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cannikin

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About cannikin

Programmer, woodworker, husband and dad.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #16621035

    Does this require the client to pay by credit card? I've worked for several clients where they'll only pay by direct deposit, or check.

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    Comment #15454696

    Funny, I just learned about this command a couple of days ago as a simple way to max out your CPU. I was trying to drain the battery on my Macbook Pro and running 4 of these at the…

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    Comment #11171794

    Yeah, what kind of strong typing is going to keep you from NOT calling a function?

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    Comment #11111483

    This book has everything you need: http://www.amazon.com/ARRL-Ham-Radio-License-Manual/dp/16259...

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    Comment #11081852

    The judge said that the webcam provided them the same view, from a public place, that agents would have had if assigned to watch the guy 24/7. (It seems to me that the view from ~3…

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    Comment #10720790

    It seems like this could be huge for small/local fire departments and law enforcement. If your town can't afford its own helicopter with FLIR imaging, now you can get a dedicated s…

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    Comment #10516635

    1099 here. My wife has great health insurance through her employer so I was okay. If I had to purchase our insurance I'm not sure I would have been as quick to make the leap.

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    Comment #10516627

    See above. :)

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    Comment #10516626

    No problem: cannikinn@gmail.com

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    Comment #10508922

    I was strictly a full-time corporate guy until about 2 years ago. I got an email out of the blue from a tech recruiter guy, asking if I was interested in freelance. I hadn't given …

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    Comment #10461914

    Not sure if "taking control" of a drone would be considered a form a jamming, but the FCC says: > Federal law prohibits the operation, marketing, or sale of any type of jamming equ…

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    Comment #9583476

    I want to love Digital Ocean but is there any talk about providing load balancers? It seems like as soon as you want to scale beyond one server you're stuck rolling your own with s…

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    Comment #9344710

    Dropbox isn't even close to this experience. Yes the files themselves would be everywhere, but I don't want to have to go into the Dropbox app to view my photos (not to mention the…

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    Comment #9343039

    I've been running the beta for a month or so and I can't imagine going back. FINALLY all of my photos are available everywhere and safely stored without me doing any extra work. Ph…

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    Comment #9187908

    Does the laptop in the splash photo bother anyone else? It looks like they photoshopped the keyboard to be much shorter. Look how tall the screen is, then imagine you folded that d…

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    Comment #8968187

    It sounds like he likes Minitest better for everything except that the output doesn't make it easy to run only the failing tests. Seems like that should be an easy patch if he just…

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    Comment #7984794

    Just sent you an email. :)

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    Comment #7984466

    What did you do to get the word out to the world? Word of mouth? Ads? Tech blog writeups? I have a pretty polished app I wrote a couple of years ago but it didn't even cover the AW…

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    Comment #5713265

    I got to try out Glass a couple of weeks ago and (for me, at least) there is a huge problem: the display floats about a foot or so in front of you, up and to the right. That means …

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    Show HN: A site to upload, share and review creative work and presentations

    http://previewcloud.com The idea came from a product manager I used to work with. He had a bunch of website comps that he needed to show some remote employees but didn't want to zi…

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    Comment #3110153

    I'm a programmer and recently (in the last couple of years, I'm 33) come to the realization that nothing that I do during my day job is an actual, tangible thing , nor will it be a…

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