ChristinaM

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by ChristinaM 10y ago
I met two different couples who literally sold everything, drove to Florida, bought a boat, had an instructor on board for a week, and sailed away with no previous experience. Neither has gone past the Caribbean but they both did fine. One
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by ChristinaM 10y ago
Cruising sailors love in Inreach too (at least in the Caribbean). It's great to be able to essentially text people at home with passage reports or just to keep up when you keep switching countries & don't want to constantly be
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by ChristinaM 10y ago
I'm travelling semi-permanently (away from "home" ~9 months now). I had to update OS X and Xcode recently. 11GB fortunately only took 2 days (and $60 of data charges) since I'm somewhere with ok cell LTE. I did have to d
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by ChristinaM 10y ago
In case people don't know, the reason for this is that AIS uses an already existing VHF channel (and on recreational craft sometimes even shares the antenna). AIS is to keep ships from running in to each other. It works great for that.
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by ChristinaM 10y ago
You'll create your own Xcode project to try out the code. UI stuff in playgrounds works but it doesn't show you very well how to do table views in a real project. Coding on a boat has it's ups and downs. I'm in an area w
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by ChristinaM 10y ago
tl;dr: Email course + a live session Q&A to teach you how to build a simple iOS app that fetches gists from the GitHub API and displays them in a table view. JSON + networking + showing results in UI. Sign up by May 4. One of the author
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by ChristinaM 10y ago
It's a non-HIPAA controlled platform where we can try out things like pulse & respiration monitoring without worrying about FDA regulations that make developing medical devices a slow process. That particular dog tracker might not
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by ChristinaM 11y ago
Cut up and bake for a bit coated with oil and maybe spices for amazing croutons. A little chewy in the middle is great.
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by ChristinaM 11y ago
Cape Horn to Starboard is the story of a guy doing it on a small sailboat: http://www.amazon.com/Cape-Horn-Starboard-John-Kretschmer/dp... Here's a shorter, more recent report of a rounding: http://www.
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by ChristinaM 11y ago
The average difference is 8" but with tides it can be up to 12' and it changes constantly. It'd be really tough for the ships to handle in the confined space especially when eddies form along the edges and with currents chang
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by ChristinaM 11y ago
Author here, AMA. - I wrote the book using LeanPub which was a pretty good experience, especially if you're used to Markdown and Git - Updating for Swift 2.0 the day before it was released wasn't too awful - Sales have been about
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by ChristinaM 12y ago
I found the same thing. In the bit of rural Canada where I grew up, it was pretty standard for french elementary students to go on to english high school (with 1-2 classes/year in french, usually french & history or geography). We
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by ChristinaM 13y ago
SEEKING WORK (native iOS), Remote (based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) I design and build native iPhone and iPad apps. Most of these are distributed through the App Store but in some cases they’re only used within a company, as a
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by ChristinaM 13y ago
I haven't had clients in Chicago but I would be very surprised if that weren't the case. I've done remote dev work (mostly iOS) for clients in Canada, Portland, and Minneapolis that paid better than $100/hr without worki
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by ChristinaM 13y ago
SEEKING WORK (native iOS), Remote (based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) I design and build native iPhone and iPad apps. Most of these are distributed through the App Store but in some cases they’re only used within a company, as a
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by ChristinaM 13y ago
As another Canuck, same here. I've gone without benefits sometimes (waiting periods for spouse's new jobs) but that means putting off new glasses or dental cleanings for a few months, not skipping dr's appointments or worryin
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by ChristinaM 13y ago
I've had a lot of luck negotiating freelance contracts. So far having a lawyer review it and explain until I understand it usually costs <$300. That gives me ammunition to negotiate until I get the terms I can't stomach changed
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by ChristinaM 13y ago
By asking the right questions. In this case by aiming to find no significant difference between the 3 drugs under study then making sure the sample size was too small to find a difference no matter what.
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by ChristinaM 14y ago
I did it. I did a Master's (never had any intention of a PhD) in engineering, mostly focused on OR decision making applications in geography. So I knew maps and could write Matlab and Python scripts and I'd played around with some C/C++. I
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by ChristinaM 14y ago
The hard part about disrupting the hearing aid industry is that most of what people are paying for is service. First there are a lot of reasons that people could have hearing loss where a hearing aid isn't the right choice, like a tumor. Th