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by chrishenn 14y ago
Looks fantastic, though I thought they only used Backbone for their mobile site.
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Fact based, data centric news can still be quite biased through selection of detail, so Im not sure its any more trustworthy than an article. Love the site though, really well done.
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The Lame Kind of TDD(writing.chrishenn.net)
2 points by chrishenn 15y ago|1 comments
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Recently I started using Khan Academy a lot more. At first I too felt like a lot of the videos needed more polish, as well as some other aspects of the site. But eventually I accepted that it really didn't matter whether I was watching one
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Did you ever feel like it got in the way? I've been using it on new projects, but always found customizations a little awkward. Are you changing the actual bootstrap files (typography.less or whatever) or simply overriding them in your own
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by chrishenn 15y ago
I feel like a lot of complaints about Rails 3 being harder to use are coming from Rails 2 developers who don't know it as well. I've only played around with Rails 3 (I'm following Michael Hartl's tutorial) and have never used Rails 2, but I
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by chrishenn 15y ago
The infographic is kinda weak on information, and it doesn't do much to make those numbers any more understandable (what's 138 million books?) The subject, however, isn't looked at enough in America. I remember being shocked the first time
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by chrishenn 15y ago
If you can stay true to the quality over quantity goal, BetaKit could very well become one of my most read sites. But I suspect it would be very hard to do so — everything I've experienced with online journalism suggests that quantity of po
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Glad to see the FOIA worked in this case. AP did a report last year showing how ineffective FOIA and similar laws are: http://hosted.ap.org/interactives/2011/foia-global/
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Arch is great, but my favorite thing about it is that it stays out of the way. It led me to using new tools like XMonad and MPD. I could be perfectly happy with using the same setup on debian-unstable, but never would have got there without
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by chrishenn 15y ago
I believe its Hover that you're remembering. http://help.hover.com/2011/07/07/hover-secures-passwords-wit...
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Is there any logic to blocking China or a specific country? Is that where most malicious attacks come from?
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by chrishenn 15y ago
This may fit into the same category of way too optimistic, but I think it should be something that's in school, from an early age. My high school has a mandatory computer literacy test, but it only tests a few skills like MS Office or "What
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by chrishenn 15y ago
I hope that trolling can be kept out of HN by the simple goodwill of the people using the site. I can't think of many forum systems that can effectively remove the incentive to troll. I put up a forum online for people in my journalism clas
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by chrishenn 15y ago
As a Gaug.es user, I think my normal reaction to an acquisition would be negative. But I really trust GitHub because I know they make great things. Looking forward to seeing these products improve (they are fantastic already!)
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Is there another way to control it besides campfire? (like through the web part)
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Yeah I think one of the assignments at the end of the year is to take a photo demonstrating some physics property. There is some really cool photos that come out of it, and he puts the best in the book.
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Lazy kids have the power to change a lot :) I think kids are supposed to print out the relevant chapter before a lesson. It's probably a waste of paper, but at least the teacher can make sure everyone has the reading in class. I've never ac
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by chrishenn 15y ago
I have a U.S. history textbook that starts off every chapter by listing the California standard that will be covered. It's pretty lame, but the good teachers are totally capable of making sure they cover the standards that people seem to va
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by chrishenn 15y ago
One of the physics teachers at my school wrote a textbook for his students. He did so because he wasn't happy with whatever you can buy. I haven't taken the class yet, but it's supposed to be one of the best at my school. The district won't
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by chrishenn 15y ago
MPD with ncmpcpp is nice and straight to the point. MPD is available through homebrew.
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by chrishenn 15y ago
I love Vox. There's no database that songs have to be added to, it's just whatever the file/folder structure is for your tracks. One idea I experimented with was using pytagsfs to mount a virtual file system based on ID3 tags. I could never
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by chrishenn 15y ago
It doesn't make sense to use ALAC on mobile players. It's lossless so the file size is huge — you can't tell the difference between an ALAC file and whatever is sold in the iTunes store on a mobile device. Especially when the storage space
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Vimeo is going for a different market. It's like YouTube except for artists and creative people (not that YouTube can't be used for this.) And they seem to be doing just fine with that.
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by chrishenn 15y ago
"RSS without full-text is little better than no RSS." I totally agree. I use Reeder on both my phone and computer, because it's able to take those annoying excerpts, and use readability to turn it into the full text right in the feed reader
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by chrishenn 15y ago
I've got a friend group of a few hundred high schoolers (high schooler myself.) While many complain about changes in Facebook, none of them ever do anything about. I have a few friends who have decided to leave Facebook, but it's always bec
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by chrishenn 15y ago
XMonad is great. For anyone who finds it a bit daunting I recommend Bluetile[1]. It's a great introduction to the best window management system I've used (I really miss XMonad on OS X.) [1] http://www.bluetile.org/
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by chrishenn 15y ago
I just found out that NIC.IO (a common domain registar for .io domains) stores my password in plain text. Whoopee. I wonder how many startups use it.
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by chrishenn 15y ago
We all know what we see on T.V. and from places like CNN suck, but that doesn't mean it's journalism. Journalism is talking to as many people as you can about a story, then putting it together in a really straightforward, no bullshit report
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Markdown focuses on getting anything that isn't content out of the way. LaTeX defines it, rather explicitly. I use both. I used to use LaTeX for everything, but I realized I didn't really need the power. Now I use Markdown, and have a custo

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