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Socket.io.next: WebSocket.io + Engine.io(qcon-sf.nodejitsu.com)
4 points by mixu 15y ago|1 comments
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by mixu 15y ago
I wrote a tiling window manager for X11 in Node.js a while back: https://github.com/mixu/nwm and a free book about Node.js: http://book.mixu.net/
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Show HN: My Node book(book.mixu.net)
2 points by mixu 15y ago|0 comments
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by mixu 15y ago
Haven't seen the site, but there seems to be a blog: http://adaptablegimp.blogspot.com/ and a Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP8c2R8YEb4
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Show HN: Remote control Winamp over LAN via console app(github.com)
3 points by mixu 15y ago|0 comments
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by mixu 16y ago
Looking at my inbox, I can only say - today will go down as one of those special days when my life changed. My most sincere thanks to everyone, I will get back to you soon (it's 1:30 in the morning here).
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by mixu 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback - I changed the text. I guess I'm not the guy to ask for copywriting :). I would speculate that the tone might be in part due to cultural background as well - as Wikipedia says, "The Finnish language has no simple eq
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Show HN: RepoPlay - Instant replay for repo commits (+looking for internship)(repoplay.com)
59 points by mixu 16y ago|14 comments
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by mixu 16y ago
These are decent tips, but the real fix for me when I got a (minor) traffic surge was changing KeepAliveTimeout from 15 (sec) to 2 (sec). Basically, due to the high default keep alive time for requests, most Apache threads were waiting for
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by mixu 16y ago
my rules: 1) Layout and widgets only. I start with a reset, then layout (block positioning), then widgets. Everything other than layout is a widget. There are no global styles. If there is one of it, it's an ID. If more, it's a class. 2) No
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by mixu 16y ago
Totally illegible font color, and selecting the text does not help since the highlight color is also very light. Can't read anything except the graph and headings.
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by mixu 16y ago
You mean something like this (from a HN thread a while ago)? https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ag-R_ZlGO21NdE9HSWR... Also related: http://www.builditwith.me/ The problem with idea sheets seems to be that most ideas are terrible.
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by mixu 16y ago
>Your time horizon is too short. Didn't John Keynes say: "The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can
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by mixu 16y ago
Coincidentally, this weekend, we launched a dead-simple feedback solution at Garage48 Helsinki ( http://garage48.org/ ) based on our pain with complex & expensive feedback services: http://wehearvoices.net/ It's a simple, embeddable
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Unreliable SMS? How about a browser that corrupts forms? (FF bug #394782)(ryancramer.com)
2 points by mixu 16y ago|0 comments
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by mixu 16y ago
Related: http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/02/python-vs-ruby-a-battle-... (blog post by the author) http://blog.peepcode.com/tutorials/2010/what-pythonistas-thi... (Blog post about the video referred to by the author) http://news.ycombi
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Ask HN: How to be productive during a 48h startup weekend?
9 points by mixu 16y ago|7 comments
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by mixu 16y ago
"Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta" by Geto Boys, of course... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space )
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How to deploy web applications using Mercurial(blog.mixu.net)
1 points by mixu 16y ago|0 comments
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by mixu 16y ago
Noooooo! I can already imagine the pain writing HTML5 in 2014: "Well, IE9 is too slow to do common thing X reliably, so let's trigger the SunspiderTest optimizations using this hack..." It's like finding out that IE9 only performs well on t
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by mixu 16y ago
So, how common is the 3D Secure code on websites? I thought it was a local/European annoyance, since I haven't run into it outside EU webshops? For instance, I've never had to put in my 3D Secure code on Amazon, BackBlaze, Syncplicity or Zu
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by mixu 16y ago
This is the classic Chase & Simon (1973) article. Similarly, programming skill has been described as being based on the ability to remember abstract solutions (programming schemas e.g. Davies, 1994; Détienne & Soloway, 1990; Soloway
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4 simple ways startup people deceive themselves(blog.mixu.net)
2 points by mixu 16y ago|0 comments
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by mixu 16y ago
Even more simply - are you writing code for a von Neumann architecture ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture ), or something more abstract? To my understanding the issue is not whether "state" has side effects (e.g. your
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by mixu 16y ago
The summary: "First, git's Windows support is the weakest out of the three DVCSs being considered which is unacceptable as Python needs to support development on any platform it runs on. Since Python runs on Windows and some people do devel
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by mixu 16y ago
And Swordfish is a great movie about being a hacker... specifically the common recruiting process. On a more serious note, I do agree with you. Some decent movies with a office environment/work theme: Boiler Room (2000), Duplicity (2009),
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by mixu 16y ago
> Smart people are a minority and on average find themselves in a conversation with less smart people. Only assuming that all people are equally likely to interact with one another. Which I doubt is strictly true, given that those cases
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by mixu 16y ago
I use revenue per employee as a rough guide to the type of company in question (is it human-based or tech/marketing-based? is it a startup or an established business?). It's simple to calculate, and revenue is usually less sensitive informa
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by mixu 16y ago
Not to my knowledge. The core reason is that in many countries, universities don't have campuses in the same sense that universities in the US seem to have. My experience is from the Nordic countries (spent a few years chairing various stud
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by mixu 16y ago
Have you tried noise-cancelling headphones? I use the Sennheiser PXC-350's whenever I am not working at home, you can get the benefits of reduced ambient noise without having any music on (though I mostly do). It's NOT complete sound-proofi

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