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by fredleblanc 10y ago
I've always found the virtual console a place where Nintendo could do better. I want to buy a license to a game and have it follow me as I upgrade to new (Nintendo-made) hardware. For example, I have Kid Icarus via the Wii Virtual Cons
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by fredleblanc 10y ago
I went back to a smartphone after having lost mine for a period of months. I regret most of it every day. There are things I like about it. The GPS, the music, the podcasts, the camera; all in my pocket. It's just all the other stuff t
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by fredleblanc 10y ago
I gave a talk on burnout and "digital overwhelm" in 2015. It's a bit of my story and some tips on coping under the weight of the world. If you're interested: https://vimeo.com/147213533 — Slides are link
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by fredleblanc 10y ago
It looks like they might be doing something for the 10 year anniversary, as a new video was posted to the lonelygirl15 page today, the first in 7 years according to the comments: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qwklfIbSAgA
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by fredleblanc 10y ago
I met Allan at a conference a couple of years ago, and after meeting him, I recall skipping most of the sessions just to pick his brain about all things business — marketing, structure, etc. He's still one of the nicest folks I've
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by fredleblanc 10y ago
Adding my own me-too onto the pile of "I made something just like this:" https://github.com/secondparty/arrange — I built it out of curiosity, and have used it in my projects, (shrug emoji). These types of pr
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by fredleblanc 10y ago
In the demo, I had to click on the screen a couple of times to get the dot to start moving around. Then, it seemed to want to follow my mouse quite a bit as I moved and clicked. I was able to greatly move the red dot when I say closer to th
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by fredleblanc 10y ago
Commas are used in PHP as a sequence of things, not multiple options. This single-pipe notation is already established as the further-up comments states.
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
One of the first things I learned about in my color theory class was how colors can change how they appear depending what other colors they're next to. In fact, some colors will fight visually when placed next to (or on top of) one ano
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
Yeah, but the process to using "reachability" in my experience is always something like: reach for the button because I can totally make it, accidental palm-press on the bottom-opposite corner, undo mistake, try again with differe
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
In my experience, it's not site designers making this decision. Especially on larger sites, many business rules come from other places that are more interested in forcing numbers to increase and don't think the whole thing through
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
If it helps, I use Disconnect, uBlock Origin, and Privacy Badger as my blocking solutions, and although they blocked a ton of stuff, I didn't get harassed about ad-block and could see the whole page. This time.
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
It turns out that watching YouTube videos of people seeing color for the first time can turn even the shittiest of days into a good one. I just lost 30 minutes down the rabbit hole. Interesting that it's not just color that I take for
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
I've always thought if the Kindle Paperwhite was just slightly nicer spec-wise, it might be my perfect tablet. Batteries that last a long time, books everywhere, a better browser would be great, a way to take notes maybe, slightly more
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
Good points all around. As a small web shop, and I'm currently overflowingly busy, as I have been for the last few years. It's probably partially luck, but I'd like to think that there a certain value that I, as a web person,
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
$360/mo becomes a lot more affordable with the scale of money self-employment brings. I looked into getting an out-of-house office with my last gig which was all-remote, couldn't afford any of them. (We also didn't have co-wo
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
I guess I picture an office as an actual office, not a room full of desks. I'm too old-fashioned. And maybe people prefer the atmosphere of co-working. I like having a place to go where I can have quiet, have music, but most importantl
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
Yes, open office environments with a culture of "interruptions are fine" doesn't help either. I guess what a need is a library that's also an office? I don't know.
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
I guess I'm the flip-side of this. I work for myself, self-employed, and my office is the best $360 I spend each month. I need separation of space. My 15 minute walk ("commute") adds to the separation of work from home. The o
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
Huh, I love the Mistborn books specifically because I found all of the names so easy to pronounce and remember. There are cultures and different species in there, and those names all felt pretty similar in structure to me. (Kandra being the
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
Woo! I worked with Will for a couple years and this is going to be a great pick up for Sublime. Nice guy, great developer.
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
It certainly doesn't seem like good long-term planning. I suppose our state traded the Olympics fiasco for this one.
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
Having spent sometime selling a bootstrapped product, your response here all sound really good to me. A problem we had was saying "yes sir, right away sir" to too many people. By the end, our product was more a mashup of what othe
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
It seems like the distinction is between "Apple/Google/Microsoft" and "Apple/Google/Microsoft services ." My gut reaction when I read it in the article was "so... not really ditching them."
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
Man, the layout bails out of side-by-side columns at 1056px wide, and the on-screen-nav only makes it down to 990px. Good use of Open Sans, though.
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ indeed! The outdoor game is gonna be great.
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
My bad team that's not near me are the Avs, so I hate you out of necessity. I'm sure you understand. :) Not that it's a great replacement, but I've really grown attached to listening to the audio-only streams through the
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
The current problem with all of these deals is blacked out games. I subscribe to the NHL GameCenter (same thing, different sport) and for the money you pay, the things you can't watch are ridiculous (it's worse than the NBA one).
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
A friend and I downloaded Signal to try it out, and just couldn't get anything to work. I'm on iOS 8, the app would just crash anytime I hit any button to make an action (send a message, even delete my account). On his end (he was
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by fredleblanc 11y ago
On this, the writing app Ulysses for the Mac had my favorite trial. I think it was an 8-hour trial? But it was 8 hours of use . I remember coming back to it late in the day after downloading it and thinking, "crap! My trial." The

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