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   by edavis 12y ago

   OP here. I don't know of a feed that does this. However, something like that should be relatively simple to build. HN's API ( https://hn.algolia.com/api ) can access all comments in a post. Should just be a matter o
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   Show HN: Realtime Hacker News RSS feeds (firehose, comments, search, and more)(github.com)

   8 points by edavis 12y ago|3 comments
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   Ask HN: What ever happened to tent.io?

   1 points by edavis 12y ago|0 comments
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   by edavis 12y ago

   I hope it isn't uncouth to mention my RSS reader here: https://github.com/edavis/riverpy It treats RSS like a newspaper instead of email. Here's a demo: http://riverpy-demo.s3.amazonaws.com/in
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   by edavis 12y ago

   John Frusciante & Josh Klinghoffer - Sphere ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzLo4eHlpUI ). The transition at 4:08 gets me every time. I also find listening to songs on repeat helps. I get into the "zone" faste
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   by edavis 12y ago

   Worked through a "teach yourself HTML" tutorial on AOL. This must have been early 2000s. I remember being fascinated from the get-go. The concept that this was how you build web pages was just incredible to me. To practice, I bu
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   by edavis 12y ago

   See, but I don't think they're "internal" at all. The "underlying model of git" that David refers to (blobs, trees, commits, tags, branches, HEAD, etc.) aren't seen as internal data structures to be glosse
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   by edavis 12y ago

   I still remember the days when Javascript was regarded as a toy language. A glue script for image rollovers and drop-down menus and little else. Now there are a dozen new Javascript creations each week on HN that make my jaw drop. It's
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   by edavis 13y ago

   You can move paragraphs around with M-<up> and M-<down>. It also works on headlines/plain lists. Just discovered this yesterday and wish I had known about it earlier.
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    by edavis 13y ago

    I'm trying to turn Emacs into an outliner that can natively read/write OPML files. After asking #emacs today, I think the key bit is using "format conversion" [1] to accomplish this. I've finally gotten over the &
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    How a California Earthquake Becomes the News: An Extremely Precise Timeline(theatlantic.com)

    4 points by edavis 13y ago|0 comments
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    Trolls Are People, Too(patrickklepek.tumblr.com)

    1 points by edavis 13y ago|0 comments
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    by edavis 13y ago

    Export Org mode files to OPML: https://github.com/edavis/org-opml I think OPML[1] is way more powerful and interesting than most people realize. It could be the lingua franca of transmitting structured information if m
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    by edavis 13y ago

    I'm transported back to 2008 whenever I hear "Ninja." Same with "Rockstar." "Hacker" doesn't bother me. Developer, Programmer, Designer, Engineer. Stick with the fundamentals.
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    by edavis 13y ago

    May I suggest `any` here? def is_file_for(is_nagyker, type): return any([ type == KIS_ES_NAGYKER, type == KISKER and not is_nagyker, type == NAGYKER and is_nagyker]) I know unsolicited co
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    by edavis 13y ago

    I still get nervous, but I've learned to manage it. Some things that help: - Keep your changes small. You should be able to fit the entire diff in your head and completely understand the purpose for every changed line. If you can'
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    by edavis 13y ago

    > You know what humans do? They make mistakes, and are often reasonable and have the possibility of changing. When I was 5 or 6 I put my hand on a coffee pot warmer because I thought it was a scale. That was a mistake. Going on a five
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    Breaking Madden: The Super Bowl, in which the machine bleeds to death(sbnation.com)

    240 points by edavis 13y ago|61 comments
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    by edavis 13y ago

    It's probably healthy for us "web people" to get a reminder every so often that vast swaths of humanity use computers in ways that are nearly incomprehensible to us.
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    by edavis 13y ago

    It appears a wholesale switch to git is already in the works: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5211
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    by edavis 13y ago

    Absolutely. Well said. To your point that the electoral system doesn't provide "meaningful choices," one suggestion I've always thought was interesting is Jonathan Bernstein's "floors, not ceilings" idea:
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    by edavis 13y ago

    > "... w/ 1 term only." Nevada introduced term limits a few years ago and the result has been, at best, zero meaningful change and, at worst, actively making an already crappy state government even worse. And they're
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    by edavis 13y ago

    Gotcha. I don't use Rails and wasn't trying to rub salt in, it just seemed like there must have been a reason %G was used instead of %Y and I was curious.
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    by edavis 13y ago

    Anybody know why %G was used instead of %Y?
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    by edavis 13y ago

    I forgot how relaxing the sound of a roaring fire can be. Great stuff.
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    by edavis 13y ago

    Environment variables work for this sort of thing: EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.getenv('EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD')
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    by edavis 13y ago

    Yeah, /u/bitcointip is a great example of what I'm talking about. Though I do wonder how the more vocal Bitcoin supporters would react if the project never grew beyond "electronic petty cash," even if it was success
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    by edavis 13y ago

    Projects like these is where Bitcoin can really shine. Maybe Bitcoin will conquer the world, maybe it won't. I have no idea. What I do know is there is real utility in being "electronic petty cash" which Bitcoin can easily be
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    by edavis 13y ago

    If I avoid all my "info junkie" websites (HN, reddit, political news) between 8am and noon, my productivity skyrockets. It's remarkable. Most importantly, for me, is to avoid those websites even during my "breaks."
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    by edavis 13y ago

    I'd recommend putting that somewhere on the site. Right now there's no hint as to the site's purpose.