TomJoad

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by TomJoad 13y ago
I have a BA in a social science and have worked as a software engineer for mega-corps, government and startups. Some companies like to filter by degree, but I generally wouldn't want to work for those companies anyways. The only way it
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by TomJoad 13y ago
Love it, and I don't even use Bitcoin! Anything that decreases the barriers for bitcoin transactions is great for its adoption.
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by TomJoad 13y ago
How I read it is only if that other band take half of Spotify's streams. If no one likes them and they get no plays, the original band still receives all of the revenue.
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by TomJoad 13y ago
I've been using ownCLoud (owncloud.org) on a raspberry pi set up on my LAN to solve this type of problem. While I don't have it publicly facing, as soon as I get home, any file I was working on is synced to the rest of my computer
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by TomJoad 13y ago
Despite its flaws, calling the 12 step program a "dance" is pretty offensive. This coming from a someone who's father died of alcohol withdraw when I was young, and 4 immediate family members in the program. *edit: Also, whil
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by TomJoad 13y ago
outside AC? The next billion dollar startup?
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by TomJoad 13y ago
Or better yet, the full product but doesn't save anything until you register.
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by TomJoad 13y ago
I like the post, and it showed me some services that I didn't know about. What advantage does Amazon's Route 53 have over Cloudflare? I've been using Cloudflare for all my DNS and CDN needs so I'm curious what Route 53 w
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by TomJoad 13y ago
Any particular reason why blogs.heroku.com would want to know my location? Isn't the IP generally enough?
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by TomJoad 13y ago
If you are running Windows 7, you can run XP legally for free: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958559
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by TomJoad 13y ago
"There is nothing complicated about the underlying technology that can't be explained adequately to a bunch of intelligent people." Assuming the underlying technology and it's implications are explained adequately at all
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by TomJoad 13y ago
1. He provided his phone number for the NSA to search, a piece of information that they do retain and almost certainly have collected. 2. Not bloggers, just American families: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/201
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Open Source Promotion and Changing the World on KickStarter(kickstarter.com)
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by TomJoad 13y ago
This is great, I've been searching all over for a white-label Square. Others, like PayAnywhere, have fallen short.
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by TomJoad 13y ago
What does a "low IQ" have to do with manual labor? IQ or any other measure of so called intelligence, has never -- and will probably never -- have any correlation with a person's occupation. Ultimately, it is the parent's socio-economic sta
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by TomJoad 13y ago
Brilliant, time to port it to android. New weekend project: Beer Compass.
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by TomJoad 13y ago
This is exactly why I don't take government work that comes with a clearance, despite it being the most plentiful and profitable work in my area (D.C.). Some people's work gets put to malicious purposes despite their best intentions, but so
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by TomJoad 14y ago
ILSpy is probably one of the best utility programs I have ever used... It has saved me countless times from poorly documented API's and helps me work around countless bugs in third party libraries.
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by TomJoad 14y ago
Reminds me of when DropBox "copied" my idea of automatically uploading every picture you took from your phone. Mine was a web-app with mobile component. The idea was to make it so easy you would never have to think about it. I even had plan