andyhnj

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by andyhnj 6y ago
For what it's worth, I haven't been able to get it to download my bookmarks, using either my username/password or API key. And I tried it on both my iPhone and iPad.
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by andyhnj 6y ago
This looks promising. I've been looking for a new Pinboard iOS client, since Pushpin started flaking out on me recently. (I have over 17,000 bookmarks, so maybe I'm an edge case, but Pushpin has been timing out on me a lot. Maybe
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by andyhnj 7y ago
Interesting. I just started reading this (the original version) last week. Since I'm already a pretty experienced programmer, I'm not getting that much out of it, but it's been fun to read. I'm not sure if I should aband
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by andyhnj 8y ago
I used to buy both print and ebook format books from O'Reilly from time to time. I now have a Safari subscription (via my ACM membership), so I've stopped buying computer books almost entirely. Safari isn't perfect, but it&#x
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by andyhnj 9y ago
I use DDG everywhere except at work, where (for some reason) it's blocked. The one silly thing I miss about not having DDG at work: in DDG, I can type "new guid" and it gives me a new random guid. If there's a way to do
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by andyhnj 9y ago
I love f.lux, but it disappeared from my work computer recently, and the f.lux site is blocked on our network now. I'm not sure why we would have flagged the program and/or site as bad. It seems like a pretty harmless utility to m
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by andyhnj 9y ago
>There's a reason why MS Excel has keyboard shortcuts that make no sense - they match to menu entries from old versions, and they've kept them in so people who have been using it for decades don't have a reason to switch.
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by andyhnj 9y ago
I drink Mount Hagen too, whenever the coffee machine at work is broken. It's not bad.
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by andyhnj 10y ago
I canceled my WSJ sub years ago, because I could see it going downhill after Murdoch took over.
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by andyhnj 10y ago
I've heard of Epsilon, but never used it. Back in the days when I actually paid for text editors, my favorite was Multi-Edit ( http://multieditsoftware.com/ ). I remember UltraEdit ( http://www.ultraedit.com&#x
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by andyhnj 10y ago
I migrated my personal blog from Blogger to WordPress a couple of years ago. I'm pretty happy with it. I had originally wanted to migrate it to Drupal, but I couldn't find a good solution for Blogger-to-Drupal import that worked f
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by andyhnj 11y ago
Oh, this must be why the company I work for is finally pushing out IE11. (I upgraded my own machine a long time ago, but many people here are still on IE8.)
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by andyhnj 11y ago
I'm curious about the antenna you're using. I'm also approximately equidistant from NYC and Philly, but I tried a digital antenna once, and could only pick up one NJ station, and none of the NYC or Philly ones. I'd love
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by andyhnj 11y ago
Sedgewick's course on Algorithms, through Coursera, is pretty good, for anyone who wants to learn more about basic algorithms, or (like me) needs a refresher. https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI
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by andyhnj 11y ago
I'd love to be able to shift into this mode temporarily, assuming I could keep my health insurance. Maybe for a few months, just to give myself some breathing room, maybe make progress on some side projects, or do some volunteer work.
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by andyhnj 12y ago
I need one of these in a Twin XL size. (I can't be the only nerd who needs an 80" long bed, but doesn't have enough room for anything wider than a twin.)
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by andyhnj 12y ago
I'm an RPI alum also, having graduated well before Jackson became president. The few people I know who are still actively involved with RPI don't like her much, and I think the inflated salary is a big part of the reason why. (Of
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by andyhnj 12y ago
Interesting. The guy who used to be my House rep (before some redistricting) has more records in this system than anyone else in my home state (NJ). Not sure if he's more actively investing, or if he's just doing a better job of s
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by andyhnj 12y ago
I'm not sure about this statement: "Of these platforms, Linux is clearly the most important. Today, Microsoft earns much of its (record) profits from enterprise software packages (SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange, etc.). By runnin
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by andyhnj 12y ago
Speaking as a guy who (currently) only uses Visual Studio at home for recreational programming, and not at the office, I'm pretty happy about this. The Express editions are OK, but it's nice to have access to extensions, like Visu
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by andyhnj 12y ago
We did a lot of Drupal work at my last job, and I sent my ex-boss a friendly warning about this when it was first announced, but I don't think he patched all of their Drupal sites. I could be wrong, but I just checked the CHANGELOG.txt
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by andyhnj 12y ago
I don't think it's available yet, but I'm curious about Carl Franklin's project "Music To Code By". He's specifically trying to craft an album that's "designed to induce a state of flow suitable
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by andyhnj 12y ago
Nice write-up. My experience is quite similar to the author's. I've gone from 230 to 170 over the last year or so. (Oh, and I'm also from NJ!) I wasn't involved in any study or organized plan though; I just stumbled thro
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by andyhnj 12y ago
I got fed up with this fairly recently, and remapped it so I can use ctrl-F for find, using AutoHotKey: #IfWinActive, ahk_class rctrl_renwnd32 ^f::Send, {F4}
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by andyhnj 12y ago
I've been using Harvest: http://www.getharvest.com/ Works fine for me, though I don't do a lot of freelance work, so I'm not a heavy user.
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by andyhnj 12y ago
KeePass on my PC, KeePassX on my Mac, and iKeePass on my iPhone & iPad, with a shared database on DropBox. I'm pretty happy with that setup, except for iKeePass, which is a little clunky. I'd really like to have a better KeePa
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by andyhnj 13y ago
I'm in my late 40s, and have been working as a developer since I was a teenager. Here's a simplified account of the last 20 years or so: I spend 10+ years working for a mid-size company, progressing from developer to a sort of com
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by andyhnj 13y ago
Am I the last guy still paying $7/month for a solo Backpack account? I've looked for good alternatives a few times, and never found anything I like as much as Backpack for basic note-taking. As long as they'll keep taking my