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by ecaron 14y ago
Interesting they call this "live" now, TechCrunch has been running on WordPress.com's "VIP" platform since early 2010.
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by ecaron 14y ago
I didn't. I nuked my personal stuff, and then worked hard to put the machine in a state that my replacements would find useful to reproduce my processes.
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Ask HN: Last day at work after 7 years, last minute things I am forgetting?
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by ecaron 14y ago
I think they get changed by the server itself, without human intervention. If the poster has enough karma, I think the HN code should trust the user's title over the <h1>.
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by ecaron 14y ago
Which gets you close, but not close enough to say "I've testing in IEX." Although the DOM modelling is very close, the CSS and JS quirks between different versions aren't emulated enough in F12 to catch the problems that using the actual ve
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by ecaron 14y ago
The biggest problem with these is that they all have an expiration date - and Microsoft frequently forgets to update them. And getting through to Microsoft to tell them it is out of date... forget about it.
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by ecaron 14y ago
Solr's docs also leave a lot to be desired. The wikis are a mess and knowing what is still relevant (e.g. not deprecated) is frequently a crap shoot. It'd be great if their docs had versioning (like the Apache HTTP Server Project), but I su
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by ecaron 14y ago
After the 3rd thing that was wrong about Solr, I stopped caring to write anything more than this comment.
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by ecaron 14y ago
You can learn a lot about a community, a product, and a company based on how they respond to bug reports. Promptness, formality, details and politeness are all incredible indicators about what's going on under the hood.
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by ecaron 14y ago
After being with Dyn for 8+ years, this last week I moved from them to Amazon. The Dyn interface is chaotic - so bad I contemplated just reverting to hosting DNS myself in PowerDNS/Poweradmin ( https://www.poweradmin.org/trac/ ). I never h
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by ecaron 14y ago
There's an interesting story here about Google's strategy to retain Windows 8 users, and maybe some forecasting about what other websites might have to do if Win8 gets traction. Unfortunately this post's title is so bad this conversation wi
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Google's internal "Optimize Your Life" guide to staying healthy(maps.google.com)
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Simple yet amazing CSS3 border transition effects(thecodeplayer.com)
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by ecaron 14y ago
In fairness to Replicator 2, the output versatility looks scores more impressive than Panda's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o6pcbhylmQ . I suppose it all depends on the hobbyist.
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by ecaron 14y ago
This thread would be infinitely more interesting, and worthy of discussion, if the poster on 37signals wasn't anonymous.
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by ecaron 14y ago
Except this would only work if you: 1) Forced all users in your system, who already had email/password based accounts, to abandon their existing accounts and adopt Persona 2) Became fluent in quickly explaining to users how to reset their P
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by ecaron 14y ago
Thank you so much for the thorough details. I squashed this bug. Can you ping me at eric@linkup.com so I can send you a Starbucks giftcard for your help?
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by ecaron 14y ago
98% in agreement. I think the "built by a nonprofit" is a fantastic point that they should keep pushing, though.
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by ecaron 14y ago
Yahoo! login bug has been fixed. Teaches me to try and get Yahoo! to behave with https. If anyone wants a great example of why to use Persona, try using Yahoo's developer apps interface...
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by ecaron 14y ago
Let's agree to disagree on this point and let this thread end.
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by ecaron 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We're still working on nailing the design - we need a way that all the buttons look uniform, and want a way to explain what they are (namely Persona, as I said, still working on it.) And fitting the multiple options
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by ecaron 14y ago
I did OpenID early on in the site (nobody understood it), RPXNow/JanRain (more than we could afford for fewer features than we needed), and finally our own solution that does OAuth* for the various providers and Persona. I love Persona. I w
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by ecaron 14y ago
They've resolved it in planning ( http://www.ghacks.net/2012/03/02/mozilla-personas-renamed-to... ), but the implementation just hasn't been completed. Yet. "To sum it up: * BrowserID renamed to Mozilla Persona * Personas renamed to Backgro
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by ecaron 14y ago
> Will Mozilla provide native support or an extension? They have a working native support - http://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/mozilla/persona/2011/07/15/m... - and expect it to see it natively in probably ~17. Their biggest push is for
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by ecaron 14y ago
The biggest problem with Mozilla's Persona is the branding of it. Until they are able to get a handle on the branding-related issues, it can't get off the ground: * Logo is ambiguous and looks like a generic button * "Mozilla" in the name i
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DreamHost announces S3 competitor: DreamObjects(wiki.dreamhost.com)
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Adobe releases open source font for programming(noupe.com)
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by ecaron 14y ago
> However, it was not necessary for the business I don't think anyone is arguing that Indeed would still exist had the $5M not come around. The point is that the $5M helped Indeed purchase the traffic/partnerships necessary to make it
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by ecaron 14y ago
Except Indeed got the VC infusion in 2005, and only after that did they start becoming a recognizable player in the industry (if my personal experience in the industry isn't enough of a source for this, see http://www.google.com/trends/?q=
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by ecaron 14y ago
Bootstrapping (adj): a self-sustaining process that proceeds without external help. Not bootstrapping: $5M in VC. There is no "partially bootstrapped," you either are or aren't. Can somebody update the headline?

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