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   by nfriedly 10y ago

   Mobile browsers already suspended most background stuff, and it occasionally does cause issues like that, but usually it just works. I learned this out a few years ago when trying to figure out why my metrics sometimes reported mobile visit
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   by nfriedly 11y ago

   I'd argue that you can get rich, just slowly.
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   by nfriedly 11y ago

   I wrote a PageRank library a while back and just got a report yesterday that it also no longer works. (PageRank never actually had an official API, but it was exposed for the Google toolbar. They had announced that this would go away a whil
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   by nfriedly 11y ago

   BTW, the $15 bonus he received in would be about $110 in today's dollars. Still not much, but a bit more reasonable. And, as others have said, he also received a regular salary and whatnot, so it's a bit disingenuous to say that h
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   by nfriedly 11y ago

   They're just as bad at identifying actual "weapons": I flew to South America with a layover in Miami a few years back. Got past TSA without any trouble on the domestic leg, then I had to go through again for the international
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   Modules in Node.js: Understanding the hard choice(medium.com)

   2 points by nfriedly 11y ago|0 comments
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   by nfriedly 11y ago

   I'm not a lawyer, but I believe it is legal. Crappy, but legal. There was also a strong possibility of transferring to a position in some other part of IBM, so I wouldn't be fired, just changed roles.
8. 1718.▲
   by nfriedly 11y ago

   I just narrowly avoided getting booted out of IBM Watson just because a new manager 6 layers above me wants everyone to move and I can't. This was announced as co-locating, not a layoff, but it had about the same effect for many of my
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   by nfriedly 11y ago

   Also worth mentioning: an IQ test as part of the interview process is basically illegal in the US.
10. 1720.▲
    by nfriedly 11y ago

    I think you're mistaken about localhost, this works fine for me on localhost:3000 navigator.getUserMedia({ video: true, audio: true }, console.log.bind(console, 'success'), console.log
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    by nfriedly 11y ago

    Thanks for mentioning Xing - I might be looking for something new around the beginning of next year, and while I enjoy working remote (in the US), my wife and I were just talking about how a job Europe might worth moving for :) But of cours
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    by nfriedly 11y ago

    It happened to me recently, the offer was from someone I had previously worked with who just knew and trusted me. (I also get about 1-2 recruiter spams a week and occasionally one that seems genuinely tailored to me specifically. This might
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    by nfriedly 11y ago

    Font Awesome has a good collection of brand icons (along with quite a lot of other things): http://fontawesome.io/icons/#brand
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    by nfriedly 11y ago

    It basically is the next Atom. The Atom line has seen modest improvements over recent generations to the point that it now offers almost acceptable performance for everyday tasks. Perhaps this one will take it over the line.
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    by nfriedly 11y ago

    Nice! Shameless plug: I'm working on a SDK to make the Watson speech services easier to use in web browsers. It's still got a few rough edges, but it's usable right now, and I'd love to hear feedback from other devs: ht
16. 1726.▲
    by nfriedly 11y ago

    I had a teacher in high school who liked to mention that "any diode can be light-emitting, once." Still makes me chuckle :)
17. 1727.▲
    by nfriedly 11y ago

    There are tons of taxes on gasoline, so you do pay more taxes to drive a low MPG vehicle. It's not quite what the parent meant, but it is something. Gasoline is one of the few products sold in the US where the advertised price includes
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    by nfriedly 11y ago

    Location: near Dayton, Ohio Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, ES6, Bootstrap, Java, Python, C#, Ruby, Express, React, Redux, Angular, REST, WebSockets, API Design, IoT/Embedded, DevOps,
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    Docco: Quick JavaScript Documentation(davidwalsh.name)

    2 points by nfriedly 11y ago|0 comments
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    by nfriedly 11y ago

    Not quite the same thing, but I have a friend who naturally has a Midwestern accent. She told me once that when she used to be a waitress, she got way better tips by faking a British or Australian accent.
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    Michael Crichton: Why Speculate?(larvatus.com)

    3 points by nfriedly 11y ago|1 comments
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    Electronic Rule-Breakers That Crept into Everything We Use(hackaday.com)

    3 points by nfriedly 11y ago|0 comments
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    My Accidental $1200 Google Bill(us7.campaign-archive1.com)

    2 points by nfriedly 11y ago|1 comments
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    Functional Programming for JavaScript People(medium.com)

    3 points by nfriedly 11y ago|0 comments
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    by nfriedly 11y ago

    If you're not using your Android Wear, then I'd recommend that you sell it on swappa (or wherever, but I like swappa). You'll get a few bucks, and (hopefully) someone else will be happy to use it.
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    by nfriedly 11y ago

    It's 100MB chunks, and you can compress it with opus or flac to squeeze in more audio per chunk :)
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    by nfriedly 11y ago

    I moved from SF to Ohio and kept my pay. Then switched companies a year later and got a raise. I see your point, but I like my version even better :)
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    by nfriedly 11y ago

    Hey folks, I work on the Watson team at IBM, and wanted to clarify a couple of things about this demo. The default classifier set is good for getting started and getting an idea of how the service works, but it's only been trained on a
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    by nfriedly 11y ago

    I've been to Venezuela a couple of times and have friends there currently. I'd ask them how they are doing, except that we usually communicate over Skype and Hangouts... I believe they'll be alright though. The one family I k
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    by nfriedly 11y ago

    Yep. I always chuckle* a little bit when I see a family member go to Google, type "facebook.com" in the search box, then click the first result. *It beats crying.