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by jpea 9y ago
I think it would be a great idea for cost, but is not comparable to a properly-trained animal in most scenarios. My mother is blind and also has a cochlear implant (basically is just shy of being deaf) and has had a service dog for the last
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by jpea 10y ago
*broken record But again, no sign of WebRTC in Safari's release (even though it's in Webkit, no?)
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by jpea 10y ago
Arms per minute?
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by jpea 10y ago
SEEKING WORK -- Remote, based in Minneapolis Hey! I'm John and I'm a full-stack generalist web developer. Freelance for the last 12 years. I split my time about 75/25 between direct-to-client web software projects and CMS-dri
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by jpea 10y ago
Facebook wouldn't likely exist if it wasn't for PHP. Zuck wrote something quickly in what he knew. They were able to deploy quickly, scale quickly, etc. Internally, they likely had the hope to migrate off of it at some point, but
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by jpea 10y ago
VW is not in the same situation in the U.S. though. They have a lot of competition (they're not even in the top 10), so if they didn't do it in the the EU, but cheated on the U.S. models, there would be vastly differing output lev
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by jpea 11y ago
I do love that John's blog doesn't actually use jQuery itself (likely because it's not needed in this instance). Or any javascript for that matter, other than analytics...
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by jpea 11y ago
So, what happened during the AWS outage this past Fall? Or did you restructure to provide failover beyond just moving platforms?
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by jpea 12y ago
WebRTC is a huge one that comes to mind. With the App Store and Facetime in the same wheelhouse, there's no compelling reason to develop this area for Apple. It would be a HUGE win for the general web if they did, but there's zero
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by jpea 12y ago
Service-based businesses are notoriously difficult to scale. I certainly make more on my own after a decade than I did when I had employees.
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by jpea 12y ago
It doesn't have to be groundbreaking to make a boatload of cash. Think Purell.
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by jpea 12y ago
My wife is #1 on the list, then just curiously, I scrolled to the bottom. The last 3 spots are populated by ex's.
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by jpea 12y ago
Sorry, that wasn't what I had meant at all. I meant that if they're used to dealing with people who are constantly working the system, why would they ever go into their job thinking positive thoughts about the people they're
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by jpea 12y ago
Considering who she was detained with ("I soon found myself locked in a room with a pedophile, a woman smuggling $25,000 in cash and unsavory others"), they were right perhaps to not give her the initial benefit of the doubt.
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by jpea 12y ago
They won't use it for anything other than to raise the value of their valuation. If they court a buyer, all of that cash in hand just raised their buying price by $500m.
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by jpea 13y ago
So, since there's really no difference between $10 for DO and $20 for Linode, what providers are out there that'll have a solid API or provisioning panel, a great network and great service? Doesn't matter if it's 50 buck
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by jpea 13y ago
Yes, it stops at the top if there's enough public weight behind it. The guy was star struck about the work that could potentially go in his portfolio and was screwed because he didn't lock up contracts ahead of time. His post was
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by jpea 13y ago
Yes, it's bad PR, but it's not Spike Lee's issue. Sure, he could be better at the PR angle, especially for a person in his current position, but considering how he got to his position, I would guess that good PR wasn't h
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by jpea 13y ago
As a 10 year freelancer, doing a ton of agency work, it's not Spike's issue. His production company hired an agency to do ad promotion for a movie he "helped" make. The design guy was star struck and fairly new in the fr
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by jpea 13y ago
I don't see this topic as being any different than any other business pursuit. As a general rule, it takes money to make money. The very pervasive and (extremely) unlikely perception that your company can "make it" overnight
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by jpea 13y ago
Build a system with what seems to be a good, logical set of usage assumptions and you will find that once it's out in the wild, you will get people trying all kinds of different ways of using your system. It defies your own logic, but
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by jpea 13y ago
Considering that developers are usually the ones that recommend hosting decisions to their clients (since the clients generally have no clue about who to go with), they just chopped off the main artery of their business with this sale. Kudo
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by jpea 13y ago
At least they signed on the line before the news broke. And hope that it was a cash-only deal, since the value had probably dropped once that went to the wire.
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by jpea 13y ago
Not quite "all" the character... it's great in many ways (awesome biking infrastructure, very affordable housing, great restaurants/bars/coffee), but there's a huge upside to the weather that San Francisco has.
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by jpea 13y ago
It's perhaps because they pushed a whole UI redesign out in the matter of a few months. And it's multilingual. And it cannot take into account 3rd-party apps and their inconsistent designs.
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by jpea 13y ago
I wonder if it extends beyond Amazon, since my gmail now doesn't pull anything up after 2009, web or IMAP.
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by jpea 13y ago
So, PHP is the one where they mix all of the ingredients in your liquor cabinet together and top it with a raw egg, right?