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by masnick 15y ago
From whatI can tell from the git repository ( https://github.com/imathis/octopress/ ), Octopress adds two major things to Jekyll: a bunch of automation (via the Rakefile) and a default theme. Reading through the Rakefile, the automation act
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by masnick 15y ago
Working fine for me, just started the download. 1 hour remaining... Edit: I'm in the US.
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by masnick 15y ago
This is why https://codeplane.com/ was created. 2GB worth of private repos for $9/month. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2674417 for the discussion of Codeplane on HN.
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by masnick 15y ago
Come on. It would require non-trivial work to scrape the pages to get the html, set up parsing to handle different types of content, get into a format that could be imported into something else, etc. Not something I'm willing to spend my ti
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by masnick 15y ago
However, tumblr does not provide an easy way to export your content. This makes it not viable as a blogging platform for me.
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by masnick 15y ago
There's really no excuse for not using Time Machine on Mac. I think it's one-click setup (a yes/no dialog comes up the first time you plug in an external hdd to a fresh installation, if memory serves). If you are afraid you won't be pluggin
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by masnick 15y ago
Windows Mobile, apparently: http://rwolpert.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/08/apple-stores-r...
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by masnick 15y ago
Wow -- some of those pictures show CRT monitors on employees' desks.
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by masnick 15y ago
Your URL has to at least contain your company name. If it doesn't, your customers would be confused by your email addresses and what popped up in the address bar when they use Google to find your website.
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by masnick 15y ago
I am baffled why people still have irreplaceable files stored only on their local hard drive. Forget having your computer stolen, what if your hard drive dies? If you aren't backing up your critical files, there are a myriad of cheap clou
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by masnick 15y ago
I use ".me" for my personal domain/email and I still get strange looks about this TLD from anyone outside the tech community. E.g. I give my email address to a clerk at a clothing store and I have to convince him that .me is a valid domain
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by masnick 15y ago
This will set Kik apart feature-wise from iMessage and other push-IM-on-a-phone apps. I'd imagine this is part of their strategy for surviving iMessage. June 6 was probably not a fun day at Kik HQ.
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by masnick 15y ago
Take a look at http://box.net . I have a friend who uses it in his small organization and is pretty happy with it.
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by masnick 15y ago
I would speculate that this could be something like http://turntable.fm built into Facebook. If so, what a great way to keep users actively using Facebook: I can imagine someone spending a lot of time doing other things on the site while
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by masnick 15y ago
Thanks -- I got in on the iPhone beta and it looks good so far. I'm excited to see this service become public -- I think it could be super useful.
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by masnick 15y ago
You can start using the web version of their app right away by going to http://splitterbug.com on your mobile (at least it worked on my iPhone) and signing in with Facebook.
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by masnick 15y ago
> Back then they criticized me for not being involved in sports or at least chess club; they didn't give out trophies for computer programming at my school so I never received one. This is why programs like the FIRST robotics competitio
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by masnick 15y ago
Yes, I would love to see a built-in feature for designating a folder in Dropbox as "super private", e.g. encryption happens on the client side and there is no web interface or ability to share subfolders. Until that happens, I'm looking for
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by masnick 15y ago
Right, but you should have been assuming all along that your Dropbox files could be made public given that they are not locally encrypted. The recent security breach just drives home this point. My point is that we need something like Dropb
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by masnick 15y ago
Dropbox works brilliantly for sharing/syncing non-private files, but I don't think it makes sense to try to patch on something to make it work for truly private files. In my experience, the added security of encryption always comes with som
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by masnick 15y ago
The killer feature of codeplane is cheap shared private git repositories. If you are the only person using your git repo, there is no reason you wouldn't store your remote on some random webhost (you can do this at http://nearlyfreespeec
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by masnick 15y ago
> If I don't need the web interface and public code sharing, why would I use this verse getting a Linode instance and installing git there. Private code sharing. You have to install something like gitolite (see my other comment) to do
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by masnick 15y ago
You can set something like this up on any VPS with gitolite ( https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite ) pretty easily. gitolite lets you set up very fine-grained per-user/repo/branch permissions, manage your users' SSH keys, and gives you nice
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by masnick 15y ago
It's amazing that this isn't toxic. I'd be interested to know more about the chemistry behind it, but presumably they won't be sharing any details.
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U.S. sponsors Internet-in-a-suitcase to circumvent censors(nytimes.com)
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by masnick 15y ago
Arq says they don't think so: https://twitter.com/#!/arqbackup/status/76693981286768641
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by masnick 15y ago
What about Arq for Mac? http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ It is/was used by Chris Wanstrath (of github), among others. http://chris.wanstrath.usesthis.com
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by masnick 15y ago
Now: how do you politely tell people to follow these guidelines?
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It would be great if there were a demo account so I could see it without signing up. Also, I really don't like the typography. http://awesome-fontstacks.com/ might help build a killer set of fonts, or you could pick and choose yourself fr
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by masnick 15y ago
It looks like their Chrome plugin hasn't been updated yet, though. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hihakjfhbmlmjdnnhe...

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