andrewheins

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by andrewheins 11y ago
If you thought this was cool, the new Esquire Classic just launched ( http://classic.esquire.com/ ), and Nieman wrote a new, more current article on it ( http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/how-esquire-b
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LaunchKey - Authentication without passwords(launchkey.com)
2 points by andrewheins 13y ago|0 comments
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by andrewheins 13y ago
This article was doomed the moment it was conceived. You cannot recreate art or art assets based on an oral description. Of course the markup looks awful, you can't describe the Mona Lisa over the phone to your editor as "a portra
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DuctTake: Magical Video Scene Compositing (disneyresearch.com)
2 points by andrewheins 13y ago|0 comments
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ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone(kickstarter.com)
79 points by andrewheins 13y ago|49 comments
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by andrewheins 14y ago
I think we've all recognized the lack of context this actually provides. Something for a scientist's history books could mean jack to the general public.
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by andrewheins 14y ago
This kind of thing happens often, where you've got "news", but can't disclose until it's final. In these situations it can be helpful to use some kind of scale or domain reference. "We've got some pretty exciting news coming up, and we thin
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by andrewheins 14y ago
Nice. I created this exact same calculator in the spreadsheet I'm using for my freelancing. It's kind of amusing how few knobs there are to twiddle for freelancing.
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by andrewheins 14y ago
Wow, they tried to jack everything about The Oatmeal's style, but did a poor job of it. Love feedburner, but you have to wonder why they couldn't be themselves.
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Goodbye Blackberry(andrewheins.ca)
2 points by andrewheins 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewheins 14y ago
Actually, I have opposite preferences, so I can't really help, but I don't enjoy drinking water that isn't cold. I wind up having four or five water bottles that I cycle through refrigerating/drinking/refilling. It's kind of annoying.
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Journalling in the Age of Smartphones(andrewheins.ca)
2 points by andrewheins 14y ago|0 comments
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LinkedIn: The Unkillable Spam Monster(andrewheins.ca)
1 points by andrewheins 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewheins 14y ago
Instead of conjecture, here's how I got started as a freelance dev, starting 6 months ago. You need a decent portfolio site Design and build in in WordPress or something similar. Prove your design chops here by having a well-design, funct
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by andrewheins 14y ago
Apparently not? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_shock#Bow_shock_theory_for_...
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by andrewheins 14y ago
See, that's really interesting. I wonder if that's been patched since then. It just seems weird to have a tld absent a host.
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by andrewheins 14y ago
And thus my question about a conventional default. It just seems to me that buying the gTLD will leave users fairly confused. If you want to access Apple (generically), users will still go to apple.com because even if they know that there's
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by andrewheins 14y ago
Is there a default domain for these tlds? Let's take .home for example. How will this work when typing it into a browser? If you have my.home, it makes sense. If you type www.home, it really looks ugly, but I guess it works, and we've spent
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by andrewheins 14y ago
A site for cross device apps where you can't access the navigation on a screen smaller than 1280. Another example of a potentially great technology that loses credibility at a critical juncture due to execution details.
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Silicon Valley’s star designers push aside programmer nerds(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by andrewheins 14y ago|3 comments
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Intro to Root Cause Analysis(andrewheins.ca)
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by andrewheins 15y ago
Explain to me how this is substantially different than a musician writing a piece of music, someone else taking the sheet music and going on tour with it. By supporting Obtvse, you're stating that a composer's work (the act of creating beau
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by andrewheins 15y ago
I love his type of content publishing. It works the same way as the Humble Bundles. If you give something away for free, I'll take it for free. If you give me the option to pay $0, and give me a reasonable suggested price(this book), I'll p
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Programmer Self-Doubt: Embracing the Demons(andrewheins.ca)
2 points by andrewheins 15y ago|0 comments
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by andrewheins 15y ago
I'm trying to come up with something more interesting to say than "Wow". I've wished I had this a few times. I think the only thing that you lose here is access to an actual "diff", but visually, you get most of it. Grats on a fantastic ach
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by andrewheins 15y ago
"Oh my God," said Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and before that the top lawyer at the National Security Agency. "That could allow people to imitate almost any company on the Net." Does an
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by andrewheins 15y ago
I recently had to reactivate my long-dead account so I could develop apps on the Facebook platform. Otherwise, I prefer Twitter.
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Hobby to Livelihood: So You Want to Become a Web Developer(andrewheins.ca)
1 points by andrewheins 15y ago|0 comments
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by andrewheins 15y ago
For a full-time developer, I agree with the OP insofar as Linux and Mac are largely interchangeable. I develop on Linux and love it. The biggest exception is for anyone involved in graphics, front-end development, or often works with graphi
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by andrewheins 15y ago
It should be mentioned that this creates problems of its own. Toronto Police recently released their numbers, and 18% of the calls to 911 were pocket dials created by those "emergency call" buttons. We're talking hundreds of thousands of ca

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