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by hopeless 16y ago
Live forever? No, I wouldn't like that at all. In many ways I think we prolong life without consideration for preserving the quality of life. Losing my mobility or my eyesight (both of which happened to my grandparents) would be a huge prob
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by hopeless 16y ago
I'm not one of those manic people with boundless energy. I was happy to put things off til another day. There was always more time to get around to doing/seeing/reading/watching/visiting whatever. But after a car accident 3years ago I reali
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by hopeless 16y ago
I had a similar experience with the platform. I was very excited, browsed through the APIs to check the required features were there and jumped in. It then took ages to get the right versions of SDKs/XCode and Titanium installed, which also
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by hopeless 16y ago
The Register has had some really good coverage of this plane over the past year: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/x37b_secret_launch_o... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/04/x37b_ski/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/07/
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by hopeless 16y ago
I don't think that's true. There a fork of delayed_job which does autoscaling of workers on Heroku and... it's written by a Heroku employee. It's regularly mentioned on the mailing list too. https://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autosc
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by hopeless 16y ago
I'm working on exactly this but specifically for photoblogs. It will be a hosted service that picks up new photos from a Dropbox directory, generates thumbnails, uploads to S3 and creates a draft post based on the EXIF data. I can then use
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by hopeless 16y ago
I like the Instagram (well, I liked it better when it wasn't so crashtastic) but I can't help feeling her talents would be wasted there since there's basically no web presence.
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by hopeless 16y ago
That page seems to redirect to an incredibly minimalist welcome page saying: Stripe Payment processing for developers Get in touch I think I'd need a bit more information before I'd even investigate them!
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by hopeless 16y ago
That looks very interesting. Receiving payments is such a huge hurdle for small projects outside of the U.S. (for example, PayPal doesn't provide Website Payments Pro in Ireland, banks are pretty difficult for new businesses, etc) Saasy
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by hopeless 16y ago
I totally agree. I recently wasted a whole month refactoring some code (not without permission) whilst working on a defect so that the 4 main UI's of our product had roughly the same code structure -- even if that code isn't actually shared
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by hopeless 16y ago
I'm working on code that's over 10 years old (Java) and it's grown organically throughout that period, meandering through whatever technology is trendy (Servlets -> JSP -> JSF -> Dojo). The problems have not gone away and are, i
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by hopeless 16y ago
ok, but it's created by iOS so surely can be trusted just like Safari?
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by hopeless 16y ago
Surely this is a community-wide iterative search and, although it can be annoying to keep up with, it should be seen as a good thing (unlike other communities which stagnate around one dominant concept)
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by hopeless 16y ago
I recently started using Omniauth & Capybara like this. It seems to work easily enough even for a relative testing novice like me.
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by hopeless 16y ago
It seems like there might be some justification for restricting Nitro from UIWebView because then you have to trust a third party app... but a webapp launched from the home screen is completely controlled by Apple's apps just like if you
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by hopeless 16y ago
"Hey Apple, please by nice..." is a sure path to disappointment
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by hopeless 16y ago
It's always being hacked/targeted, requires constant updating, needs plugins for some functionality, and these may throw a hissy fit when you perform one of the many essential updates. Basically it's a general tool and a victim of its own s
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by hopeless 16y ago
I'm currently building a site generator for photoblogs hosting directly on S3. Seems like good performance, cheap hosting and no more worries about Wordpress
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by hopeless 16y ago
That's very good to hear. I wonder, did you get any benefits from implementing the hResume microformat? Was it worth the effort (I don't see many tools using it)?
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by hopeless 16y ago
It's a shame there's still no decent PDF export option other than the less-than-ideal print-to-file route. I don't want to have to maintain yet another copy of my CV.
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by hopeless 16y ago
Casey seems to be the one-man programmer/sysadmin of Ravelry: http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-p...
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by hopeless 16y ago
How much money does Paypal funnel through Ireland and yet again this offering is not available here. Neither is the Website Payments Pro solution ;-(
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by hopeless 16y ago
Codebase: http://codebasehq.com for Git/Subversion/Mercurial hosting, tickets, wikis, time tracking etc. Cheaper and more flexible than Github (though I also love Github for public projects). And they have a new version out in Q1
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by hopeless 16y ago
Ha! My Dad was a VAX programmer... it all comes full circle :)
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by hopeless 16y ago
Don't forget the cyclical centralisation / decentralisation of infrastructures. "Cloud" is the new old Mainframe.
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by hopeless 16y ago
I think it was SequoiaView but I've wiped my Windows laptops so can't be sure.
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by hopeless 16y ago
I like it (I used treemap viewers on Windows and have been looking for a Mac replacement) but what about some colour-coding? It would add another dimension to the data and allow the user to easily see which areas are photos, movies, documen
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by hopeless 16y ago
Hey Rob, thanks for replying. I'm sure you're right that email lists are more valuable although I was wondering more about the difference in half-life rather than response rate. I guess it's obvious that tweets quickly pass by leading to a
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by hopeless 16y ago
I wonder though: Why do email lists not have the same half-life as Twitter? Is it that people take longer to get through their inboxes and so the traffic is spread out over time or are they storing emails for reference and returning to it
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Your Traffic Sources Have a Half-Life(softwarebyrob.com)
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