jaymon
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I'm one of the people behind http://plancast.com
If you want to get a hold of me in private you can use my contact form on my personal blog at http://marcyes.com/contact
I'm @jaymon on Twitter.
I'll second someone else's recommendation for The Martian, that was just a really fun read you can just burn through because it is so enjoyable. If you want another really fun read, Ready Player One was fantastic. I've…
You could try a plugin I wrote to quickly comment/uncomment blocks of code: https://github.com/Jaymon/vim-commentify It's a no frills plugin that only does one thing, but it does it pretty well.
I've added it to my list of books to inspire my kids. So if they ever come to me and say, "Dad, what is chemistry good for?" I can just give them The Martian and say, "read this and you'll know"
Did you like The Atlantis Gene? I've almost pulled the trigger at Amazon a couple times but the reviews seem hit or miss and my reading list is already so long.
I started The Martian by Andy Weir about 3 days ago and I'm really enjoying it. It's a really entertaining book that I highly recommend! Last week I finished The Paradox of Choice and Zero Day. I enjoyed both of them,…
Just a note so people don't get confused, while specifying packages with >=1.1,<1.2 seems to be similar to the tilde in npm, in practice it isn't. Basically, when you use >=1.1,<1.2 it will install the best version that…
Medicare and medicaid have traditionally underpaid regular commercial insurance with the result that more and more doctors have dropped it over the years. So it makes sense that payments would concentrate around certain…
I've got a semi-similar python library that I've been adding to for a few years called testdata: https://github.com/Jaymon/testdata testdata has a lot of unicode and file system stuff I've found really useful, it looks…
I'm pretty sure milesskorpen was just referencing this post by Matthew Yglesias: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/29/amazon_q4_pro... The quote, while probably not wholly accurate, is funny. I think…
The problem I have with analysis like this is it doesn't take into account what Yahoo actually needs to do to grow. For the most part, the companies on the list are innovative companies, led by talented…
Reminds me of a story about Larry Ellison: "He told me a story of how Larry Ellison actually got efficiencies from teams. If a team wasn’t productive, he’d come every couple of weeks and say, let me help you out. What…
I wrote this a few years ago to archive my Gmail emails to text files (and the attachments to whatever they are). I haven't ran it in awhile but when I did it worked and was able to download my emails from the very…
This reminds of the Evan Williams quote from "Founders at Work" pg 124: "luck comes in many forms -- and often looks bad at first. I always look back on the deals that we didn't do and the things that didn't work out,…
A lot of what is "best" has to do with how specific you want to be. Appending "every" to a date is great if you want something to occur every N. But what if you want it to occur every other N? Or the first N of every M?…
If anyone wants to know more about how the Penguin logo was designed, Alex (the designer) has a great blog post here: http://blog.iso50.com/2010/03/10/plancast-penguin-developmen...
The site looks great. It's very clean, which I love. One of the things I would do is split the main page into left and right and move the "Recent Artwork" to the right of bullet point list on the left. This will let…
You are not alone in your desire for better privacy controls. Here's kind of what our roadmap has been/will be: The last few weeks have been focused on the iPhone app and API. I'm guessing the next few weeks will be…
I know right? I wanted to be manly about it but that little Penguin just melted my heart.
Touche.
We have been going back and forth on how to do this, the problem is we really don't want to clutter the simpleness of "what, when, where" with lots of other dialog boxes, so we are trying to find the best way to…
Funny story, turns out I forgot to commit our latest date_parser before Thanksgiving break and then accidentally over-wrote it with the one from the repository because I thought it would be the most up to date. So, the…
Of course not everyone is going to want to broadcast every move they are going to make, but that isn't half of what Plancast can offer you. For example, a couple weeks ago I learned that Marcy Playground had released a…
While we don't have full integration yet, every page does offer an iCal feed so you can at least subscribe to your Plancast feed in Gcal to get a one-way stream going.
We're working on it, judging by the amount of emails we're getting about an API, I'm thinking we're going to drop all our other upcoming features to get the API up and running for everyone. The only thing that stands in…
I was going to mention this but I decided it wasn't really necessary to make my point. I was just trying to show that no matter how hard certain people push real-time it usually still comes down to polling in a desktop…