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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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https://neat.joeldare.comrecent activity (1,614 total)
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I typically work best in the morning. I have my most productive hour the first hour I work. If I'm able to get flow on my project then it will carry me a couple hours into the day. Once I'm …
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Wait. People still use sourceforge? I thought it was a wasteland of old projects that had crapware attached to all their downloads.
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Is there a similarly priced and sized SDR that can both receive and transmit? Having received my ticket recently, I'd love to try some digital ham radio modes without spending a fortune.
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I was thinking / wondering the same. Many new HAM operators get handheld radios that use the 144MHz (2 meter) and 440MHz (70 cm) bands. Both of these seem to be within range of this device. You c…
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The only difference I can see is that, like your car policy, if you have to pay a claim your rates go up. That would cause someone not to want a claim filed against them because their salary goes down…
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I ready about half way through it and then came to the Hacker News comments to figure if someone had decoded it.
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They have enough differences. I've only known one set of identical twins, back in high school, and at first I thought they looked the same. After a while, however, you can recognize the differenc…
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I previously signed up for someone's free Identity Theft Protection service. After the free service was completed my account was charged around $9 per month until I noticed it and fixed it.
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As far as I know, in my state, a previous employer is only allowed to say weather or not I worked there and for how long. Nothing else should be discussed, legally. IANAL I've only changed jobs t…
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We asked for a la carte TV pricing. I think this is what it looks like. I'll probably pay for a few channels and forget the rest.
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IANAL but it's also complicated by the fact that the prankster is in a different country.
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The comment is talking about paid monthly services as YouTube Red vs Netflix. Sure Google has the worlds most popular (mostly free) video site, monetized by advertising, but it can't seem to beat…
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I feel like I just wasted 15 minutes digging for that and being disappointed that their MVP wasn't a 7-liner. Guess I should have come to the comments first.
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Great talk, enjoyed it. Maybe because it's exactly what I wanted to hear. Hopefully it's a good idea.
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Yeah, I understand the anger part. The thing is, I've read this in at least a couple of books. I think Tim Ferris suggested it in The 4-Hour Work Week and I also think it's mentioned in The …
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Oh, boy, lots of them!!! I'm good at "releasing". I'm not good at deciding what to build (demand) and I'm not good at the marketing side. My latest project helps you get more …
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I'm disappointed that I didn't specify any guide text, hoping it would default, but I think the image it picked for my image is pretty great given my Top Text. http://i.imgur.com&…
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I usually build an MVP all at once. I'll have a plan on Friday and start working first thing Saturday morning. Typically I work until the MVP is finished; 8 to 12 hours later. I believe an MVP s…
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This one seems to be desktop only? Non-starter for me in that case. Screenshot looks nice though.
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I reloaded it a couple times to verify that it was a joke. Unfortunately, my Grandma was looking over my shoulder and is now using this password on Facebook.
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I once heard that McDonalds was the largest toy distributer in the U.S. not Toys-R-Us, McDonalds. Not sure if it's still true, but Happy Meals are definitely a big thing. I grew up with them; man…
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I'm not sure if SHA-3 has a design goal of being fast. My understanding is that, if your using it for encryption, for example password storage, you want it to be slow. This helps with brute force…
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I'm curious where the list of users to survey came from. For the company, this should be easy, but for a guy making a cover letter, probably much more difficult.
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I'm no expert but I think if they use a cryptographic function that requires a lot of CPU cycles, such as bcrypt, it will still be hard to brute force as long as you use a secure password. It loo…
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There was a tree. Someone was trying to check it's age and his bit got stuck. He cut the tree down to retrieve his bit, finding the tree to be the oldest living (something). I don't have a l…
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So, funny thing. I have been ignoring amp results by accident. I didn't realize what they were and they look like sponsored ads, so I had complete "banner blindness" to them. Odd, now I…
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You may find you don't need the tech part. I've got that part but I suck at the deployment and marketing. Those, to me, are valuable skills. I enjoy that I have tech skills, but it's no…
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You can probably create a simple version of your idea and test it for free. GitHub, for example, will publish pages free if you are okay with making the HTML code public (and for a static site, why wo…