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by carpal 19y ago
Are those valid zip codes? Neither 77915 or 12345 are in my database of zip codes. I have a table that has the lat/long of zip codes so that I can find the closest observation station. Edit: If I can't find the zip, I'll default to that
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by carpal 19y ago
A little project I did over the holidays. I got sick of how slow and cluttered weather.com was, so I whipped up this little service. I hope other people can find it useful. It took me about a day. It is written in Rails. It contains abo
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Man, weather.com really sucks. I bet I could make a better one in a day.(forecaster.ws)
57 points by carpal 19y ago|48 comments
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by carpal 19y ago
Drupal kind of forces the 3-column layout on you. It's not really very easy to extend (from what I've experienced). I've just never seen anyone have a good Drupal experience.
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by carpal 19y ago
I'm doing the exact opposite. I've got 2 weeks off of work, and I've pledged to do no work at all in that time period. I've been burning the midnight oil working on my web app nights and weekends while working at my day job full time. I
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by carpal 19y ago
1) I highly suggest NOT changing the deploy.rb file in the Cap gem. You can override any task in your own deploy.rb file. For instance: namespace :deploy do desc "Custom stop task" task :stop, :roles => :web do #My custom
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by carpal 19y ago
> until some enterprising executive decided that the time was ripe for... a 25th-anniversary 3-D rerelease of "Barton Fink," with a hitherto unseen, behind-the-scenes peek at the Coen brothers trying to explain a Hollywood in-joke to Jo
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by carpal 19y ago
I'd advise against it. What do you really want to do? Wordpress can be surprisingly flexible. You might want to try that (w/ some plugins).
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by carpal 19y ago
(late, I know) There are several Flexcar locations in my city, but the nearest is about a 1.5 mile walk. Not really convenient =(
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by carpal 19y ago
From what I've seen, most Angels will be fine in and "advisory" role, and don't expect to be given the right to make decisions for the company. But with money raised by serious venture capital firms, they definitely expect more control. It
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by carpal 19y ago
I live in the city and drive about 50 miles a month, while paying about $150 a month for insurance. This will be a Godsend for me. I can't wait.
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by carpal 19y ago
Anyone can code. Anyone. It is a question of motivation and effort, not intelligence.
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by carpal 19y ago
Heres the thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=81932
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by carpal 19y ago
I love Powell's. On a recent trip to Portland, it was all I could do to walk out of there without having spent over $200.
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by carpal 19y ago
>He does all the development and thus our progress was stalled. My suggestion: Learn to code.
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by carpal 19y ago
This phrase has about as much caloric content as a tic-tac: "on-demand web application to deliver Business Intelligence Extranets" What's the problem that you guys are solving? How are you solving it? (And don't just tell me, put it on yo
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by carpal 19y ago
I've been developing off of the preview releases for a few weeks, and there's nothing earth shattering. Generally, it just makes things nicer. I don't do a lot of AJAXy stuff, and I don't talk very frequently to clients that aren't standar
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Rails 2.0 Released(weblog.rubyonrails.org)
50 points by carpal 19y ago|14 comments
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by carpal 19y ago
I'm all for Atlanta-area startups, but... What the hell does it do? I've read the elevator pitch three times and I can't figure it out.
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by carpal 19y ago
The last paragraph is priceless: "That's how everyone else does it." These people really don't understand that doing the same thing that everyone else does is not a winning strategy. Ever.
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by carpal 19y ago
I'm charging a monthly per user fee. Most businesses won't use free products simply out of principle. I'm not sure why.
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by carpal 19y ago
If it was stolen from your car, you might be able to get your car insurance to pay for it. But you might have to file a police report.
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by carpal 19y ago
Quality code is elegant and concise.
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by carpal 19y ago
Yeah, that's bad news- especially since they can modify it once it is cracked. restful_authentication, for instance, puts only the user_id in the session. If a user were to crack the cookie and change the user_id to, say, 1 (which is often
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by carpal 19y ago
Ruby/Rails/Mongrel/Pound does a great job of utilizing all those CPUs that I have in a production environment. There's a bunch of overhead, but it is easier than having to deal with locking. It really depends on your application, though.
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by carpal 19y ago
I've never wanted a down button before.
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by carpal 19y ago
Octopart seems very much "alive". Their last blog post was a mere 3 weeks ago. They've had similar gaps in blog posts before. Buxfer seems to be doing fine as well.
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by carpal 19y ago
This was posted yesterday : http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/15/loopt-may-be-friending-... They seem to be doing pretty well.
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by carpal 19y ago
Maybe it was faster for truly smart people to get a Ph.D. back in the day. My father had his Ph.D. in computer science by the time he was 21. I tried to take one masters-level course when I was 22 and they laughed at me. I think it is the
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by carpal 19y ago
I've used many different payment processors both for my own ventures and for my day jobs. Recommended: Google Payments Tepid: Paypal, FirePay Not Recommended: Authorize.NET, TotalTrans, 2Checkout.com Paypal was the only one I'd done using

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