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jaredmcdonaldon Addict: An Active Directory REST API

i'm sure this is a very useful product, and i understand that "addict" contains the letters "AD", but naming something "addict" while half the US drowns in opioids seems a little weird

jaredmcdonaldon The Steady Rise of Bike Ridership in New York

I'd love to ride my bike to work but don't really have a place to put it during they day; ideally, the building would have a large, relatively secure space with bike racks in the basement or something (which it doesn't; nor do most buildings, as far as I can tell). I doubt my bike would make it more than a couple of weeks with seat and wheels intact if I locked it on the street.

jaredmcdonaldon The Terrible Technical Interview

> It is time for engineers–especially excellent engineers for whom demand is high–to start to flatly refuse to do whiteboard interviews.

This might be a viable strategy for people who have a well-established career/credentials/references (etc), but for junior-level candidates still trying to prove themselves (such as myself) I can't see this working out too well.

jaredmcdonaldon SlimerJS – A scriptable browser for Web developers

Quick nit: you can take screenshots with PhantomJS [0], exposed in casperjs as `capture` [1]

[0] http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html

[1] http://docs.casperjs.org/en/latest/modules/casper.html#captu...

jaredmcdonaldon President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet

> If he says something now, the reactionary portion of the GOP will take the opposite position as a knee-jerk response. It will become a larger news item and the GOP will have inherited the fallout.

Yeah, exactly. It's a pretty savvy way to drive a wedge through the GOP, and you already see the obstructionist crowd (e.g., Ted Cruz) playing right into it.

jaredmcdonaldon Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited Photo Storage

What happens if you drop your Prime membership?

jaredmcdonaldon At Penn, students can get credit for ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’

Kenny Goldsmith [0], the guy who teaches this class, has done a lot of thinking about internet-based poetics... highly recommend his book "Uncreative Writing"[1] for those interested

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Goldsmith

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Uncreative-Writing-Managing-Language-D...

jaredmcdonaldon SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight

now that is pushing boundaries

jaredmcdonaldon The Free Internet Project

Thanks. Led me to this... wonder if they've implemented ES6 yet? :P

> Red Star OS features a modified Mozilla Firefox browser titled Naenara used for browsing the Naenara web portal on the North Korean intranet network known as Kwangmyong. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

jaredmcdonaldon The Free Internet Project

North Korea is colored red with no explanatory text... is that just to say "come on, it's North Korea?"

jaredmcdonaldon A 16-Level XSS Challenge, held in summer 2014 (plus one hidden level)

http://prompt.ml/

Looks like it's not responding though.

jaredmcdonaldon Dear Instagram

*"bolts"