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by jefflinwood 10y ago
Finished a multiple-year quest to complete a marathon or longer distance in all 50 US states by finishing in Hawaii in January. Oddly enough, what I learned is that the type of shape I was in to run/walk a marathon slowly on back-to-ba
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Inside Nike’s Quest for the Impossible: A Two-Hour Marathon(wired.com)
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by jefflinwood 10y ago
I still get royalties from programming books I wrote about ten years ago - the content has been updated by other authors in the mean time, and the corresponding royalty split has declined, but I don't do anything active either. On the
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by jefflinwood 10y ago
One particular reason is that historic sites that contain Mississippian culture mounds aren't that interesting - they are very hard to interpret, and there isn't much known about the underlying civilization. I visit many of these
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by jefflinwood 10y ago
Fascinating - I have an HP Stream 7, and it's just a little too slow as a Windows tablet to be worth using for casual web browsing or Windows apps. The form factor is great - it's a little thicker than a Nexus 7 tablet (closer to
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App Store Improvements(developer.apple.com)
79 points by jefflinwood 10y ago|64 comments
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by jefflinwood 10y ago
Neither - I'd focus on staying in Atlanta where you can be a big fish in a smaller pond, rather than yet another startup in NYC or SF. Several reasons: * More likely to get local press in Atlanta, because the "scene" is small
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by jefflinwood 10y ago
I think the problem might be that users of ad blockers have traditionally been a little more passive - possibly 99% never provide input about an ad, and 1% contribute. Facebook ads are targeted, so not all users will see the same image at t
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Facebook Blocks Ad Blockers, but It Strives to Make Ads More Relevant(nytimes.com)
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by jefflinwood 10y ago
Don't know of any here in Austin off the top of my head, but a quick search on Indeed reveals that HomeAway and Spiceworks are looking for developers who know Go - of course, that could just be for a pilot project or something.
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by jefflinwood 10y ago
Hi, I've built a similar mobile app for both iOS and Android (as two native applications, not sharing a code base), built on top of Parse as the back-end-as-a-service. I also teach mobile app development at the university level. I don&
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by jefflinwood 10y ago
I'd strongly suggest getting away from the city. If you've only got patience for a short drive, Costanoa in Pescadero (halfway to Santa Cruz) is a great getaway for a couple of days. Further away, I'd suggest Trinidad, Pinnac
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Apple updates its 12-inch MacBook with faster chip, but no extra USB(cnet.com)
25 points by jefflinwood 11y ago|31 comments
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Announcing the Publication of Parse Server with Azure Managed Services(azure.microsoft.com)
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
The good news from this announcement is that they aren't shutting the service down, as their costs have now fallen enough that they are cash flow positive. Prior discussion on HN about a $6 million Series A, raised two years ago: http
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
The bike track in the photos makes more sense considering that SRAM is a bike components manufacturer. In Austin, the biggest concerns for bike commutes (for those within an easy commute) are secure bike parking and showers/changing fa
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
Previous versions of the MapBox SDK had offline tile caching, for both Android and iOS. Worked really well if you could know which tiles you needed to download in advance. This update is for the new version of their SDK, Mapbox GL. When the
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
Bringing document collaboration side-by-side with team communication could have a positive effect on productivity, and Slack could roll it into the per user pricing they already have.
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
Here's a list of Microsoft's announced acquisitions: https://www.microsoft.com/investor/Stock/AcquisitonHistory/A... (warning, asked for an MS Login first) From their results from previous acquisiti
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Accelerating Drupal 8 Adoption(acquia.com)
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Startup founder alleges VCs stole his business(bizjournals.com)
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
I thought it was great that you brought up debugging as a specific pain point, especially in the context of beginning programmers. I teach a semester-long class on programming iOS apps to journalism majors, and debugging is a really complic
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
Learn Swift now, and then Objective-C later. I think one of the biggest misconceptions with the migration to Swift is that it will be a lot easier to be an iOS developer with no experience. After teaching new to programming students iOS dev
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
Just tried it, it's pretty easy to use. I would suggest making the List more prominent. Also, maybe a button to directly tweet out the image? One UX Note - I didn't know that what I posted would be publicly listed in the List (did
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
I was able to find an interesting report that compares e-book circulation to printed book circulation, along with a lot of other statistics and research. http://the-digital-reader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/1
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
I was just trying to figure out what problem developers had that you were trying to solve. From your web site, it appears that your thesis is that (some) developers have a problem using multiple API's from multiple providers, and you a
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
This seems more complicated than just using the original APIs, as none of the sample applications or StackOverflow questions you might find with a quick Google (for instance, creating a capability token with Twilio) would apply any more. As
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
Because it's more than a hobby, I'd suggest looking into Amazon Web Services (AWS), in particular, Elastic Beanstalk - checkout the links here for more details: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/late
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
Interesting to see that many of these startups are enterprise software-as-a-service companies (NextDoor being an obvious exception). A lot of them seem like they would be very compelling demos during pre-sales, but very tough to fully imple
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by jefflinwood 11y ago
I'd suggest taking a look at the Hiring thread that comes out on 1/1/2016 to see if there are any openings.

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