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by hopeless 15y ago
It runs on Heroku and I scale up a single worker process to handle the file transfers, and shut it down when the queue is empty. This drastically reduces the costs – as it's mostly for my personal use, I don't allow multiple workers as a sa
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by hopeless 15y ago
I'd found this site a while ago because I won't load my Dropbox in my work laptop but I often wanted to put files in there. I found it a bit fiddly though and the files I wanted to upload weren't already in my email, they were on the web (e
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by hopeless 15y ago
"Free, unlimited private repositories." Best of luck to BitBucket but why on earth would Github do this? They're a business
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by hopeless 15y ago
On the other hand, I work on enterprise apps with 200-500k LOC and maybe 1-2K LOC for test. So "Enterprise" probably isn't a good indicator on test ratios.
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by hopeless 15y ago
It's stupid things like this that have kept me from travelling to the US for work or conferences since 2003. I've actively avoided them. Unfortunately, we'll probably have to attend a wedding in NY next year but I'm not looking forward to t
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How Ravelry makes money(blog.ravelry.com)
11 points by hopeless 15y ago|2 comments
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by hopeless 15y ago
The Sanyo Eneloops are excellent, particularly for things you don't use often but must depend on them: LED torches, camera flashes & triggers, remotes, etc
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by hopeless 15y ago
From the comments, it seems the passwords were hashed but they're (rightly) still concerned. Unfortunately, there still seems to be some confusion about when/if the password reset has taken place, and whether users should change them now, w
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Dreamhost asking users to change passwords after database breach(dreamhoststatus.com)
124 points by hopeless 15y ago|48 comments
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by hopeless 15y ago
I think the clue is in the names: Zurb Foundation would be a good place to start building your site on top of; Twitter Bootstrap is perfect for quickly getting things done. Personally, I used TB because I needed something that looked ok but
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by hopeless 15y ago
It's depressing how little trust you can put in web services these days. I'd considered using SimpleGeo for a project and, like most people who did, it would have been a major component. Phew! Antics like this make me distrust all web servi
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by hopeless 15y ago
I'm surprised it took Wordpress so long, as I imagine they would/will suffer dearly under SOPA
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by hopeless 15y ago
Back in 1993 I was doing GCSE Computer Studies which included everything from desktop publishing to writing simple BASIC programs. But when I want to continue this into A-level, I had to personally convince the computer studies teacher to l
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by hopeless 15y ago
IEDR requires a "real and substantive connection to Ireland" although I'd guess Microsoft could get any domain they want. I'm no fan of the IEDR but it's a shame to Microsoft polluting the domain space.
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by hopeless 15y ago
Why is "working" in quotes?
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by hopeless 15y ago
svn isn't too bad and often goes hand-in-hand with Java-based projects. My hierarchy goes something like git > jazz > svn > cvs > Clearcase.
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by hopeless 15y ago
That is exactly my intention, and for the reasons you mentioned (time flexibility, more money, more interesting work). But, like most things, the biggest problem is starting... and convincing my wife that I'll able to fly once I step off th
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by hopeless 15y ago
I've worked as a (semi-)remote employee for the past 2.5 years for a HUGE multinational software company. Here's a braindump of experiences: - I work in Ireland and my colleagues are in the US. The time zone difference is generally handy be
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by hopeless 15y ago
Ifttt is an extremely well-designed and useful service. I look forward to the day they get a business model so I can rely on it
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by hopeless 15y ago
The problem^ is that the biggest predictor of knee pain/problems is previous knee pain/problems. So you could run for years (or even decades if I recall the research) with no problems but once it occurs it can be hard to recover from or avo
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by hopeless 15y ago
Only today I was thinking how agile "sprints" are the wrong terminology. No one wins a marathon by running back-to-back sprints. I know it's only terminology but I think it affects our approach and in practice can encourage a Continuous Dea
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by hopeless 15y ago
Seconded. I've used that model and its predecessor for about 10yrs. Because my forearm and wrist remain stationary, I found I don't get any RSI like pains and I don't rub my wrist off the edge of the desk which was irritating the metal plat
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by hopeless 15y ago
From the title I'd thought this would be about practical uses of this hardware. They sound really cool but I haven't seen the big "need" that they're fulfilling.
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by hopeless 15y ago
I'll try again. I just used the Package Manager
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by hopeless 15y ago
I'd tried that and it totally messed up the chrome because it could load the required images. But this was on Windows. Perhaps I'll try again.
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by hopeless 15y ago
This is one thing that Sublime 2 gets wrong
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by hopeless 15y ago
I'm really sorry to hear about your friend. It gives me goosebumps to think that I might have reacted the same way but with a far worse outcome. On the other hand, it's comforting to know that others have taken the same attitude in similar
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by hopeless 15y ago
I like the idea, and I built something a bit similar for my own needs via Dropbox. However, I had to smile at the repeated stressing of "instantly". Nothing happens instantly over wifi, and certainly not over 3G
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by hopeless 15y ago
Very well written. I had a similar experience with the tricks the mind can play after a bad car accident a few years ago. Although I didn't know it at the time, I had broken almost everything except my left arm and neck. But I could quite p
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by hopeless 15y ago
I don't much care for "personas" but I did enjoy filling in the blanks of the template at the end. And as subtle as it seems, I think there's a difference between "why do people use your product?" and "why do people hire your product?". "Hi

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