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kevinSuttle··on Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
I'm in 100% agreement. The first time I ever fixed anything mechanical was when the pulley on my push lawnmower broke. I thought to myself: "If I can write an iOS app, then this is nothing."
kevinSuttle··on Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
Farmer.
kevinSuttle··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?

  Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Cathy O'Neil)
Whoa. Need to check that one out. Thanks.
kevinSuttle··on Stoicism: Indifference is a power
I couldn't make it through the first sentence of fluff.
kevinSuttle··on Visual Studio for Mac
Ignoring the Apple vs MS thread:

Can Mac users download this or not?

kevinSuttle··on How Blockchain Will Change Your Life
"PR manager"? Try 'the CEO of IBM'.
kevinSuttle··on Introducing TJSON, a stricter, typed form of JSON
What about https://amznlabs.github.io/ion-docs/ ?
kevinSuttle··on Scalable Blockchain Fabric: Proof-Of-Work vs. BFT Replication [pdf]
@phantom_oracle You should try KBFS. https://keybase.pub
kevinSuttle··on FlexJS: MXML and ActionScript to run natively in the browser without Flash
Ha! Talk about serendipity. http://kevinsuttle.com/posts/jsx-2-adobe-flex
kevinSuttle··on What should go into JSX 2.0?
http://kevinsuttle.com/posts/jsx-2-adobe-flex
kevinSuttle··on Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
Ok, CALIFORNIA. That better?
kevinSuttle··on Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
I interviewed there. They wanted me in Menlo Park.
kevinSuttle··on Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
Well that, and not wanting to live in L.A..
kevinSuttle··on Project Shield
You had me nodding in agreement until the very last word. Don't ruin it.
kevinSuttle··on Vim 8.0 released
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vim/vim/master/runtime/doc...
kevinSuttle··on Study found bronze medal-winners tended to be happier than silver medalists
Was wondering how long it would take for this to come up. :)
kevinSuttle··on The new science of cute
I wrote about this a few years ago, with the goal to answer the question of "what is cute, really?" http://uxmag.com/articles/beyond-emotion
kevinSuttle··on Sandstorm – An open source operating system for personal and private clouds
Looks pretty solid. Is there a comparison to other similar products like OwnCloud?
kevinSuttle··on Ask HN: Microsoft Computer Vision API or Google Cloud Vision API?
Yeah, this would be good to share with the team if you have it documented.
kevinSuttle··on Ask HN: Microsoft Computer Vision API or Google Cloud Vision API?
What about Watson? http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl...
kevinSuttle··on Contextual Identities on the Web
This is pretty much spot on what Edward Snowden described for his vision of digital identity.

https://gist.github.com/mnot/382aca0b23b6bf082116

kevinSuttle··on Apple File System
I wonder how APFS compares to IPFS. https://ipfs.io/
kevinSuttle··on Visual Studio Code 1.2 released
Not installing until I don't have to reload the entire app after adding or removing an extension. Not to mention the weird `lineHeight` setting.
kevinSuttle··on Vivaldi 1.2 release
A closed-source browser that's built on Chromium. In 2016. Why.
kevinSuttle··on Comparing Git Workflows
Was this updated recently? This has been up for awhile.
kevinSuttle··on Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB
Thanks!
kevinSuttle··on Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB
I'm wondering how this works (or if it does) with GraphQL subscriptions. https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/3711
kevinSuttle··on Firefox 46 supports some -webkit prefixed CSS properties
This is why we can't have nice things. https://webkit.org/blog/6131/updating-our-prefixing-policy/
kevinSuttle··on Dropbox Project Infinite
Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox, did all but admit it. http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/04/dropboxs-drew-houston-respo...
kevinSuttle··on Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangable, typed JSON-superset
Sounds a lot like the ActionScript compiler, which compiled their EcmaScript-style scripting language into bytecode for the Flash runtime.
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