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by jsdalton 13y ago
I love it in principle. I actually dove in and purchased it since I've wanted for so long an email client built around people. I have a few criticism after actually using it (admittedly for only a few minutes here): * The lack of an &q
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by jsdalton 13y ago
It's also very easy to extend. It may not be the prettiest code base, but I very rarely hit a blocker where I can't do what I have set out to do. Even if you're not the one actually extending it, the fact that it's eas
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by jsdalton 13y ago
I wish geoengineering played a much larger role in the conversations around global warming. It seems we're never going to wean ourselves off of petroleum, and most efforts to meaningfully curtail its use are politically untenable (outs
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by jsdalton 13y ago
> they are actually sending the messages to themselves, just like what ask.fm said about that girl that committed suicide What are you referring to? I did not see this in the article.
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by jsdalton 13y ago
Check out Mailgun: http://www.mailgun.com/ . It's a service rather than a library, but it handles incoming emails and has wrapper libraries in a number of languages.
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by jsdalton 13y ago
Agreed. Text of the revised recommendation: > Aim to limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters, but up to 99 characters is acceptable when it improves readability.
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by jsdalton 13y ago
> Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. My guess is that the page is in fact down (probably MySQL is stopped), but that the permissions on the 500 error page are s
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by jsdalton 13y ago
Not just "plenty of people" -- actual majorities in both parties: "There are significant partisan differences [in 2013] in views of the government's program to obtain call logs and Internet communication. Democrats are
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by jsdalton 13y ago
Even though I know what the photo is for, subconsciously it makes me think "Oh, this is going to lead me to some guys Google+ profile page." I imagine I've skipped over a ton of search results that are just like the one in the article for
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by jsdalton 13y ago
I've been meaning to get around to implement something like this myself. There are a few other annoyances related to this in Google Analytics the author doesn't mention, such as Google recording the time of visit for one page visitors as 0
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by jsdalton 13y ago
That's a nice tutorial and the idea of running Wordpress on GAE is intriguing to say the least. I apologize that I have not closely familiarized myself with Google Cloud SQL. Is it really API compatible with MySQL, or are there limitation t
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by jsdalton 13y ago
Are you referring specifically to marathon training, or some other form of competitive running?
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by jsdalton 13y ago
The Salt Stack team also has a plugin built specifically for provisioning environments in Vagrant called Salty Vagrant: https://github.com/saltstack/salty-vagrant (I haven't used it, but I have used -- and love using -- Salt Stack.)
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by jsdalton 14y ago
That was fun! I wonder if it's just me, but I could never tell who the winner was after a fight?
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by jsdalton 14y ago
To paraphrase Churchill, Wordpress is the worst CMS -- except for all the others. I'd love to find an open-source CMS (preferably in Python or Ruby) with clean, secure, elegant code and a well-organized framework that comes with a friendl
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by jsdalton 14y ago
> This is condescending, and relies on the assumption that I don't know anything about anything and just fell off the turnip truck last week. The blog post is from 2004 -- about nine years ago -- a time when there really wasn't much i
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by jsdalton 14y ago
Thanks for your comments and recommendation. Your points (and my own failings here) illustrate why libraries like Sodium (which was not on my radar a few weeks ago) are a good thing. As an ordinary developer, I just want to use a library
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by jsdalton 14y ago
Yeah, cryptography libraries in general are a pain to use and typically require a lot of seemingly arcane configuration and confusing (to the novice) setup. I wrote this library recently (primarily to scratch an itch on another project), wh
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by jsdalton 14y ago
The conversation here reminds me of the discussions last week around Microsoft Excel: Craigslist is a tool that techies seem to universally deplore, but every non-techie I know uses it regularly and without much complaint.
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by jsdalton 14y ago
I tend to agree with this advice, but OXO (maker of well-designed houseware products) is a famous counter-example. Not only do they outsource manufacturing (as nearly every product company does these days), but they also outsource product
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by jsdalton 14y ago
Thanks for making this. Is there a pricing structure or the like? If not how do you plan on making money?
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by jsdalton 14y ago
Great points. My background growing up was similar to yours. If it makes you feel better, in raising my daughter I'm trying to do things a better way. I do believe my daughter is gifted, but I spend little if any time praising for that. Ins
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by jsdalton 14y ago
> use Stylus/Sass not LESS I really like LESS. What am I missing out on?
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by jsdalton 14y ago
I would concur with you on your caveat. There is activity in all of the repositories, but it also feels sometimes like the projects are drifting sideways. I'll also add that the documentation could be a lot better. I'm primarily familiar
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by jsdalton 14y ago
One could look at the state-by-state markets in the weeks leading up and see if the probability predicted differed greatly from the main market. It would be far trickier to manipulate the markets state by state in such a way that their prob
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by jsdalton 14y ago
This is from one of the sites (North American B2B publication) I manage that's been around a few years: http://i.imgur.com/WADrl.png (The top blue line is total Internet Explorer visits.) The data backs up what you are saying. IE6 is defi
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by jsdalton 14y ago
I hate being the guy who sidetracks a thread off the bat by complaining about something unrelated, but... Whatever blogspot theme Google uses for this blog is just god awful (oh, I see, this is it: http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/p/as-you-
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by jsdalton 14y ago
It's really quite remarkable (to be honest, inexcusable is probably a better word) that their status page is failing as well. My expectations for a company with Google's resources and infrastructure are a lot higher than that. Nothing on th
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by jsdalton 14y ago
What is your thesis, exactly? People have a finite amount of attention they are willing to devote to politics, and the obsession with polling thus excludes them from paying attention to these supposedly undemocratic features? Seems far fetc
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by jsdalton 14y ago
Looks like you guys did nice work btw, didn't mean to sound like I was ragging on you. Pulling off a publication as a single-page app is no mean feat -- it's hard to think of anyone who has pulled it off.

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