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by derekdahmer 15y ago
I use coffeescript both clientside and serverside (node). Since semantically the coffeescript maps to javascript almost one-to-one, the only debugging difficulty is mapping line numbers in the error output to the location in the coffee fil
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by derekdahmer 15y ago
You can definitely get away with this if you steadfastedly request a change to the contract that says that work done outside of the office is your own. There's a war for talent going on... developers have plenty of leverage. You do have to
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by derekdahmer 15y ago
I'd really like push support to the app, like the Handoff app, but in reverse. http://www.handoffapp.com/
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by derekdahmer 15y ago
Craiggers is powered by the 3taps API that just launched a month ago. They postulate that postings are facts, which are public domain. http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2011/03/06/39377/ADataCommonsin... Craigslist posts aren't facts, they a
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by derekdahmer 16y ago
It took me a bit to figure out what exactly it was doing on your site, especially with it turning purple. Having a three step sample use-case guide on your homepage would be helpful. Also, rather than specifically tell it what font to fall
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by derekdahmer 16y ago
Agreed, there are always way too many M's, never enough S. Offering a one-size-too-big shirt is a great way to get someone to take the shirt but never wear it because it looks sloppy.
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Choosing between Boston or San Francisco as a Young Entrepreneur(jasonevanish.com)
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by derekdahmer 16y ago
Neuron Robotics is a Boston-area startup making a little USB device for prototyping hardware and robots with really easy to java libraries. http://www.neuronrobotics.com/neuronrobotics/store/dyio/
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by derekdahmer 16y ago
Kind of hard to judge without more details on how it works. Just based on the tagline though - I hope this involves posting an image of yourself. I could find a fashionable pair of pants just by opening an issue GQ. The hard part about bei
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by derekdahmer 16y ago
I think you vastly overestimate the level of technology people can pick up. My grandmother couldn't figure out how to work the new radio we got her - which just had two giant large dials. We got her a dead-simple cell phone and it was neve
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by derekdahmer 16y ago
Their implementation of the channel is interesting compared to say, socket.io. Its essentially a one-way-only pipe where data can flow out of the server, to a client. The server only sees it as a pipe, and never gets any data back through
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by derekdahmer 16y ago
Its in the official docs http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/channel/
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by derekdahmer 16y ago
About four minutes in he gets to what he's actually going to talk about. For anyone who doesn't want to skim through to get an idea, he talks about his philosophy on thinking about the problems he's working on rather than always going strai
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by derekdahmer 16y ago
It's a simple tool that only needs a simple explanation and simple signup box. That said, a text explanation would make the process even faster. Also it would be interesting to see a usable mini-version of their hierarchical list right on
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by derekdahmer 16y ago
Its still a work in progress, but check out my project http://blotjot.com Its a collaborative whiteboard that works in any browser that supports canvas, including mobile safari on the iPhone and iPad. Runs on node.js + socket.io Example:
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by derekdahmer 16y ago
On the backend Zepto can get away with not having to standardize different browser implementations of and bugs with things like events, DOM manipulation and selectors since its only targeting a small subset of modern platforms. It probably
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by derekdahmer 16y ago
Another option is to use boto to pass the upload along to S3 and just store the link path in app engine.