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Re: A better Hyper key hack for Sierra

Joey Baker — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 00:27:39 -0000

Thanks so much for your tips. I've got a problem though: I've duplicated the setup above, but my escape key only triggers on every-other keypress. Does anyone have this issue? Any advice?

Re: Euclid: The Game - Level 23

Joey Baker — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:00:48 -0000

4 moves https://cloudup.com/clQ31h_...

Re: The npm Blog — Newly Paranoid Maintainers

Joey Baker — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:08:38 -0000

I only ask because I didn't see it mentioned in the post and I was under the impression that https://github.com/nathan-o... is the dude who found that one.

Re: The npm Blog — Newly Paranoid Maintainers

Joey Baker — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:40:14 -0000

Thanks for the detailed report! I'm curious though, did https://github.com/isaacs/s... && https://github.com/isaacs/s... have nothing to do with the security vunerability?

Re: Be Excited About the Surface for the Right Reasons

Joey Baker — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:10:23 -0000

I'll add one to your list: the kickstand which force you to use just one angle, can't be used on your lap, and you know, kickstands have always been a good idea

Re: Yesterday The Boston Globe ended all your tomorrows

Joey Baker — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:18:13 -0000

Not to be too much of a curmudgeon but this feels like a pretty weird, half-measure. What would be useful: a script that automatically converts the words "today", "tomorrow", "yesterday", "last week", et al to an appropriate string depending on the current date.

Simply removing words from the vocabulary feels … incorrect.

Re: http://ideaperdiem.com/post/12414580634

Joey Baker — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:47:43 -0000

They actually do have crime maps — the data isn't avaliable in all cities, so they're present where possible (try SF).

Re: http://ideaperdiem.com/post/12414580634

Joey Baker — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:43:14 -0000

padmapper.com

Re: UNESCO Youth Forum #1

Joey Baker — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:00:29 -0000

All due respect to UNESCO and the amazing honor that you have in participating, I find the real story in the post to be your acceptance of lo-fi photography. I remember going through the same mental process you describe: from "crappy filters" through to "quick is fun." In your case, quick is also quite good.

Enjoy everything sir.

Re: Single Assignments from 2010/2011

Joey Baker — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:37:27 -0000

Lots of greatness here. Trump photo takes the cake though.

Re: http://jayrosen.tumblr.com/post/10441598432

Joey Baker — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:19:06 -0000

Perhaps as delightful: there's a link to an external site in this article as well!

P.s. I noticed that these comments are running into the dotted lines on the sides. If you feel like fixing them Prof., adding this line to your CSS should do the trick:

#disqus_thread, .dsq-comment-count {padding: 0 10px}

Re: Finding Narratives

Joey Baker — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:09:15 -0000

Sir, your words and your photographs enforce a longing for a camera. Not as a means of replication, but just as a simple attempt to speak your language.

Re: Huge generation gap evident in attitudes about website comments

Joey Baker — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:01:21 -0000

I'm very skeptical of this survey.

1. It interviewed just over 1,000 people — that's the number required to be statistically significant for the population of the US as a whole. As soon as you start bisecting into different demographics, the survey quickly looses statistical significance.
2. The fact the the numbers (and conclusion) completely ignore the 90/9/1 rule is both odd and suspicious.

Re: The NYT rewards its paying users with subscriber-only content

Joey Baker — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:26:08 -0000

How … frustrating.

I can't help but feel that the NYT continues to misunderstand the fundamental point: information is a commodity, charging for access is a flawed business model.

The freemium model is sound, but providing benefits to your paying users in the form of another article has a frustratingly near certainty of non-relevance.

Experimentation is good, and this was just the first in what is presumably a long list of tests. But, the folks at the Times could probably increase their success rate if they'd look to the last decade or so of the tech industry where the freemium model has been invented, iterated, and succeeded with.

A fundamental truth: people like to pay for experiences; behind-the-scenes experiences are all the better. In that sense, this is a great extra to offer. But, to offer the experience in continues the tradition text and can be copy-pasted anywhere on the web and is … frustrating.

Re: How to Track Downloads in Google Analytics

Joey Baker — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:57:59 -0000

Sure thing. It should be pretty straight forward to modify it to accept additional file types:

$('[href$="pdf"]'), [href$="exe"], [href$="pdf"]').live(…

not sure what you mean by the delay click?

Re: How to Track Downloads in Google Analytics

Joey Baker — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:03:24 -0000

Hmm… I think I've got a cleaner (jquery only) way of accomplishing this:

$('[href$="pdf"]').live("click", function(){ // get the link attribute and find the filename of the PDF var pdfLink = $(this).attr("href"), pdfLocation = pdfLink.substr(pdfLink.lastIndexOf("/")).replace("/","") ; _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', pdfLocation]); });

Re: Scripting News: Twitter's new developer roadmap

Joey Baker — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:54:55 -0000

I want so much to agree with you, but we have to be careful to remember that the internet very much does have vendors: ISPs. And in the US, where there is very little competition, regulation, or rules of any kind, these telecom companies can, have, and will get away with anything they like. (e.g. http://www.techdirt.com/art... ) They keep testing the waters, pretty soon, censorship will be on the table.

Re: A WordPress for news orgs: Knight gives Bay Citizen, Texas Tribune $975,000 for open-source CMS

Joey Baker — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:09:35 -0000

Again? The last time worked so well: http://www.populousproject....

Re: Photos, Account from February 5

Joey Baker — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:31:13 -0000

Andrew – amazing tenacity – as always.

When you get the time, can you explain why it appears that huge sections of the square are un-populated? Why is it that people are choosing to sleep here? Are people still working or has the city shut down? If they're working, how are the protesters making a living?

What's the general atmosphere there? Are most people involved in the protests? Are most carrying on as normal? Have people left the cities? Do most people feel that this is just a matter of time? Do they feel like they will eventually need to fight?

Perhaps most importantly… who's leading all this? I keep seeing the legs kicking, but where's the head of this animal?

Be safe sir.

Re: Photos and Account from February 4th

Joey Baker — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:14:04 -0000

Your humility is humbling in itself, and attached to your work and actions – you're inspiring. Sincere best wishes my friend.

Re: 5 Better Ways to Read “Hacker News”

Joey Baker — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:04:38 -0000

My preferred way is to just follow: http://twitter.com/newsyc20 It's a Twitter feed that only shows posts that have hit a karma rating of 20 or more. The signal to noise is pretty good, and I don't feel like I miss anything.

Re: Why the Nikon D3 Sucks (and What the D4 Oughta Be)

Joey Baker — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:01:03 -0000

Please try to keep things civil.

Moaning has nothing to do with it. I posted this nearly two years ago as my wishlist of any feature I'd like to see in the D4. Among the things I think Nikon could do is add a bigger ISO button – since I use that button all the time.

Facial recognition would also be fantastic – as an option. Your D3 has the option to do time-lapse, and bulb mode. No one forces you to use it, but it is nice to have.

In the same vein, I think that the vertical grip could be improved. It works right now but it's not as comfortable as it could be.

Thanks for the comment!

Re: http://codybrown140plus.tumblr.com/post/1076704651

Joey Baker — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:19:35 -0000

Amazing idea. Almost wish I lived in NYC to take you up on this!

Re: Scripting News: Ping: It's even worse than it appeared

Joey Baker — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:42:26 -0000

It seems like the one, simple way, to make Ping immediately useful is to implement a http://last.fm style tool. Allow users to automatically see what their friends are listening to, and give me all the metadata associated with what my friends have done.
• suggest star ratings for songs based on what friends have done.
• Notify when a friend adds ★★★★★ to a song.
• Notify when a friend adds a lot of songs from a genre/artist/decade that they've not had before.
• and on and on…

Re: Layout Test

Joey Baker — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:02:54 -0000

This is a comment test.