MrMcDowall

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by MrMcDowall 1y ago
I'm a solo dev working on what started out as an interstitial journalling tool, but is now morphed into a local first native set of tools for thinking and writing. Tools for the end of the internet, you might say. Current version is ov
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by MrMcDowall 2y ago
Lol like ordinary programmers have a such a great ethical reputation... Cambridge Analytica, Ad Platforms, and on and on.
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by MrMcDowall 4y ago
There's a lot of 'just' handwaving here about compiling without telemetry. We just need to look as far as VSCode, which is riddled with unremovable telemetry, and the entire project of VSCodium which has to exist to provide t
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by MrMcDowall 4y ago
Do you have source on item #2? I've been looking for some to back this point, but can't find any.
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by MrMcDowall 5y ago
The last time I looked into the state of the art when writing web apps in Clojure, people were hand crafting SQL statements in the data layer, and the community seemed fine with this. Have things improved?
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by MrMcDowall 5y ago
Yeah, Elixir is great, but zealots keep acting like it's happening, and it is totally not happening.
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by MrMcDowall 6y ago
There's Obsidian for those that want their notes to stay local, or at the very least decide if you want your information flying around the Internet: http://obsidian.md/
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by MrMcDowall 6y ago
In the video below, he mentions they are gas powered driers.
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by MrMcDowall 6y ago
The desire to know is usually in proportion to the unexpectedness. Perhaps its an evolutionary curiosity (Avoid how they died)?
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Tony Hsieh has died(yahoo.com)
1598 points by MrMcDowall 6y ago|298 comments
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Secrets of the Rails boot process(rapidrailsthemes.com)
2 points by MrMcDowall 9y ago|0 comments
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Rapid Rails Themes – Turnkey App Design(rapidrailsthemes.com)
2 points by MrMcDowall 9y ago|0 comments
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by MrMcDowall 10y ago
Simplify!
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by MrMcDowall 11y ago
Uggh I know exactly what you mean - I happened to see folks mentioning the rule change on the Canada visa forum and scrambled my application together just in time, and it was AoR the day before the change. That really sucks man!
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by MrMcDowall 11y ago
High five! I've just done the same and just passed the citizenship test. Canada is awesome.
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by MrMcDowall 11y ago
Lots of rural communities, like the one I live in, have a central mail box location where we go to collect our mail. That one location services about 50 properties. FedEx or any courier deliver to the local post office in town. It all works
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by MrMcDowall 11y ago
I can see how you would naively assume that it's something to do with some CSS issue, but it's nothing to do with CSS. We're trying to use a brand new technology for the first time using libraries that have just been written,
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by MrMcDowall 11y ago
I'm the developer behind the site and themes. Would love to hear what your thoughts and advice are!
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Show HN: It's been 141 days but I revived dresssed.com(dresssed.com)
5 points by MrMcDowall 11y ago|2 comments
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by MrMcDowall 12y ago
Indeed!
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by MrMcDowall 12y ago
Relaunched in the sense that the site used to belong to Marc-Andre Cournouyer and he launched it in 2012, and it was all based on Twitter Bootstrap 2. We're the new owners and have invested a huge amount of time updating that original
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Show HN: Relaunching Dresssed.com – Premium Rails Themes(dresssed.com)
5 points by MrMcDowall 12y ago|5 comments
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How to increase your chances of getting help on #emberjs(ember.zone)
3 points by MrMcDowall 12y ago|0 comments
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Ember Application Initializers(ember.zone)
5 points by MrMcDowall 12y ago|0 comments
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Handling environment data with Ember.js(ember.zone)
3 points by MrMcDowall 12y ago|0 comments
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The Most Hardcore Lean-Startup Guys Working Today(copy-cat.co)
1 points by MrMcDowall 12y ago|0 comments
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by MrMcDowall 12y ago
Thanks for reminding me about these.
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What the hell is Ember.K?(ember.zone)
28 points by MrMcDowall 12y ago|2 comments
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by MrMcDowall 13y ago
It's 2013 and we're still seeing this Medieval theatre.
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The Bitonic Sorter(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by MrMcDowall 13y ago|0 comments

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