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by jbackus 13y ago
Interesting. I've seen increasing number of posts on Github Pages[1], Octopress[2], Medium[3], and Svbtle[4]. It seems that (at least in the hacker community) there is an increasing shift to minimalist blogging stacks. I'm excited to see i
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TOS;DR - Website that shortens and simplifies other websites's Terms of Service(tosdr.org)
2 points by jbackus 13y ago|1 comments
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by jbackus 13y ago
It looks like this was a presentation. If you were in the audience would you have preferred a dozen heavily condensed bullet point slides?
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by jbackus 13y ago
What is this followgen nonsense? It completely breaks Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/ldWnsRn.jpg
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by jbackus 13y ago
I hate to be the inevitable nitpicking HN commenter, but this doesn't work in Firefox.
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by jbackus 13y ago
Are you sure about that? I would say that Linux is in that position because there are similar alternatives (Windows, OS X) that require less technical knowledge for equivalent competency. 3D printers on the other hand have 3 big barriers: 1
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by jbackus 13y ago
If you are in a better position then others then I'd argue that an accomplishment may very well deserve less recognition than a less privileged counterpart of yours may deserve. That's fine though! Achievement is limitless and a better sta
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by jbackus 13y ago
Terrible. This article by section: 1. Strawman defining the Learn Startup approach as creating a landing page and hoping for signups 2. Dismissal of strawman 3. Advocation for building a beta product and getting feedback AKA one of the fun
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by jbackus 13y ago
I'm not sure whether writing this post will make this guys situation better or worse.
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by jbackus 13y ago
Satoshi is a smart. I would assume that if he/they wanted to remain anonymous and still get some money out of bitcoin later on then he/they are probably mining to multiple wallets. Not sure what the motive is to continuously mine with the
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by jbackus 13y ago
> Their code is worse than Yahoo! or virtually any startup. Bitcoin isn't. 99% of code written by Government is subpar, the other 1% is like Stuxnet
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by jbackus 13y ago
Twitter is already in a very difficult to monetize space. Why are they expanding into another comparably difficult to monetize space?
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by jbackus 14y ago
Hm? Can you define what a > Hollywood fake version of a startup is and provide an anecdote or pattern you have observed?
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by jbackus 14y ago
Why would you take your business elsewhere and take on an inconvenience to your company for something unrelated to how your product operates?
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by jbackus 14y ago
What exactly are you referring to? If my understanding is correct you're able to export starred content as well.
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by jbackus 14y ago
Does Chart.JS provide any labeling solution for pie charts like Highcharts does? What I'm talking about: http://jsfiddle.net/mgbNb/3/embedded/result/
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by jbackus 14y ago
Most people don't know/care about the statistical reality of pie charts and their lack of clarity. Maybe they are statistically proven to be bad at conveying differences in comparison to a bar graph, but if all you care about is the adoptio
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by jbackus 14y ago
No LFI/RFI mention? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_inclusion_vulnerability
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by jbackus 14y ago
I haven't heard of many stage-agnostic firms. Do most firms identify with a certain stage (early, mid, or late) to focus and learn more about a certain phase? Or is early vs. mid vs. late more just indicative of a given firm's risk tolera
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by jbackus 14y ago
Aside from the initial Reddit launch hustle I'd say that reddit got to where it is by not steering content.
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by jbackus 14y ago
Same paragraph: > I did not expect it to come this soon.
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by jbackus 14y ago
We're using Ruby, Sinatra, HTTParty, Twitter Search API, Postgres, and Unicorn on a Heroku instance. Basically requesting the page pulls recent tweets from twitter matching the search '#replacereader', those tweets are checked against the
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by jbackus 14y ago
Thank you! I threw together the backbone action under the hood, all credit goes to Alain for the awesome design. We're pretty sure this post would have about 3 upvotes had it not been for the bobbing ship.
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by jbackus 14y ago
100% agree. Obligatory http://contrastrebellion.com/
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by jbackus 14y ago
> The new navbar, for example, is literally a gray DIV with rounded edges Maybe the motivation behind this change is to make the navbar look a bit less twitter-y out of the box?
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by jbackus 14y ago
I used to love scraping with the Python, BeautifulSoup, Mechanize family and wrote a lot of scripts like the one in this post. I've been using CasperJS[1] though and I don't think I'll go back. [1] - http://casperjs.org/
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by jbackus 14y ago
* I'm using a static template from theme forrest and Octopress[1] for my blogging software. I love Octopress so far and plan to go full Octo soon to make things simpler. * I'm hosting with a VPS on Dreamhost[2] at $9.95/month which I find
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Ask HN: What is your personal website setup?
21 points by jbackus 14y ago|13 comments
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The Joy of Hyper-Rapid Development(blog.johnback.us)
8 points by jbackus 14y ago|0 comments
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by jbackus 14y ago
* Expose APIs for developer to hook into firefox and reload pages or parts of pages (i.e. reload changed JS/CSS file) * Intuitive system for playing, changing, rewinding, and replaying JS files for more rapid feedback (see: https://vimeo.c

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