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by swanson 14y ago
Email as the interface is really interesting to me. Users don't necessarily need a username/password combo. They don't need to learn a new workflow. They don't need to install any new tools. Company IT depts take care of making sure people
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by swanson 14y ago
I agree about the motivation aspect - should I write a glowing review of a book that I didn't like to generate more clicks? Even if I write honestly, will it be perceived as disingenuous because of affiliate links? I turned on the affiliate
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by swanson 14y ago
If anyone is interested in turning on Amazon Affiliates for a technical blog, I collected some data over the past few months. I put a single affiliate link on my technical book reviews (sample: http://swanson.github.com/writeup/2012/10/29/
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by swanson 14y ago
Hah! Where are the Linux neckbeards now? Another day, another Linux vulnerability it seems like. Honestly, how much longer are we going to build on this house of shaky cards? Did they really think that letting a race condition happen on PTR
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by swanson 14y ago
A killer feature of Google Now that was actually helpful (no, baseball scores don't count) is when it detects you are traveling. I had a receipt from EventBrite in my Gmail for a conference in Chicago. The day I drove up there, Google Now
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by swanson 14y ago
http://www.rubymotion.com/support/#faq Discount for students/academics.
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by swanson 14y ago
You are correct! http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=favic... Case closed :)
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by swanson 14y ago
Sure, my use-case is that I have a few toy side-project apps. Serious enough that I'll drop $15 for a .com domain and could part with $5 for a nice favicon, but not enough that I really care enough to spend $50 (since they don't make revenu
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by swanson 14y ago
For me, it would have to be less than the price of the domain - which is typically ~$12-15 dollars. Keeping it a single-digit dollar amount makes it seem like a small price, mentally. I don't know why, but that's just my gut reaction :)
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by swanson 14y ago
Sure - it uses the TraktTv API ( http://trakt.tv/api-docs ) which I believe is based on the TheTVDB. I picked that one because it had JSON (TheTVDB uses XML and you have to request a key). I run a cron job that polls the API once a day to c
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by swanson 14y ago
I'd pay $5 a pop for a custom favicon - I give you an image, you pixelart it. Not the crappy png-to-ico converters, but an actual person that knows what they are doing. Maybe even $9 if you let me pick from 3 options. My current approach is
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by swanson 14y ago
More of an anti-productivity tool, but I built a small app to manage my TV watching queue because I wasn't happy with any of the 5+ alternatives I tried. http://www.queuerunner.com/ https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner The "Killer Fe
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by swanson 14y ago
It is somewhat annoying when a link's "natural title" is not good and the submitter improves it - only to have it reverted. It is somewhat annoying when a link has a misleading "natural title" but is not changed. In short, I like editing wh
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by swanson 14y ago
Food for thought, here is a visualization I've made in an app for tracking team mood: http://i.imgur.com/PUUYGKI.png It's pretty easy to spot what days were good, bad, and in between. You can start to see patterns (Every other Tuesday see
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by swanson 14y ago
I'm a big fan of Personal MBA - there are short, digestible chunks about the general business topics, with curated references if you want to dig deeper. Great format IMO Thanks Josh!
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Evaluating Technical Arguments(swanson.github.com)
4 points by swanson 14y ago|0 comments
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Evaluating Technical Arguments(swanson.github.com)
1 points by swanson 14y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 14y ago
I love, love, love this. I've been quite interested in figuring out how to turn multiple/complex input into a single, actionable value (it is pretty damn hard!) - and this project is a great example.
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by swanson 14y ago
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by swanson 14y ago
This is pretty cringeworthy. I know probably everyone has made an offhanded jab about someone else's software (I know I have) - but in these days of twitter and real-time notifications, we have to remember that the real person behind someth
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by swanson 14y ago
It's linked to in the first paragraph.
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by swanson 14y ago
Fixed, thanks. https://github.com/swanson/swanson.github.com/commit/81c14ed...
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by swanson 14y ago
The better fix - which I mentioned as well - is to use `2+3i` instead of `2+3*i`. The former will always use sqrt(-1).
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by swanson 14y ago
Ya - I was going for a reference to Comic Book Guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Guy Thought the periods would make it clear. Oh well! EDIT: Looks like the periods got removed from the title - I can see why that would make the
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by swanson 14y ago
Ha! Glad I could help :)
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Worst Bug Ever(swanson.github.com)
112 points by swanson 14y ago|115 comments
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by swanson 14y ago
Would be cool to be able to transition between different "sounds" in a "set" - right now you can just tack them together with nothing like a fade in/out.
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by swanson 14y ago
You can submit your own via pull request: https://github.com/rememberaaronsw/rememberaaronsw
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by swanson 14y ago
If you are using Jekyll, Github Pages is a no-brainer. Free, fast, and Jekyll works out of the box.
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by swanson 14y ago
I've been using http://www.getsomeheadspace.com/ for the past 2 weeks and it's pretty good. No religion or chi/chakra bullshit. Good mobile app. Free to try the "Take 10" program. I like it because it's <10 minutes from sign up to sit

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