rogerhoward

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by rogerhoward 2y ago
I joined a startup with a product in production for a dozen or so major customers (US universities), public facing, with a slick new front and backend the team had been working hard on. I brought along a young engineer friend who had a pet
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Ask HN: SaaS customer control panels for the container age?
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by rogerhoward 4y ago
"The first lossless audio format to gain widespread adoption (FLAC) was released 6 years after MP3." AIFF and WAV say what?
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by rogerhoward 4y ago
When I worked at a video game studio, my wonderful grandma would tell her friends I worked at a toy factory.
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by rogerhoward 7y ago
After months of suffering with this, with an out warranty 15" MBP 2016 that was relegated to desk duty with an external keyboard, I heard about this program. I made an Apple Store appointment for the next day (a Tuesday); they checked
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by rogerhoward 7y ago
It's about the 2015 models.
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by rogerhoward 8y ago
Loretta Lynch faced extensive questioning in the Senate and long, contentious hearings about her background and clientele during a nearly six month nomination process. She was heavily vetted by both parties and eventually gained enough vote
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by rogerhoward 8y ago
Define blackmail.
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by rogerhoward 8y ago
Unless I misunderstand you, that’s an absurd overstatement at best. My wife is a somm as are many of our friends. I joined in on many of their study sessions as each of them went through various phases of their certifications. Granted I’m l
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by rogerhoward 8y ago
My current Macbook Pro is probably the first bit of Apple hardware in two decades that's made me actively consider alternatives. It's been the one laptop - premium at that - from Apple which I've had continual frustrations wi
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by rogerhoward 9y ago
I'm surprised no one has noted the copyright is to Design Science - this is a small company in my hometown who are still around. I've spoken with their CEO a few times and I wouldn't be at all surprised if the source code was
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by rogerhoward 9y ago
The main census is only every ten years, but there are other datasets updates more often, as well as extrapolated data. The issue for me wasn’t data being out of date, it’s just that the structure and content is fairly arcane if you’re not
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by rogerhoward 9y ago
I've worked with this API a fair bit since early 2016, and it's been around longer. I've got no real complaints about the API, just want to note that the data itself is.. arcane.. it'll take a bit of study and research t
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by rogerhoward 9y ago
Indeed, I was responding to your "pick Florida" by citing statewide statistics. But Melbourne is, itself, significantly worse than average nationwide, and in fact higher than the Florida state average. https://www.neigh
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by rogerhoward 9y ago
Florida is hardly a state with almost no crime; on a per capita basis it ranks well within the top ten, usually close to #5. Miami, Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, and Tampa all have higher violent crime per capita than, for instance, New Yor
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by rogerhoward 9y ago
Don't combine the two; outsource your email hosting (Google, etc) to save a lot of pain, and select your Django hosting from a large range of options, from Digital Ocean to Heroku to AWS. No technical reason these two need to be hosted
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by rogerhoward 10y ago
Zappa: https://www.zappa.io
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by rogerhoward 10y ago
Seems to me like POSIX compatibility is actually a cheap pass that gives you access to a huge software environment. Right on the homepage they mention already having packages for Python, Ruby, Git, Lua, and Node... would that, and thousands
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by rogerhoward 10y ago
90% of the code is locked to the vendor? I've been using lambda lately and perhaps 5% of the code in my Lambdas is AWS-specific; the vast majority was rapidly extracted from existing projects, wrapped in a simple Lambda interface, and
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by rogerhoward 10y ago
Being a CTO and being a contractor seem like mutually exclusive conditions, at least where I'm from (California). It's not B&W entirely, but it's far more likely than not (at least here) that you should be an employee wit
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by rogerhoward 11y ago
Yes. Because I've got plenty to lose from criminals too.
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by rogerhoward 11y ago
I've already seen the child porn angle playing out in posts on Facebook. This just a little while ago: "Every child porn videographer in America is trading in his camera for an iPhone"
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by rogerhoward 11y ago
Not saying JPEG hasn't had its share of exploits, but that the format itself isn't an example (like DOC, and PSD) of a format that can be described as "direct to memory" in the same sense. DOC and PSD are in many ways ju
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by rogerhoward 11y ago
> Word and JPEG are both examples of such "direct to memory" formats I think you mean Word and PSD, not JPEG - otherwise spot on.
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by rogerhoward 11y ago
1. The implication that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia had him under their control since 2006 is important. We were still neck-deep in two wars that were sold to the public in large part based on Afghanistan's unwillingness to hand him over
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by rogerhoward 11y ago
I came here to say the same - Los Angeles is a big region, and there are many lovely places to live within. Like New York, if you can find a way to live near where you work it can be fantastic, and Long Beach is a perfect example. Long Beac
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by rogerhoward 12y ago
When did Apple deprecated Quicklook? I can't find any mention of that. Generally when frameworks are deprecated it's noted here too: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/MacOSX... A
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by rogerhoward 12y ago
I have bad allergies to cat and dog dander, as well as a bunch of other stuff. After getting stabilized by a lineup of drugs that put my grandmother's to shame, I slowly backed off a number of the nastier prescriptions. I opted against
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by rogerhoward 12y ago
> You can use AppleScript and Automator to automate some tasks, but you can't really call that programming If Hypercard was programming, so is AppleScript. So is Python. So is bash. I think we're talking about the general &quot
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by rogerhoward 12y ago
Angular as the overall app framework, and D3.js for the canvas fun. Take a look at his script.js, it's pretty straightforward.

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