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by balac 11y ago
A good vim setup will do what you want...
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by balac 11y ago
You can install keep as a native looking desktop app by using the google app launcher, then you can open it like any other app.
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by balac 11y ago
If you are porting something to linux surely you will want to test it on a real VM at least? Those are pretty trivial to set up and are free...
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by balac 11y ago
The government is blocking github, not those tech companies..
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by balac 11y ago
I can't agree more, manually managing wordpress security, updates, etc. is a pain. Keep your site simple and wordpress.com can work great.
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by balac 12y ago
http://hn.premii.com is a really good mobile / tablet version of HN with no need to install anything.
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by balac 12y ago
I can highly recommend Pocket Casts for Android.
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by balac 12y ago
Yes, it should really default to " http://" though.
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by balac 13y ago
I have also been using this for a while, it also has an excellent tablet interface.
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by balac 13y ago
I wrote with a fountain pen throughout secondary school and wouldn't mind giving them another try. Do you find that for quick note taking the ink dries fast enough?
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by balac 13y ago
Try http://hn.premii.com , it has a really good tablet interface.
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Why Do We Only Care About Programmers?(modelviewculture.com)
3 points by balac 13y ago|1 comments
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by balac 13y ago
An invite would be great: balaclark @ gmail . com
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by balac 13y ago
A browser based comic book reader: http://reader.justforcomics.com https://github.com/balaclark/HTML5-Comic-Book-Reader
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by balac 13y ago
Gitg for Linux also exposes this functionality in an easy to use way.
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by balac 13y ago
> Some inmates even had a term for using their radio to create a bubble of personal space: “I headphone myself,” one said. I work in a large open plan office and do this exact same thing most of the day..
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by balac 13y ago
Yes, the RAM is user-serviceable and is very easy to upgrade yourself.
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by balac 13y ago
You can also download and run the ST3 in trial mode for free.
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by balac 13y ago
I use a spanish layout keyboard and the default comment/uncomment mappings don't work for me either, I remap them to: { "keys": ["ctrl+7"], "command": "toggle_comment", "args":
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by balac 13y ago
Thanks for the info, the jobfluent.com board seems quite promising, I wasn't aware of that site before.
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by balac 13y ago
express
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Ask HN: Any startups hiring in Spain?
3 points by balac 13y ago|2 comments
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by balac 13y ago
For me the lack of many unix tools is a killer and cygwin doesn't cut it. Many build scripts assume a unixy environment and windows is flat-out not supported. Lack of a proper package manager also makes installing and configuring works
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by balac 13y ago
The main benefits as I see them are: * Its an easy way to build simple(ish) cross-platform apps using HTML/CSS/Javascript. * A native app platform for Chromebooks * Promotion of your app the Chrome store. * For users their apps ar
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by balac 13y ago
I didn't know this either, thanks for the tip!
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by balac 13y ago
All your points are good apart from 4, don't the native json_encode() / json_decode() functions do what you need?
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by balac 13y ago
I often cross my legs whilst sitting and currently my leg is touching the desk.
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by balac 13y ago
I have one of the Korean 27" IPS monitors. It works well and the money saved was well worth the slight imperfections it came with.
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by balac 13y ago
AWS, Digital Ocean, Smugmug, Skype
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by balac 13y ago
I also got tired of viewtext.org being frequently offline and hacked the old readability source code to allow passing in HTML as an argument, this allows you to use it on arbitrary HTML and not just on the current window.document. This has

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