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by bjacobel 10y ago
edX (the partner through which Georgia Tech will be offering this program) uses its own homebuilt forums/discussions software, which offers many of the features you list. It's also open source, so if you or others have more discus
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by bjacobel 10y ago
It never comes up in the same breath as GitHub and GitLab. The major differentiator for Bitbucket that's the primary reason many people I know have Bitbucket accounts - that they offered free unlimited private repos when nobody else di
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Some of Atlassian's previous acquisitions have turned into products mostly shunned by the developer community (Hipchat, Bitbucket) - I hope they've learned what went wrong since then, but my gut says Atlassian isn't very good
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by bjacobel 10y ago
My girlfriend worked in college access with low-income students last year and used the same service used in the referenced UVA study [1] to advise and connect with students. SignalVine seems to have a big head start in this space, although
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Safari supports Flexbox without caveat in versions 9 and 10 (versions 6-8 have varying degrees of support for the first version of the flexbox spec). I work on a decently large global web property (~5m sessions/mo) and Safari < 9 is
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by bjacobel 10y ago
High-resolution LiDAR and IFSAR. You can download some US elevation data for free from the USGS[1], other countries may have similar datasets available. [1]: https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic/?basemap=b1&category
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Maybe this is offtopic, but Backchannel seems to have a lot of these glowing, puffy profiles of tech companies looking for exposure for their new products. I mean, parts of this piece read as marketing copy. "It all starts with that ti
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Funny that JavaScript would find community alignment on something (anything!) where Python can't. I guess that's a testament to the work of the Moment creators.
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by bjacobel 10y ago
> serious stuff should be built and tested before pushing anyway Yes and no. Build in your CI server that's set up to mirror your prod environment after pushing, but before merging. That's what the whole industry of CI provider
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by bjacobel 10y ago
AWS Certificate Manager will give you a free wildcard if your site is hosted behind Cloudfront or on an ELB.
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by bjacobel 10y ago
A single HTTP request in an otherwise HTTPS page can compromise the privacy and integrity of a user's connection. SSL/TLS isn't just about checking all the boxes so Chrome will give you the prettier icon, there are real stake
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Just a note on your point about S3 and Letsencrypt: AWS has their own tool for free provisioning of TLS certificates, which is all integrated in a very nice way if you put your S3 bucket behind Cloudfront (which is a good idea). Search the
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by bjacobel 10y ago
React + ReactDOM + Redux is a little over 50kb minified and gzipped. I'm not saying that's nothing, but "MBs" is a strawman.
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by bjacobel 10y ago
There's a few models I've seen work well: - Kickstarting: Django REST Framework's development was successfully funded for a year or more by funds raised on Kickstarter[1]. This model doesn't scale that well. - Sponsorshi
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by bjacobel 10y ago
To expand on my last point, how are you balancing the needs of an open-source community (steady, stable feature development, good communication/outreach/support, dedication to supporting existing products) with the needs imposed o
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Are there other examples of an open-source community project taking on several million dollars in venture capital funding? It seems a bit odd to me. I'm not sure I'm comfortable using a presumably open-source, free (beer and speec
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Facebook's come under a lot of heat for refusing to moderate the buying and selling of firearms in Groups, often in violation of local laws[1]. Hopefully their moderation standards will be higher on Marketplace. [1]: https:/&#x2F
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Google doesn't make money from reCaptcha[1], and reCaptcha isn't deployed to stop the kind of crawlers Google operates (you'd just add a line to robots.txt if you wanted to do this), so I'm not sure how this is relevant.
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Don't forget about the chemtrails.
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by bjacobel 10y ago
The people commenting in this thread to the effect of "what's wrong with this, I live like this too" just blow me away. This isn't a way to live, it's a way to hide. You have a mental illness and should seek support
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Some things are subtly broken in different (current) browsers, and Safari 9 (the most recent wide-release version) doesn't support it at all. Check out the feature compatibility table: http://iswebrtcreadyyet.com
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by bjacobel 10y ago
This has to be one of the strangest conspiracy theories I've ever heard. If other shops felt the same way you did about React - that it was an evil master plot by Facebook to sap all of our productivity and competitiveness - they just
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by bjacobel 10y ago
Reminder that just a few weeks ago DigitalOcean rolled over on one of their customers and took down 38,000 websites after receiving a claim of infringement from the NRA against a parody site hosted on surge.sh: http://motherboard
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by bjacobel 10y ago
I believe the actual "LGTM" phrase is configurable via a .lgtm file in the root of the repo. Airbnb's Enzyme has it configured to work with a :+1:.
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by bjacobel 10y ago
I first encountered LGTM on some of Airbnb's open source repos, here's an example of it at work on a closed [1] and open [2] Enzyme PR: 1: https://github.com/airbnb/enzyme/pull/449 2: https:/&
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by bjacobel 10y ago
They do have the right to attempt to enforce their own trademarks. 37,999 of the sites taken down didn't infringe on the NRA's trademark, though, only one (allegedly) did. That's an overbroad exercise of trademark claim, a ch
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NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites(motherboard.vice.com)
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by bjacobel 10y ago
"We just want to preserve our culture" is the loudest racial dog-whistle I know. It's been around since Jim Crow and it looks like it's not going away any time soon.
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by bjacobel 10y ago
I don't mean to tell people how they should and shouldn't use the web, but if you disagree with Facebook's off-platform data-collection practices, consider sending them a message about it and closing your account. They have n
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by bjacobel 10y ago
The general population doesn't watch Apple keynotes, though.

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