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by idan 14y ago
Author here. Generally, if you have features you want, file 'em here: https://github.com/idan/gistio/issues Stuff I'd like to do given the time: * Add RestructuredText support * Add a sign-in-with-github option, and turn this into a minim
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by idan 14y ago
It's kind of like readability for gists.
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Show HN: gist.io, blogless writing for hackers(gist.io)
286 points by idan 14y ago|51 comments
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by idan 14y ago
DVI has additional pins for carrying an analog signal, but they don't have to be used to transmit the digital one. The simple DVI-VGA adapters are merely shape changers, wiring the relevant pins from the DVI side to the VGA side.
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by idan 14y ago
I had a short bit about this in my datavis talk at Pycon. Youtube link directly to the explanation of vision / color physiology: http://youtu.be/vfYul2E56fo?t=18m31s .
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by idan 14y ago
One big hole in the logic: Street view cars all work during the daytime. There is no nighttime street imagery on streetview, and anecdotally, I've never seen a streetview car at night. Having self-driving cars during daylight hours only is
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by idan 14y ago
Adobe fucks another hostage^H^H^Hcustomer. News at eleven.
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by idan 14y ago
Don't give up, don't be sorry—just fix it! Bonus: you learned something about writing copy for startups today. Every failure is an opportunity for a successful outcome.
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by idan 14y ago
No, it isn't. "Nice girls"? Models are attractive people. The terms works for both sexes. Ask yourself why there has to be any reference at all to the fact that the pictures are of females . Your placeholder image leaves little doubt about
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by idan 14y ago
I don't doubt it was done with the best of intentions, but this is exactly the sort of thing which makes women feel unwanted in our industry—thoughtless reduction of girls to sex objects. Put your money (well, time) where your mouth is—go c
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by idan 14y ago
It's a shame such a great presentation is ruined by the usage of "Hot Chicks". It wouldn't have cost them anything to just say "models" instead of "models and hot chicks?" And just like that, my interest in the app is gone.
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Coda 2(panic.com)
376 points by idan 14y ago|99 comments
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by idan 14y ago
You're missing a key aspect here: Social Security. While the US does indeed have tax treaties with many countries, it doesn't have treaties with everyone regarding social security. I live in Israel, which does have an income tax treaty with
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by idan 14y ago
Sigh. Considering how much I love and use penultimate (Every. Single. Day), I'm hope that _this time_ acquisition won't result in a product getting a dose of its acquiring company spang in the middle of the interface, the simplicity, whatev
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by idan 14y ago
Hybrid dev/designer here. My experience: Being a hybrid is difficult because of these kinds of situations. Even if you get to be very good at one or the other (or both), you're still perceived as inferior by virtue of your supposed "lack of
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Tilt-shift minecraft shader (video)(youtu.be)
33 points by idan 14y ago|9 comments
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by idan 14y ago
I started rising a bike to and from my startup (also raising kids.) One hour of very pleasurable cardio a day, lost a lot of weight.
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by idan 14y ago
This is a terrible representation of the issue. In the end, designing for the web is designing for a lack of control. I can't control your screen geometry, display technology, browser compliance, fonts, and more. There is no fixed canvas li
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Rickshaw: A JS interactive charting library based on D3(code.shutterstock.com)
135 points by idan 14y ago|22 comments
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by idan 14y ago
Best line I ever heard about NDA's (not mine): "If you are capable of broaching your NDA in a couple of sentences, you had nothing NDA'able there in the first place." I heard it at an entrepreneurship panel in 2004, so I don't remember the
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by idan 15y ago
Saw this on Flask ( http://flask.pocoo.org/ ) a while back. I don't remember where Armin got inspiration from, but I remember he showed me another site that did this before his. Sidestepping the UX discussion here, there's an important mora
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by idan 15y ago
Google hangouts without the google.
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by idan 15y ago
Stories like this give me hope as a bootstrapped founder. One year into building a thing (skillsapp.com), we have users but no hockey-stick on our charts. It takes time to refine and refine some more. Pivots aren't always about solving the
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by idan 15y ago
That's correct. We're a tool for employers. We're thinking about allowing some form of "self indexing" but we aren't there yet.
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by idan 15y ago
Yeah, we're working on a new homepage to make that bit clear. Right now, you sign up, creat one or more positions. Each has a unique landing URL, and anyplace you'd normally publicize "send us your resumes," put that link—job boards, advert
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by idan 15y ago
Just FYI, we've been working hard on completely revamping ur github visualizationns to be a ton more meaningful. The current site is very much our MV(?)P. We've thought about automated coding assessments but for where we are right now, it d
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by idan 15y ago
Right now, we aren't doing any kind of indexing. If you apply for a position through our service, you give whatever information you want about yourself, and we check out your public data on those networks. If you don't want to share your tw
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by idan 15y ago
http://help.skillsapp.com/kb/skills-basics/scores-passion-an... is about scoring. Twitter tags are based on lists, but with some amount of tokenization and stemming so we count "djangonauts" and "Django" as contributing towards the same t
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by idan 15y ago
Thanks for sharing your brain (and experience) with us! We don't think number of tweets or followers is a relevant means of assessment at all—quite the opposite. Ashton Kutcher is not an interesting candidate for a rails job, and that shoul
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by idan 15y ago
This is exactly what we've been thinking about for the last year while we've been building http://skillsapp.com . Exactly. Love it when lucid, articulate writers take my mess of a brain and put the right words to it.

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