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by courtewing 15y ago
This was actually pretty fascinating to me. On one hand, I am astonished at how long it takes to perform seemingly trivial git operations on repositories at this scale. On the other hand, I'm utterly mystified that a company like Facebook
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by courtewing 15y ago
I would definitely try it if for no other reason than the novelty. But I don't enjoy logging into facebook to check facebook... much less logging into facebook to check some other social networking site. Cool idea, though.
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by courtewing 15y ago
I'm not huge into email clients, but perhaps that's just because I never found one that offered me much that my web client does not. With that in mind, I sincerely wish you the best of luck and hope that you can change mind. Unrelated, the
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by courtewing 15y ago
I've seen a lot of people argue that sites like Hacker News shouldn't engage in a protest like this on the grounds that most of its audience probably already supports the protest's cause. I think this is a fundamentally flawed view about t
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by courtewing 15y ago
This isn't entirely accurate. GoDaddy has both auto-renewal and manual renewal. I'm not sure what the default is these days, but you can set your domains to manual renewal and let them expire. Be warned: you're going to get a ton of emai
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by courtewing 15y ago
I recently switched over all of my domains from godaddy to hover.com, and I have been pretty happy with them.
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by courtewing 15y ago
I liked to imagine astronauts as individuals who excelled so much in their given fields that they stood out and were actively recruited by NASA. Instead, I find out that NASA posts job postings and interviews people just like everyone else
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by courtewing 15y ago
It may not be common, but I don't think it is an unreasonable thing to expect. Think of a country such as the Democratic Republic of Congo -- I'm not entirely certain, but I'd imagine it is common for someone to simply start typing "Congo"
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by courtewing 15y ago
Ah! Thank you very much. It looks like the black bar is now up there, too.
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by courtewing 15y ago
For the unenlightened (or perhaps just me), what do you mean by "have the black bar out"?
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by courtewing 15y ago
I don't think so. Buggy gestures or minor UI issues such as tiny touch zones are not the consequence of poor product design or direction; they're the consequence of having significantly large software in a very early stage of development.
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by courtewing 15y ago
How is this different than NowJS ( http://nowjs.com/ )? I don't mean to imply that two similar modules cannot exist; I am just curious if there is some fundamental difference between the two or if Racer is just a project that isn't as far
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by courtewing 15y ago
No matter how skilled I become as a developer, there is always something lurking around the corner to make me feel more naive than ever. As I was reading this article, I realized that my whole career and knowledge about the way application
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by courtewing 15y ago
201 failing tests is really shocking to me. Does anyone know of similar pages for languages such as ruby or python?
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by courtewing 15y ago
Not identifying this bug was the result of an (in my opinion) egregious human error. PHP has decent test coverage, and this issue does cause the current tests to fail. I really don't know how this was missed.
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by courtewing 15y ago
I don't have a strong opinion one way or another about this. On one hand, I am comfortable being able to get my software version number for pretty much any app in a convenient place. On the other hand, the thought that web apps (and perha
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by courtewing 15y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but what is the benefit of using this? Much of the functionality seems to already be available in the PHP core.
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by courtewing 15y ago
What is wrong with "It just works"? I have found that there are very few pieces of software out there (especially operating systems) that truly "just work" out of the box. Most software requires at least some setup, customization, and a p
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by courtewing 15y ago
The problem is that this would be one of the most widely used PHP extensions being deprecated, so they're just being careful. This is not the normal way things are deprecated, but education is a good way to start the process of removing po
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by courtewing 15y ago
Along these lines, David Coallier created a tool to generate your github "résumé" awhile back: http://resume.github.com/ As unshift mentioned, the entire development community is not quite at the point where a github account can be used a
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by courtewing 15y ago
This is pretty fantastic. The author is not presenting a lot of new information, but he is bringing together a ton of information from great sources, and he presents the patterns in a clear and concise way. This is an essential read for a
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by courtewing 15y ago
I'm sure this is a feature they will roll out, but it isn't exactly a must-have for an MVP. Facebook didn't add their friendly URLs for many years.
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by courtewing 15y ago
A unified bar at the top could be absolutely amazing for people that use a lot of google products. My biggest beef with google right now is that even with a unified login, there doesn't seem to be any sort of common interaction between the
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by courtewing 15y ago
When dealing with a lot of data, the latter SQL query would potentially be significantly faster than the former. If your goal is simply to show a top-10, then caching the entire results would be a great idea, but if you're goal (like in th
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by courtewing 15y ago
The application doesn't access your direct messages, but the bare minimum privileges for authenticated API access is "read only", and that happens to include the _access_ to direct messages. Feel free to peruse the source, if you don't beli
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by courtewing 15y ago
That's a false dichotomy. In no way does the appearance of an email impact the quality of its content or vice versa. You obviously do not care about the appearance of emails (or rather, you prefer the appearance of plaintext emails), but
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by courtewing 16y ago
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what that option does on identi.ca. I have it enabled, and it doesn't appear to have done anything in particular yet? Perhaps someone with more knowledge on the setting could elaborate. Exodus doesn't d
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by courtewing 16y ago
I'm the author of Exodus (no affiliation with the recent itunes app gay-cure scandal), and I wanted to put a plea out there that if any of you do try this out and encounter any issues with it, please feel free to post issues on github. It