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wonderyak

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About wonderyak

front-end developer, wet blanket.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #9572692

    The thousands of developers making a living mostly off of WordPress development would probably disagree with you. It's low hanging fruit, not a lot of effort for decent return.

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    Comment #9572545

    With the coming REST API and possibly some new ways of obviating the dashboard and the TinyMCE editor WordPress is headed in a great direction.

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    Comment #9572540

    I wonder if this will somehow improve the quality of WooThemes' themes?

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    Comment #9114975

    Sounds like a typical first generation new device from Apple. Generally, 1st generation new devices have low benefit to cost ratios, are trying to enter a market with the absolute …

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    Comment #9114950

    Patterns, transperency and lots and lots of time.

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    Comment #9110037

    The biggest problem always seems to be human intervention and the expectation of how much and where a human might intervene in any play. In addition, there are global sliders which…

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    Comment #9012359

    I'm happily working towards that now.

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    Comment #9010947

    Oh I'm sure it would, but it would be far better than my current situation.

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    Comment #9010330

    I'd be happy enough just working at Apple.

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    Comment #9010312

    I (American) was born in 1980 and I clearly remember being told that the Soviets and their Evil Empire were going to kill us all some day. It was a time where calling someone a 'co…

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    Comment #8692244

    http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/institutional-holdings http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/insiders/bezos-jeffrey-p-48340

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    Comment #8534912

    Maybe he just wants to engage with #Brands.

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    Comment #8530789

    Stacey is like Kirby without a web interface. You manage content by dropping text files into directories. It's not inelegant. Admin interfaces can be just as poor for representing …

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    Comment #8330825

    Yes, though I will occasionally unblock certain sites. Primarily I use ad/script blockers as an extra layer of security.

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    Comment #8319793

    The current battery tech is holding the entire world back. The next market revolution will come with new power generation (battery) tech that allows us to not worry about charging …

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    Comment #8319780

    'I only read it for the interviews/articles' used to be a legitimate reason and not a joke for covering up buying a magazine with boobs in it.

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    Comment #8116918

    > “The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.” - Frank Zappa The interplay between elements…

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    Comment #8114994

    They did the same thing with Far Cry. Whenever they need money they sell off an IP.

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    Comment #7786313

    FWIW - on my meager Atom/ION setup I had to turn HW Decoding off in order for it to work properly.

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    Comment #7780938

    I just got up and running with a temporary HTPC that is attached to my second TV. Its a crappy Nettop with an Atom and 1x PCI-e ION2. I'm getting 30FPS @ 720p on the TV streaming a…

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    Comment #7779504

    Sure its fun to laugh at things people said that turned out very, very wrong. I think one of the basic premises isn't all that far off though: >The way Jobs sees it, the stores loo…

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    Comment #7630552

    There seems to be a tipping point at a lot of really successful companies where they get a little too top-heavy. Too many executives, too much management (often as rank and file ar…

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    Comment #7560032

    1. That is not what right-to-work laws are for, nor is what you described any definition of right-to-work. 2. CA is an at-will employment state. You can be terminated for cause, no…

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    Comment #7488454

    This looks wonderful. The map generation looks particularly great.

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    Comment #7469387

    There is much more money to be made in 'dystopian' tech than there would be with 'utopian' tech.