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jaredmcateer

656 karma · joined January 14, 2013

Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world.
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jaredmcateer··on Announcing RemoteIE: Test the Latest IE on Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Android
Yea I am fairly confident in my site working in IE11 if it works in Chrome & Firefox, not so much in 8 and 9.
jaredmcateer··on CD-Loving Japan Resists Move to Online Music
I have no love lost for CDs, but I still buy Vinyl, and the best thing about Vinyl is that the majority of new albums also come with a digital download, best of both worlds. At home I listen to the Vinyl for the experience but on the go I have my phone with MP3s that no one can touch but me.
jaredmcateer··on W3C declares HTML5 standard complete
Does anyone know how is Doctype versioning going to work with W3Cs snapshoting of the living standard? Or are browsers just going to ignore W3C and stick to implementing WHATWGs spec?
jaredmcateer··on Netflix Stock Price Crashes in After-Hours Trading
I just installed popcorn time, I tried a few tv shows but couldn't find many, or any, peers on many of them and the show wouldn't play well, with lots of buffering, or at all, or it was missing aired episodes in available seasons. No tv show on Netflix does this to be and that's why I pay. While the selection seems better on Popcorn Time, it's really just the most popular shows near the latest episodes that seem to work so the "extra" selection just made it a more frustrating experience.
jaredmcateer··on Delaying the $digest() cycle in AngularJS
Note throttle and debounce are slightly different. Debounce will delay firing until the event causing the timeout reset stops (or pre-fire on the first event and then ignore all subsequent events until they stop for a given interval,) where throttle will fire one event within a given interval no matter how many events it receives (as long as it's >=1.)
jaredmcateer··on Why I changed my mind about Node.js
The article is not long enough to warrant a tl;dr even if such things were welcome on HN.

Edit: my mistake, useless reddit joke posts are now welcome on HN, I missed the memo

jaredmcateer··on Why I changed my mind about Node.js
I have the impression that he didn't realize that Node had it and was surprised it did, not that the other languages don't typically have it yet Node does
jaredmcateer··on iPhone 6
No but the barometer assists with getting a faster GPS lock by giving it an approximate altitude
jaredmcateer··on New York Police Officers to Begin Wearing Body Cameras in Pilot Program
When Rialto, California PD ran it's pilot program it found that both parties tended to behave better knowing there was a camera. 88% drop in complaints against the officer and 60% drop in police officers use of force.[1]

While you'll still have criminals that don't care, there are plenty that do, especially when they know that it's no longer just their word vs the police officer.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/california-poli...

jaredmcateer··on Standard Markdown
Thanks, this has been long coming and sorely needed.
jaredmcateer··on Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms
Yea kinda annoying by the time I finished reading/watching the no-gc and reference count gc the animations were all done. Even better if they were side by side.
jaredmcateer··on Who wrote the text for the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog in Windows 3.1?
I am still confused, even knowing the authors intent it doesn't read at all like Bill sat in front of the book making access difficult/awkward, but rather that Bill literally sat on the book. Especially considering the joke at the start.
jaredmcateer··on Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
I used to do it on my lunches in my car. Load up an mp3 I made from rainymood.com and some oscillating brown noise on simplynoise.com, put on a sleeping mask and a 45 minute alarm it was great. First few times I didn't sleep much but I did essentially meditate, later on I was sleeping within 10-15 mins.
jaredmcateer··on Surprise Text Message Sent by Google Voice
It's the kind of surprise a person has when someone says they're going to hit you if you poke them one more time and then you poke them.
jaredmcateer··on DocumentDB
Just like trying to get help around libraries of Prototype or Async in regards to Javascript. 90% of the results (I'm exagerating) are jQuery
jaredmcateer··on Tesla's Infinite Mile Warranty
It says right in the article. 8 year infinite mile warranty on the battery pack and drive train.
jaredmcateer··on ES6 Maps are now on by default in Chrome 38
Practically a net neutral time saved in typing at the cost of readability of the object literal. I don't think there will be many cases where I'll be using Map over an Object literal.
jaredmcateer··on Teal 3d dice roller
You suspect correctly, I had disabled hardware acceleration troubleshooting something and forgot to re-enable it.
jaredmcateer··on Teal 3d dice roller
How do you roll the first time? All I get is a mostly blank page with links to the help and multiplayer.

Edit: nvm figured it out this relies on WebGL.

jaredmcateer··on The Lowdown on Lidar
I agree it was stupid of the author to not have realized his presentation to a captive audience would be linked to the public and made it a more compelling title for casual consumption
jaredmcateer··on Announcing a specification for PHP
If you read the article you would have known this. It is literally the first three sentences they cover this.
jaredmcateer··on How GoG.com is growing beyond a back catalog
Steam seems to deprioritize it's foot stamp when it's not in focus which is why you might find the videos to get choppy if you happen to also be multi-tasking. If you focus the client they work just fine (at least this is my experience.)
jaredmcateer··on How GoG.com is growing beyond a back catalog
I find it a bit disingenuous to say that they have pointless updates, every update has a change log right there on the updater to see what's changed. While the vast majority aren't features you rarely see a change go out that doesn't warrant going out.
jaredmcateer··on Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier?
It's noticeably faster than grep but I would say, in my experience anyways, only academically faster than ack. Both are so fast I can't really notice a difference when scanning my massive codebase.
jaredmcateer··on ITerm2 2.0
Try turning off syntax highlighting and any plugins like jshint that try to operate on a buffer realtime in vim before pasting (or just paste it to an temporary buffer instead of an existing js file) if it's still slow then it's probably iterm and not vim.
jaredmcateer··on Multiline strings in JavaScript
6 months later:

    var str = ' \
        <!doctype html> \
        <html> \
          <body> \ 
            <h1>❤ unicorns</h1> \
          </body> \
        </html> \
    ' 
Help I'm maintaining your code and I get a syntax error
jaredmcateer··on Videos about JavaScript
Did you create a pull request?
jaredmcateer··on Requiring vs. Browserifying Angular
Yes it does, plenty of options in fact, but as far as I can tell there is nothing in this article tying it to a particular backend
jaredmcateer··on Dropping Loot
I also loved the putpocket mechanic of Fallout, drop a live grenade in their inventory :)
jaredmcateer··on Gmail API
I have labels for organization but once something is marked as read or out of my priority inbox (where starred emails go) is has an extremely low priority and might as well not exist. If it's in my inbox and unread it gives me anxiety not to action it. A Snooze feature is a perfect middle ground.
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