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by kennu 14y ago
I also recommend Things, because it's an app that makes you feel good if you're into OS X and iOS style user interfaces. I bought it years ago, but truly started using it when they got the Things Cloud sync working. So now I always keep it
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by kennu 14y ago
Perhaps that makes sense. Actually I usually type 'workon myproject' (using virtualenvwrapper, because it provides a nice standard location and activation command for virtualenvs), so maybe this could all be transparent.
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by kennu 14y ago
But what will be the added CO2 footprint of launching so many unnecessary shells! Also, I don't like the prospect of having to hit Ctrl-D twice to logout.
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by kennu 14y ago
I would point out that in Apple's iOS case, the sliders are always consistent in two ways: - The slider always displays the current value. So the UI reads quite naturally: "Airplane Mode is OFF". - The "Off" value is always without color (g
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Run multiple Celeries on a single Redis(kfalck.net)
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by kennu 14y ago
Rails currently wins if you want to make a "typical" web application, which allows people to sign up with email/password/Facebook. Implementing these things with Django requires uncomfortable tweaking, because custom user models have not be
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by kennu 14y ago
At the risk of sounding unhackerish, I actually want the UI to do the right thing by default . So I support this. I thought differently 10 years ago ("let the user middle-click if they want"), but nowadays I believe in the 80% rule. Make i
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by kennu 14y ago
I'm not entirely sure I believe this claim. Ergonomically poor surroundings typically force you to change your stance often, because you get uncomfortable quickly. And in the long term, moving around a lot is generally better than standing
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by kennu 14y ago
Does it have Google Reader integration for read/unread tracking? I read HN on many different devices.
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by kennu 14y ago
If you don't want your image stored anywhere, you need to stop emitting photons so promiscuously. It's inevitable that all public information in the world will eventually be stored, indexed and made available. If not by Google Glasses, then
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by kennu 14y ago
The most common way a WordPress site gets hacked seems to be through security vulnerabilities present in the WordPress code or some of the installed plugins. I assume this in no way provides protection from them.
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by kennu 14y ago
I don't really see how that headphone rule could work in practice. Wouldn't everybody just be wearing headphones all the time, except when they stand up to have a break and socialize? Or do people consciously segment their time into slots w
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by kennu 14y ago
It sounds like a sad life, if you are supposed to live it by some specific rules that make it possible to get a public sector job later on. I think if this is the situation, it is the public sector that needs fixing, not peoples' lives or F
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by kennu 14y ago
If you experiment with various size interdental brushes (search on Amazon), you will quickly realize that there can be a lot of differences in dental spacing. Some people might mostly have tiny spaces between their teeth, while some have la
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Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops(independentsciencenews.org)
4 points by kennu 14y ago|0 comments
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by kennu 14y ago
I remember them because Ctrl-J is newline (moves down), and the rest are obvious after that.
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by kennu 14y ago
Notably both Android and iPhone require you to install a third-party app in order to scan QR codes. I think if (when) this changes, QR codes will really become frictionless, since you no longer need to instruct the end-user how to first ins
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by kennu 14y ago
I had a very bad experience with Derby (apps autogenerated with stable or HEAD version always crashed), so I decided to try Meteor. I was doubtful at first. After generating a simple app that automatically included Bootstrap, Backbone, jQue
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by kennu 14y ago
I think the article's point was that Unicode characters U+2028 and U+2029 are illegal in JavaScript string literals. Yet, the JSON specification (RFC 4627) officially allows them to exist in JSON string literals: "All Unicode characters may
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by kennu 14y ago
Very much agree with this. Websites rarely require users to choose a unique username nowadays (email is enough) and it's been a pain hacking Django to work like that, since many email addresses won't fit in the username field. In fact I alw
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by kennu 14y ago
One related topic that I find interesting is how some programmers feel compelled to make a pivotal distinction between "unique" and "practically unique" with regards to random UUIDs. They refuse to insert UUIDs into a database blindly, even
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Ask HN: An internal catalog of web app stack versions?
2 points by kennu 14y ago|0 comments
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by kennu 14y ago
If you don't talk about these things when they happen, everybody soon just forgets the issue until the next incident.
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by kennu 14y ago
How does Go replace Python for web development? Is there a thriving web framework and module ecosystem for Go, like Django/Rails are for Python/Ruby?
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by kennu 14y ago
I have used MongoDB as the main database for many small/mid-size web projects and found it to be very flexible compared to MySQL/Postgres: - No manual database/user creation needed - No manual table creation needed - No schema migrations ne
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by kennu 14y ago
I would claim thare are benefits in a framework having a similar API for both for SQL-ORM and NoSQL-ODM. This has already been done in the Ruby on Rails world, where ActiveRecord and Mongoid exist in parallel and have similar interfaces. Th
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by kennu 14y ago
You might be right that the "SQL-agnostic" argument was not well formed. I basically meant that the Django ORM has always been very object-oriented, and it has avoided SQL-specific concepts like WHERE clauses as much as possible. And becaus
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Django is falling behind(kfalck.net)
28 points by kennu 14y ago|37 comments
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by kennu 14y ago
I think Outlook.com has plenty of real usability issues. For instance, it immediately forgets which messages you had checkboxed if you just jump to the next page and come back. And the whole From/Subject index view can display very little i
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The Kudo Box(noop.nl)
2 points by kennu 14y ago|0 comments

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