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0 to 15,000 visits in 24 hours: How I did it and what I learned(najafali.com)
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by alinajaf 16y ago
IIRC this is also the case with Java
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by alinajaf 16y ago
This. My little sister is working at The Economist and will go to Princeton next year to study Developmental Economics. She could work magic with the data she can get from the kiva API or the UK government data website, but she has no easy
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Personally, it never fails to amaze me how otherwise very intelligent and thoughtful people remain stuck believing in an all knowing, all powerful, and apparently all loving sentient being who lives 'inside all of us', has a host of angels,
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by alinajaf 16y ago
> Sometimes it's OK to just be stupid, and uneducatedly kick the shit out of each other, as long as cries of "Uncle" are respected. The lack of framework and authority is important for some types of catharsis. To each his own I suppose.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
> But at least they're out there doing it, venting, and participating in some mostly rules-free shenanigans. This is unnecessarily dangerous. You can go to a Muay Thai class, train up for a few months and kick three shades of shit out o
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by alinajaf 16y ago
As someone who practiced Kendo for just a while, the little scene where the guy swings a shinai around pretending to be what he thinks a samurai looks like was cringe-worthy and pathetic. If he ever does take up Kendo/Iaido, he will look ba
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by alinajaf 16y ago
The problem with me is that these passionate urges to write occur maybe once a year. For someone like me, setting aside one hour per week to just man up and write no matter how unmotivated I am is the only way to really build the habit.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Take away their money and see how happy they are.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
For me the most important thing was learning to add a 'j' at the end of each macro and running it multiple times. So lets say you want to crack open an array that looks like this: $address = array( 'name' => '', 'line1'
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I don't meet many other vim users who like macros but recently I've had call to use them daily. They completely remove any repetitive text editing actions, even relatively complex ones like "take these words, each on a new line and make the
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Although not as comprehensive as the eclipse refactorings, ctags go some way towards giving you similar functionality in vim.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
In Japan there are a lot of love hotels where you 'check in' using a ticket vending machine with a touch-screen interface. Cheaper than having check in staff and you get the requisite anonymity.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
The website doesn't say anything about how much you would like living in a particular country, which is entirely subjective. It just compares stats.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I'm positive that rails and fairly sure that django don't subscribe to the madness of state changing get-requests. From what I've seen of Java though, all bets are off.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
One of the biggest differences between mixi and Facebook is that on mixi the trend is to stay relatively anonymous, i.e. with a nickname that your friends would recognize but someone googling your name would miss. It's possible that this mi
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I may be a rare case, but I honestly started using git and vim in particular long before the heaps of hype that built up around the tools, before I even started reading HN actually. I found the tools I went with to be more intuitive and ea
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Yes, he hit me with this one as well. It's a specific supplment, fermented cod liver oil with added butter fat (from cows who have grazed on rapidly growing grass). Its an actual thing that exists: http://www.greenpasture.org/retail/?t=pro
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Seriously, this was the one chapter that was missing from the book.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I have to second the brazil nut recommendation. I've been chomping through three before sleep and three on waking and the difference in appetite is... pronounced. That plus the butter fat/fermented cod liver oil and extra kimchee.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
This is not an attack on you personally but I absolutely abhor the inner workings of wordpress and would thoroughly recommend against it for a beginning developer. A much better approach would be to start a simple html/css based website and
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Yes usually. However ruby doesn't necessarily use single characters (e.g. {/})to indicate the start/end of blocks, so vim doesn't know how to get to the beginning/end of a block. N.B. When I say blocks I mean the standard understanding of b
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Screencasts unfortunately won't do it. Learning to touch type (not 'I have my own system' touch-typing, I mean 'Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing' with all ten fingers where they're supposed to be) and then spending a couple of minutes every day
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by alinajaf 16y ago
If you swear at that chat bot enough times with enough profanity it forwards you to a google search for 'cleaning supplies'.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
As a developer who uses vim I can confirm that the vast majority of my time is spent in the shell, running scripts, working with vcs etc. It's the equivalent of my 'IDE'. At least three other developers I currently work with have a similar
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I agree totally that there is a big market for your friendly, do-it-all web developer for small businesses. And you're right in that they probably don't have the budget for hiring specialists in their respective fields. The vast majority of
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by alinajaf 16y ago
> I have an interesting niche for contracting too: I'm pretty good at UI & back-end at the same time. Don't mean to piss on your fireworks but any company that's going to be able to pay you worthwhile contractor fees is going to hav
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I think when you're starting, learning about HTTP is way, way more important than a particular language or framework to do server side work with.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
You learn HTML/CSS, fire up your favourite editor and start slicing.
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I don't understand why so many replies assume that this was intended to be long-term, sustainable business model. It's a brilliant marketing exercise, nothing more, nothing less.

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