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by cmwelsh 13y ago
The NSA has the database. The phone companies do not. It would be very impractical and a huge invasion of privacy to record conversations like this.
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by cmwelsh 13y ago
You can turn Excel spreadsheets into web applications quite easily with Google Apps Script. We wrote a REST interface to a massive multi tab Excel file recently and it only took like an hour, as opposed to days of reverse engineering the ca
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by cmwelsh 13y ago
I wrote a WordPress plugin that allows you to use the WP_Query class as an iterator: https://github.com/cmwelsh/zesty-wp-query
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by cmwelsh 13y ago
My favorite functional reactive programming library for JavaScript is Bacon.js: https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js "It's the _ of Events. Too bad the symbol ~ is not allowed in Javascript."
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by cmwelsh 13y ago
I think the Backbone.js-style class pattern is something that helps keep your code modular and well organized. Prototype are nothing to fear. However, the article does not really touch on this. It's mostly just saying to use `{}` instead of
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by cmwelsh 13y ago
The SSL certificate on that website is broken. It's unusable in Chrome.
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by cmwelsh 13y ago
There's a broken link on the question mark above the CodeMirror widget. It should link to the Markdown website but it links to a 404.
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
This redesign is a disaster. The contrast is horrible and the listing pages look like a blurry cloud of pastels. They would have been better off adding useful UI changes such as a checkbox at the top that can select all issues, advanced fil
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
Nice work! I like it. One small bug: on the iPhone Google Chrome view of the green button group, there is a strange difference in appearance when compared to the rendering in desktop Google Chrome. http://i.imgur.com/KBCepbX.png
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
Can someone give me a small comparison between nginx and HAProxy? It seems like they're starting to overlap a lot. I'm really excited that nginx added Websocket (including SSL termination) support.
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
I did the opposite and I have no regrets. RequireJS is wonderful because you only need to refresh your browser to see your latest changes. Browserify has probably come a long way (I switched from Browserify to RequireJS about a year ago) bu
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
Perl 7 is going to be another Perl 5 stable release, just wait and see. No one is going to use Perl 6. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5179513
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
They should at least launch an OS with first-class support for iPhone tethering.
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Rollbar (formerly Ratchet.io) officially launches and announces funding(rollbar.com)
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
Yes, but only in the sense that Opera is evolving into a new brand of Chromium. Opera isn't a relevant factor in the technology discussion anymore.
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
Part of open source is realizing people will steal your code. The only thing you can do is expect them to give the legally mandated minimum of an acknowledgement of copyright and authorship in alignment with the terms of the MIT license. Ar
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
I like to put comments in my configuration files. How do you comment out blocks of a JSON configuration file?
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
If there is a particular data model that you want, there's no shame in just passing it directly inside the container of the view. Given a Handlebars template on the server like: <div class="profile-widget" {{#if serverEnv}}data-mo
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
Amazon started in one business and is slowly dominating another one. They're revolutionizing cloud computing using the infrastructure that allows them to dominate the online shopping market. I would say Amazon has two healthy futures as a c
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
> whereas OpenGL requires GLUT, or GLEW? I think. Perhaps FreeGLUT? OpenGLUT? Or can you just use SDL? Or none of them? What? Exactly. I think SFML is in the best place to succeed SDL: http://www.sfml-dev.org/
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
It would be a nicer example to use "pretty SEO URLs" for the individual post resources instead of a GET variable. I know even the Hacker News website goes against this, but it just looks more professional/polished to me, i.e. /posts/m
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
A talented hacker, ghoulsblade on GitHub, cobbled together a web player for LOVE: https://github.com/ghoulsblade/love-webplayer Here are some demo applications converted to HTML5/WebGL: http://ghoulsblade.schattenkind.net/love-webplayer/
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
At this time my comfort zone is managing each theme and plugin as a separate Git repository and using WP Engine to rollback if I break anything during a WordPress/theme/plugin upgrade. WordPress is just upgraded using the 1-click upgrade, a
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
I don't mind. Voxer has been constantly sending me useless "messages" whenever my Facebook friends join Voxer. I get at least 1 or 2 every week.
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
WebSocket has much less latency and overhead than long-polling Ajax. Heroku just doesn't support it yet. The solution for now is to run your own WebSocket server on AWS or subscribe to a service like Pusher.
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
It's also used to enable serving cross-origin web fonts. In the case of the author, he wants to use Flickr images in an HTML5 canvas element. I would set up a server-side proxy for that (didn't see this mentioned either).
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
One thing you didn't mention is strict mode. I think this rule is awesome for preventing issues like in your "bonus gotcha".
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
This should bring more honestly about how the system is actually working in practice. I would wager that anyone aspiring to start a business with their unemployment benefits could do so by being discreet and waiting until the business is of
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
Off-topic, but I'm getting a 404 on one of your fonts: GET http://hypirion.com/fonts/Inconsolata.woff 404 (Not Found)
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by cmwelsh 14y ago
In the companies for which I've worked (media production and software), paying the minimum wage for internships was hardly a problem. The people in these internships were often senior-year or better, easily worth twice what they were being

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