60's, only to see them return when efforts let up. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/02/…
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And it certainly doesn't mean it's not about money. Depends on the business, of course, but I've seen non-profits that pay million dollar salaries to employees and put millions in the b…
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The news industry is already in trouble. This seems like it could backfire in a way that news services might automatically be de-listed from many services and simply lose ALL of their traffic. Seems l…
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True, but ~45 may be a golden age again. By then your kids may be starting to becoming self sufficient, retirement is still 20 years off, and you've lived through a fair number of financial probl…
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The zip drive failure rate was less than 1% and the "click of death" had hundreds of causes in the percentage that failed. You see, the Zip drive had a parked head. When the head came out to…
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I worked in support there during the Zip drive boom. My first tech job and it was a wild few years.
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TLDR (SPOILERS); He was the co creator and him and the main creator couldn't make money from the title because it was made in Russia on work equipment. They later moved to the US and started a ne…
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Thanks for this... Because of the big push to Kindle Unlimited, I didn't realize the Kindle edition was actually free without the subscription.
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I presume you're running simple small js files. This post is about larger projects that need to transpile newer js code down to browser compatible code, combine multiple files into 2 or 3 http re…
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Came here to mention that. The title needs a re-write but the story is interesting still.
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The problem described is exactly why I wrote a short "How to Code" primer a couple years ago. It teaches some basics of Javascript. Javascript, at least in the browser, can be run with no ex…
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There are still UX problems on Android too. I tend to open links in a new window and then close the one I'm looking at when I'm done with it. This experience is totally broken with Amp pages…
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I wonder if this would work over radio such as Ham or Two-Way.
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The dot I was developing for today has a mute button and the LEDs show red when it's on. Pretty sure I've read that the switch disconnects the mic. Is this comment sarcastic?
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Some old devices do cease to work or they start working more slowly. Apple slows down phones with old batteries, for example, even when they are plugged in. Many of todays devices also require online …
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I don't worry about Github deleting my stuff. Every single developer has a copy of all of the repos they work on. Delete it from Github and any one of us can just push it somewhere else. That…
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I've read a few articles saying that there is so much Solar adoption in the U.S. that there is a surplus at some times (summer days I believe). It use to be that there was too much use from home …
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This is evidence to the contrary, as you've said... Utah law only talks about who must yield. I use to believe that a person going strait had the right of way. Some of the confusion may come from…
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Nope, took me a couple minutes to figure out. I went strait to ray tracing, then lightbox tracing, then finally debug tracing.
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It's just one line of code.