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tiwatson@gmail.com https://wanderinglabs.com/ http://watsonswander.com
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timmaah··on Screwed by Square
>>Please visit our Help Center if you would like further information around the dispute process: https://squareup.com/help/en-us/article/3882-understanding-c... If you have further questions, feel free to reply to this email. We would be glad to help.<<

He never mentions following up with them or how he took them up on their offer and what their response was.

timmaah··on Screwed by Square
What do you suggest Square do? This is standard operating procedure for merchant account providers.
timmaah··on Patch's new owner lays off staff in 1:39 conference call
Site that the CEO of AOL founded before joining AOL. Then bought once hired at AOL and poured millions into before being forced to cutback/sell to keep his AOL job.
timmaah··on Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet
I happily live with my wife in a 160 sq ft RV and have met tons of happy couples over the past year doing exactly the same.
timmaah··on Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet
We live in 8x25'. The bedroom is separate enough for one to sleep while the other is awake. My wife and I's schedule is offset by about an hour or two. Give each other a bit of alone time.

She also cooks 3 meals a day in our tiny kitchen. Nothing stinks afterwards.

timmaah··on Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet
My wife and I live in just under 200sq ft. No way we could do it if we weren't mobile. We would drive each other nuts. Warm enough weather that we can keep the door open is preferable.

Just spent the last month in the middle of San Diego and now it is out to the desert.

timmaah··on Why I am no longer submitting direct URLs to HN (and neither should you)
HN will then change the url to the actual article bypassing the blog post.
timmaah··on Volocopter – The world’s first green helicopter
So just ignore the "emission- free" quote on their home page.
timmaah··on Volocopter – The world’s first green helicopter
It is "green" because the emissions are out of sight out of mind..

Just ignore the coal plant in the background.

timmaah··on Lying Google advertising, or Google uses Adblock in its ads
If we really want to get on the conspiracy train. Perhaps Goggle turned off ads for that specific search phrase.
timmaah··on Dad says Google Maps shows son's dead body
And if you rotate the view point you get 4 different snapshots in time.

More police activity. Police activity but no body. And then back to as it was. No activity, no body.

timmaah··on Teenagers say goodbye to Facebook and hello to messenger apps
I'm a full-time traveler these days and my wife and I have probably met around 10 couples (actual offline meetings) via Instagram.

Facebook is more for people you know. (Filled with babies and relatives.. etc) where Instagram has been great for finding like minded folks and following along with their lives in short snippets.

As for how to communicate, Instagram has user tagging. Even in others comments. Basically the same as sms messaging.

( My wife has more followers than me and I need to catch up: http://instagram.com/wandering_tim )

timmaah··on USPS: ZIP Codes are “proprietary business information”
There is Google's terms of service for one.
timmaah··on The way tech covers Apple is ridiculous
How about "The way media covers apple is ridiculous."?

Not every new consumer product gets a mention on national nightly news when a new iteration arrives. I find that odd and gives less credibility to the news organization in my mind.

timmaah··on Oboe.js: reacting to Ajax/Rest quicker by not waiting for it to finish
Perfect..

Took me about 10 minutes to add to an existing rails app that adds hundreds of markers onto a google map via json. Live updating as you scroll around.

Previously I was trying to find the sweet spot between how many slows down the initial rendering to the viewer vs showing all the markers.

Changed about 3 lines of javascript to use Oboe and changed my rails controller to:

      per_page = 100
      1.upto(10).each do |page|
        response.stream.write ActiveModel::ArraySerializer.new( resources.paginate(page: page, per_page: per_page) , {root: 'cg'}).to_json
      end
      response.stream.close
timmaah··on Report on the Government Shutdown if It Were Happening in Another Country
sequestration already took care of the whitehouse tours.
timmaah··on How I thought I wanted to become a digital nomad
Was your father working at the time?

My wife and I live, work and travel from a 25' Airstream and can definitely relate to a lot of the point the post has made as well as the "decision fatigue" mentioned in other comments. It is tough to keep focus for 8 hours when your scenery is changing from week to week and there are so many new awesome places to explore. That said.. We are currently loving it with no plans to stop or slow today. Todays adventure is mountain biking in Bend Oregon.

Decision fatigue comes in with route planning, trying to figure out if that cool forest road everyone talks about will have cell service, where to fill up with water, where to dump the tanks... all of which are near constant. We could slow it down a bit and stay in an RV park a month or so, but we enjoy moving and don't enjoy the atmosphere of most private RV parks.

timmaah··on JetBlue scores FAA approval for Fly-Fi, may launch satellite WiFi next month
Not portable though. I live and work on the road from an Airstream using mobile connection. An easy to configure portable satellite setup is my dream. There are a few out there but at crazy prices.
timmaah··on Tiny, cheap, and dangerous: Inside a fake iPhone charger
I have been using a 12v GPK charger for my MacAir for over a year. No problems at all. In fact it powers two MacAirs most of the time. (Switching the plug back and forth)
timmaah··on Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income
I became a South Dakota resident in January (while I was in CA.). Despite only having spent a week in the state last summer. I haven't been back since then.
timmaah··on “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”
Just think of how fun the bottom 1/4 of the U.S. will be once the border patrol gets to double its numbers.
timmaah··on We understand why Etsy removes Electronics projects
Then they need to rework their rules. Fine if they want to focus on crafts, but they shouldn't be throwing out people based on "not handmade" and then allow 250,000 types of "fabric". Most likely 99% of which are not handmade. http://www.etsy.com/search/supplies/fabric
timmaah··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)
Seeking Remote Work

Full stack Rails developer http://tiwatson.com and http://tiwatson.com/resume

timmaah··on Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails
I didn't jump to any conclusion that they are doing this simply for the money.

The only conclusion I jumped to was that they ditched the routing they originally said they had (without telling anyone) and that their routing is worse than what you get as a default from passenger.

timmaah··on Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails
This is not a new revelation. I got them to admit to it 2 years ago.

http://tiwatson.com/blog/2011-2-17-heroku-no-longer-using-a-...

and specifically:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/heroku/8eOo...

timmaah··on Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails
Even their own docs were wrong on this for a long time. It bit me in the ass back in 2011 and I got them to clarify and update the documentation just a little.

http://tiwatson.com/blog/2011-2-17-heroku-no-longer-using-a-...

timmaah··on Making Lego Into Art: Nathan Sawaya's Impossible Brick Sculptures
Every third image skipped back to the first when trying to use the right-arrow.

And the next image was missing half the time.

I did not make it to the end.

timmaah··on This guy got his stolen iPhone back with OkCupid and hammer
He makes some great music as well.

Try Streetlight Manifesto as your soundtrack for the evening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2yeNzL7rTU

timmaah··on Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design
Thanks.. I came back to this post hoping I found find just this.

I'll get the size down later, but perfect for development.

timmaah··on "Why don't you sell Triple Town for 99 cents and make tons of money?"
None of the paid Rovio games are 99 cents.
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