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jmenter
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About jmenter
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Comment #45434894
> It’s not the average, it’s the deepest and most accurate reporting. Yes! I'm also a paying member but I'm deeply suspicious of this feature. The website claims "we expose readers…
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Comment #27286372
I was a stay at home dad for two years in my mid-thirties. Learned to make iPhone apps, and landed a job developing iPhone apps when my kid was two. It was my first programming job…
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Comment #26853481
Thanks for writing this. I was a big fan of Adobe through the '90s and early '00s and also noticed their devolution post-Geschke/Warnock. I wish those complaining about today's Ado…
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Comment #26819970
Great article!
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Comment #25571111
I have a PowerMac G4 1.25 DP that boots Mac OS 9.2.2 natively from an SSD (using a SATA to PATA converter board.) It absolutely screams (Photoshop 5.5 cold launches in about 1.5 se…
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Comment #25452924
I totally appreciate it! And kudos on your personal mission. Not that you don't have enough on your plate, but I wonder if you've been interested in doing a kind of "on writing" po…
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Comment #25450889
I don't have a question but I first heard about you because of Inconsolata (I instantly fell in love with it.) Also, your writing is just exceptionally good.
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Comment #25373887
This article is just superb.
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Comment #25254139
Yes! So great, especially after a night of drinking Belgian beer. These Belgian frites are the best fries I've ever had (and I'm old enough to have had the original McDonald's frie…
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Comment #24939126
What journalism is actually for, and how capitalism actually works, are completely at odds. I have no answers on how this can be squared.
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Comment #24939036
Great point. The recommendation of the article seems pretty straightforward and uncontentious. Not that I'm a fan of the major national news media but anything they can do to up th…
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Comment #24865276
Did the price of Halide just jump from $5 (or, $3 as I paid in 2017 according to my receipt) to $30?
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Comment #24865076
Sorry, I made an assumption (that all three permissions were necessary) after granting camera permissions but not photo library or location permissions. The UI was not clear about …
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Comment #24864983
It could be that photo library access was the hard constraint. I wasn't going to allow that until I got to play around with the app. I'll try again and re-assess.
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Comment #24864873
I was never a fan of the first version of this app, despite being a mobile app developer and a photography nerd. I paid for and tried the initial version (Mark I?) a year or two ag…
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Comment #23518294
10 year iOS developer here. I don't have any answers for you (not a compiler expert either) but yeah, auto-complete of Swift in Xcode continues to suck in a lot of different ways. …
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Comment #22903476
Would you consider releasing the core frequency detection module? (I'm assuming it's in C++?) I'm also an iOS developer and it would be fun to play around with it. Is the chromatic…
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Comment #22903266
This app is really neat, and I'm curious about what your app is doing beyond FFT analysis. (I spent like 15 minutes playing a 'simulated' church organ and watching the frequency pa…
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Comment #20936181
I got a dopamine rush reading this!
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Comment #9085691
Did you know that your last link is the original link for this thread?
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Comment #9048413
I purchased a Nest thermostat and installed it as per the instructions. Set it to 69°F before going to sleep. I awoke at 3AM with the temperature at 83°F and no way to turn it off.…
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Comment #5347143
As someone who develops for iOS and Android I agree. Xcode and the Cocoa Touch frameworks have improved a huge amount in just a few short years. Meanwhile, the Android frameworks s…