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zacharydanger

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zacharydangercampbell@gmail.com

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zacharydanger··on Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates
Over the summer my partner taught our local gang of crows that if they come to our house in the morning and the afternoon and make some noise, she'd come out and throw them peanuts and meal worms. We're not on petting them terms, but we've got an understanding. :D
zacharydanger··on Bug in widely used OpenSSH opens servers to password cracking
Sharp tools are sharp.
zacharydanger··on DeployBot gets $1M investment
Not in the parlance of accounting.

http://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stand...

zacharydanger··on The Twilight of the Indoor Mall
I've been to the mall from the article. Every time I go there I just feel bad.
zacharydanger··on Show HN: Tricking the user to access history using CSS and captchas
1745 called. They want their grammar back.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

zacharydanger··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)
1000Bulbs.com - Garland, TX

We sell light bulbs online. Lots of them. And we need more awesome developers.

More info here: https://github.com/1000Bulbs/dev-app

zacharydanger··on The 'Unfilmable' Ender's Game’s 28 Years in Development Hell
I think as we age, we need to stop seeing ourselves as the Luke Skywalkers and more as the Ben Kenobis.
zacharydanger··on Art project adds tinge of terror to everyday email
As if they're not already logging all emails.
zacharydanger··on Tikker – The wrist watch that counts down your life
Actually, I'd love a generalized countdown clock. Not necessarily for my lifespan, but set it up for goals like, "My side project will be profitable in 2 months."
zacharydanger··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)
1000Bulbs.com - Garland, TX

We sell light bulbs online. Lots of them. Job details are here: https://github.com/1000Bulbs/dev-app

zacharydanger··on Reimbursement of Exit Operators
I'm not sure there's _any_ amount of money they could give me that'd offset the risk of getting hit with a false-positive dawn raid.
zacharydanger··on GitHub - Major Service Outage
"bi-weekly"... Do you mean twice a week or fortnightly?
zacharydanger··on The Man Who Would Build a Computer the Size of the Entire Internet
Wired is the Cosmo of tech journalism.
zacharydanger··on Uses of Tmux Explained
Seconded. That book make tmux usable for me. I switched from Screen and haven't looked back since.
zacharydanger··on We got hacked
This is probably beyond the scope of such a thread, but configuration automation via Chef or Puppet is where you'd start.
zacharydanger··on Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters
I couldn't figure out how the quadrocopters were coordinated. Turns out it's a high-speed motion capture. More here: http://www.flyingmachinearena.org/
zacharydanger··on TPB AFK: Watch and Download The Pirate Bay Documentary

  > TPB isn't fighting for your freedom. They are helping in the demise of independent artists.
I think you've been misinformed about the effects of content piracy.
zacharydanger··on Pay Day Loan Rankings: The shady tale of Joomla hacks and Drupal leaks
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
zacharydanger··on Civilized Discourse Construction Kit
Thanks. Didn't immediately see the "Fork Us" button.
zacharydanger··on Civilized Discourse Construction Kit
Looks neat. Wish there were some code to poke around in, though.
zacharydanger··on Show HN: DevJoist, database versioning done right
So, how would I correlate a specific commit in Git to a version on DevJoist?

Until then I'll just use https://github.com/thuss/standalone-migrations with my non-Rails projects.

zacharydanger··on Writing Testable Frontend Javascript Part 1 – Anti-patterns and their fixes
What's the state of the art JavaScript automated testing stack look like? Does anyone have an awesome example? I'd love to start testing my frontend code with something other than browser refreshes.
zacharydanger··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2013)
Garland, TX -- 1000bulbs.com - Full Time

Job listing and application can be found here: https://github.com/1000Bulbs/dev-app

Looking for good developers who might know Rails/PHP to help us sell more light bulbs online.

zacharydanger··on Top Developer Skills That Will Get You Hired or Promoted
Mostly fluff, non-actionable advice here. :-/
zacharydanger··on Alicia Keys, the creative director of BlackBerry loves her iPhone

  > Jan 6, 2012
Pertinent? How long has she been creative director at Blackberry?
zacharydanger··on FreakonomicsExperiments.com Launched
Introduction and explanation here: http://www.freakonomics.com/2013/01/23/having-trouble-making...
zacharydanger··on Basecamp Personal
A keen demonstration of price sensitivity.
zacharydanger··on The sorry state of neighbourhood design in America: a mother writes
Being from Texas I can tell you, we spread everything out. Just looking at my Runkeeper logs, it's a quarter of a mile from my apartment door to the nearest street.
zacharydanger··on Nokia releases 3D printing files for Lumia phone cases
This is easily the most exciting thing I've seen out of Nokia in years.
zacharydanger··on A lawyer's analysis of Bilbo's contract in The Hobbit
What I've got a problem with is that they bind the "j"/"k" keys to navigate between articles. Which sucks if you're running Vimium/Vimperator and try to scroll. All of a sudden there will be a dozen links to the same article under your back button.
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