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by edavis 13y ago
I use Google Bookmarks. Any online bookmarking service would probably work, though. Just make sure adding items is as seamless as possible (I use a bookmarklet). If there's too much friction adding items, you're less likely to do
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by edavis 13y ago
This is true but it misses the point of Github. Nobody denies your blobs are safe and available elsewhere when Github goes down. It's the infrastructure around those blobs that makes Github so popular. It's your issues and pull
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by edavis 13y ago
If anyone is looking to play around with PuSH, http://superfeedr.com/ has been a joy to work with. There's also a reference implementation available at https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/ . It handles all
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by edavis 13y ago
I've been using Fargo since it was launched and highly recommend it. I use it every day for jotting down quick notes, keeping a work journal, as well as planning out larger projects. There's already an active community of programmers and wr
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The Open Source Report Card: Dynamic progress reports for Github developers(osrc.dfm.io)
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by edavis 13y ago
> If you've ever tried to get data from a public entity and had to argue about the particulars of PDF over Excel ... Or my favorite, the entities that send a PDF export of an Excel spreadsheet.
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Netflix Looks Back on Its Near-Death Spiral(nytimes.com)
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by edavis 13y ago
Did any journalists actually retweet this? I had a dozen journalists in my timeline all yelling "fake."
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by edavis 13y ago
Django is close to an MVC framework but not exactly an MVC framework. This link ( https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/faq/general/#django-ap... ) describes the difference better than I ever could.
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by edavis 13y ago
Not sure when it was added, but is this what you were after? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/db/sql/#perform...
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by edavis 14y ago
Something like this? http://statsheet.com/mcb/index/stats
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The problem with Twitter(washingtonpost.com)
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by edavis 14y ago
Both high and low volume feeds have their use. You just have to know how to manage them. I use River2 for my high volume feeds while I stick my rarely updated and "must read" feeds into NetNewsWire. Has been working pretty well for me so fa
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Dave Winer: How to reboot RSS (2010)(scripting.com)
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by edavis 14y ago
Does anyone here primarily read their RSS feeds "river of news" style (e.g., http://tabs.mediahackers.org/ ) instead of "mailbox" style (with unread counts)? If so, what do you recommend? So far I'm thinking of using a river for my "fireho
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Data science and the need to know code: A roundup of NICAR 2013(niemanlab.org)
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The first mention of "computer" in the New York Times(danwin.com)
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The DNC's voter registration app is now free and open-source software(pauladamsmith.com)
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by edavis 14y ago
> Ruby has no Benevolent Dictator for Life like Guido van Rossum ... Matz? Or is his role just more informal compared to Guido?
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Why is Belarus the only country where Opera is the most popular browser?(theatlantic.com)
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Mapping Mars, Open Source Style(idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com)
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Revisiting “Ranking the popularity of programming languages”: creating tiers(drewconway.com)
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by edavis 14y ago
Awesome. Been looking for something like this for awhile now.
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Visualizing English Word Origins(ideasillustrated.com)
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by edavis 15y ago
From a November 2010 WordPublicOpinion.org poll ( http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/nov10/ForeignAid_... ) "Just based on what you know, please tell me your hunch about what percentage of the federal budget goes to foreign aid. Y
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Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012(idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com)
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Learning About Work Ethic From My High School Driving Instructor(theatlantic.com)
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America doesn’t have a small business problem. It has a startup problem.(washingtonpost.com)
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by edavis 15y ago
For me it really clicked when I watched: http://blip.tv/scott-chacon/git-talk-4113729 (also by Scott Chacon). Once you understand the internals -- I remember being amazed at what .git/objects/ really was -- nearly everything about the git
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by edavis 15y ago
If you haven't already, you might want to take a look at some of the projects put together by the Sunlight Foundation ( http://sunlightfoundation.com/projects/ ). In addition, their developer section ( http://sunlightlabs.com/ ) is full of

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