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I’m Jeff Pickelman, a full-stack web developer. I built Songed.com

Personal site: verdantrefuge.com

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pattern··on Watch Out Mars: 1080 HD Video of Curiosity Descent
Additionally, the "violently tumble while marginally protected by airbags" plan isn't a viable method for eventually landing humans on Mars! One more reason to come up with a "gentler" descent :)
pattern··on BufferBox (YC S12) Solves The Problem Of Missing Packages
Obligatory pedantic reply: it's "piqued" not "peaked"!

Source: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/peaked.html, Paul Brians, Professor of English at WSU

pattern··on Improve [iOS] Usability with a Black Status Bar and Rounded Corners
It would be useful to be able to be able to select between unbounded and bounded content by changing the `meta viewport` value on a web page! Obviously as it stands now, the navigation UI at the bottom of the screen in mobile Safari prevents this, but I can still dream :)
pattern··on 1and1 ask for passwords over the phone
All your points are duly taken! The reason I said this article was trying to "Rally the HN troops" is due to the second sentence of the post:

  Upvotes on Hacker News would be greatly appreciated to help me beat Goliath!
I took that to be a rallying cry :)
pattern··on 1and1 ask for passwords over the phone
I know I personally am happy to have read the OP's article. It made me aware of this backwards practice by 1&1, and I also learned that 1&1 stores these user passwords in plaintext. As a consumer of internet services, I will now steer clear of 1&1, and I have the OP to thank for the possible headaches I may have avoided.

I have no problem with someone standing up for what they believe in, taking a stand, and "rallying the HN troops" for what might be a relatively minor issue for most. I'm sure we all have made fusses about more trivial things :)

pattern··on Back up your precious files on ordinary paper
No one ever said yellow :) Cyan/Magenta/Green or any other trio of darker and differentiated colors may be able to do the trick.
pattern··on Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo
There's no way to "save" the shirt I just created currently - right? Trying to "Add to my collection" brings up a form that is non-functional. I entered my email on the home page and hoped I might have a login waiting for me, but alas, just a note saying I may get one in the future! I took a screenshot for now, should be good enough.

Are you guys currently hiring a developer to do the HTML5 version of the site? :)

pattern··on Coding Horror: I Was a Teenage Hacker
One male and one female student were voted "Most likely to succeed" in every year of my high school yearbook (northern California, 2000-2004).
pattern··on All of the available CSS color names
I find the table on Wikipedia [1] much more usable in that I can visually see the colors that I am choosing between side-by-side. Not to mention they are already roughly organized by color.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#X11_color_names

pattern··on Writing good commit messages
Thank you for that link, I'm glad to have that data point in my head now.

At first I misread your explanation of DVCS as a patch management system and was going to say that non-imperative forms of commit summaries would function similarly. Now I understand your point, and I thank you again for explaining a useful way to conceptualize what merging multiple git commits together actually accomplishes.

pattern··on Internet Explorer 6 Countdown
Hex color of 20-25% in legend: #FF9233

Hex color of China: #FF8A00

Hex color of orange square in the "list view": #F7921E

As an aside - for a while now OS X has been shipping with a tool called "DigitalColor Meter" which allows you to see the color at your cursor tip in RGB or Hex. I find it extremely useful for situations like this, as well as the "zoom in" feature to be able to see if there is a border on a particular element, for example.

pattern··on Major label uses DMCA to take down Romney ad of Obama crooning
This was my parsing of the article as well. The video could be viewed as being either a "commentary" or a "criticism" or both. The continuation "and copyright law explicitly..." is reinforcing that author's belief that this is the case.
pattern··on Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion
I did indeed follow both the discussion here and the comments on his post closely! I wasted/spent a good 6+ hours reading about all kinds of router features that I had didn't know existed, or never even thought possible (VLANs, VPN, NFS, CIFS, Captive Portal, router CPU overclocking, etc). Some versions of Tomato (Shibby's firmware [1] in particular) allow the router to act as a BitTorrent client! I'm sure it's old news to some, but for anyone on the fence about trying new firmware on their routers - take the plunge.

[1]: http://tomato.groov.pl/

pattern··on Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion
I'm thankful Jeff Atwood posted another article about the commodity router + open source firmware one-two punch [1]. I finally took the plunge and installed Tomato (Toastman [2]) and have been thrilled with the features, but mostly excited about the fact I get to tinker with another device :) It is empowering to know that I can circumvent overarching and onerous policies such as this...innovation...by Cisco.

[1]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/because-everyone-st...

[2]: http://toastmanfirmware.yolasite.com/

pattern··on ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to someone you like
Thank you for bringing this to my attention - I will make good use of the Network tab going forward :) I had only ever really used Console and Elements in the past.
pattern··on ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to someone you like
Where are you getting the song data (title / artist name) from? If it isn't scraped from YouTube, how do you match up the search results with YouTube videos?

Good work!

P.S. When viewing source (on Chrome, OS X) it shows the .search and .mixtape divs as blank! Is there a reason for this?

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