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scottmey

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scottmey··on Ask HN: Have you picked up any new skill from scratch in your 40s or later?
“Pilots a boat”, is what I was taught.
scottmey··on Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you track your time?
'On the job' for OSX. Create clients, jobs for client and easily create invoices. Love it.
scottmey··on Ask HN: Smaller(ish) Project Idea's
Here you go:

http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/78802-martyr2s-mega-...

He also wrote this:

http://www.coderslexicon.com/downloads/the-programmers-idea-...

scottmey··on Ask HN: Did you delete Facebook account after the NSA fiasco?
Yes, but it's been on my mind for a while ( ever since my feed has become populated with advertisements ). The NSA fiasco wasn't really the reason, but it definitely helped me conclude the time was now.
scottmey··on DBX
Very Nice & Simple, a few subtle things going on and only has 717.5kB page size. Nicely done, I'll dig around for a bit but probably will not be attending.
scottmey··on Ask HN: How many of you will buy Sim City for Mac?
Probably will.... just a little curious, no?
scottmey··on Show HN: sachet – handcraft your Vim environment online
I'm an OSX user, but I just created a repository (on Github) and anytime I add new plugins/configurations I try to commit those changes...as I spent a good deal of time customizing my setup at one point.

You could create one for Windows & one for Linux.

scottmey··on Ask HN: Do you use a time tracker for client work?
on Mac 'On the Job' works pretty nicely, export pdf Invoices etc...
scottmey··on How much salary is enough? Apparently, $75,000/year
Sheesh! And that doesn't even come close to what some people pay. NYC > Manhattan. It's insane! I live 10 minute bike ride from Manhattan, and pay just under $500.00 a month w/ two roomates (GF and best friend) for the first two floors of a brownstone, plus basement and backyard. I've had about four apartments in the past 10 years in this range in my area, it really does pay to live just a little out of the way! I do pretty well for myself these days and am stashing around 50% of my income away. I feel like people who pay some of these whopping amounts of money don't even get to enjoy the true treasures of the city, and money is tied to everything. Stressful.
scottmey··on Building A Node.js Server That Won't Melt
I've been looking for a solution for this, every time I had used 'nodemon' it couldn't handle the load, even if it was quite insignificant... perhaps I had misconfigured something, but I'm pleased to find this, good timing!
scottmey··on Amazon Announces new Data Warehousing Product
Totally agree, and they'll just be left in the dust while paying bucket loads for services that we can now acquire for greater deals less. At the end of the day, Amazon should have no problems finding clients interested in this service.
scottmey··on Evernote 5 for Mac
Much better, and that advertisement placement in the previous version was one of the reasons it took me so long to finally start using.
scottmey··on Ask HN: Where else do you get your news?
Somebody posted a news aggregator on here a few months back that I keep an eye on...

http://hackurls.com/

scottmey··on Apple just made its first mistake in a long time
Yeah... no so sure about that one evo_9. I personally will not be buying one, but I'll sit back and watch them reel in a whole slew of new customers. There is a market for this product, and the price point may not seem appropriate to you, but when you look at the specs, it makes a lot of sense.

Perhaps you should create some competition? I'll lend a hand... ;)

scottmey··on Oatmeal fundraiser for Tesla museum is a triumph
They're obviously going to need to come up with much more money, but the fact that they have now purchased the land is a monster step.

Really psyched to see how this plays out. Especially since I grew up on the East End of LI and still live relatively close by.

scottmey··on The Code Side Of Color
I've started using HSL too. Paul Irish is right, once you start using it, it's really easy to grasp and use on the fly.

See:

http://mothereffinghsl.com/

scottmey··on A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps
Completely agree. Perhaps I don't rely on the app as much as others, but I do find myself using it at least once a week. I personally haven't had any real problems since launch. But expected there to be quite a few hurdles at first. I'm an iOS user, but don't consider myself a fanboy. But I expect them to really push this and create something beautiful and useful over time, hopefully sooner than later. I'm anxiously awaiting.
scottmey··on Ask HN: Any wordpress developers here looking for work?
I'd be interested in this, if still available.
scottmey··on How This Guy Lied His Way Into MSNBC, ABC News, The New York Times and More
Been a fan of Joey Skaggs for a long time now. First discovered his work in the RE/Search Publication "Pranks"... Definitely check that publication out.

As far as this article is concerned, this guy rubs me the wrong way right off the bat.. but I agree that the reporters should have done some fact checking, probably would have been apparent rather quickly something was up.

scottmey··on Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second
Could have something to do with the intensity of the storm we experienced here in NYC yesterday....

http://www.travelerstoday.com/articles/2357/20120718/nyc-sto...

scottmey··on Shitter: Toilet Paper of Tweets
+1
scottmey··on I'm burning out and I can't tell anyone
I second this. Especially with coding, I've found the answers to my philosophical questions, and my logic quandaries more than a handful of times.

Also, make sure you're surrounded by motivating people, or atleast people that get you thinking. I lack this sometimes in the work environment and it's a drag...

scottmey··on Paul Graham has lost the plot
I agree with Paul in some respects. But I did feel that his analogy was a bit strange, although kind of creative.