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by biftek 12y ago
I use it exclusively for the visor mode. Which I have set up to be like full screen mode on a laptop, but is limited to half the screen when I plug into an external monitor. It's also bound to show/hide on ctrl+`. Unlike most othe
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by biftek 12y ago
I played with Acme the other day and was blown away. The everything as a command idea is really powerful. Definitely underrated, would be great if it got a modern reboot. For the unfamiliar this video by Russ Cox covers it pretty well. htt
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by biftek 12y ago
zsh has a simple builtin `r` (which is just an alias for `fc -e -`). It lets you edit the previous command with search and replace. I use it for brew and git a lot. $ brew info rust $ r fo=stal
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by biftek 12y ago
Julia also has a useful Any type.
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by biftek 13y ago
We had a rule at the company I messengered at: Never ask what’s in the package. But I honestly doubt anyone ever trusted us with drugs, the most memorable things I delivered were A) a pee cup (luckily empty) and B) an industrial size sink f
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by biftek 13y ago
There is definitely still a market in NYC, but you're right it’s smaller. Architects, lawyers, the fashion industry, and photo/video studios were our major clientele when I was working a few years back.
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by biftek 13y ago
Biggest thing for me was learning to get up early, and sticking with a schedule even on weekends. A lot of us have the privilege of working flexible hours and for me that meant getting hammered and showing up to work at 11am still a bit hun
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by biftek 13y ago
Had this exact experience happen to one of my coworkers. We started embedding a secondary “password” in some of our email addresses, by leveraging googles username+tag feature. So something like johndoe@gmail.com becomes johndoe+1bayjdh1x91
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by biftek 13y ago
Don't forget Camping! https://github.com/camping/camping
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by biftek 13y ago
I've been thinking this for a while, but I have a feeling there is a decently large market (at least enough to sustain a small company and team) for really nice "dumb" phones. No data; just text, and talk (and in my vision a
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by biftek 13y ago
What are the odds the 10th result for me was "Learn Python the hard way by Zed Shaw"?
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by biftek 13y ago
We’ve seen similar results at our company. Plain text emails always get more click throughs in A/B tests. And personally I prefer them. If I must use html, I only stick to the basic styling elements with no css.
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by biftek 14y ago
Strange, the author neglected to mention the 511 ride share program in NYC, which was encouraging carpooling before Sandy. http://511ny.org/rideshare/
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by biftek 14y ago
I hope you're joking...
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by biftek 14y ago
Well done! I actually had the same idea, but changed it slightly when it came time for execution because I wanting to use geolocation api's. Never really ended up finishing it though, turns out theres not much quake activity on the east coa
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by biftek 14y ago
Just searched for "picasa" on my (iOS 6) iPad. First two hits were apps that actually had picasa in the name, (the ones he mentions) followed by his apps. What exactly his he whining about? Search for a competing app and his doesn't come up
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by biftek 14y ago
I haven't read through all the comments but standardized and unbiased copy writing would really benefit the site. "Promise to inform about data requests" gets a plus while "No transparency on law enforcement requests" get a minus. Both labe
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by biftek 14y ago
We're using a subset of the font that only includes the icons we're using on the site. The distributed font contains much more. :)
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by biftek 14y ago
You can also just use Unicode values. See the icons on the blog page. So something like "ģ" or "\0123" will also work.
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by biftek 15y ago
🏩
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by biftek 15y ago
Have you tried browsed the Internet for extended periods of time on an iPhone? It's painful. The mobile experience still sucks for 90% of the web, bandwidth is limited and slow, and don't even imagine having all your standard tabs open. Mob
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by biftek 15y ago
For what it's worth, I've not had Internet at home for about a month. I still have access at work, so not entirely the same situation, but it is nice not having the vice at home. And like the author have filled the rest of my time productiv
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by biftek 15y ago
I do just that actually. Although my reasoning was more about how insanely cheap and reliable it is, and wanting to get familiar with the technologies for the first time. I would say Cloudfront is actually overkill for a static site, I didn
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by biftek 15y ago
The point of normalize, at least how I use it and understand it, is if you wanted to change a default style you just go into the normalize.css file and change the style of links, or buttons in there, and be assured they work cross browser.
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by biftek 15y ago
Thanks for the heads up on this. I'm really tired of using compass just for the css3 mixins.
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by biftek 15y ago
> I’ll break the bad news to you up front: you have to stop worrying about what happens when people resize their browser. First of all, no one does this. Yes, YOU like to resize your browser and watch DOM elements bend to your will—and
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by biftek 15y ago
I would word it differently then. Using the term quality in a sliding scale manner leaves doubt in my mind. I want to know all your work is excellent.
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by biftek 15y ago
if 0^0=1 than ex nihilo
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by biftek 15y ago
This has nothing to do with tipping. Groupon is a flawed business model. Consumers who are willing to pay $ for something are not going to be repeat customers who will then pay $$$ for the same thing. It's a modified pyramid scheme, the onl