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by joelcollinsdc 10y ago
The made the mistake of asking this to my gf who is a teacher for visually impaired kids. Braille is reading, and listening to earbuds is not reading. We teach our sighted kids to read even though they could just all have audiobooks, just
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by joelcollinsdc 10y ago
Saw this on medium and got excited. Checked for commentary on HN, and found Gomix was posted to HN 4 times with little fanfare ( https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gomix.com ). Now when a tech celebrity posts about it, t
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by joelcollinsdc 10y ago
I looked at it years ago and found some weird gaps, where certain addresses would return nothing. What are you replacing it with?
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by joelcollinsdc 10y ago
Looks like this API does a lot of the heavy lifting for this: https://developers.google.com/civic-information/docs/v2/
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by joelcollinsdc 10y ago
This was a really vexing article to read. No mention of other benefits of having a startup mentality inside the federal government, or any of the other benefits that groups like 18F or USDS have had.
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by joelcollinsdc 11y ago
maybe i'm just typing too fast. I tried "the best marigold" (for the best marigold hotel). I watched the i in marigold disappear from the search box. Deleting the string (by holding down the delete key, the X works just fi
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by joelcollinsdc 11y ago
There is an abundance of poorly written react apps popping up everywhere. Go to netflix and search for movies... the experience is terrible. The search box lags typing by a long shot. So much so its almost impossible to type in the full
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by joelcollinsdc 11y ago
love the idea for your startup. hope to use it this summer!
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by joelcollinsdc 11y ago
Perhaps this is a dumb question, but what should the torrent time developers have done differently to have local valid TLS without bundling a private key?
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by joelcollinsdc 11y ago
I'm surprised that this isn't as appalling to others as it is to me. Yes, I'm very disturbed that every time a police car drives past my car, a record is created in a database. The government basically knows everything abou
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by joelcollinsdc 11y ago
US House of Representatives Office of the CAO | Washington, DC | Full Time The CAO's Web Systems group manages websites, APIs, and a multitude of web applications for the US House of Representatives. The position is for a non-senior d
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by joelcollinsdc 11y ago
Great list. A few questions: * How could this be used to test 'corrupt' characters? Isn't the process of savign the file itself as UTF-8 un-corrupt...the file? * Is there some recommended way to group these into "strin
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by joelcollinsdc 11y ago
Office of the Clerk, US House of Representatives | Washington, DC | Full Time | ONSITE The Office of the Clerk is responsible for managing a large body of congressional data. Senior Software Engineer (Backend Web Developer) Senior Software
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by joelcollinsdc 11y ago
> I'd encourage you to hop on a plane, and go visit some congressional staffers and ask them how they'd like to receive your messages. Then build a tool starting from there. Like it or not, they're the customer. This is th
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by joelcollinsdc 11y ago
Arguably too simplistic, but http://todomvc.com/
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by joelcollinsdc 12y ago
yes 40-50 alternate hostnames can be added per cert. There is significant overhead to managing these and that still means in the most extreme case we could require several SAN certs to get full coverage.
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by joelcollinsdc 12y ago
the certificates themselves are a small fraction of the cost, our cdn provider's monthly costs for hosting the certificates are the lions share.
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by joelcollinsdc 12y ago
While it seems easy, there are lots of challenges with this where I work. We have 10+ different 'top level' domains (*.example.org), lots of sub-sub domains example.example.example.org, and route everything through an external CD
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by joelcollinsdc 12y ago
also: http://todomvc.com/examples/react/#/
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by joelcollinsdc 12y ago
The guy in the video is the same guy from the Coin concept videos...
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by joelcollinsdc 12y ago
The word "offer" is used misleadingly here. Its a guarantee that if you work for 60 hours a week you will earn at least $10,000 a month.
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18F Digital Services Delivery(18f.gsa.gov)
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by joelcollinsdc 12y ago
Its pedantic, but I think this is sublty different than what is being dicussed here. All over the US, there are situations where 2 lanes converge to 1 and drivers "take turns" merging. But I think the scenario that is being disc
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by joelcollinsdc 12y ago
"After weeks of public outcry over the proposal, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said the agency would not allow for unfair, or "commercially unreasonable," business practices. He wouldn't accept, for instance, practices that l
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by joelcollinsdc 12y ago
The US House of Reps is almost done with development for an API (that was spearheaded by outside organizations like CMF) for 'campaign' communications (communications where the majority of the messages are 'similar') fro
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by joelcollinsdc 13y ago
> If request rates like these bring your site down, you have a serious software problem. Either that or you chose a CMS to host your website (Drupal Commerce?). 50-100 uncached application requests/sec is pretty high for a larger (
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by joelcollinsdc 13y ago
been around longer and funner: http://www.geoguessr.com/
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by joelcollinsdc 13y ago
i thought it was determined that the access was obtained by tapping unencrypted interlinks between datacenters? can you provide citations of the 'willingness' part of this?
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by joelcollinsdc 13y ago
How does one figure out the snapchat API? Presumably the network traffic is encrypted, were the secret keys extracted from the snapchat app somehow?
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by joelcollinsdc 13y ago
Suprised there is not more commentary going on here, this was a great article.

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