romdev

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by romdev 8mo ago
A chicken?
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by romdev 2y ago
I love that Newsblur correctly removed the SCRIPT tag and everything following it. The Company's name is "> in my feed. Respect!
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by romdev 2y ago
1080P resolution (per eye) for a virtual 100" display? I can't work on a 1080P laptop now without swapping and resizing windows constantly. It would be frustrating to have all that screen real estate and not be able to use it. I
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by romdev 2y ago
Finding and eliminating duplicates is a very common software problem that is rarely solved in a reusable, user-friendly way that preserves history while eliminating redundant data. In fact, in 40 years of working with computers I can'
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by romdev 2y ago
I'm meticulous about tagging and backing up MP3s for different mixes in car stereos and other devices. One problem is that I have so many MP3s and different copies I don't know which are tagged and when they were ripped. I prefer
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by romdev 3y ago
I personally will use Bookmarklets rather than Userscripts to fulfill the same purpose. Bookmarklets work even in locked-down browsers including Edge (bookmarks bar, not favorites sidebar). The one I use most often is modelled after a simil
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by romdev 3y ago
From Tim Ferris' 'The 4-hour Body', an even more important tool for toning and weight loss is to stay cold. Olympic swimmers consume more calories than the average athlete even though their exertion is less. A pool is kept w
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by romdev 4y ago
Clicked because I thought at first this was a retro computing post about a Commodore cassette tape drive. Thanks for the intro to this useful tool.
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Sciral 1 year-1 page calendar – other options?
1 points by romdev 4y ago|2 comments
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by romdev 4y ago
John Oliver had an expose of all the things I already knew about how corrupt Ticketmaster is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Y7uqqEFnY
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by romdev 4y ago
I've got mixed feedback on this. I had a house fire a few years back where all my paper literature was soaked, and stayed in water for days to weeks. Books, and especially my comic book collection consisting of Sandman and other very c
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by romdev 4y ago
That used to be called a 'seagull manager' - one who flies in, sh*ts on everything and flies away.
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by romdev 4y ago
This works on HN and most other sites: javascript:(function() { var tag = document.createElement('style'); tag.type = 'text/css'; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(tag); tag[ (typeof doc
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by romdev 4y ago
Maybe it's the fact that we all realize our mortality, and the benefit that it has on a species. Nature has built into us a few limiters to over-flourishing, like it has for many other species: a short life-span with expendable body co
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by romdev 4y ago
I used to work at a company that had dozens of SQL tables for similar data - if there was a selection box in their app there was a table to represent it. I had a very productive meeting with the young (CSLA-trained) programmers on my way ou
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by romdev 5y ago
Edward Tufte was an inspiration for me.
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by romdev 5y ago
A modern version of Vern Buerg's List.com. I used that tool in DOS days and almost always had it running.
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by romdev 6y ago
When I'm complimented by a client verbally, I politely give them my manager's email address and ask them to forward that information on. I find that I've gotten a number of compliments that I compile for my yearly performance
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by romdev 6y ago
Asked before, years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14604454
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by romdev 6y ago
Also Lolo for NES was similar.
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by romdev 6y ago
I also use OneNote at work for capturing anything worth remembering in a meeting, and screen grabs from a webex. It captures the text in images and indexes it for searching later, which I do frequently. I don't mix personal notes and t
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by romdev 7y ago
I have T-Mobile and auto-pay with a credit card that has had 6 fraudulent transactions in the past week. Might not be related.
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by romdev 7y ago
My only interface to Twitter is through Newsblur and https://twitrss.me
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by romdev 7y ago
Voraciously eliminating unnecessary whitespace, especially vertical whitespace, was a trick I learned early. Most monitors are wide, not tall. When you can see a whole function without scrolling it's much easier to understand. I'l
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by romdev 7y ago
Named after an In Flames song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCvq8VN9owY
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by romdev 7y ago
On topic: losing weight has a positive effect for sleep apnea. This is interesting, but something I had intuited from the small sampling of those I know with sleep apnea and weight problems. There are other factors that seem causal, like s
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by romdev 7y ago
http://sciral.com/free/year.html has worked for me for several years.
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by romdev 7y ago
I'd like to see antiperspirant usage as a variable, but it seems like it would be hard to find a control. Having tried several times to buy deodorant without antiperspirant for my wife, I can say how hard it is to find an armpit produc
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by romdev 7y ago
Yahoo Pipes -> Google Reader is now Feedrinse -> Newsblur
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by romdev 7y ago
Reminds me of the work of Edward Tufte, a pioneer of graphical data representation: https://www.edwardtufte.com

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