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   by masnick 15y ago

   Fair enough. Actually, today I sort of wanted redirects so I could change some URLs on my S3-hosted blog. Another easier solution to this would be hosting with a service like http://nearlyfreespeech.net . They're pay-by-usage like AWS, but
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   by masnick 15y ago

   > AWS is a way better solution. Especially if combined with CloudFront, since some people are targeting outside of the US :) To expand on this, you can easily host your Jekyll blog (or any static site) on Amazon S3 and use CloudFront to
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   by masnick 15y ago

   > Pro tip: unless you're really popular, no one cares how you power your blog... they care about what you write on it. Anyone who is trying to set up a Jekyll-based blog might be interested this method for hosting it.
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   by masnick 15y ago

   I think that's the same as StackOverflow Careers.
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   Top job boards for software devs(maxmasnick.com)

   199 points by masnick 15y ago|25 comments
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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

   There are no affiliate links in my post. Check before you accuse/troll.
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   by masnick 15y ago

   I think this depends on how you use gmail. I mostly read, reply, and archive. Sparrow is really good for this, but not very good at say labeling or search.
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   by masnick 15y ago

   The title is riffing off of the other two posts I mentioned at the top of my post. Regardless, all of these lists are personal opinion and limited by resources and current technology. I prefer portability over speed, for example.
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    by masnick 15y ago

    Thanks. Pretty much all the tools I listed should work for PHP as well.
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    by masnick 15y ago

    Thanks! I've actually tried Tower but I prefer the simplicity of Gitbox's UI. If you like Tower, you should check out SourceTree ( http://www.atlassian.com/software/sourcetree/overview ). It's free from the Bitbucket people.
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    Ultimate Rails developer & power user tools for Mac (2011 edition)(maxmasnick.com)

    37 points by masnick 15y ago|31 comments
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    by masnick 15y ago

    Right, if you write something akin to Jekyll it will work fine. However, I think most people would probably be trying to learn a framework like Rails or Django if they were writing a blogging engine to learn a new language/framework.
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    by masnick 15y ago

    Yes -- if you're comfortable with the command line and a scripting language, you can set up a script to handle your static blog. However, I suspect most people who want to blog don't have these skills or don't want to spend the time messing
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    by masnick 15y ago

    I hadn't heard of WP Engine. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the tip.
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    by masnick 15y ago

    Good point, I'll add this.
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    by masnick 15y ago

    Using a platform like Tumblr makes a lot of sense, but lots of people still don't do this as evidenced by all the stories on HN that link to overloaded servers.
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    by masnick 15y ago

    While this is a great learning experience, it is hard to write a blog engine that will stand up to traffic spikes on the first try. If your goal is learning a new language or framework, this is a great idea. If your goal is to have a reliab
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    Bulletproof your blog – survive the Hacker News effect(maxmasnick.com)

    67 points by masnick 15y ago|46 comments
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    by masnick 15y ago

    I agree. The proposed options seem too weird to be accepted easily. If you just started using one in your writing, people would think it was a typo. I don't think there's a downside to just using "they".
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    Ask HN: how do you read Hacker News on the iPad?

    1 points by masnick 15y ago|1 comments
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    by masnick 15y ago

    Durham, NC - fulltime 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 great opp
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    Freedom of information laws around the world (NPR)(onthemedia.org)

    4 points by masnick 15y ago|0 comments
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    by masnick 15y ago

    Really? I had no problem downgrading my account. It was during the demo period though.
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    by masnick 15y ago

    My only experience with Apps phone support was when I signed up for the 30 day business trial to use the IMAP import feature. Half way through a massive import, I got an email from Apps saying that I was going to be charged the $50 yearly f
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    by masnick 15y ago

    If you're on a Mac, you'll need to install gawk (at least I did on 10.7). Probably the easiest way to do this is with homebrew[1]: brew install gawk [1] If you don't know about homebrew, check out https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
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    by masnick 15y ago

    Along the same lines: http://octopress.org/ "Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templa
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    iOS 5 now available!(apple.com)

    1 points by masnick 15y ago|0 comments
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    by masnick 15y ago

    I agree with the parent...when I saw this headline, I immediately thought of this blog: http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/ .
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    by masnick 15y ago

    I agree -- I have too many repos I'd like to keep private to host them on github, but would love to if I could. I'm currently paying for a prgmr instance just to run gitolite ( https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite ) so I could have a privat