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ownedthx

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About ownedthx

Programmer/Cofounder at https://www.jamkazam.com and YETI

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    Comment #44081695

    The numerical issues here are due to JavaScript, not JSON.

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    Comment #44023485

    ‘The Manor on Stagecoach’ https://g.co/kgs/tgHhdkD You aren’t alone

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    Comment #41150866

    It’s writing colloquially… the writer has the difficult job of describing something that’s happening inside this cabinet over time and space and other dimensions Imposed by the gam…

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    Comment #39711379

    Amish furniture is built extremely well. And the price is not cheap but not exhorbiant. And clearly American made :)

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    Comment #37419556

    If you had lived through the last blackout and still lived in Texas, then absolutely yes it’s newsworthy. We want to grade our government accurately. Almost having a collapse again…

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    Comment #23306448

    wince We need to take that section/link down. We did do a KickStarter for the JamBlaster, made ~200 and shipped them. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1091884999/jamblaster-t..…

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    Comment #23305534

    JamKazam founder here. Happy to come across a user! We see that too: 25ms one-way latency is the max to stay in sync, and that includes both internet + audio device encode/decode, …

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    Comment #16837775

    My all time favorite theory: http://pbfcomics.com/comics/dinosaur-meteors/

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    Ask HN: Volunteer opportunities over Slack?

    I'd love to help mentor/coach folks trying to learn programming, and would like to do it over Slack (or something close to it). I'm thinking for others like me would find this to b…

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    Ask HN: How do I go about finding public data?

    Say I wanted to know if I could find data on the number of public servants a particular city employs, and data on the sort of jobs these employees have, and any other related data?…

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    Comment #12199057

    Get them out of the house. It's the same quitting unhealthy food. Take away easy access, and you'll do something else.

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    Comment #11664844

    The frontend is all HTML inside of the webview. We do have a tray icon too, though.

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    Comment #11659496

    We have a website presence too, and the website UI (as visited in a normal browser) is 95% the same style and functionality as the desktop app. So when you browse to our site via t…

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    Comment #11659289

    Mind sharing your stack?

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    Comment #11659120

    We have a desktop application that uses QtWebkit for the UI. We had no choice technically-we need to use audio APIs on Win/Mac to get our job done. Based on my experience, I would …

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    Ask HN: Stimulating websites for kindergarteners?

    I help with a hour long 'computer lab' for my child's kindergarten class, and the teacher asked if I had any ideas for the last 3 classes of the year. A big plus in usability is if…

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    Comment #11392383

    Antecdata: most of the scamming directed towards our startup comes from Tor exit nodes.

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    Comment #10987527

    Annecdote time. My back has hurt for about 15 years, since the age of 18. I didn't exercise reguraly during that time. I haven't had any pain for the past 2 years... The change us …

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    Comment #10974304

    A scheme I settled on a previous job that I really liked for internal apps was: branch-buildno Where branch is the git branch, and buildno came from our build machine (Jenkins in o…

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    Comment #10278110

    I'm not sure if this is baked into Rails 5, but you can get es6 support (via Babel) with the sprockets-es6 gem: https://github.com/TannerRogalsky/sprockets-es6 Rails is still a sec…

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    Comment #10248806

    My unintuitive experience is that I remember .NET 2.0/C# syntax better than any other language, and it was because Visual Studio had the best tab-completion around (probably still …