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by aroman 13y ago
Okay, if that were the case, why would Facebook even have an option to make your friends list private? There's nothing pointless about taking issue with "features" and options that don't do what they're purporting t
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by aroman 13y ago
Just today I started noticing this, yes. It's driving me insane.
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by aroman 13y ago
Fascinatingly, I read your comment first, then tried to read the upside down post — the only word I had trouble with was arsing. Sight reading is really fascinating.
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by aroman 13y ago
I submitted the same wikipedia page a few months ago and it only got around half the up votes. I guess titles and timing are everything :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6389167
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Apple's Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy(apple.com)
1 points by aroman 13y ago|0 comments
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by aroman 13y ago
Well if you had conditional questions, you could ask who was born first.
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by aroman 13y ago
That's really really not possible if you understand the basics of how this works. This is NOT a browser API, this is an API for Apple's own cloud push notification infrastructure. This technology can ONLY work with a giant third-p
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Ionic Framework alpha released today(ionicframework.com)
2 points by aroman 13y ago|0 comments
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by aroman 13y ago
It's funny, but for my entire life I misread "Comic sans" as "Cosmic sans" (seriously — sight reading is a crazy thing), so this was doubly confusing for me.
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by aroman 13y ago
yup, my browser is displaying getting fragments of html at the top of the rendered page.
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by aroman 13y ago
Sure, but neither does a silicon wafer make it easy to do arithmetic. What does your app do that a GitHub-aware IRC bot cannot?
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by aroman 13y ago
This is precisely what I would have suggested I would use if I were asked such a question.
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by aroman 13y ago
This is pretty much how I feel most of the time. It often seems like simple things are hard and hard things are simple, and even after years and lots of different projects, I still end up playing "guess-and-check" with complicated
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by aroman 13y ago
Fear of the name increases fear of the thing itself.
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by aroman 13y ago
Hey, Cool initiative — I've signed up! As for how I got involved so early, the answer is curiosity, Google, open source, and fake-it-till-you-make-it. Just go out and build the things you want to build — not the thing you think you
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by aroman 13y ago
I think his point — and I tend to agree with it, accurate or not — was that there is an inherent distrust that comes with a project "sponsored" by a large black box (in this case, Google). Google doesn't exactly have a great
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by aroman 13y ago
My thoughts exactly. Frankly I assumed the very reason this was on the front page was because they weren't just doing a fullscreen app. This is a gimmick, as far as I'm concerned.
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by aroman 13y ago
Yup, came here to post this link. I literally was just playing the trial version hosted on this website YESTERDAY. It plays perfectly under WINE in Mac OS 10.9 on my MacBook Air. Such a fantastic game.
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by aroman 13y ago
This looks really, really cool. The challenge for this month, revamping a high school's website, has been something I've poured many many loving hours into over my sophomore and junior years (I am now a senior) in HS. I wrote it f
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by aroman 13y ago
Maybe I'm delusional, but even as someone who has worked pretty extensively (4 months of full stack Django development) with Django, posts like these things make me want to stay away from Django. I read this post, and I see bandaids. I
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by aroman 13y ago
Hah! Oh god, yep, that was a typo. Part of me wishes I had a cool backstory to tell though... (not that I think MongoLab is in the least deserves to be the object of such action, of course!)
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by aroman 13y ago
Wow I can't believe that video has gone viral — I remember showing it around to a few friends 2 years ago or so when it only had a few thousand views. Ironically, MongoDB has since become my go-to DB of choice...
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by aroman 13y ago
Oh this is brilliant. The link to the whitepaper 404'ing was extremely clever. Thanks for sharing :)
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by aroman 13y ago
As much as the actual cause of the concern (apparently serious employee error) was preventable, I was still impressed by their detailed disclosure, the steps that have been taken to mitigate it, and actual details about what was compromised
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by aroman 13y ago
I agree. That said, I have found that even though they have (I would agree) an excessive amount of preferences, they are all set to sane defaults so you definitely do not need to spend 10 minutes ticking checkboxes unless you want to.
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by aroman 13y ago
What about in-app mailing support? And notifications? Gmail's web UI seems like a suboptimal way of doing email on a desktop OS.
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by aroman 13y ago
I highly, HIGHLY recommend Airmail[0] as basically the best gmail, perhaps general email client for Mavericks. It is incredibly actively developed (betas are free, stable on MAS), immensely feature rich, has out of the box excellent gmail-s
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by aroman 13y ago
It isn't. The full transition happens before the animation starts. It's a simple crossfade.
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by aroman 13y ago
As cool (and pretty) as this is, I'm not sure I see the point to using this over each language's best native http client. As someone else said, Python's requests is fantastic, as is the mikeal/request library in node. Po
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by aroman 13y ago
Great to see Philadelphia front and center with this project. In Mayor Nutter's keynote at PennApps last month, he talked a lot about how Philly is really pushing for open data/open government. It's great to see those initiat

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