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by Sapient 16y ago
Woothemes I definitely know about, but again, I only learned about them through Mixergy.
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by Sapient 16y ago
All true... But how many of them even have access to the internet, let alone credit cards?
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by Sapient 16y ago
I agree with regard to the payment gateway, but its been a very long time since I met someone who said they wouldn't use eCommerce. Most people I know do a lot of online shopping, and I am not talking about my tech friends.
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by Sapient 16y ago
I don't spend any time on Facebook, so I thought that may be a reason why as well, but I asked my wife (Who most certainly DOES use Facebook), and she had also never heard of it.
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by Sapient 16y ago
As a South African, this is really awesome news! There is however a far bigger problem than just funding here, I have never even heard of the Twangoo (Acquired by Groupon) mentioned in the article. I suppose its down to the almost total lac
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by Sapient 16y ago
How will this work out in a world where the telcos seem to be bent on increasing costs and introducing data caps? I live in South Africa, where the normal ADSL account gives you 3 Gb of traffic a month (10USD/gig for each gig after that) at
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by Sapient 16y ago
This is quite a cool trip down memory lane and kinda makes me miss those old text based interfaces. The other thing I always enjoy checking out is the "code" being edited on screen - I remember spotting some great code in the movie Antitrus
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by Sapient 16y ago
Until you want to get some bigger projects up, take a look at hosting on Heroku. Their pricing scales badly, but you can run a semi-decent site on the free package, and for any projects that take off, you can scale instantly by simply dragg
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by Sapient 16y ago
I'm actually doing something quite similar at the moment, though for a different MLS system in a different country...
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by Sapient 16y ago
It sounds like you actually want to learn instead of just implement, so just telling you that HN and Reddit are both Opensource probably isn't what you want to hear. My suggestion is Ruby On Rails (simply because its what I use and like), i
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by Sapient 16y ago
Perhaps a question equally worth asking, is "what skills do programmers who AREN'T self-taught commonly lack?"
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by Sapient 16y ago
I grew up on computers, and am exclusively self-taught, yet I have an in-depth knowledge of how computers actually work from spending time learning how to crack programs. A decent understanding of some fairly complex algorithms from writing
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by Sapient 16y ago
You are right, the commands in the article definitely don't produce the results which are claimed.
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by Sapient 16y ago
I am currently a full time Ubuntu user and have been for the past 6 months. All my previous attempts to switch from Windows to Ubuntu have lasted only a month or two (and I have been trying every year since 1998 or so), so I am extrememly h
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by Sapient 16y ago
I think the best solution is to allow everyone to keep their anonymity if they want, and just repeat the mantra: "Don't Feed The Trolls!" Where necessary, implement some form of community moderation, much like here, unpopular comments are g
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by Sapient 16y ago
What about gays, atheists and others who could possibly damage far more than their own reputation? I live in a country where I have absolutely no problem admitting to anyone that I don't believe in any gods, but it seems that in America thi
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by Sapient 16y ago
If you are using Firefox, I suggest the Gmail Manager plugin by Todd Long. I have used quite a few Gmail plugins for Firefox, but none of them gets it quite as right as this one. Details here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/
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by Sapient 16y ago
I'll be waiting for some variation on ;DROP TABLE
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by Sapient 16y ago
I don't think you will be disappointed with Kaminari, it extends the new query interface really nicely. As for CarrierWave, I find it a lot more flexible than Paperclip. Also, I hadn't seen Rack SSL Enforcer, thanks for that!
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by Sapient 16y ago
Its a decent list, but I would have liked to see Kaminari instead of will_paginate and perhaps CarrierWave instead of, or possibly as a really good alternative, to Paperclip.
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by Sapient 16y ago
Good to hear, but I am curious. When threewords went viral, you were using a single linode, and seemed to solve your scaling problems by just upgrading to a larger node and implementing a bit of caching. What have you learned and what would
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by Sapient 16y ago
Do you know of anything we can have a look at which gives a better overview of kernel architecture? I am really more interested in learning more about good kernel architecture and rolling one the "Right Way" than I am in getting a working b
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by Sapient 16y ago
Spray-on glass isn't going to make this situation much worse than it already is.
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by Sapient 16y ago
Wave solved this problem really well. I wish it had worked out.
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by Sapient 16y ago
I found this invaluable when writing my own small OS. http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/index.html He includes a lot of details, and seems to try to do things "The Right Way" as much as possible. (Not that I am a good person to j
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by Sapient 16y ago
Did you install rvm locally, or system wide? I have never had a real problem installing rails with rvm on 10.10, I just had to apt-get the required libs for ruby, and then everything else worked fine (with a normal rvm install). I would try
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by Sapient 16y ago
I see you have added a section about the required libs in the post, it should give no problems now. If you could include a bit about installing rvm system wide and maybe setting up passenger, it would have saved me a lot of time and grief a
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by Sapient 16y ago
This is a good start for setting up rails on your development box, but when it comes to deploying it to a clean server, just following these instructions will give you a headache fast. This tutorial, and some others on this guys blog helped
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by Sapient 16y ago
With some Markov chain generators and leetification, not as hard as you think.
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by Sapient 16y ago
I may be missing something, but doesn't this give you the same password for all accounts with the username johnsmith?

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