ZenJosh

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A better Autocorrect - Using autocorrect to teach spelling(blog.27percent.co)
1 points by ZenJosh 13y ago|0 comments
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Sonic Screwdrivers and Wifi-enabled Devices(blog.27percent.co)
1 points by ZenJosh 13y ago|0 comments
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by ZenJosh 13y ago
As much as I respect your spirit, you are missing out on so much of the world. I was you once. I worked, alone, in my little bubble for four of my teenage years. It was great, I learned a large chunk of what makes me a good developer, but a
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by ZenJosh 13y ago
This looks pretty optimal for a little app I'm building. I've been bolting bits to Sinatra and using it as a half-API-half-template engine for a frontend I built, this looks far cleaner. I'm curious about security though, what's stopping a
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by ZenJosh 13y ago
I doubt this is censorship, HN has exhibited similar behavior for me in the past when linking to friends' blogs and self-hosted pages, seems to me that it's just a simple bug, no big conspiracy
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When did the web get do damn complicated?(blog.27percent.co)
1 points by ZenJosh 13y ago|2 comments
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by ZenJosh 14y ago
I think you'd be right on that one, Exec's iOS interface font is Proxima Nova and I used a bit of a dodgy @font-face generator since I don't have a typekit membership
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by ZenJosh 14y ago
Hey Karen! Thanks for the feedback! I've been redesigning the whole Exec UI over the past couple of days, I didn't anticipate an actual redesign being launched a day before mine though so I rushed to get just the homepage up in time. Love t
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by ZenJosh 14y ago
I'm kicking myself right about now, I played around with slide timing for the best part of 10 minutes to find an ideal pause, in the end I increased it by a third to make sure the slightly-heavier-than-they-should-be images had chance to lo
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Redesigning Exec - Again(27percent.co)
20 points by ZenJosh 14y ago|13 comments
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IOS 6 Maps: an explanation from Apple (parody)(youtube.com)
2 points by ZenJosh 14y ago|0 comments
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by ZenJosh 14y ago
I'm still not entirely sure where Twitter is trying to go with the 'new direction'. I trust they have a cunning and well-reasoned plan, but honestly it feels a lot like getting bored playing a game of Civilization - You kill all your citize
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Ask PG: Comment Spam
3 points by ZenJosh 14y ago|6 comments
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by ZenJosh 14y ago
My general rule for relative dates is: Timestamp (00:00am/pm) within 1 day Day of the week (Monday-Sunday) within 1 week Full date (00/00/0000) everywhere else I also make sure I provide a way to view the full date (eg Saturday 1st December
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by ZenJosh 14y ago
I think you make a good point, but I think it'd make a lot more sense for Github to facilitate donations to projects rather than adding a bunch of crowdfunding stuff. Id much rather donate cash to a project in development, much in the same
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by ZenJosh 14y ago
Worth noting - Chrome auto-translates from 'French' to 'English', turns: Click anywhere on this page to plant bombs. To blow up other websites, drag and drop this link fontBomb to your favorites bar into: Ctheick hasntherewhere o
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Today is Great(lkd.cc)
1 points by ZenJosh 14y ago|0 comments
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by ZenJosh 14y ago
Sorry, yes, thats what I meant. My bad!
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by ZenJosh 14y ago
True, but the option to disable filtering remains with the customer, which is pretty important. And, from what I gather from the video, unblocking is between the content owner and TalkTalk, not the user. That said, it'd be a good idea to bu
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by ZenJosh 14y ago
I was gearing up for a rant about how this hurts the open internet, but after watching the video, it seems fairly well reasoned. I guess it all pivots around how effective the review panel is at unblocking access to sites that have been mis
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This is ridiculous.(lkd.cc)
7 points by ZenJosh 15y ago|1 comments
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by ZenJosh 15y ago
Fixed. Try now.
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by ZenJosh 15y ago
This. Exactly Its a combination of all of the little things added together. Worrying about coursework deadlines, conflicts between subjects, modular testing "You dont realize it now, but this test could be the difference between a good life
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by ZenJosh 15y ago
I think you're spot on there, better schools take fewer GCSEs, thus (Im assuming) producing a higher caliber of student not necessarily in terms of qualifications, but in terms of depth of knowledge and culture
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by ZenJosh 15y ago
Yes, I did. Students with upwards of twenty GCSEs are not all that uncommon anymore
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Why we’re working our young people too hard(lkd.cc)
124 points by ZenJosh 15y ago|109 comments
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by ZenJosh 15y ago
I was in the terminal at the time and broke my workflow to reply, I was still in 'sudo' mindset not 'pseudo' mindset -- Sorry, I just realized I misread the entire comment and assumed it hostile, my bad!
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by ZenJosh 15y ago
The story was written as a quick response to an email on a list, not an article for the front page of hackernews. Please excuse the obvious errors (of which I am sure there are quite a few)
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by ZenJosh 15y ago
Some context: First, I most definitely do not think I'm God's gift to man. Ive seen kids with skills leagues ahead of my own who are true masters, my skills in comparison are basic. Before I started the assessment, I asked for the mark sche