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by carbon8 16y ago
Ruby 1.8 displays non-ascii characters in the shell using octal escape sequences. \302\277 is ¿, \303\263 is ó and so forth. It should be fine to work with (eg, saving to a database or displaying in a template) as long as you know the encod
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by carbon8 16y ago
Another thing that I associate with this year is the spreading awareness of ORM and framework agnosticism. With the popularity of Sinatra and MongoDB, along with other Rack frameworks and non-AR DB libraries, there seems to be a big shift t
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by carbon8 16y ago
Is it Rails-only or does it support any Rack framework?
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by carbon8 16y ago
That's an insightful analogy. I hadn't really thought about it that way, but you are absolutely right. I'll keep that in mind.
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by carbon8 16y ago
Thanks! I'll definitely look into it and see if there's something I can do for FBML.
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by carbon8 16y ago
Clickable: http://markupconverter.com/
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Ask HN: Review my Nov sprint micro app, Markup Converter
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by carbon8 16y ago
I put together Markup Converter http://markupconverter.com/ It's a simple web service for converting markup from one format to another. Most of the conversions in the app are done using the Haskell library Pandoc, but I'm also using Disco
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by carbon8 16y ago
There's a much simpler way to do POSTs with Net::HTTP: response = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse("http://example.com"), {:param => "val"})
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by carbon8 16y ago
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding your point, but :markdown isn't a tag that gets output to html, it just designates the beginning of the block to be processed with markdown, so classes and ids aren't applicable. If you want the markdown b
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by carbon8 16y ago
1. Discount, used by both RDiscount and BlueCloth, supports limited use of classes in inline text via pseudo-protocols in link-style tags. You can also use inline HTML in markdown. I believe that the latter is what most people do. 2. You ca
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by carbon8 16y ago
In addition, you can use something like the markdown filter for body text. :markdown ## Heading Content This is just some *emphatic* text. Maybe I'll talk about `$BASH_VERSION` here.
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by carbon8 16y ago
The webkit nightlies tend to have more features. There is still one behavior that frustrates me every time I use the webkit tools, though: clicking on an asset link (eg, to a javascript file) brings up the resource tracker rather than the f
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by carbon8 16y ago
I'm in Chicago, but also do work for Asian firms. In my admittedly completely anecdotal experience as a contractor over the past few years, I encounter PHP (which I don't work with) and Rails applications, but have never been approached for
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by carbon8 16y ago
Regarding jobs for each framework, there are far more Rails jobs than Django jobs: http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=JBPFd8i2nk . For me, I periodically use Django for content-centric sites with standard CRUD operations primarily performe
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by carbon8 16y ago
You can also just put DD-WRT or Tomato on your router and use that.
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by carbon8 16y ago
This is much easier to set up and works well. The router or server you are tunneling to needs no extra configuration beyond having ssh set up. On a VPS it will already be running and with router firmware like DD-WRT or Tomato it's just a ch
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by carbon8 16y ago
For the past 4 or 5 years I've been using SSH tunneling. I set up a location in OS X network preferences using the exact technique described in this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1828631 . I usually tunnel through my router a
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by carbon8 16y ago
This is kind of a big deal. Not a whole lot of people are aware of this vulnerability and among those who are it's likely only a small subset that knew how to exploit it until now. I suspect all of the coffee shops in the college town where
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by carbon8 16y ago
Judging by your comments here, I'd recommend looking more closely into Engine Yard and Heroku so you can offload some/most of the sysadmin work. Contact both of them, let them know what your needs are and get price estimates.
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by carbon8 16y ago
It's an annual thing, so there's always next year.
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by carbon8 16y ago
I see the benefit of a library as being that I don't need to write the code, but it still won't go in one of my projects until I understand what it does and whether it actually works the way it should. Personally, I encounter bugs and bad
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by carbon8 16y ago
Desktop touch functionality wouldn't necessarily be added to the primary display. Apple has filed patents for using touch screens for keyboards and trackpads. Even if it was for the primary display, apple has a patent for a movable display
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by carbon8 16y ago
Note, however, that those were all originally acquisitions. FCP was born at Macromedia and Apple purchased the product and hired the team. Shake came from the Nothing Real acquisition. Logic is from the Emagic acquisition.
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by carbon8 16y ago
You also need to be logged in, otherwise it redirects to the home page.
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by carbon8 16y ago
I use google docs primarily because it's easy to share with others and because I frequently need to use spreadsheets.
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by carbon8 16y ago
Django does not dominate Python jobs at all. We are discussing web development jobs in this particular thread. Django doesn't even dominate Python web related jobs Yes, it does. SimplyHired: Django 1168, Pylons 143, TurboGears 18, Zope
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by carbon8 16y ago
Python is used extensively outside of web development, PHP is not. Django is far more prevalant than other Python web frameworks, eg, Django 1168 vs Pylons 143 on SimplyHired. Also, if you follow my links you'll see that the subjects of th
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by carbon8 16y ago
Since you are comparing it to PHP and Ruby, it appears that your comment refers to their use in web development. I can't say much about the broader use of the languages, but here is some perspective regarding the web development side. A lit
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by carbon8 16y ago
Is that offer good for anyone? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1031126

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