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dyladan··on Market Size and Demand for Marijuana in Colorado [pdf]
Or 2 times the weight of an average blue whale.
dyladan··on Market Size and Demand for Marijuana in Colorado [pdf]
4-5 times a month would tend to be weekends only. If it was drinking you would consider that to be pretty casual.
dyladan··on Why the (CoffeeScript) arrow matters
Can someone please explain to me in a bit more detail what the advantage of not having named functions is?
dyladan··on Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
Try Bookie. It's an open source alternative to delicious that I've been hacking on recently. They are registered as a project for Google summer of code this summer so activity has picked up recently, but the main developer struggles to find time to work on it.

https://github.com/bookieio/bookie hosted at https://bmark.us

dyladan··on I Built a Social Network for Food and Here’s How I Did it
I'm not 100% certain but I think this is the code you are looking for https://github.com/jendewalt/yumhacker/blob/master/lib/geoco...
dyladan··on How Writing 1000 Words a Day Changed My Life
tl;dr Actively maintaining a blog is incredibly difficult and kudos to you. I hope I eventually have that kind of self discipline.

I really wish I had the drive to do this. Every 6 months I sit down and tell myself that I'm going to start writing a blog or a journal. It usually starts out well. I create content that I truly believe is good, and I post fairly regularly for a while.

This is when problems begin to arise. The better my content becomes, the more I feel the need to make good content. I become snobbish with myself, discarding ideas that I would have deemed worthy when I started. My life begins to take over my time (I have a 40 hour job and 4 college classes right now) and I begin to have less time to post. These things build and build until eventually I am out of ideas that I think are "good", I don't feel properly qualified to post about the ideas I still like (because the things I am curious about tend to be things I'm still actively learning), and I begin to post less and less.

The thing that usually puts the last nail in the coffin is that my start and stop nature, and my ever changing set of interests prevent me from gaining any significant readership. I look back at old posts I have made and always think the same things: "This is no longer relevant.", "People interested in this are probably not interested in my current work.", or "How did I start out so well and fall off so far?".

I have a tremendous amount of respect for people that can actively maintain a blog at all, let alone write 1000 words a day and create truly great content on a weekly basis. All I have to say is keep going, and I hope that one day I have what it takes to keep my fingers moving on the keys for more than a month.

dyladan··on Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the US on eve of his PhD defense at JHU
At Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan the story is pretty similar, and we aren't exactly the best known college worldwide.
dyladan··on Funding a website without selling user data or advertisements
If you want to check it out you can at symposium.dyladan.me

I don't have any ssl yet though so i'd be wary of putting in any passwords you share with other sites if you are going to sign up.

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