bobds

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   by bobds 16y ago

   How about Twig? http://www.twig-project.org/ It can be nice for both designers and developers. The real advantage is the sandbox extension that can make it safe for use in a publicly themeable site,
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   by bobds 16y ago

   I think you need a minimum of four upvotes to be listed in the Ask section. Also, they are not mutually exclusive, your thread could be on the newest page, the ask page and the homepage at the same time.
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   by bobds 16y ago

   Definitely talk with the CEO. Tell him how you feel about the marketing guy but skip the "fix it or I'm out of here" ultimatum.
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   by bobds 16y ago

   Thanks for the link, I started a thread for 1kb here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1737752
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   by bobds 16y ago

   I'm hoping for some sort of follow function. Is that it?
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   by bobds 16y ago

   I've been using 960.gs for a while now and just stumbled upon this. I think 1kbgrid is my new favourite CSS thing. It's sized at 960 pixels by default but the generator can make wider configurations, which is pretty handy. It also gets rid
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   The 1KB CSS Grid Generator(1kbgrid.com)

   5 points by bobds 16y ago|3 comments
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   Japan to drill for underwater frozen methane(guardian.co.uk)

   2 points by bobds 16y ago|0 comments
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   Dancho Danchev: Summarizing 3 Years of Research Into Cyber Jihad(ddanchev.blogspot.com)

   5 points by bobds 16y ago|0 comments
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    by bobds 16y ago

    I have a similar love/hate relationship with PHP. I write PHP because I want my code to be used by as many people as possible. As long as another language gets even a tenth of the deployments PHP has, I will gladly start writing software in
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    by bobds 16y ago

    A screencast is not the appropriate way to introduce your code to developers. We want text.
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    by bobds 16y ago

    This site has a useful bike security FAQ: http://www.baitbike.com/Security_For_Your_Bike.html Q: Isn't there a GPS device available that I can hide on my bike? A: Yes, however, while GPS is cool, it does have several drawbacks when used o
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    by bobds 16y ago

    Those are just a few hastily written thoughts. If there is going to be an effort to improve the actual docs, not just their Google ranking, I would be happy to provide some free consulting on SEO, site structure, usability, promotion, etc.
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    by bobds 16y ago

    I find it hard to believe that my tiny MP3 player could be dangerous to the plane's avionics, yet I'm usually told I have to turn it off before takeoff.
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    by bobds 16y ago

    This feature is already here: Appcelerator's Titanium It supports Python, Ruby, PHP and you can do things like <script type="text/python"> or <script type="text/ruby" src="myfile.rb"/>. They have made an underlying object sy
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    by bobds 16y ago

    What's a $business?
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    by bobds 16y ago

    This site generates a link to a random page of the Mozilla Javascript reference, with various keywords added in title and alt attributes. It would be better if they used text instead of an image as the link anchor. Here's how this should be
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    by bobds 16y ago

    Another thing I read was that the company that operated the mine has declared bankruptcy and can't pay anyone. That must be a downer. Fortunately, various companies have made around 1000 job offers for these people when they get out. A nice
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    by bobds 16y ago

    Apparently, there was a copy of the book on eBay: "At least one seller on the online auction site eBay claiming to have a first-edition printing is selling it for an asking price of nearly $2,000. The listed retail price for the second prin
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    by bobds 16y ago

    They can communicate with their families and talk to the outside world. They know efforts are underway to rescue them. I think those make a huge difference in keeping them hopeful, compared to someone trapped that has no idea if anyone is e
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    What if everything you needed to survive had to fit through a 3 inch wide hole(newsweek.com)

    65 points by bobds 16y ago|18 comments
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    How pig parts make the world turn(ted.com)

    2 points by bobds 16y ago|0 comments
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    by bobds 16y ago

    You don't go searching for the right thing to build with a tool. You look for the right tool to build a thing. Now if you just got yourself a shiny new tool, it's natural that you will go looking for a silly thing to do. I remember one day
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    by bobds 16y ago

    How can you stomach taking home less than 50% of your sales? If I am not mistaken, Envato pays developers via Paypal. Why not just take payments directly to your Paypal?
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    by bobds 16y ago

    I made the mistake of using a university email address for some non-university stuff, they deleted my account when I left and I didn't get a chance to backup. My point is don't use an email address, that you know is going to disappear in th
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    by bobds 16y ago

    I usually list a URL to a page with a contact form instead of my email in profiles.
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    by bobds 16y ago

    Interesting, what kind of projects have you written in L so far in your company? I actually started implementing a DSL in TCL a while ago, it was meant for a YubNub replacement but the project was scrapped and I never finished it.
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    by bobds 16y ago

    http://www.openwebanalytics.com/ http://piwik.org/ You will definitely need to do some customization with these. Also whatever you use, consider that most analytics GUIs are written under the assumption that very few people will have ac
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    by bobds 16y ago

    That would prevent people from using throwaway accounts, which a lot of people seem to do. And they are not spammers.
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    by bobds 16y ago

    Interesting suggestion, thanks.