wierdaaron

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by wierdaaron 7y ago
A lot could be gained by simply storing the jQuery objects instead of doing the lookups multiple times per method. That’s a lot of unnecessary dom traversal.
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by wierdaaron 8y ago
How big is the local cache of the network on each client device?
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by wierdaaron 8y ago
He’s not mad, he’s actually laughing.
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by wierdaaron 9y ago
What we liked about The Screen Savers and ZDTV/TechTV in general was that it was the first time somebody was actually talking to a wide audience about the computers, the web, and gadgets. It was ice water in a desert. Now, there is no
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by wierdaaron 9y ago
"Insanely great" is a Steve Jobs-ism, so in the context of Apple it's usually a reference to that.
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by wierdaaron 10y ago
If anyone is the Kim Kardashian of tech it's Kevin Rose.
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by wierdaaron 10y ago
I assume you use it to hack streetlights and steam pipes like in Watch Dogs.
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by wierdaaron 10y ago
There's probably also a bit of "Apple and Google have solar and fuel cell covered, where can we make an impact?" involved. Not a bad thing. We need to be investing and experimenting with lots of different alternative energy s
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by wierdaaron 10y ago
They're handling the CC processing and the whole checkout flow, too. It's not so much a shipping company as a "sell stuff online" company. I don't get why they're presenting themselves that way.
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by wierdaaron 10y ago
It sounds like the brain will only sleep as deeply as it's safe to. That lines up more with the results in the article than the notion that it's directly about how many times you've been in that location before. When you&#x27
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by wierdaaron 10y ago
Dan Lyons was Fake Steve Jobs, then was a gadget writer where he was a frequent doomsayer of Apple and complained endlessly about the lack of access and review units Apple gave him. When he left that job and went to an advertising startup i
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by wierdaaron 11y ago
Any art or writing instrument store will have gobs or pens and pencils (or lead inserts for mechanical pencils) in this shade of blue if you're interested. As the article states, it's good for sketches that you'll ink or penc
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by wierdaaron 11y ago
As design patterns go, optimizing your code library so that it makes a more visually appealing virtual city seems like a bad one.
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by wierdaaron 12y ago
You can do the same with sliced cheese, I've heard.
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by wierdaaron 12y ago
He'll be CEO of HP in no time.
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by wierdaaron 12y ago
Sounds like something that would be good for a cloud service to provide. Upload your video and let their farm of tuned servers churn on it for a while.
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by wierdaaron 12y ago
I didn't know Alexis was a partner at YC. When did that happen?
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by wierdaaron 12y ago
Square Cash does this exact thing. Uses an app or via email, deposits via debit card number, and has no fees. No idea how it works, but it's how most of my friends send me money. https://square.com/cash