jonheller

Just wanted to say I love the visualizations and data points you chose. I'd be curious to know which APIs and services you used to gather this data?

That's unfortunate. I know it's just one example but I was planning on recommending this to my company of several hundred people. But it's essential for people at a company, especially one with a lot of remote workers, to specify when they're away and when they might be back.

Ack. Add a drop shadow or border or something to your headline text, it's illegible on a lot of the background images.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dsmyknbh7gpp91u/Screenshot%202013-...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mu0at7n464nkjpp/Screenshot%202013-...

I love and trust Square, but would be extremely hesitant to trust my debit card anywhere online. Someone going on a charging spree with my credit card doesn't bother me as much as the thought of someone stealing this number and taking the money directly out of my account.

> This is literally just a setup and run blog.

Wordpress isn't? Unless things have changed you install it and start adding blog posts.

One of the best Chrome extensions I've ever used.

I'm a little confused. I was initially excited as I saw this to an alternative to Beanstalk. But instead appears to be from the makers of Beanstalk, but offers less functionality for twice the cost?

This is completely misleading. You still need to pay for NFL Game Pass which is several hundred dollars for the season.

I do something similar with a proxy server for NBA. I connect to a Swedish VPN and purchase a season pass. I can then connect to the VPN, start a game, and watch my home team without blackout issue.

You can also disconnect after the initial connection and not have to worry about issues with slowdown going through the VPN.

So much that I considered learning how to write Chrome extensions just to hide anything that contained the words NSA or Snowden

I agree. I don't see any difference from putting the powder in the bowl and adding hot water (even through a Keurig). Besides the marketing and sales opportunity, of course.

Unbelievable how much complaining there is this thread. This is a great, free addition to their service and is very well done for getting a quick overview of a server.

That makes sense. Most of my traumatic memories have been of events that have literally lasted a few seconds, but I can see how the same effect could happen for a longer one.

Guess I should count myself lucky I don't have those!

Extremely disturbing.

This was well written and very interesting to read, but I do wonder how one could recall the details so specifically?

Amazing, I just had an idea to implement something like this, and here it is!

I used to really enjoy this service, back when they offered solid deals and introduced me to new products at the same time.

Then the deals went away and the once or twice a week emails because 7+. Also the fulfillment process there was painfully slow, though I suppose them switching to their own inventory will at least solve that issue.

This makes me very happy to not be in the email marketing business anymore.

I love my MacBooks, but every one I have had (totally three so far) have had wifi connectivity issues, usually which involve the connection dropping a few minutes after I resume from sleep and me needing to disable wifi and reconnect.

I use it for pretty much everything in life that I want to remember.

I use a trick Merlin Mann mentioned in one of his podcasts, where he prefixes each note title with a category. So I have life, work, snippets (for code), and a few others.

But I rarely browse, as the search functionality just can't be beat. Some example notes are

- trip planning (hotel, flight info, museums) - meeting notes at work (tons of these) - electricians I've called to get quotes from - list of conferences I want to attend this year - names and phone numbers of my neighbors - gift ideas - favorite wines - favorite quotes

I have the app bound to command-shift-tilde so it's always very easy to access. Then I use the app Notesy on my iPhone which searches just as quickly.

What I like best about this system is

- super fast search - quick synching - plain text (not some proprietary locked in format) - keeping (almost) everything here means I don't need to load up different apps (a meeting notes app, a wine list app, a snippet app) or think about where to store things

Outside App (http://www.outsideapp.com/) came out two years ago and did this. Not as nice, no question, but I think the guy's paranoia about the rejection is way off base. Though I do agree that there doesn't seem to be a good reason to reject it.

Seems like almost all of this could apply to a male as well. I think the "sales guy" stereotype is just as, if not more, common.

Very good article. I find it's just as important to know this type of "backwards" technology as it is the latest in HTML5.

Email marketing is still a huge part of business and it's amazing how many people and companies do it wrong, i.e one huge image, poor support for Outlook, etc.

And yes, plain text is easier and more consistent, but it doesn't always work better. A lot of times you're going to get better conversions from sending someone a nicely styled HTML email than you are with plain text.

There are a lot of examples in linguistics where the "correct" pronunciation of a word is not the common pronunciation, and so the common pronunciation becomes the correct one.

I've heard maybe one in every twenty people pronunce it as "jif", and when they do so it's not because it seems like it's the natural pronunciation, it's because they once read it was the correct was to pronounce it and want to hammer that fact home.

So I'm sticking with the hard g version.

The language you learn in college isn't important, it's the logic behind it.

I think this is awesome. Obviously it's not geared towards intermediate or higher level WordPress developers, but for someone like my wife who is just digging into WordPress looping it's a wonderful learning tool.

Oddly, I've yet to meet one of these "brogrammers" in my life in my past 13 years in the industry.

Maybe I've just been lucky, but I've generally found males in this field to be extremely respectful and welcoming to females, I think partially because of how few of them are in programming and development.

I'm surprised that they're moving to Google Docs as well. From my experience Google Docs does not fare very well in government & enterprise settings where people are used to Microsoft Word.

No, it's not. Pictures like that never happened. I know it's anecdote and all, but all of the 15 or so people I know who work in Boston, did not work on Friday.

Funny, I run into the exact same problem on the exact same platform. It's what I dislike most about working in .NET.

One thing I've found that works fairly well is using the Pomodoro technique, where I force myself for 25 minutes to just work. That means even during those 15-30 seconds of compiling I can't load up Hacker News or Reddit. It helps, but it's also a little tough for me to enforce (on myself).

Something very similar to this:

1GB XFX Radeon HD 7770 Intel Pentium G850, Socket 1155, Dual Core, 2.90GHz LiteOn IHAS124-04 24x DVD±R Fractal Design Core 1000 500W Storm Silent LPJ19-25 MSI H61M-P31 (G3) Motherboard 4GB Corsair Value DDR3 PC3-10600 (1333) 500GB Seagate ST500DM002 Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm Windows 7 64BIT Professional

I agree, price seems way off. I built a Steam Box for around $400 based on a multitude of guides out there, and every game I've thrown at it so far has run wonderfully (Tomb Raider, Skyrim, NBA 2k13, etc)