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I’m an advocate of UTC everywhere.

I landed in Australia this morning and as soon as my phone updated to Dec 2 on the new network my phone started locking up immediately. It would go to the loading screen (spinner i…

Anonyome Labs | iOS Developer, Web Developer | Salt Lake City, UT | Onsite | Full-time Anonyome Labs is a well-funded startup building a full-featured safety and privacy app called…

Thanks! I'll have to check that out. I really love the CircleCI service - incredible time saver in getting continuous integration setup and so many features out of the box. Would d…

Agreed about the conventional wisdom. Unfortunately, I think many companies aren't 'doing it right' and end up with somewhat bloated systems. From what I'm hearing, most companies …

Great tips - thanks! In addition to some slow-running tests, we do have a lot of test duplication. It's probably time to step back and evaluate what tests are overlapping functiona…

During the past several years, my company has gone from running a handful of automated tests on a single server to running thousands of automated tests. These include unit tests, i…

Did this protest make it into the event? I did hear some yelling during one of the keynote talks.

I actually have a similar problem with UPS. Last year we had a dyson vacuum delivered to our house that was left on the front porch, about 10 feet from the sidewalk. The box was th…

My problem is that I tend to wear out card before I get a replacement. For example, my debit card currently requires 3-4 swipes to get it to work. I'd probably keep a backup card i…

For most self-swipe checkouts, it seems like this card would work well (coffee shop, grocery store, etc). But, it isn't too uncommon to have a merchant request to see the card, and…

A wallet is a single point of failure device. It's a lot more of a hassle to remotely wipe my wallet (remember all the cards, cancel them all individually).

My son's school just sent a request for me to participate in the middle school 'career investigation immersion'. In the program, parents come in and give - a brief presentation of …

I recently did a challenge of 100 days of commits to side projects and I'm now at day 96. I think this was awesome for me, as it kept me really focused on my projects, even if some…

As somebody who is in a hiring position and aspires to a more gender-balanced work-place, I've found it really disheartening that so few applicants are female. We have mostly male …

These are great! I think I've seen Bee Minder before. Honestly, it has helped me out tremendously to just keep committing. I have days where I commit some really trivial bit of cod…

Lesson 7: You need to stick with it I'm trying to do this right now. I challenged myself to do 100 consecutive days of commits to my side projects and I'm currently at day 94. Unfo…

The "we're changing the world" mentality is a bit annoying to me, as well. When I think about changing the world, I think about discoveries in medicine and science, people dedicati…

I think the main benefit of ClimbingWeather.com is ability to quickly find climbing areas. Looking for the forecast for Indian Creek, Joshua Tree, the Gunks, Cathedral Spires? You …

About $100/month on http://www.climbingweather.com It was ad-free for years, finally put some ads up last year and now it's covering my expenses. Haven't done much development in a…

This is a cool idea but seems fairly limited when you take into consideration the state of the resources used in your application. For example, if I have a method that checks the b…

I've experimented with running headless tests using Firefox, in hopes of getting a good performance boost in terms of test speed. The results actually did not indicate much of a di…

Poked around the site a bit - love the word theater and the overall presentation! Beautiful work!

I actually just started a challenge to do 100 commits in 100 days, and I'm up to almost 70 (w/ a streak of 31). This seems so much easier :P