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estenh

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About estenh

Software Engineer at Twitter. I like storytelling and making cool stuff. Oh, and Python and JavaScript. @esten on Twitter.

Recovering journalist.

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    Glad you like it!

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    Comment #5130706

    I'm kinda terrible at writing Mac apps, so any feedback is much appreciated.

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    Every news organization that I've talked to that's used Ellington loves it. If they want to seriously make a change for the better in an industry dominated by antiquated CMSs that …

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    So, uh... what does this say about PHP? http://i.imgur.com/81uas.jpg

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    Fun idea, but your auth is quite broken right now. I keep losing my work; very frustrating. Also, already lost my work on one challenge from clicking the I/O button. I like the coo…

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    Hmmm, interesting. Looks great on my Windows/Chrome setup. Mind emailing me a screenshot at esten.hurtle@gmail.com? Thanks so much!

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    Comment #3750928

    Interesting about ownership affecting how users perceive changes to the site itself. You're 100% right on that, hadn't thought about it.

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    I'm just wondering what can be done to sort of capture that feeling of contributing to a community in places that already have large numbers of commenters. You're entirely right th…

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    Oh, sweet! Thanks!

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    Super cool, but I keep clicking the wrong letters when I go diagonally on my trackpad.

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    I have a friend who recently quit because of the crazy hours they were working him and the menial work he had to do. He told me he wasn't the only one quitting, lots of other peopl…

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    Is this in Chrome? I've seen that happen in FF, and I'm pretty sure it's just due to the way the API works in that browser. Not sure what's going on if it's in Chrome. Fairly minim…

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    I'll do my best to hack in a non-Facebook version when I get some time. Definitely a necessity.

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    Comment #3311735

    Taught by Anthony Tomasic this semester, but yes.

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    Comment #3311638

    Should start a bit slower now, and speed up as you play.

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    Interesting. Should start fairly slow... The idea is to catch notes that are in key (black ones) while avoiding those that are out of key (red ones). I'll try to slow down the bloc…

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    It probably wasn't, but we needed some way to save high scores, and "outsourcing" auth to FB was the simplest way. I've done other projects where that's optional, and that'll proba…

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    We wrote a little game that should help with pitch recognition. Uses Couch for storing high scores, Redis for cache and Tornado for the server. Makes use of Audiolib.js ( https://g…

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