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I met two different couples who literally sold everything, drove to Florida, bought a boat, had an instructor on board for a week, and sailed away with no previous experience. Neit…

Cruising sailors love in Inreach too (at least in the Caribbean). It's great to be able to essentially text people at home with passage reports or just to keep up when you keep swi…

I'm travelling semi-permanently (away from "home" ~9 months now). I had to update OS X and Xcode recently. 11GB fortunately only took 2 days (and $60 of data charges) since I'm som…

In case people don't know, the reason for this is that AIS uses an already existing VHF channel (and on recreational craft sometimes even shares the antenna). AIS is to keep ships …

You'll create your own Xcode project to try out the code. UI stuff in playgrounds works but it doesn't show you very well how to do table views in a real project. Coding on a boat …

tl;dr: Email course + a live session Q&A to teach you how to build a simple iOS app that fetches gists from the GitHub API and displays them in a table view. JSON + networking + sh…

It's a non-HIPAA controlled platform where we can try out things like pulse & respiration monitoring without worrying about FDA regulations that make developing medical devices a s…

Cut up and bake for a bit coated with oil and maybe spices for amazing croutons. A little chewy in the middle is great.

Cape Horn to Starboard is the story of a guy doing it on a small sailboat: http://www.amazon.com/Cape-Horn-Starboard-John-Kretschmer/dp... Here's a shorter, more recent report of a…

The average difference is 8" but with tides it can be up to 12' and it changes constantly. It'd be really tough for the ships to handle in the confined space especially when eddies…

Author here, AMA. - I wrote the book using LeanPub which was a pretty good experience, especially if you're used to Markdown and Git - Updating for Swift 2.0 the day before it was …

I found the same thing. In the bit of rural Canada where I grew up, it was pretty standard for french elementary students to go on to english high school (with 1-2 classes/year in …

SEEKING WORK (native iOS), Remote (based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) I design and build native iPhone and iPad apps. Most of these are distributed through the App Store…

I haven't had clients in Chicago but I would be very surprised if that weren't the case. I've done remote dev work (mostly iOS) for clients in Canada, Portland, and Minneapolis tha…

SEEKING WORK (native iOS), Remote (based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) I design and build native iPhone and iPad apps. Most of these are distributed through the App Store…

As another Canuck, same here. I've gone without benefits sometimes (waiting periods for spouse's new jobs) but that means putting off new glasses or dental cleanings for a few mont…

I've had a lot of luck negotiating freelance contracts. So far having a lawyer review it and explain until I understand it usually costs I once got pretty much free reign to rewrit…

By asking the right questions. In this case by aiming to find no significant difference between the 3 drugs under study then making sure the sample size was too small to find a dif…

I did it. I did a Master's (never had any intention of a PhD) in engineering, mostly focused on OR decision making applications in geography. So I knew maps and could write Matlab …

The hard part about disrupting the hearing aid industry is that most of what people are paying for is service. First there are a lot of reasons that people could have hearing loss …