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by jsdalton 15y ago
Different people forking it for their own preferences is one thing, but not having a canonical resource for the project is -- well, like I said, disconcerting. But maybe it's just me. Don't mean for this minor nitpick to overshadow the rest
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Philosophically, I think I prefer this approach to resetting everything. I'm not sure, however, I'm on board with the idea that you tweak this for every project you work. That would make merging future evolutions of these styles (e.g. when
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by jsdalton 15y ago
I too can imagine the number dropping down far lower than that, even under a thousand, let's say. I can then imagine the newspaper headlines the few times per year that computers do end up, for whatever reason, being responsible for a small
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by jsdalton 15y ago
I totally missed that. Thank you for clarifying.
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by jsdalton 15y ago
I don't mean to be a stickler, but this is an egregious example of editorializing in the title. Can someone edit it please? I was already well aware of the API deprecation story, but I clicked on this link thinking it was a new article from
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Ah, naturally. I keep waiting for Balsamiq to move their web product out of beta. I've seriously been waiting a long time! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1161642
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Is that Balsamiq you're using for mockups?
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by jsdalton 15y ago
What interested me was the cross-cultural comparison, which is only alluded to in the CNN article but explained a bit more in depth here: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/05/23/nearly-half-of-ame... > Meanwhile, Lusardi, Schneider
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Yeah, basically there is one shortcoming of the "Modernizr approach" to front-end development -- namely that you will end up treating clients who have JS disabled as though their browsers do not support a number of CSS features. So with t
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Nope. I was genuinely curious whether and how Mailgun was superior to those products.
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by jsdalton 15y ago
I'm a happy SendGrid customer, but I'll definitely give you guys a look. Thanks for the details.
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Would somebody care to sell me on why this is superior to SendGrid or Amazon Simple Email Service? (Or perhaps what use cases it better serves.)
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by jsdalton 15y ago
> nearly every single product Google has 'shipped' lately Lately? Google Reader was released in 2005 and Google Docs in 2006. Docs was actually built largely from acquired components (XL2Web, Writely, Upstartle). You probably have a goo
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by jsdalton 15y ago
> No, it’s not possible. And don’t try from settings import INSTALLED_APPS, it won’t work. Dang, I wish someone had told me that. I use it all the time, and it works for me just fine. No circular reference errors or anything else of the
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by jsdalton 15y ago
I may have read it incorrectly myself, but I interpreted this as meaning the control plane was balanced across availability zones in order to provide durability in the face of a failure of one of the zones. In other words, Amazon is ensured
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by jsdalton 15y ago
I guess only pg can answer this, but I'm wondering how the change has impacted voting behavior. Have there been more or less votes per comment? Has the proportion of upvotes to downvotes changed? I get the sense that my comments have receiv
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Delicious predates all the social media hype and is probably better thought of as "Web 2.0" application. Basically, it's Flickr for URLs. It's just a dead simple way of saving and tagging URLs. The social aspect is more of an ancillary bene
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by jsdalton 15y ago
I think I understand your reasons for sharing this link per our conversation earlier, but to clarify what I meant by "straw man": I was referring to a lot of discussions here today that take the form of "All those people who thought moving
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by jsdalton 15y ago
We probably agree but are perhaps looking at it from two different angles. I guess I took the implication of your sharing this list of fallacies to be, "A buncha suckers got duped by all the cloud services hype." As an actual AWS customer,
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by jsdalton 15y ago
We use AWS for the following reasons: * Flexible pricing, with fair costs * Instant, flexible provisioning * Awesome APIs and third party libraries (e.g. boto) * Extensive documentation/support in the wild (i.e. you can get just about any q
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Thanks for sharing. Here is some honest critique for you: It's about more than marketing. Where they are blowing you guys away is usability -- partly in the product itself, but more on the website. In less than 100 words I know: a) exactly
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Cool good to know. :) Less a matter of the money, more a matter of wanting to easily play around with the "full strength" version to see if it really works for me. I happen to be working on an account/authentication service right now, so be
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Awesome. I'm definitely a potential paying customer. Two suggestions and a question: * How about a free trial for unlimited access or some other kind of cancellation guarantee? * Minor one, but the dark contrast on your website UI is about
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Direct link to the White House's receipt calculator: http://www.whitehouse.gov/taxreceipt They should really send taxpayers a copy of this in the mail though. I doubt many of the people who are raging about how we can balance the budget b
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Not to turn this into a recommendation fest, but I've used DynDNS ( http://www.dyndns.com/ ) for DNS hosting, and it appears they offer registrar services? http://www.dyndns.com/services/domains/ It's a great, reliable DNS service in my e
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by jsdalton 16y ago
That's cool; I actually appreciated your insight in the top comment. It is meaningless to say sugar is toxic or not toxic. The important question is at what level does it become toxic, which is almost certainly less than what we consume n
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by jsdalton 16y ago
The thesis of the article is pretty obvious: Sugar is toxic in the amounts found in a typical western diet.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Journalists get paid to muck through legalese like this and translate it into something readable: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-lawsuit-paul-ceglia-...
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by jsdalton 16y ago
But you just re-stated the entire article -- that, despite the obvious increase in utility afforded by e-books, customers are not blind to producer prices and expect (nay, demand) fairness in pricing. Yes, this is common sense. But it is "p
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by jsdalton 16y ago
His argument is that e-books have greater utility than hardcover books. In general, consumers are willing to pay more for products that are more useful to them. How is that so hard to understand? He's an economist. This is a thought exercis

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