jpdevereaux

H) I occasionally see Instagram photos in various other social streams, but don't have the app so I don't follow anyone or see popular photos.

Trying to dry up the hipster job market, are we?

For a while the dash-ing annoyed me until I realized that it makes selecting/changing part of a variable name easier (at least in vim). Can't imagine that's the reasoning behind it but it does work out well.

Indeed, it feels a lot less "boxed in" than tools like Asana.

Once is probably enough to stop a good chunk of spam and general thoughtless comments, with how powerful first impressions are and all. (@dhh: does it work?)

I like the happy medium that the Squarespace screenshot suggests - flat list navigation elements that are implicitly clickable due to their arrangement, and lightly-gradiented buttons that pop out as actionable items. Moderation is ideal (as usual).

I just started using Amazon's Product Advertising API (for referral marketing) and it too seems to be fairly obtuse. They clearly don't put as much effort into their not-as-public products.

The @font-face glyphicons will be a great change, it'll make sizing the icons a lot easier. I'm confused about licensing though - it seems from their site [1] that the vector versions are only available with a $59 pro pack...

[1] http://glyphicons.com/

This scares me about modern culture (at least that of middle class America). In grade school, I really enjoyed making things. Simple things, like creatures out of paper clips. To me that was more enjoyable than watching pre-made shows, or playing pre-made games.

When I discovered computers, it became even more fun to make things - websites, animations, scripts to make chemistry homework automatic, etc. My classmates would spend the same amount of time discussing who was the best at throwing pig-skin balls in an arena, or how funny that last South Park episode was.

Now that was before every kid had an portable entertainment system on hand for 24 hours a day, with interfaces tailored for consumption, and operating systems discouraging fiddling. I can only imagine the maker culture is dwindling, especially in younger generations. Is there a way to fix this?

But it seems this might not be the case anymore - if Twitter were launched like that today, would people even bother checking it out?

Sad, I came to the store hoping that there'd finally be a dependable US distributor of the devices themselves.

I've been hesitant about contacting agencies because of said margins, but if the projects are that much better perhaps it is worthwhile.

Maybe they can start selling plastic and part plans?

I stumbled across this site a while ago when learning about Neural Networks. Never even realized what a broad range of other interesting topics he covered.

I have the feeling people suppose they're in some sort of armored vehicle when browsing the web, when in reality it's an open-top Jeep. It's too bad the general public has no concept of how vulnerable their identity is on the web.