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31.
by cdaven 6y ago
> Reading rates were found to be fastest at 95 cpl. They only tested 35, 55, 75, and 95 characters per line (cpl)! Which means that if they had tested 120 cpl, THAT could have been "fastest".
32.
by cdaven 6y ago
I actually built a micro break reminder in AutoHotkey yesterday; every 30 minutes a (top-most) message box shows up, telling me to move and look out a window. The message box auto-closes after 30 seconds. Extremely simple! https:/&#x2
33.
by cdaven 7y ago
I read _Go It Alone!_ in 2009, and was blown away. Try it? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19029346-go-it-alone
34.
by cdaven 7y ago
Ironically, we get a whole lot of free time when we invite the kids' friends over. They disappear somewhere and play for hours and hours.
35.
by cdaven 9y ago
Because SSL certificates are a hassle to use on the client side, and possibly cumbersome to generate. I used client certificates in a few projects, and while the idea sounds perfect, it's hard to implement, and at least I don't un
36.
by cdaven 9y ago
Yes, if you mean a token that identifies a session that is saved on the server somehow. But not a JWT, which is only saved on the client and verified on the server.
37.
by cdaven 9y ago
I just stumbled on a note from the abandoned project [History.js]( https://github.com/browserstate/history.js/ ): > Despite History.js being one of the most popular JavaScript libraries there is, and has been use
38.
by cdaven 12y ago
Yes. Learning new languages and libraries is helpful to a point, but learning all new languages and libraries is a distraction.
39.
by cdaven 13y ago
What's the point of developing stuff in the first place? To make the world a better place, to learn things, to grow. Will that be accomplished so much better by switching from Perl to ASP to Ruby on Rails to Node.js to Go? Look, there
40.
by cdaven 13y ago
No good reason, no. Feel free to start your local franchise, and let me know how it goes. :-)
41.
by cdaven 13y ago
Sure, but the site is in Swedish: http://rakna.net
42.
by cdaven 13y ago
I have a quite simple web site with some calculators for taxes and stuff, that I originally built in 2007. The Google AdSense and affiliate income has grown from about $1000 per year to almost $1000 per month. It is "passive" in t
43.
by cdaven 14y ago
I had no trouble either. Do hackers hate Adobe?
44.
by cdaven 14y ago
I once spent a couple of hours writing a bash script that edited my /etc/hosts file (e.g. resolve facebook.com to 127.0.0.1), and then ran that using crontab to allow some breaks during the day. It was fun, but then I had to go back to work
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by cdaven 14y ago
I had some merge problems with SVN too (like a 6 hour merge session twice a year), but that may be due to my limited SVN knowledge and poor branch setup. As an aside, I changed jobs to another place using SVN, and when they started moving t
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by cdaven 14y ago
"Another" could imply that Darcs is new, but it's not. According to Wikipedia, the first release was in 2003. We tried using Darcs at work in 2006, but the early exponential merge issues made it impossible to use. (One time, we let Darcs tr