joallard

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by joallard 9mo ago
Weirdly, it reminds me of Aptos, the new default font in Microsoft products.
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by joallard 6y ago
The author has overfitted for his own psychology. There are a lot of assumptions in there. My brain doesn't work like that at all.
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by joallard 7y ago
Seems like a lot of people are saying the airdrop and integrating Stellar to Keybase was a bad idea, but I don't think so. There's a lot I like in the Stellar-Keybase integration. Keeping cryptocurrency keys secure has always been
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by joallard 9y ago
I've seen exactly this in a local well-regarded startup. Incompetent hires with problematic behaviors thriving and being protected, and competent hires being unprotected, not cared about, and almost pushed out. They would hire almost a
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by joallard 9y ago
As always, the implementation here, the lines of code in index.php, doesn't really matter. Anyone can code a job board given enough time. The questions that matter are rather how he got his audience to come to it: - How did he make h
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by joallard 10y ago
Case-insensivity is important for some to be able to reliably remember a string. I won't easily retain the difference between 'b4dQbFs31' and 'b4DqBfs31'. Same thing when speaking it out loud. 'B four D capital
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by joallard 10y ago
"rlang" is not really fun to search for either
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How American Politics Went Insane(theatlantic.com)
9 points by joallard 10y ago|1 comments
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by joallard 10y ago
Not at all, trolling is just a way to provocate people and make th— waaiit a minute...!
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by joallard 11y ago
Evil coder is making it easier for his family to buy stuff from our site, better send him a cease and desist!
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by joallard 11y ago
I guess JS really is the new PHP
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by joallard 12y ago
Can't click or interact with anything on Firefox 33a. Just an unresponsive start screen.
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by joallard 12y ago
What about Paypal? I've heard complaints against them time and time again, and alternatives have popped up in competition because they sucked too much. Stripe, Square?
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by joallard 13y ago
The problem with that is that it's unsustainable. How many ie. Ben Adams would this work with, ben@adams.me? 1. Now Ben Adams owns `adams.me` and has no incentive or mechanism to offer his domain to the million other people with his la
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by joallard 13y ago
A Man Walks All Day to Create Spectacular Snow Patterns Understanding the code quality of the Fibonacci Sequence Gmail.com being MITM'd by Iran using this idea by now: Font Icons.
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by joallard 13y ago
Ah. So this takes my no. of tweets, * (hourly/60) and feeds me back that number? Genius. (Protip: if you estimate at 60$/h, it's 1$/tweet. You're welcome.)
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by joallard 13y ago
This fails to explain by what logic would Twitter have to pay me/owe me for my tweets. Are they selling my tweets? Are they asserting rights over what I've written? Maybe I've missed something, but there's no explanation
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by joallard 13y ago
I wish I could use this with critical mass in my home city of Montreal. I just searched HN for 'roommates' thinking, "there's gotta be a better way to do this! someone must've talked about it." And here we are.
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by joallard 13y ago
There's even a mixin for that! @include grid-column(3); (There's a mixin for practically everything, documented at the bottom of every docs page, eg http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/gri
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"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
445 points by joallard 13y ago|365 comments
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Why 3 MIT Grads Want to Send You an Empty Box(wired.com)
306 points by joallard 13y ago|91 comments
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by joallard 13y ago
I find having a pair of headphones on with music makes all the difference; it's like getting into a bubble. Over time, I think I've associated it with the state of being focused.
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by joallard 13y ago
When I was working at an electronics shop, we would ask "have you been served yet?" It's a much harder question to get out and customers responded better.
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Why Facebook hasn't ditched PHP(zdnet.com)
3 points by joallard 13y ago|1 comments
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by joallard 13y ago
There's also Gitit ( https://github.com/jgm/gitit ), backed by Pandoc and Git, supports Markdown and anything you can throw at Pandoc.
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by joallard 13y ago
May I interest you in the .src project instead then? ;o) http://dot-src.info
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Magnetic putty absorbing a magnet(youtube.com)
8 points by joallard 13y ago|0 comments
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by joallard 14y ago
That's an article from 2005, as someone would have surely pointed out, but I found the topic to be relevant as there is now a trend of companies like Google, Dropbox adopting two-factor auth and the security implications of that.
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Two-Factor Authentication: Too Little, Too Late(schneier.com)
2 points by joallard 14y ago|1 comments
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by joallard 14y ago
Replies are usually embedded in email.

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