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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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Kinda cool to see the cutouts on that. He wasn't so good at experimenting that he drew these all together. It looks like he cut and pasted them together in this format.
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That's actually a good example. My gut feeling was simply to write the following. document.getElementsByClassName("my-class")[0].style.display = 'block'; The PlainJS site ment…
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If replacing the battery restores normal performance, can connecting a charger also restore normal performance? Because iPhones don't really have user serviceable batteries, I wonder if an after …
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Same here; tested on FirefoxDeveloperEdition for Mac. Maybe this is a slow roll-out on the Google side.
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I recently cancelled Met Life Car Insurance. My new insurance policy was paid in advance so my old one probably was too. Met Life sent me to collections for a $180 bill they say I owed after cancellin…
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You probably carry a microphone almost everywhere you go. Your smart phone might or might not record by default but it can certainly be made to do so.
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I'd like to add that I'm over 40 years old and I just purchased a bunch of these devices for my home. I'll have an Echo in at least 4 rooms. It will be connected to my garage doors, som…
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I agree with you. This hack requires physical access and is fairly complicated. It's probably much easier to walk into someone's house and drop a tiny wireless microphone somewhere hidden.
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I want these devices for their simple convenience... My teenage children often leave lights on in the basement of my home. "Alexa, turn off the basement lights". I'm also slightly afrai…
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Software is imperfect, and therefore vulnerable, and it's also pervasive. Data for all our providers will probably be compromised. It's not if, but when. We need to make plain facts, like na…
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TLDR; Three problems have stemmed from the same bug. One patch had errors and required more fixing for a subset of users. The complaint seems to be that Apple moved too fast to fix this bug. I dunno..…
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I've owned two generations of the Chevy Malibu. I'm pretty sure that's what he meant.
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This article is a bit combative but I generally agree with the idea. I use both MySQL and MongoDB in my daily work on a classifieds site that does a few hundred million pageviews a month. Both are pre…
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There was a recent failure that affected everyone using the TLD and a popular blog post explaining it and suggesting that you use something more reliable. Some of the comments on the article pointed o…
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If your site is light on writes and always will be, I think SQLite is a good choice. Especially if it reduces the complexity of the system up front. I use it for a lot of personal projects that never …
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I would love to keep paper notes but I find the opposite for myself. It's very easy to reorder or restructure a digital document and very difficult for me to re-organize my random ramblings on pa…
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I'm trying to understand... "The three best proofs of space rapidly the propagated through the whole network and proofs of time servers start working on top of them." Should that read, …
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I wouldn't fix that "bug" either. I don't want confirmation dialogs all over the place. They are annoying when I try to close or delete. Yes, I clicked close on purpose. Google has…
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Some of us believe that tests increase work by 25% while only reducing defects by 60%. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... …
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Can you verify, even after the purchase, and automatically refund them? As an example, will the spammers click a validation link?
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And is quite terrible with Chrome on Android.
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I can't tell what this is just by looking at the home page. After taking a tour and wading my way through all the frustrating "next" buttons I still have no idea what advantages this en…
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I haven't signed a card in 15 years. No one has ever asked me about it and I don't think they have ever asked for ID. I figure I'll sign it if asked, but it's never come up.
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Great story. Those animated gif's, every paragraph, were killing me.
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I agree and I'll single out npm. It's a great tool but it must be used with event greater care. You can `npm install` a package and get dozens of packages requiring packages. Before you know…
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I've made a measly $179 this year from Passive Income. It's not much but it is entirely passive. Most of it comes from Google AdSense on my blog, which I've been writing posts in for ab…
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I hadn't dialed a phone number in ages (months at least) until I started developing a phone based website change recently. I just don't call people who I don't know. I tap faces 99% of …
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How about time based micro payments? If I only read the first paragraph or two, I only pay a few cents. If I continue reading, I pay more. Articles, then, would have to be written to pull the reader i…
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Why is the news spouting this BS? I assume a state-sponsored attack makes for more readers. Sigh.