joehewitt

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by joehewitt 5y ago
No, I've never been to Maui. You can reach me at joe@joehewitt.com
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by joehewitt 5y ago
Vast acreage was planted in sugarcane until the mid 90's when the industry completely left Hawaii. That land was sold off cheaply and many new owners bought it to hold and have not put it back into agriculture. Just sitting there growi
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by joehewitt 5y ago
I'm a farmer in Hawaii and I'm happy to tell you the climate here (Hilo, Big Island) is fucking great. I can't speak for the rest of the islands, but here in Hilo the weather is spectacular for farming. Consistent year round
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by joehewitt 8y ago
YES. Every time I see a new language come out without first class event support it is obvious the creator never wrote a lick of front end code in their life.
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by joehewitt 9y ago
Well if the Atom developers are reading this I want to encourage them not to waste energy optimizing startup time due to Hacker News complainers who are using the product for a use case better suited to Notepad.
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by joehewitt 9y ago
Have you considered that Atom is not an editor meant for "quick jobs"? It's a workhorse for programmers who are coding all day every day.
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by joehewitt 9y ago
> I don't use my computer exclusively for editing text, and therefore my text editor is not open all the time. Ok, well if I was developing a programmer's text editor I'd consider you a marginal user and design for the use
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by joehewitt 9y ago
Don't get all the gripes about slow startup time. How often do you launch your editor? We're programmers - the editor stays open all the time!
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by joehewitt 9y ago
I used to feel that social networks were a waste of time (even when I worked for Facebook) but in the last couple years that has changed. My social life has been dramatically improved by Facebook because I started using it to socialize with
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by joehewitt 9y ago
French Prune and Italian Prune are the names of some European plum cultivars typically grown for the purpose of being dried, however they are also quite good eaten fresh.
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by joehewitt 9y ago
The article tiptoes around the issue of "stealing" referenced by the headline, as if the "stolen" fruit is only taken from public property. As you will learn if you plant fruit trees in your front yard, there are quite a
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by joehewitt 9y ago
Yes, mulberries are worth it. They would be a very popular fruit if they could handle the rigors of transport. If you can track on down in the UK I'd feverishly recommend Pawpaw (Asimina triloba), a custardy fruit with such tropical fl
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by joehewitt 10y ago
I used publicly whine quite a lot in favor of open web standards. When the specs were simpler, this made more sense, but as they grew more and more complex I felt overwhelmed with the chore of developing cross-browser apps. The investment o
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by joehewitt 10y ago
On Memorial Day I walked outside and did a double take - my quiet street, tucked away many turns from any main road, was backed up with cars from end to end. I'd never seen that before in 5 years here. Turned out it was Waze sending be
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by joehewitt 13y ago
There was a book written on Engelbart's work and his philosophies which I enjoyed reading many years ago: Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing http://www.amazon.com/Bootst
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by joehewitt 13y ago
My guess is that most people who hit a performance wall with canvas are using overly complex vector graphics and not caching bitmaps as often as they could. While things like OpenVG are on the horizon, vector drawing is still a CPU-bound ac
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by joehewitt 13y ago
See also, another look at David's work: The Making of John Mayer's 'Born & Raised' Artwork http://vimeo.com/60647216
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David A Smith - Sign Artist(vimeo.com)
5 points by joehewitt 13y ago|1 comments
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by joehewitt 15y ago
Sorry, I'm doing some experimental stuff here. I do UA sniffing to decide whether to render the page on the server (with Node.js) or on the client with Ajax. Crawlers and old browsers get static content, new browsers get JavaScript.
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by joehewitt 15y ago
Here's an example of the problem it solves. I never log into Facebook in Safari because the Facebook app is a much better experience on iOS. Often I tap on links in native apps which go to facebook.com, and then I'm looking at the Faceboo
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by joehewitt 15y ago
I'm just now learning about how Android solves this problem. That's great, but the problem remains on iOS. Protocol handlers in browsers don't help here because the problem has to do with http urls. If iOS allowed me to launch native apps
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by joehewitt 15y ago
I'm using a fairly experimental JavaScript-driven system right now. It's totally overkill for a blog, but it's my blog and I can do stuff like this for fun. No offense, but if you disable JavaScript, you get what you deserve.
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by joehewitt 15y ago
Touch scrolling has become a fundamental interaction on mobile devices and I'd like to see it be leveraged more on the web. That has nothing to do with how the web looks.
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by joehewitt 15y ago
yep.
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by joehewitt 15y ago
I don't want my personal account on the server in case it was compromised. Besides, even if you use that "dropbox exclude" command, the client will start downloading all of your files when you first link it and there's no way to tell it not
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by joehewitt 15y ago
What security problems do you foresee? As I outlined in my post, I created a dedicated Dropbox account for the blog and it only synchronizes files meant for the blog. If those became public it wouldn't be a problem.
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by joehewitt 15y ago
The server was down initially until I upgraded my EC2 instance from micro to small. Now it's running, but yeah, I didn't test in Opera so I'm not surprised.
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by joehewitt 15y ago
Perhaps I didn't stress enough in the blog that this system was designed with non-technical users in mind. My girlfriend uses it on her blog and she is savvy enough to understand Markdown, but if I asked her to run a command-line script ev
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by joehewitt 15y ago
I could never have gotten my non-technical girlfriend to use this system if she had to go to a command line and type "git commit" and "git push" for ever new post. She's become quite prolific with it since there are no tools she has to use
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by joehewitt 15y ago
Some, but not all, table views were replaced with web views a few months ago. News Feed is one example that is now HTML.

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