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Building a C++ XPCOM Component in Windows
I’ve been teaching myself to write Firefox extensions for the last few weeks, and became interested in XPCOM components. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a good (and recent) summary of them, and had to...
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On To Bigger Things
Alternative title: OMGWTF I just quit my job! Alternative alternative title: A better way to resign from a company That’s right. I just gave notice that I’m leaving a great job with awesome coworkers...
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Boston WordPress Meetup Example Code
As promised here’s the example code from the meetup I gave last Monday. It’s fairly small, so I only describe what it does briefly in the top comment. Feel free to use it how you wish (though if you...
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Diaspora’s Upfront Costs
This post on Hacker News got me thinking about the costs Dispora‘s going to have receiving all of their money and fulfilling their promises, so I did a little digging. The numbers below are estimates,...
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How to Dispose of a Hard Drive
In 5 easy steps: Find hammer Give up on finding hammer…grab pliers Attack drive with pliers, destorying circuitry but leaving platters untouched Cut finger, swear and bleed profusely on drive Repeat...
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The Worst Paragraph Ever Written
Context: There’s an organization that sponsors Shabbat dinners. It’s really awesome: they basically pay you to feed your friends. That being said, they need a copywriter. Here’s a paragraph in the...
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GazeHawk Launches!
At least now I have a publicly known excuse for being busy! http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/29/y-combinator-backed-gazehawk-heatmaps-with-web-cams/ Keep an eye on our blog at http://gazehawk.com/blog/...
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Force a Canvas Refresh
When playing around with some canvas stuff I found an interesting bug in Chrome. Basically when you have a putImageData call inside of a setInterval loop, canvas does not refresh properly. There’s a...
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How to Catch a Cheater
Update: I wanted to explicitly mention that these homeworks were basically puzzles, which is why Googling was off-limits. Update 2: Thanks gzak for remembering the actual name of the problem. It’s...
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Joining Facebook
For those who don’t follow my company blog: GazeHawk Team Joins Facebook I start at Facebook Monday. As always I’m hoping I have the chance to blog more actively, though we’ll see how realistic that...
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On To Bigger Things
Alternative title: OMGWTF I just quit my job!Alternative alternative title: A better way to resign from a companyThat’s right. I just gave notice that I’m leaving a great job with awesome coworkers and...
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Boston WordPress Meetup Example Code
As promised here’s the example code from the meetup I gave last Monday. It’s fairly small, so I only describe what it does briefly in the top comment. Feel free to use it how you wish (though if you...
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Diaspora’s Upfront Costs
This post on Hacker News got me thinking about the costs Dispora’s going to have receiving all of their money and fulfilling their promises, so I did a little digging. The numbers below are estimates,...
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How to Dispose of a Hard Drive
In 5 easy steps:Find hammerGive up on finding hammer…grab pliersAttack drive with pliers, destorying circuitry but leaving platters untouchedCut finger, swear and bleed profusely on driveRepeat steps 3...
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The Worst Paragraph Ever Written
Context: There’s an organization that sponsors Shabbat dinners. It’s really awesome: they basically pay you to feed your friends. That being said, they need a copywriter. Here’s a paragraph in the...
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GazeHawk Launches!
At least now I have a publicly known excuse for being busy!Y Combinator Backed GazeHawk Heatmaps With Web CamsKeep an eye on our blog at http://gazehawk.com/blog/ for some interesting...
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Force a Canvas Refresh
When playing around with some canvas stuff I found an interesting bug in Chrome. Basically when you have a putImageData call inside of a setInterval loop, canvas does not refresh properly.There’s a...
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How to Catch a Cheater
Update: I wanted to explicitly mention that these homeworks were basically puzzles, which is why Googling was off-limits.Update 2: Thanks gzak for remembering the actual name of the problem. It’s...
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Joining Facebook
For those who don’t follow my company blog:GazeHawk Team Joins FacebookI start at Facebook Monday. As always I’m hoping I have the chance to blog more actively, though we’ll see how realistic that...
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Demystifying Startup Job Offers
I’ve been giving a talk on startup offers for a while, and it’s picked up a bit. I have a recording of it that I gave to a bunch of Waterloo interns 18 months ago, though with dubious video quality....
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