patrickread

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by patrickread 7y ago
Came here for the 3D printing of unicorn animals using lasers. Disappointing.
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by patrickread 9y ago
Having been involved with chargebacks from both the consumer and company perspective, for the company, it can be really frustrating when customers chargeback without ever trying to contact you. Often, the company is happy to rectify the sit
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by patrickread 9y ago
My dad's life was saved 10 years ago via a bone marrow transplant from an English woman. He was being treated for Leukemia. Thanks for promoting this cause!
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by patrickread 9y ago
Health care and dental care providers tend to still like faxes. It's still a thing, unfortunately.
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by patrickread 10y ago
If you're OK with using a third-party and would rather stick to GUI's, Virtru is a very easy solution for email encryption: https://www.virtru.com/
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by patrickread 10y ago
Too bad. Being in Columbus, 3 hours from Pittsburgh, I'd love to road trip there just to try a self-driving Uber. But not sure I would if you have no way of dependably hailing one.
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by patrickread 10y ago
Yea, I agree with this one as well. Hire slowly; fire fast. But, even if it's fast, firing wastes a bunch of time for a bunch of people. Missing out on a good one sucks, but in the best relationships both sides will wait for the right
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by patrickread 11y ago
I noticed it on here last night (ET) between news of Grove's death and the Brussels bombing. Not trying to be pedantic, but it definitely seems to be in honor of Andy Grove.
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by patrickread 11y ago
Also an Aptible customer, went down a similar route from Heroku to Aptible. Like it so far! Also have had impressively short conversations with SaaS product companies after the acronym HIPAA or BAA is brought up.
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by patrickread 11y ago
Yea, I was using Github for Mac previously, and all of my non-Github projects ported over to the Github Desktop app. Like the other reply said, you just have to manually clone and the 'Add' it.
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by patrickread 11y ago
Beam Technologies | Columbus, OH | On-Site, Full-Time We're a venture backed company shaking up the dental insurance market, and dental care in general. More info: https://beam.dental/careers You can email me directly
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by patrickread 12y ago
> How did you handle getting your browser to talk to a server running on a different port? (Cross-origin requests). https://github.com/cyu/rack-cors I used that gem recently, and it fixed my issue. Just added the de
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by patrickread 12y ago
Geez, just a joke guys
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by patrickread 12y ago
Misleading title... Definitely read this as a version of GitHub software that works on Windows 2.0 (as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.0 ).
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by patrickread 12y ago
Read more carefully. "Of course, this will vary from company to company. Facetime wasn’t valued at the big company I worked at, for instance."
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by patrickread 12y ago
I have to agree with this for the most part, coming from the startup side. I'm on my second startup (started at age 23), both of which I was unfortunately the most senior, and at times, the only developer. There are often times that I
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Can Big Data Save Horse Racing?(uproarlabs.com)
2 points by patrickread 12y ago|0 comments
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It’s the Wild West, so Buy a Saloon: Facebook Acquires Oculus for $2B(uproarlabs.com)
1 points by patrickread 13y ago|0 comments
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Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham(youtube.com)
1 points by patrickread 13y ago|0 comments
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by patrickread 13y ago
You can attach photos in Hangouts. I do so on iOS and desktop all the time.
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What QR Codes Have in Common with Jaws 3-D(blackstonemedia.com)
1 points by patrickread 13y ago|0 comments
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by patrickread 13y ago
Also if you look at the page, you can see you can change who you share the check-in with. It's just like Facebook app integrations: you can switch the share settings to "only me" if you want a private check-in if you're
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by patrickread 13y ago
ChromeCast worked with my iOS devices immediately on release. Google craps on competitor stuff a lot less than others do.
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by patrickread 13y ago
"minor fender benders" The second crash in Mexico definitely was not. “This was a significant accident where the car was traveling at such a high speed that it smashed through a concrete wall and then hit a large tree, yet the dri
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by patrickread 13y ago
I have the Yoga 13, and I liked the tablet configuration option a lot. I'd use it more if there were more nice Windows 8 Metro apps, but I imagine that'll come with time.
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by patrickread 13y ago
Why is "Mobile _____" overly specific, but something like "JavaScript Developer" or "SEO Specialist" isn't? Responsive design/developing could definitely fall under "Front End Developer", bu