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Entrepreneurs to Trump: Don’t take away our Obamacare (Warning: Obnoxious autoplay video on that page.) Before Obamacare, people were tied to their jobs because of a lack of health insurance options on the individual market. Here are five people who were empowered by Obamacare to leave their wage jobs
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The last couple of posts I made went to Facebook as links back to my site. That is not how I meant things to go. I’m not trying to drive traffic to my site. I don’t even have any traffic analytics installed. I just want this to show
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I came across this little bit of wisdom via Hacker News: There’s one trick that everybody who writes sales knows and nobody else seems to know. This trick is so effective that Microsoft Word has it even built in so you can test while you write. … The F-K score.
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I’ve been reading about IndieWeb and the goal of publishing on my own site and syndicating the content out, or POSSE. I’ve had a personal blog for years, but never really posted to it much. Never as much as Facebook. In part, this is an attempt to break
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I set up an auto poster that will post content from my personal site to Facebook and Twitter. I’d like to make everything originate on my site and get pushed out to other places. I don’t want to be obnoxious about it though. My pet peeve is a
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Today’s example was a Verge article titled Oh my heavens, the British went and made a Top Gear for wine snobs, but i’ve been annoyed at this usage for a long time. Being a snob does not make you sophisticated. Being a snob doesn’t even mean you
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I finally got my site up and running. I could have launched it a lot sooner, but I decided to take a detour in the realm of VPS providers. It makes sense that one of my first posts would summarize my findings. If you’re in the market for a
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I just learned about nc and was so excited I had to write about it. From the man page: The nc (or netcat) utility is used for just about anything under the sun involving TCP or UDP. It can open TCP connections, send UDP packets, listen on arbitrary TCP and
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Default Parameters in Swift Its the little things that make my life as programmer easier. Like default parameters in Swift. From the The Swift Programming Language (Swift 2.1): You can define a default value for any parameter in a function by assigning a value to the parameter after that
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My goals this blog are to develop a habbit of publishing writing and photographs. The key thing to both these activities is to practice regularly and to publish. This is my place to do that. I used to have a job writing for a living. I was pretty good at
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In the world of semantic versioning, version 1.0.0 is the point where you’ve made a public commitment to a stable API. If links are the public API of a web site, this site is pre–1.0. Links may change and break as I put things together.