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by griffindy 14y ago
I've been trying this out side by side with sparrow for the day, and I like it's looks, though it seems to be a little choppy (I do have a rather sizable gmail inbox), here's hoping the developers keep up the good work!
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by griffindy 14y ago
the most recent New Yorker also had this, I thought it was pretty clever.
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Shareaholic launches Channels for better targeting and content categorisation(thenextweb.com)
5 points by griffindy 14y ago|0 comments
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by griffindy 14y ago
they did use a snowman before, though I can't find the commit where they changed it. EDIT: found the commit with some git log magic - https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c616089
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by griffindy 14y ago
non mobile version: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/business/measure-results-n...
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by griffindy 14y ago
I agree with the ability to learn part, but do you need the basics for what's required for a CS degree? I say this as someone who does not have a CS degree, but I also don't know that many places working directly with binary trees and lin
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by griffindy 14y ago
not even a serious car crash, even someone who has had a major heart attack. talking from personal experience, they can look just fine, but if their brain was without oxygen long enough, there's no chance that brain's coming back, even thou
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At the elite colleges - dim white kids(boston.com)
2 points by griffindy 14y ago|1 comments
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by griffindy 14y ago
^ this ^ never understood why certain methods (or are they functions?) are not called on the objects. This is one of the reasons I love Ruby, everything is clearly an object.
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by griffindy 14y ago
thanks, exactly what I wanted!
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by griffindy 14y ago
as far as I remember, it was all paint. they would go around at night with buckets of red paint and write, sometimes over other words, it could be a mess. only because Pompei was so frozen in time did the paint not wear away
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by griffindy 14y ago
as a classics majors, I love running across these things, and I'm especially glad to see it on HN, though I agree with tborg that both the presentation and translations could be more up to date. something to work on if I'm bored tomorrow. N
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by griffindy 14y ago
what a great idea! I've been working on a place where potential landlords and renters could connect, as using craigslist is just a hellish experience: http://github.com/griffindy/Rently . is this just for landlords?
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by griffindy 14y ago
the one time I asked for this I actually got a detailed list of notes each of my interviewers had made, I found it very helpful
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Fresh Mountain Lion Cheat Sheet for Ruby(blog.danielfischer.com)
1 points by griffindy 14y ago|0 comments
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by griffindy 14y ago
I feel the same way, and I don't even have cable! But I always have mountains of books to read, which was the pre-internet internet to an extent.
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by griffindy 14y ago
I'm not sure if this was in the book you're describing, but I remember reading somewhere that was has changed is that we no longer remember specific facts (Boston is the capital of Massachusetts), rather where we can find them most easily (
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by griffindy 14y ago
not to be too pedantic, but The New Yorker uses Caslon, which while gorgeous and second in my mind only to Garamond, is a rather old type face and is widely used because it is 1) very readable, and (possibly more importantly) 2) uses a lot
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by griffindy 14y ago
I remember feeling like sublime's vintage mode implemented some of the things from vim, but not enough of them to make me switch. Then again, if one is looking so hard for an application to imitate vim, why not just use the original?
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by griffindy 14y ago
+1 I made it through college with hardly any debt because my family's income wasn't high enough to warrant loans (instead of straight up aid) until I was a senior. However, I have a friend whose family makes more money than mine, but also h
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by griffindy 14y ago
am I the only one who uses craiggers? although I suppose they'll have to go the way of the dodo soon enough now
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by griffindy 14y ago
I can't think of a time when I didn't see the last four digits of my credit card on a receipt. This is a totally boneheaded move on Apple's part
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Brogrammers Wanted(slate.com)
9 points by griffindy 14y ago|3 comments
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by griffindy 14y ago
didn't understand it was joke until I read the comments. unless it was never meant to be a joke...
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Ignite.io - Ignite is a new way to share, run and save code(ignite.io)
2 points by griffindy 14y ago|0 comments
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The Trouble with Online Education(nytimes.com)
7 points by griffindy 14y ago|0 comments
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by griffindy 14y ago
I'm sad you guys are in New York and not Boston, I love me some good coffee! beautiful website too
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What Editor Do You Use for Ruby and Rails?(gopollgo.com)
1 points by griffindy 14y ago|0 comments
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EdX - Harvard & MIT(web.mit.edu)
5 points by griffindy 14y ago|1 comments
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Made in Mass - a website cataloging Boston/Mass Tech Companies(madeinmass.com)
1 points by griffindy 15y ago|0 comments

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