chaffneue

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by chaffneue 12y ago
I grew up loving my visits to Radio Shack for hobby electronics when I was a kid. It seemed like a place that would be a straight up dream job. Eventually, I worked at a Radio Shack up in Canada to pay for University and I felt the pain of
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by chaffneue 12y ago
This might be something to build an awesome community around. Giving users way to add more than just comments: stuff like a way for the public to do more than suggest products - add them to a pool of incumbents that others can talk about i
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by chaffneue 12y ago
Anyone reminded of those pandemonium toys in the 90s? like a pendulum stick man sort of thing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87HvVqa4t7k&t=30s
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by chaffneue 12y ago
Out of curiosity, how did you handle the mobile web with this project? With my pet project, Streeme, I had non-stop issues with the music streaming stopping on lock screens. The root cause was javascript not triggering the next track unless
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by chaffneue 13y ago
I really like that my phone has replaced my watch. No disgusting strap, no having to take it off to code, no watch tan, no stupid thing on my arm to fiddle with and besides, the really important thing is I really don't need to know the
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by chaffneue 13y ago
On a 40+ year time scale for clean up, there's only so much that can be planned and executed - I'm impressed that they have produced some kind of public update like this. Japan itself may undergo political, technological and ecolo
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by chaffneue 13y ago
I remember a tenor sax hanging off my neck was enough work let alone having its entire hard case attached :) It seems, to me, the best solution for all of these issues is just to rent a practice space and go play until your cheeks and lips
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by chaffneue 13y ago
I have an 11" Macbook Air from 2011 and it's been great. Went from snow leopard all the way to mavericks without a hitch. Use it mostly for web coding stacks have been Java, Python, Scala, PHP and the occasional Photoshop/Xco
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by chaffneue 13y ago
Are you using adblock plus by any chance? I had to switch to adblock to fix that on ars a while back.
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by chaffneue 13y ago
And it's not even good or recommended as a cache at any kind of profile. So I guess their most valuable niche is low traffic/prototype sites with poor architecture discipline or genuinely unrelated data sets. There are so much be
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by chaffneue 13y ago
Haha! good point!
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by chaffneue 13y ago
This article is just purple prose nonsense that takes advantage of their audience's natural distrust of information that surrounds the human mind (see the author's reference to multiple benign conditions to discredit the work) and
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by chaffneue 13y ago
I work in an office with a bunch of broken Mirras that have all failed by the plastic shearing off near the shoulder mount point. I wonder if they fixed that bug in the refresh - Might even consider picking one up for home. That said, I sti
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by chaffneue 13y ago
Wow - another great example of a young craftsman doing amazing work. That workshop looks like a great creative space. I have plans to extend the pinstriping site concept to wall dogs and sign writers next. Seems like the disciplines have a
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by chaffneue 13y ago
I'm one of those people that answers this question, "absolutely not!" Even though it's not in the news or on everyone's Facebook timeline, there are amazing craftsmen still roaming the earth and passing their craft
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by chaffneue 13y ago
It's quite a pretty site, but the home page loads very slowly on my quad core I5. Something about this page is hanging up the dom onload event pretty significantly - Network tab showing about 7 seconds. Got a screenshot of the network
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by chaffneue 13y ago
I like the concept. White layout with bigger, more readable blocks and less wasted space above the fold, but some of the fun they had with the footer and javascript on the page should probably be dropped to make the page load a bit smoother
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by chaffneue 13y ago
I feel a betrayed, too. I really don't understand why the plan went up in price and has less features. I have the attitude that I want to store (indefinitely), search and link my photos without being visually distracted with ads or paginati
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by chaffneue 14y ago
Really all I feel we need to regulate is the blatent keyword/SEO spam and link bait from various online publications. Other than that, I find most of the content on HN hasn't changed all that much from a couple years back when I started rea
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by chaffneue 14y ago
Same problem here. Seems to happen when you're in a logged out state. Wonder how QA missed this. Maybe we can help out, go star this issue in the Chromium bug tracker in case it affects the FOSS edition as well. http://code.google.com/p/ch
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by chaffneue 14y ago
This project is awesome mostly because you can see blogspam and linkbait immediately. There are some glitches of articles with no screenshots and the borders on images are HUGE. The github link really should open a new window as the socket
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by chaffneue 15y ago
I'm excited about the digitzation project, but the search experience is so poor that it's difficult and cumbersome to locate any actually digitized work. Some of the digitized documents appear to be broken - like this one http://new.albert
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by chaffneue 15y ago
Agreed. I run an open source project and would love to make an iPhone app, but it's an out of pocket expense that I can't justify. It's a shame and I'm sure it's a pain other open source projects feel. I really hope they don't go fully down
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by chaffneue 15y ago
Not to mention smart meters - those new radio based power meters that contact the utility to digitally report electrical usage. Our electrical utility is poised to install them in BC and publications are dirtying the water with paranoia lik
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by chaffneue 15y ago
It's a fun guide, but a couple of things irk me. Bending the leads out is a serious no-no - makes it very hard to desolder the component. if there are a lot of components, it' better to solder them in by height, so you can allow tricky part
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Is HTML5 at Risk of Being Sabotaged by its Implementors?(streeme.posterous.com)
2 points by chaffneue 15y ago|0 comments
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by chaffneue 15y ago
I lay my styles out in 1 file and I don't often comment them. Stylesheets cascade to much to pin them to a specific area of use - it's easier to debug them by clever naming still - sigh. IE specific files loaded after and only contain 1 or
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by chaffneue 16y ago
A scaled up aerial photo of the blown out building #3 now the smoke has cleared. http://gigazine.jp/img/2011/03/14/fukushima_daiichi_3rd/Capt...
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by chaffneue 16y ago
NHK is saying it's another blast like Fukushima Daiichi #1 on Saturday/Sunday - Hydrogen collecting in the reactor building because of the fuel cladding burning and then being vented with the steam to reduce pressure.. according to the auth
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by chaffneue 16y ago
Video Here: http://my.firedoglake.com/scarecrow/2011/03/13/japan-nuclear...

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