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by dtjohnnymonkey 8y ago
Awesome! The downside is that I couldn't find the MIDIs that come with Windows 95 like Claire De Lune. The upside is that I found these gems while searching for them: https://laughingsquid.com/windows-95-startup-sound-o
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by dtjohnnymonkey 8y ago
This is one of my favorite tricks. The nice thing is that it still works if you’re ssh’ed into a remote host. If I’m feeling nostalgic I’ll do ‘... && say “files done”’ (which only works locally)
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by dtjohnnymonkey 9y ago
One of my all-time favorite quotes is from this essay. It gives a lot of color into how we all get sucked in to technology. “It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious. We won't be able to construct machines like ours
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by dtjohnnymonkey 10y ago
I have an app that is market-priced. The more paying customers, the higher the price goes. This is fun for a hobby site but probably not suitable for a real business.
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by dtjohnnymonkey 10y ago
one trick for remembering pins is to decide a number that acts like an encryption key for all your cards. Then calculate the PIN by adding the key to four digits on the card. Then you only have to remember the key.
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by dtjohnnymonkey 10y ago
I just read this article today and thought a great idea would be to develop a platform for simplifying the process for starting up community credit unions. Kind of like Stripe Atlas but for credit unions. It could benefit a lot of small com
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by dtjohnnymonkey 10y ago
I have a friend who is an artist that spent the last 10 years working on his painting skills. I observed one interesting parallel between developing skills as a painter and as a programmer based on conversations with him. Beginning painter
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by dtjohnnymonkey 10y ago
Can someone explain the risk of something like Mac OS Mail asking for your gmail password? There's no address bar so I've wondered if I can really trust that I'm not handing my password to a MITM.
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by dtjohnnymonkey 10y ago
Arq + Dropbox I used to back up to Glacier but I was already paying for Dropbox so I moved everything there.
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by dtjohnnymonkey 10y ago
You might try this from my co-worker: https://github.com/sethgrid/multibar
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by dtjohnnymonkey 10y ago
What's the purpose of explicitly specifying the "random_padding" parameter? Couldn't the client send any arbitrary unused query argument as padding?
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by dtjohnnymonkey 10y ago
On OS X I usually do 'cmd && say "files done" || say error'
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by dtjohnnymonkey 10y ago
When I was in 6th grade (~1993), someone's dad came to talk about our class about the "superhighway of information" or the "information highway". It always bugged me that he didn't say "information superhi
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by dtjohnnymonkey 10y ago
Textdropapp.com - web-based plain text editor for Dropbox. It started off as a scratch to my own itch, and I listed it in the Dropbox app directory. I started collecting feature requests and after a year or so I completely rewrote it as a p
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by dtjohnnymonkey 11y ago
I worked on IFE systems at Panasonic for several years. The so-called "head-end" (server-side) services my team worked on were written in C++ or PHP. I saw a lot PHP going on there. The server limitations weren't as strict as
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by dtjohnnymonkey 11y ago
Your second bridge might not be better if this turns out to be true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_seco...
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by dtjohnnymonkey 12y ago
I've been thinking of a similar idea, but instead of text-to-speech, doing something like choir.io and playing positive, negative, or neutral sounds. The resultant noise would give you enough information to get a feel for what's
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by dtjohnnymonkey 12y ago
https://www.textdropapp.com - web-based text editor (like nvALT), integrates with Dropbox This was a scratch-your-itch project that started out in 2010 as a Heroku app that I threw together for myself. Over the the years I colle
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I’m Not Great at Technical Interviews. How I Got Hired.(sendgrid.com)
10 points by dtjohnnymonkey 13y ago|0 comments
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by dtjohnnymonkey 13y ago
One of my favorite Amazon experiences: I rented a movie via Amazon Instant Video, but had some bandwidth issues which caused the movie to pause and buffer at least 10 times. The next day, Amazon sent me an email saying they noticed I had a
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by dtjohnnymonkey 13y ago
Also, Doug McIlroy: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sinclair/doug/
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by dtjohnnymonkey 13y ago
A workaround is to offer a refund if the user is not satisfied. I wonder how many sign ups would be lost to people who purely just do not want to enter payment info (vs users who don't want to commit).
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by dtjohnnymonkey 13y ago
It forces an honest decision. Will I really get value out of this product, enough to justify paying for it? If someone is not getting $19 worth of value out of Workable, then we’re not solving a real problem they have. This is
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by dtjohnnymonkey 13y ago
I've had a Fastmail account for about 10 years and the spam filtering is nowhere near as good as Gmail. There are some days I'll see 20-30 spam messages in my inbox.
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by dtjohnnymonkey 13y ago
I made my web app side project (a text editor for Dropbox) into a paid product. Once traffic picked up on the original (free) app and I gathered feature requests from users, I rewrote the app from scratch and charged for that while keeping
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A Guy Who Tried to Start YouTube(confessionsfroma.com)
2 points by dtjohnnymonkey 13y ago|0 comments
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by dtjohnnymonkey 13y ago
I also feel like I'm not very good at in-person interviews because I'm not very good on-the-spot. I mitigated this by using a variation of "The Briefcase Technique" which I learned from Ramit Sethi. The company I interviewed with is in the
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by dtjohnnymonkey 14y ago
Congrats Jeremy and team! I picked up Backbone a couple of years ago (around 0.6). It is balanced at the perfect level of abstraction for me. There have been a ton of frameworks coming up over the last few years but none of them beat Backbo
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by dtjohnnymonkey 14y ago
About every 6 months I do some Googling to see if I can get Homeworld to run on my Mac. I still have fond memories of playing it in my freshman dorm room 12 years ago. This technique reminds of silhouette preservation techniques in computer
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by dtjohnnymonkey 14y ago
I totally agree with this: > Seriously – I don’t care about “2.0” or “3.0”. Just give us incremental updates and charge a yearly fee. Everybody wins. I've built a web-based text editor which I sell for a yearly subscription. What I li

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