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New comment by lee_a in "John C. Dvorak has died"

lee_a — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:15:45 +0000

Goodness. First came across his work watching Silicon Spin on ZDTV while I was in high school. Such a legend.

New comment by lee_a in "New startup sells coffee through SSH"

lee_a — Wed, 01 May 2024 21:12:49 +0000

not normal price for anything you'd find in most grocery stores.

but as an anecdote, I get a lot of coffee from the Fellow Drops subscription service, and those bags average around $25 - often for less than 12oz.

New comment by lee_a in "Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps"

lee_a — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 21:00:57 +0000

The file format/After Effects exporter used is from:

https://github.com/bodymovin/bodymovin

which was pretty simple to use.

I saw Lottie first, found bodymovin, and had an After Effects animation in our React app in about 15 minutes.

edit: I'm not affiliated with either project.

New comment by lee_a in "Vesper, Adieu"

lee_a — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:20:14 +0000

I'm not certain if it's still the case, but Vesper Sync was originally written using Azure Mobile Services.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Azure/Learn-how-Vesp...

During many Azure ad spots on The Talk Show, it had also been mentioned that Vesper used it.

New comment by lee_a in "TouchPad 16GB on Sale for $99"

lee_a — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:07:08 +0000

While I'm sure many of them actually are sold out (and yours might be by now), if anyone else lives near a Wal-Mart make sure to not just call but go by the store and look around.

At mine, they had moved them from their original place to another display on the other side of department, and as I walked up behind a couple of employees I overheard one telling the other that they'd been telling everyone who called or asked that they were sold out (in an attempt to ensure there were a few left to buy at the end of the day I assume). They had a stack left.