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by chrishenn 15y ago
When I bought a new Macbook and wasn't able to run linux, XMonad was really the only thing I missed. No matter how much Apple focuses on it's interface and making it easy to use, it's still incredibly slow and unintuitive to me.
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by chrishenn 15y ago
The government has way over stepped it's bounds in response to the terrorist threat. I realized it first when I read a New Yorker article on the NSA[0]. In the past few years, the N.S.A. has built enormous electronic-storage facilities in
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Textmate 2 seems pretty much non-existent. There hasn't been a lot of information as to what it will actually bring. That said, Textmate 1 is still a very good editor if your into macros instead of vi-style full keyboard control. The proble
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by chrishenn 15y ago
A actively developed and quality casual editor for mac would be great. Textmate is still awesome, but it's getting stale on the innovation side. I can't say I've given Vico a try, but it isn't free ($40). And Kod looked great too, but it's
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New Yorker iPad app shows readers just want to read(nytimes.com)
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by chrishenn 15y ago
I didn't notice due to adblock, but Gmail has provided such a fantastic service for free over the years and really improved the quality of the webmail experience. I don't think I could complain much even if they put more adclick spots in Gm
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by chrishenn 15y ago
If he's in Santa Rosa I don't think that's him. Santa Rosa is in California.
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by chrishenn 15y ago
The Times continues to impress me with their adaptation to digital news. Back when they introduced their new subscription service I had a very poor opinion of the them (I even wrote an article[1] for my school paper about it.) Now I subscri
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by chrishenn 15y ago
I also use pwgen to generate passwords, but I tend to throw in a special character (like -, *, or #). pwgen's ability to generate pronounceable yet random passwords is why I use it. As you said, they just seem to be easy to remember.
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by chrishenn 15y ago
It seems that there's a much bigger market for it now that content can be put online quickly, at a much cheaper cost. Posting more than 30 exclusive items a day is common. “We’re trying to build what they call addicts online,” Mr. Perel sa
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The Gossip Machine, Churning Out Cash(nytimes.com)
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by chrishenn 15y ago
I would love a send to readability function (read later.) Other then that it's great! It's so nice when readability view is integrated into applications meant for reading things. Reeder did this and I love it—it's even more useful on the Re
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Consider adding a ``Login with Facebook'' button. While I personally hate the login everywhere with Facebook idea, it can be pretty useful. Most of my friends are discouraged by having to create yet another account for a website they haven'
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Our monitoring systems picked up the problems right away. The on-call engineer quickly determined the magnitude of the problem and woke up the on-call Incident Commander. The IC contacted AWS, and began waking Heroku engineers to work on t
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Also the praise on the landing page ``I would say I will probably order again from them'' by an anonymous beta user makes the service seem pretty mediocre compared to the other quotes. But I love the idea of it. I'm just north of SF (mill v
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Looks intriguing, but you may want to provide some more documentation for it. If I was to choose a git-workflow based blogging system I would lean toward toto, simply because I can understand it better (theres some good documentation and ar
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Boxer Developer Diary: On Apps and App Stores(boxerapp.com)
1 points by chrishenn 15y ago|0 comments
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by chrishenn 15y ago
I got my hardcopy in the mail about a week ago. I have very little real world programming experience --- I've only dabbled in Ruby and Python in the past scripting small utilities. I picked up LYAH because it looked interesting. Everyone sa
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Don't all cell phones ping cell towers frequently? My local search and rescue uses this feature somewhat often. It's helped out in more then a few cases.
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Legal this time? Startup offers local TV on the 'Net, with a twist(feeds.arstechnica.com)
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Relying on others to safeguard/encrypt your personal data just doesn't make sense to me, in the same way that closed-source cryptography doesn't make sense. If dropbox is claiming a false sense of security then that is an issue, but users t
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by chrishenn 15y ago
Apple has enormous success that is largely due to it's control freak tendencies. They make some really great innovations, and then lock everyone in to their proprietary ecosystem using the appeal of these innovations. Locking users down doe
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by chrishenn 16y ago
Ever listen to Ricardo Villalobos? It's some of my favorite background/work music, it's very minimal. I often find listening to long mixes (Fabric CD's or something similar) works really well for helping me concentrate. When I sit down to d
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by chrishenn 16y ago
Really? I had the opposite reaction. I found the simplicity drew me to the text. At the end I clicked the footer because it seemed shiny/pretty, and it took me right to the email form. I feel like a lot of websites, especially the ones whic
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by chrishenn 16y ago
Currently $80 off at AppSumo: http://appsumo.com/keynotopia-special-promo/ I haven't used it but I like the idea. Being able to create your idea in programs your comfortable with (photoshop) and then actually clicking and feeling the desi
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by chrishenn 16y ago
Looks awesome, I'll happily buy it for $5 once it hits the store. It's also nice that it's open source. Contributing to an actual iOS app could be a nice way to get a taste of iOS development without having to start a whole project from scr
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Website redesign: A design for strife(independent.co.uk)
3 points by chrishenn 16y ago|0 comments