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by mccolin 13y ago
Really found this quick and useful. Easy to achieve what I often have to agonize with in Gimp or Photoshop.
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by mccolin 13y ago
Completely agree. Still clinging onto my old GMail UI for dear life in both gmail.com and hosted flavors.
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by mccolin 13y ago
So it actually costs an infinite percentage more to run that second dyno ;-) But I agree your points on redundancy at the webserver level.
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by mccolin 13y ago
Absolutely this! I believe lacking the ability to communicate clearly and easily with "non-tech folk" is a significant barrier to many people trying to advance in their careers. Although this is more applicable to some paths than others, it
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by mccolin 13y ago
All of the major US sports (NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL) would be great.
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by mccolin 13y ago
This is really cool. Would love to see further expansion into other leagues.
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by mccolin 13y ago
That the ads are poorly targeted largely depends on the entity buying the ad. When building an ad on Facebook, the customer sets their targets. Facebook will gladly sell an advertiser eyeballs, but it's up to the advertiser to choose the
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by mccolin 13y ago
While this was a good bit too "name-droppy" for my taste, it's an interesting story of decision-regret and a decent chronicle of a founder's view post acquisition. At the time, the decision to sell seemed right, and it would've been difficu
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by mccolin 13y ago
This is always great advice and lets you (and the client) focus on the business needs, while keeping them from having to be interested/concerned with the technology powering the solution.
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by mccolin 13y ago
Agreed! It's one of the best status pages I've seen for a service (or set of services) like theirs. It's almost as if it's the AWS status pages run through a prettification machine.
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by mccolin 14y ago
Good to hear! I think anyone picking folks up from the airport with any regularity (including friends and spouses of business travelers) would definitely find it useful.
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by mccolin 14y ago
The app looks beautiful, and solves a problem elegantly, but it's not a problem that I would pay any amount of money to solve better than a text message or airport/airline's flight tracker does. Even the 99¢ price tag seems like an overpay.
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by mccolin 14y ago
This is fantastic. Looked up some more information about your Firebase offerings and like what's going on there, too :-) Keep up the great work!
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by mccolin 14y ago
Haven't looked into the code/docs deeply, yet, but would love to know if it can be customized to send data to one's own backend service for private implementations. Love the editor. Also had a few great laughs trying to use it alongside so
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by mccolin 14y ago
Pretty cool idea. Was hoping it would instead spit out an obfuscated or dummy email address I could use on forms and signups which would proxy (perhaps for a limited time only) to my real email address.
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by mccolin 14y ago
I found it funny that below this article about in-game advertising creep, the first comment is a "promoted comment," pinned to the top of the list and praising the ad effort.
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by mccolin 14y ago
Do people not often use "git commit -m" for commit messages? Curious as to the common level of need to launch the full editor.
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by mccolin 14y ago
I still use the old compose and actively opt out of the new compose whenever they try to force it on me. It smacks of something that should be a choice and not a forced-upon default.
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by mccolin 14y ago
I think the endorsement blasting is actually worse than Facebook's over liking, because of how that data is presented and what it is intended to represent. 200 some dishonest endorsements make even the legitimate endorsements among them val
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We Found Our Son in the Subway(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
839 points by mccolin 14y ago|175 comments
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by mccolin 14y ago
It is also common for ruby configs to be script files. Rails, for instance, has the config/initializers folder which is a set of ruby scripts that will be run at startup. It comes down mostly to preference.
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by mccolin 14y ago
Usage of your image in this fashion can be blocked via a setting on Facebook that is very easy to find: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads&view No need to go through and unlike things for the purpose of hiding your endorsement
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by mccolin 14y ago
The question of dress code, I've found, follows industries a bit more than it does specific cities. As someone who's lived and worked in tech in both San Francisco and Philadelphia, I can tell you I've worked almost entirely at places with
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by mccolin 14y ago
I can't help but think there were some really ugly decisions made by team members going 24+ hours without sleep. How many next day "what was I thinking!?" moments were had during the lockdown?
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by mccolin 14y ago
This. While it's regrettable Facebook has decided to strip platform access from "competing social networks," they are certainly within reason doing so, particularly as the restriction is part of their terms.
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by mccolin 14y ago
The URL could simply include the regexp encoded in a path component or query string. No need for a URL database.
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by mccolin 14y ago
Has anyone else tried the wine tip? Seems worth potentially losing an inexpensive bottle over to see if it works.
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by mccolin 14y ago
Year In Review actually takes care to highlight photos and posts you have highlighted on your profile/Timeline. If you'd highlighted posts or photos throughout the year, they'd have a higher likelihood of being in the top moments. I really
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by mccolin 14y ago
Love this.
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by mccolin 14y ago
Thanks for the info. I code and also use the machine for laying out documents, web browser, and lightweight design, etc. Mostly coding. I'm normally desk-bound, however, and am weighing the value of the Retina screen if I'm going to spend m

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