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by carbon8 16y ago
Agreed. I do the exact same thing. First define a palette and with variable names that describe the color (eg, !mauve= #E0B0FF), then assign those to descriptive variable names (eg, !accent_color= !mauve). That way it's immediately clear wh
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by carbon8 17y ago
what benefits does this new syntax have for previous users of sass? Single line declarations are a huge one.
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by carbon8 17y ago
See my comment here for a list of resources: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088887 And an addition to that list: http://www.railstutorial.org/book
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by carbon8 17y ago
Awesome. This is a very interesting project.
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by carbon8 17y ago
It looks like it generates solo.rb and dna.json files based on what's in the Vagrant file, which is pretty cool, and I see there is a single cookbook path relative to the project directory. Is there a way to specify a site-cookbooks path, t
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by carbon8 17y ago
What's the difference/relationship between OStatus and OpenMicroBlogging? Are they the same thing or something? I tried looking into OMB for a side project about a year ago and had a very hard time finding any clear documentation, and just
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by carbon8 17y ago
"what program is responsible for them" This is handled by title bars in Gnome, OS X and Windows, not window menu bars. "separates the data (what's inside the window) from the menus that act on that data" The menus don't just act on what
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by carbon8 17y ago
Gnome's biggest downside is the same core problem of the Windows interface: having a menu bolted on to each window is incredibly inelegant, redundant and wasteful of screen space.
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by carbon8 17y ago
That's pretty unusual for an indie shop. Typically that would only be the case if the place was heavily reliant on foot traffic. If a coffee shop isn't tapped into a neighborhood and some surrounding social networks that bring in repeat cus
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by carbon8 17y ago
Social with each other. Neighborhood social centers, enough so that people care enough to even consider banning laptops.
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by carbon8 17y ago
I often spend all afternoon at various cafes, buying a $2-4 drink every 1-2 hours. Most people with laptops spend 1-2 hours. You'll get people working longer in the mid morning and mid afternoon. People who show up with laptops at 2 (1:30-2
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by carbon8 17y ago
I've been deep in cafe culture for almost 20 years now (hanging out in them since I was just starting high school, and now I've been working from cafes and home for 3 years), mainly in the Chicago area. There was a big transition over the p
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by carbon8 17y ago
linode, slicehost, prgmr, rackspace cloud
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by carbon8 17y ago
I've been thinking a lot about this kind of thing, specifically how insane it is that people so widely believe that humans are some sort of apex of evolution and even don't recognize that we are just animals with tons of limitations and ani
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by carbon8 17y ago
"My link empirically demonstrates that all 7(!) constructs behave differently" It explicitly doesn't. Read it again. Immediately after listing his 7 constructs he points out that a number of them are actually the same thing, and in the su
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by carbon8 17y ago
One small note, as pointed out in http://innig.net/software/ruby/closures-in-ruby.rb posted by arohner above: although in 1.8 proc is an alias for lambda, in 1.9 it's now an alias for Proc.new.
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by carbon8 17y ago
They are indeed all Proc objects: Proc.new {}.class => Proc lambda {}.class => Proc proc {}.class => Proc def block_class(&block) block.class end block_class {} => Proc That write
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by carbon8 17y ago
"it has four goddamn callable types [Methods, Procs, Blocks, Lambdas] that all turn into one another at different points, but you still can't pass around non-anonymous callables directly!" Aside from the errors in this sentence (blocks, p
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by carbon8 17y ago
See here: http://www.robertsosinski.com/2008/12/21/understanding-ruby-... Proc objects created with lambda check arguments and have "diminutive return" so they behave as anonymous methods. Also, Kernel#proc is an alias to Kernel#lambda, s
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by carbon8 17y ago
"It does expose (by full name) any contact who comments on one of your Buzzes." It's important to note, however, that unless the buzz message was shared with only specific contacts, anyone can comment on it. Sure, it's likely that a comme
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by carbon8 17y ago
As I stated, "This was the case on accounts I set up the first day..." My subsequent testing summarized in that comment simply confirmed it.
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by carbon8 17y ago
"The subset of my contacts that clicked "yes" became exposed to the public." Not on your profile. "Didn't Google make the public profile for me" It didn't. If you never set up a google profile or a buzz profile, Buzz displays a placehol
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by carbon8 17y ago
Of course, making already public information available in more places is quite a bit different than exposing private communications.
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by carbon8 17y ago
"they do allow you to view another persons followers" If that person took the extra step of setting up their buzz profile. And although your profile might show your followers/following to you, the profile doesn't show the same information
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by carbon8 17y ago
"For all people who already had a Google profile, the list of people they were "following".. was automatically added to their public profile" No, it isn't. Although it indeed appears to expose your contacts, it actually doesn't. This wa
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by carbon8 17y ago
Yeah, it's tremendously confusing. As far as I can tell, looking at it from another account is the only way to know that the profile doesn't actually show the following/follower information publicly. It really shouldn't require an in-depth,
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by carbon8 17y ago
Out of curiosity, I just tried it on an account with an existing Google Profile that doesn't have buzz set up and it did not add followers/followings to the existing Google Profile. It added the status message to the buzz feed, which isn't
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by carbon8 17y ago
"But what about people who already had a Google profile, who did have their contacts automatically displayed to the world?" One of my accounts had a google profile, and nothing was displayed automatically; it still required the exact same
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by carbon8 17y ago
One big downside is that spam filters are very agressive these days. It can be a huge PITA getting your mail through, even when you've gone through the trouble of setting up domain keys and spf records and submitting the appropriate forms.
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by carbon8 17y ago
My impression has been the opposite, that facebook/myspace/etc are blocked more than webmail. The only recent survey I could find that touched on both social neworking and webmail is this one from august: http://www.scansafe.com/content/em

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