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codazoda
4,738karma·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'm a developer and plan to get the new MacBook Pro. I just don't use function or escape keys that much. So, it seems like it's a subset of developers that are bothered by this. I used …
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I've never been able to find a room last minute by stopping in a hotel and asking to stay the night. They always say they're full.
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At my company we created an auto loading video that all the devs agreed was terrible. It was compared, statistically, to one that didn't auto play. Sure, 10% of users left immediately, killing tr…
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And also not very enforceable in some areas. I got legal advice on this from my own attorney some 20 years ago. I had created a piece of software on the side while working under a contract that said s…
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Innovating or holding on? They don't seem to be holding on in the case of "Dongle Gate". They switched to the new stuff early and are letting everyone else catch up. In a couple years U…
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It's even a good comparison that they used the 13" model. At first I expected the 15" to have a better ppi, but the 13" has a 227 PPI and the 15" has a 220 ppi.
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Like others have said, these are inevitable. One thing I worry about in warfare is that some enemies have less work to do because they have a different moral compass. Take a terrorist organization for…
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It's probably just bad English but it really sounds like, "everyone gets hacked, we don't care".
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Good point that we need to think about. I'm more worried about caps in landlines. A similar problem exists there, however. Here's a good article on it. https://www.nngroup.com…
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"From early 2015 to early 2016 there was a 56% increase in data usage according to Cisco." And there you see the problem with data caps (common among mobile carriers but swiftly coming to ca…
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Hate paywalls. Wish they weren't allowed here.
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Sure, they could, but it doesn't make business sense. This scheme might even cause a class action lawsuit from the people who bought it AFTER they knew it was fraud but BEFORE they removed it. Re…
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It was more than that, originally, it just degraded over time. They also bought up all the good competitors (softseek anyone?) and then killed them off.
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They can't give you advanced notice for "fraud" though. If your app actually commits fraud it's got to go right away to limit the amount of fraud you commit. They at least think …
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Are you serious? A digital photo translated to PNG is going to be quite large. PNG has it's place, for sure, but it doesn't compress photographs like JPEG does. PNG is great for line art, so…
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I use Dropbox on 2 machines which means I have 3 copies of everything. I use Github for source code (in Dropbox and Github) and I use Google Photo's for my pictures (free and also in both places)…
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I do this with jekyll and github but without s3 or travis-ci. I skimmed over the blog but couldn't understand what value s3 adds vs letting github host it. Cloudflare can do the https bits with g…
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White screen of death upon registration in the app.
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How is this shit post the top post right now? Uhg.
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Good. They're going slow, starting with fingerprinting and supercookies, which is nice for users. I welcome the end of Flash. I personally killed flash from Chrome about a year ago. I've see…
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I'm a programmer and I would prefer to negotiate via email. All those counter points could have been raised in the response instead of a little fit.
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This is great work. A lot of hate in this thread. But this app is free, open source with a MIT license, and super easy to use and nice looking.
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Plus one on this. Switching to full screen (on a mac) should just go into "presentation" mode and show only the slide.
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Makes me wonder... How did this country become such a global supplier?
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If sites did server-side incorporation it would probably be nearly as fast as the site itself and therefore solve the problem Opera says they are trying to solve (web speed).
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I ended up writing 351 words in 5 minutes (70wpm). I've been meaning to write a weekly blog post for a while now, and I've set aside an hour for research, but I keep talking myself out of ac…
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He explains, in the article, checking this with the person he replaced before he went on his deployment. He specifically mentions GitHub and Heroku.
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I read this and thought it sounded a lot like my reality. Then, I expected to come to these comments and hear arguments against these thoughts. Glad to see a lot of us agree with much of it.