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by countessa 14y ago
I switched to Dvorak about 8 years ago - nothing makes you touch type quicker than not being able to refer to the keys printed on the keyboard.
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by countessa 14y ago
It is nice, but to my mind, a slider is different to a switch. The classic "on-off" switch that the author takes on is like a light switch - to that end, it does its job pretty well, I think, telling you what state it is in.
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by countessa 14y ago
While I appreciate the frustration (and lord knows Microsoft have frustrated me plenty given I spend half my time developing for their platform), no matter how difficult they make it for you to buy, it's never an excuse not to.
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Dezsquare - 99Designs + Dribble(thenextweb.com)
1 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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by countessa 14y ago
A LAMP stack will be easier to deploy simply because pretty much any cheap hosting you get as a playground will support it out of the box. Rails is a little more tricky to deploy. That said, Ruby and Rails is, in my opinion, more fun than a
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by countessa 14y ago
neat - never seen those before - thanks.
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by countessa 14y ago
placeguitar is up :)
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by countessa 14y ago
unless you develop metro apps using javascript/html - then you can use vector art.
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by countessa 14y ago
>>"What understanding would my comment add?" Agree - this should be the default in any comment. It would be interesting to see a "karma" score for those who hold their tongue when they have nothing constructive to say, but obviously
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by countessa 14y ago
Build stuff that is already out there - competition is fine in any marketplace if there are enough consumers for the product. Create a copy of software that is already performing well, tweak a bit of it to give it your own flavour - copying
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by countessa 14y ago
Okay - if you are going for the absolute beginner market, then, in my opinion, you have too much front matter. I'm new to code, I want to build something cool - let me at it now, not 20 pages in.
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by countessa 14y ago
webfaction www.webfaction.com
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by countessa 14y ago
oh the irony - the article notes that "pink it and shrink it approach represents typically shallow thinking" and then we are invited to check out the twitter feed and website of "Belinda Parmar who is the author of Little Miss Geek".....
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by countessa 14y ago
Nicely done. I'm a Ruby/Sintra bod myself, but now I'm keen to play with Flask a bit - thanks!
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by countessa 14y ago
haven't had a good look through your site yet, I've been looking at backblaze, but zapdrive lookis interesting....is the drive connected over SSL or do you have a different encryption thing going on?
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by countessa 14y ago
my problem with this is, with space at a premium, i currently use the underside of my bed to store linen, towels, clothes, etc etc etc.....
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by countessa 14y ago
Ok, I've no actual need for this service - but I'm upvoting because it's cool!
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by countessa 14y ago
This is simply not true - a blog without promotion will not simply "find readers" no matter how interesting. Getting people to your blog is a combination of getting good inbound links, getting good PR in the central hubs of your subject mat
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by countessa 14y ago
There are bad coders in ever language/platform....and coupled with that, we all have days when we write bad code. The size of the community has very little to do with it I think.
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by countessa 14y ago
I guess "People sharing things that matter" is very subjective. A nice story to be sure....but "really matters"? Is storylane curated or just a free for all?
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MiniTest and Rails 3.2(rubyflewtoo.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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by countessa 14y ago
I never "trusted" facebook in the first place. There is always a tacit understanding, in my opinion, in using free services, that they control the data that you put in there. As long as you use the service with that in mind, you're good. I
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by countessa 14y ago
yes. advantage 3... text is still easier for search engines....so it's nicely indexable and as a result, more likely to land up in your search results.
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by countessa 14y ago
I'm loving meteor - one of the more promising javascript based platforms/frameworks in my opinion
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Pininterst like layout with jQuery(osvaldas.info)
1 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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Ruby Tapas - gourmet snippets of ruby code launches(devblog.avdi.org)
3 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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by countessa 14y ago
Sublime Text 2 for most of my ruby and python hacking - it's just a great text editor! Visual Studio when I'm on M$ projects - I can't see the point of not using it - it's a good dev environment, great debugger and is tooled especially for
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Germany re-opens Facebook facial recognition probe(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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Tangle - interactive documentation with javascript(worrydream.com)
2 points by countessa 14y ago|0 comments
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by countessa 14y ago
"On the other hand, you might consider simply finding what you love, and letting the rest take care of itself." damned if this isn't the mantra of pretty much every self-help/self-improvement guru out there. And in writing this, the article

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