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by ja27 13y ago
The "no gas" part is big. I don't think many people realize how much they spend on gas to run errands. A quick run to Target for something is about a 10 mile round trip from my house or about $2 in gas for a typical minivan.
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by ja27 13y ago
Also Aspartame. I know I have better focus without that junk in my system. Try it for 30 or 40 days and see.
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by ja27 13y ago
My next phase of using XENIX unfortunately never happened. I ran some version of MINIX on 8088 hardware and would gladly have picked up XENIX if it were available sub-$100 back then. Instead I migrated to DESQview, which amazed me with what
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by ja27 13y ago
XENIX was my first nix. Back around 1985 my high school had a Tandy TRS80 with the 68000 processor and 6-12 terminals. They used it to replace a Burroughs mini for the COBOL class. I just barely missed punching cards for the Burroughs and
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by ja27 13y ago
I used to work in defense electronics and I'd see the huge boards where we hand-assembled mil-spec wiring harnesses. I don't want to say they were easy but it was surprisingly low tech as far as measurement, lacing, etc. https:&#
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by ja27 13y ago
This. I've held essentially both of those jobs at 100-500 person startups and it was hard not to travel. My problems were that it was usually to destinations I didn't care about and that I'd end up working 10-12+ hours a day
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by ja27 13y ago
5. Start the Y axis at zero, not some arbitrary number to enhance the deltas. A 2% increase looks huge if your Y only covers 99% to 103%.
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by ja27 13y ago
My experience (with smaller companies) is that a couple years of experience and either asking at the right time and right way or switching companies is what it takes to upgrade your title. I've always said that early in your career you
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by ja27 13y ago
Google Helpouts? https://helpouts.google.com/home It's not trivial to get started, but my mom did medical transcription, mostly from home, for years. My brother and I even did it for a while.
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by ja27 13y ago
I used to type an equivalent of this into C64s in stores. I even had a few of these printed out. It does tend to have a lot of short loops but sometimes you get an amazingly complex path for such a simple method.
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by ja27 13y ago
Love it. Actually sitting next to my own "battery box" - a wheeled backpack with a 55 amp-hour AGM (lead acid) battery and inverter. I think I can get 3 work days out of that, but it's a lot bigger than this. Great for taking
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by ja27 13y ago
How about iOS just not showing banner / alert notifications if the user is actively interacting with the UI? If the screen's been touched in the last 30 or 60 seconds, wait until they're idle before popping up unrelated toast
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by ja27 13y ago
It doesn't look like they were going to make their funding goal. I know that a lot of money comes in on the final 2-3 days, but unless they had a pile of friends and family ready to throw in, the projections don't look good. They
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by ja27 13y ago
Or on Chromecast. I know - competitive blah blah blah - but it sucks as for us as customers. Amazon has no problem selling Chromecasts themselves, but they won't add support for them in their own apps?
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by ja27 13y ago
And all the joints look like cold solder joints instead of nice, shiny but toxic, lead-filled goodness.
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by ja27 13y ago
The winner of Make's 2014 Raspi contest does SSTV from a Pi: http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-security-Slow-S...
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by ja27 13y ago
I don't know about Target because they were one of the few major retailers we never sold to, but most of the rest run at least parts of their business on IBM mainframes. It was very common for us to work on integration projects between
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by ja27 13y ago
When I first saw Interface Builder 25 years ago, I thought it was a neat tool for the programming-impaired. Maybe it's finally getting useful but even with the latest iOS autolayout, I still prefer doing my own layout calculations in c
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by ja27 13y ago
It's been a few years since I've really had one, but corrupting or using up the stack space was the cause of a couple of cases of seemingly weird behavior in C.
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by ja27 13y ago
I was a "webmaster" in the early days. A friend of mine raytraced a bunch of colored spheres and cones to use as images for bullet lists and he eventually found them on dozens of popular site layouts. I remember the day Yahoo went
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by ja27 13y ago
The total storage is impressive enough, but what keeps amazing me is that today I toss around 4 gig files like they're nothing. Those are bigger than the entire disk array my medical imaging research lab had when I was a grad student.
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by ja27 13y ago
I should write a book of what I've seen. Just a sampler: - Publically thank the team members for working so hard on a project but leave one person off the list - Invite your entire team out for lunch but then ask for separate checks -
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by ja27 13y ago
I thought this article was going to be about Flappy Bird cloners. As soon as I saw articles about it, I knew I should write an ebook and sell source for a clone. I saw a few people doing exactly that. Wonder how well they did?
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by ja27 13y ago
Absolutely. A TRS-80 running Microsoft Xenix was my first Unix-like, back in high school. 6-12 terminals full of students typing in COBOL from their coding forms. It replaced an older Burroughs with a card punch. I thought I was learning so
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by ja27 13y ago
So removing the app from the store doesn't turn off the ad revenue unless he kills his ad account. Removing it could be kind of a shrewd way to boost downloads one last time before people move on.
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by ja27 13y ago
“You can buy a plaid shirt at Abercrombie that’s like $70,” said Daniela Donayre, 17, standing in a Topshop in Manhattan. “Or I can go to Forever 21 and buy the same shirt for $20.” Or they can go to a thrift shop and get one for $2. That
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by ja27 13y ago
I keep wondering why indie app publishing services haven't popped up to handle this. Publish your app to Google's store through them, under their label(s) and they push 70-95% of the sales revenue back to the developer. Sure it&#x
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by ja27 13y ago
Assuming you're in the northern hemisphere, this is a horrible time of year for depression. Short days, cold weather, etc. You can fight this with exercise, diet, getting outside, getting as much sunlight as you can (or using those ful
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by ja27 13y ago
Give me a way to (optionally) provide separate packages for retina / non-retina and iPad / iPhone / iPhone 5. Sucks to have iPad retina assets sitting an iPhone.
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by ja27 13y ago
No Mac SE? No clip of the "1984" SuperBowl ad?

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