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by masnick 14y ago
I wrote a long post about job boards for programmers that was on HN a while ago: http://www.maxmasnick.com/articles/jobs/
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by masnick 14y ago
+1 for S3 and static sites. I wrote about this topic last winter after a rash of links on HN went down. http://www.maxmasnick.com/articles/bulletproof_your_blog/ I recently switched to github pages after their stability improved, but if y
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Apple: bounty program for fixing iOS6 map woes?(maxmasnick.com)
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Now Twitter is just a social network(maxmasnick.com)
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The Tata AirPod: a car that runs on compressed air w/150-200km range(stoweboyd.com)
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Show HN: Get paid faster with Stripe + Heroku(maxmasnick.com)
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by masnick 14y ago
Here's the text of Allan's post -- their site isn't loading very quickly right now. ---- Today I am happy to announce that you can find the source for TextMate 2 on GitHub. I’ve always wanted to allow end-users to tinker with their environm
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by masnick 14y ago
What about using the Dropbox URL shortener instead of a custom Droplings one? I'm not sure if that's possible or not, but my one qualm about your app is the sustainability of yet another URL shortener. Otherwise, this looks awesome. Looking
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The McGurk Effect - what you see changes what you hear(youtube.com)
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by masnick 14y ago
Instead of putting the password in as a plaintext argument, you can store it in the OS X keychain and access it with the command described here: http://www.maclovin.de/2010/02/access-os-x-keychain-from-ter... I use this in my .zshrc to cr
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by masnick 14y ago
Agreed, SmartGit is a pain. Like the Mac app, GitHub for Win doesn't support every single git feature but it makes the ones it does support intuitive and accessible. Props.
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Copy or innovate?(economist.com)
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by masnick 14y ago
As someone who has spent a lot of time convincing people to use git and helping them learn, it's great to see resources like this made available for free to the community.
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Explaining registrars, DNS, & hosting to non-technical people(maxmasnick.com)
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by masnick 14y ago
You're right that using an A record isn't great because your hosting provider loses the flexibility of being able to change IP addresses. This article explains it really well: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/avoiding-naked-domains...
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by masnick 14y ago
For years Microsoft has failed to deliver the great UX we've come to expect from devices like the iPad and iPhone, and apps like gmail. I've heard Windows Phone is pretty good, but it's hard to imagine Microsoft offering serious competition
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7 facets of a good (Mac) backup strategy(haystacksoftware.com)
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by masnick 15y ago
This is a great idea...I use Jekyll for my blog but sometimes wish I could post quickly through my browser. Congrats on shipping!
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Zen Coding — a new way of writing HTML and CSS code(code.google.com)
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Stop the paranoia: it doesn't matter if Google reads our email(maxmasnick.com)
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by masnick 15y ago
The new beta web interface for fastmail.fm looks pretty good: https://beta.fastmail.fm
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by masnick 15y ago
This is great -- I've been looking for a way to get my photos off Flickr before my pro account expires this May. Snapjoy sucked in 2200 photos in just a few minutes. (The only glitch was when I clicked "Get Started Now" on the flickraft sit
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Founders Castle(founderscastle.com)
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by masnick 15y ago
Yeah, because random Flash ads are way better than text ads that possibly add value for the user. https://skitch.com/masnick/g6fn9/hotmail I understand that Google needs to make money to provide a great service like Gmail for free, and I
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by masnick 15y ago
Durham, NC - fulltime (H1B) Duke University, Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research We're a group of public health researchers looking for a junior software developer to work on the software that runs our research. This is a gre
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by masnick 15y ago
Durham, NC - fulltime (H1B) Duke University, Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research We're a group of public health researchers looking for a junior software developer to work on the software that runs our research. This is a gre
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by masnick 15y ago
Call me paranoid, but I'm always a bit leery about installing extensions that have access to "your data on mail.google.com". A malicious extension could easily scrape data and send it to a remote server. Does Google do any sort of QA for ex
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by masnick 15y ago
I did FIRST in high school, and it was probably one of the most fun/exciting/educational/interesting things I've ever done. I can't say enough good things about this program.
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Top software dev job boards (updated)(maxmasnick.com)
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A Studied Approach at WiFi - Server Fault Blog(blog.serverfault.com)
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