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ClayM

189 karma · joined January 12, 2012

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ClayM··on The Female Blanket Octopus Is 70 Times Larger Than the Male
It's not the size of the tentacle that matters...
ClayM··on Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Won’t Tolerate ‘Callous’ Management Practices
or if you work in one of the warehouses
ClayM··on React Color – Color Pickers from Sketch, Photoshop, Chrome and More
Yes, you can absolutely run React components without the use of a server. You can edit an html file locally and put a react component in there. That's usually the first thing most React tutorials have you do.

If you're using a backend server you're just rendering the react stuff to html and sending it to the client.

ClayM··on Chicago fires investigator who found cops at fault in shootings
This is pretty much all you need to read:

Davis’s termination came less than two weeks after top IPRA officials, evaluating Davis’s job performance, accused him of “a clear bias against the police” and called him “the only supervisor at IPRA who resists making requested changes as directed by management in order to reflect the correct finding with respect to OIS,” as officer-involved shootings are known in the agency.

Since its 2007 creation, IPRA has investigated nearly 400 civilian shootings by police and found one to be unjustified.

ClayM··on Pure UI
What does your meteor + react stack look like? Any reference material I should look at?
ClayM··on Postico: A Modern PostgreSQL Client for OS X
Yep, I'm really liking IntelliJ 0xDBE. aside from it's name. God that's awful.
ClayM··on Teach, Don’t Tell (2013)
This is an extremely good article and echoes a lot of the frustration I've experienced in the last 6 months while trying to get up to speed in the current webdev world.

A git repo with a basic example is NOT a tutorial and teaches very little.

I greatly appreciate all the boilerplates / examples people put out there. I really do, I've spent a lot of time digging through them and have learned a great deal. However it is very inefficient. While they show the "what" to do, they often neglect the "how" and the "why".

ClayM··on A Primer for Building Single Page Applications with React
How hard would it be to adapt this to non SPA?
ClayM··on Flexbox in 5 minutes
I know of one specific very large US bank that is still on IE9. I think we go to IE11 this summer? Hopefully?
ClayM··on Postico – A modern PostgreSQL client for OS X
Yep, started using it recently. Stupid name, great product. Way better than I expected
ClayM··on Luna – Hack your sleep
kick the dogs off! i'm sure they aren't helping you sleep :)
ClayM··on TV is increasingly for old people
This should more accurately say "traditional broadcast TV is increasingly for old people".

There's still plenty of people watching content in the TV format, they just are not doing it from exactly 8pm to 11pm in the way that they used to.

ClayM··on CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired
You got the last part right. It's pretty unreasonable to expect anyone to have passion for a project that is no longer their's.

Hard to get people to go above and beyond the call of duty after you tell them they aren't needed.

ClayM··on Standing Desk Do It Yourself (DIY)
In your video, it looked like when you raised it, the monitor's rotation was a little off - was that just an illusion?
ClayM··on KeePass: OpenSource Password Manager
I use KeePass + DropBox + KyPass on my iOS devices, which integrates perfectly with iOS DropBox.

Very happy with the combination.

ClayM··on Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK
Yes, but it takes a while to get set up right. I think this will make it work:

https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/90563-roku-not-playin...

ClayM··on My Experience in the Educational Apps Market – 2013 report
No questions - but a thank you, as I'm one of the people who has given you money.

Your apps, if nothing else, are an excellent way to distract our kid if we go out for dinner :)

ClayM··on Tiny $45 cubic mini-PC runs Android and Linux
Unfortunately the Chromecast is so locked down you can't compare them.
ClayM··on Tiny $45 cubic mini-PC runs Android and Linux
If you're just streaming media, it's fine.

I've been using an apple usb ethernet adapter on my Acer Revo for about 3 years after the built in ethernet port died.

ClayM··on What happens when you use a standing desk for two years
The end of last year, I had a microdiscectomy for a severely ruptured disc. L5/S1.

Soon thereafter, I made the switch to the standing desk via the $22 IKEA standing desk.

It's been great. Don't get me wrong, the first couple weeks sucked. Feet hurt, legs ached but eventually I adjusted. A fatigue mat helps, sometimes a wear shoes or padded sandles, sometimes barefoot.

I can't go back.

In fact, I tried to switch back, couldn't do it. Did it for a week, switched back to the standing desk.

I keep a fairly tall stool nearby, sometimes you just gotta take a load off, but its great.

Fortunately I work from home, however I might be in trouble if I have to find a new job.

I recommend giving it a shot if you've considered it. $22 is a pretty low price to pay. And if those anti-sedentary guys are right, maybe you'll live longer!

ClayM··on A logo for the Internet: (#)
y, n fact they r.
ClayM··on I Choose Superman
The reason more people choose Batman is he's more identifiable with. You can look at him and say:

"If only I really applied myself, I could make some money, learn Kung Fu, set up a base, invent some cool toys, do a lot of planning and do what Batman does."

Superman, on the other hand goes something like this:

"If only I was an alien... Aww screw it. Nevermind."

ClayM··on ‘Bloodless’ Lung Transplants Offer Hint at Surgery’s Future
What's up JW buddy.

It should be noted that there's a lot of hospitals / medical centers that have bloodless surgery programs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodless_surgery#Hospitals_and...

If this many are doing, it can't just be crazy person talk, there must be some real benefit.

ClayM··on ‘Bloodless’ Lung Transplants Offer Hint at Surgery’s Future
...

as it mentions in the article, there is " a growing body of research that transfusions often pose unnecessary risks and should be avoided when possible, even in complicated cases".

ClayM··on A fast, modern API for TV, Movies, Podcasts and more
are you thinking about other forms of media, maybe something like comic books?

there's actually a pretty large need for a comic api and there's only one right now (comicvine) that has been neglected for 2 years.

ClayM··on Year of Rock: weekly interactive guitar lessons for 2013
Well give us some more info then, good man!
ClayM··on Year of Rock: weekly interactive guitar lessons for 2013
Are these for absolute beginners or are they useful for people with some experience?
ClayM··on Use ack instead of grep to parse text files
"Look at that one character shorter than grep and just as easy."

Well, let's apply that same criteria to searching for two terms:

> grep needle haystack|grep silver

> ack '(?=silver).*needle' haystack

Look at that one character shorter than ack and just 10 times easier.

grep wins, by a knockout.

ClayM··on Help HN: Developer laid off 5 days before Christmas, have kids
Having kids will do that to you :)
ClayM··on Massive New Surveillance Program Uncovered by Wall Street Journal
so, "who watches the watchers" ?
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