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by kenperkins 13y ago
Ideally yes, it's running on a different machine. But most certainly a different process. For the queue, I've wrapped redis and rabbitmq clients with a simple retry logic that re-enqueues the job on failure to send. It's abou
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by kenperkins 13y ago
Regardless of which package you use for delivering email, I can't recommend enough to put the email delivery code into an async job queue that automatically retries. Even with major providers there are enough occasional blips that you
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by kenperkins 13y ago
Really neat. I enjoyed scrolling to earth. After that it became painful. Thankfully, the solution was easy: Open Chrome Inspector Console: $('.essay').css({ left: '20px', marginBottom: '15px', maxWidth: '6
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by kenperkins 13y ago
Good Ol Hacker News, regurgitating something from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031699 That said, Aseem is very sharp. Nice to see this come up for discussion again.
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by kenperkins 13y ago
This has been addressed on http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/ tl;dr: In conclusion, in 1892 an important precursor of this family of expressions was published. The author was W. H. Da
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by kenperkins 13y ago
Full Disclosure: I'm the lead node.js developer advocate for Rackspace As it turns out, we're announcing our node.js SDK plans (with support) today: http://devops.rackspace.com/pkgcloud-update.html
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by kenperkins 13y ago
one of the early name ideas for Clipboard was tidbit. :)
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by kenperkins 13y ago
My first reaction to "Free. Open." is where's the github link? I know you're funding the development with KickStarter, but free and open projects should still having the planning and initial development in the open. That way you can get fee
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by kenperkins 14y ago
This doesn't apply for Chrome or Firefox, as the favicon goes in the tab, not in the address bar.
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Adding Boards to Clipboard(blog.clipboard.com)
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by kenperkins 14y ago
I think because some class of people wonder if a $5 app would better perform. I think it's hard for 53 to succeed that way however, because you have a finite number of users. By making features an in-app purchase, they effectively monetize
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by kenperkins 14y ago
Using eBay these days feels like playing World of Warcraft. If you're a high level eBay user, it's a fantastic place to move goods, but god forbid someone new signs up to buy or sell something. Just like what it must be like to sign up and
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by kenperkins 14y ago
Clipboard dev here, wanted to share one tidbit that isn't featured in the blog. If you highlight and copy in Chrome, you can paste straight into Clipboard, without having to do anything other than have the page open. It's by far my favorite
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by kenperkins 14y ago
I'm sure I fixed this, can you check the cache? (We should be properly cache busting).
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by kenperkins 14y ago
We fixed it on the blog. We still have to address it on the main site. Google's Open Sans looks awesome on OSX and Windows/IE & Firefox. But it's totally busted on Chrome on W7. Go Figure.
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by kenperkins 14y ago
thanks! We're going to change that font ASAP.
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by kenperkins 14y ago
It was very well said by gwf: This is a race to the bottom in terms of sustainable pricing. I love the free plan but who knows how it'll play long term.
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by kenperkins 14y ago
Nothing jumps out at me as significant to bump the version to 0.9. Can someone explain what makes certain changes worthy of the version change?
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by kenperkins 14y ago
Having the comfort access feature, and having a car stolen many years ago, there's no way I would trade one of my most enjoyed features for a lower risk of car theft. The reality is that if someone wants your car they're going to get it.
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by kenperkins 14y ago
I prefer the term "Services" over "Operations". Services is where the logic of your application should live, and services should be HTTP (or any protocol) agnostic. They should only speak in models and native types, and should abstract all
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by kenperkins 14y ago
You're correct, we missed that when I updated the blog to a new look last night. We've already rolled out a fix. Sorry about that!
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by kenperkins 14y ago
Whoops. We reskinned the blog late last night and missed this. Thanks for the tip, I've already updated the blog.
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by kenperkins 14y ago
I've actually been curating this set for a little while. http://clipboard.com/ken/nodejs_modules
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by kenperkins 14y ago
Shoot me a mail, ken@.
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by kenperkins 14y ago
We actually do have a chrome and firefox extension. You can find them at http://clipboard.com/tools That said, we haven't put the chrome extension in the webstore yet because we haven't yet opened up the service for public signup. As soon
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by kenperkins 14y ago
Thanks for the compliment and finding a good bug (deleting from a clip page). I don't know why we didn't fix that sooner. Already rolled out a fix. Regarding the welcome email and the confirmation email, we saw a hacker news post that share
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by kenperkins 15y ago
I'd love to use Stripe, however the 2.9% fee is a total deal breaker. I'm currently using Payflow Link (by PayPal and Verisign) and I pay a flat rate of $20 a month plus 500 incl monthly transactions. I can get more at 0.10 per transactio