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by nborgo 11y ago
I don't think that's all too uncommon for native English speakers. While pairing, I pretty regularly refer to chunks of code as "this guy" or "that guy". Maybe they picked it up from someone while learning Engl
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by nborgo 11y ago
Chicago, IL | Software Engineer / Team Lead | ParkWhiz | https://www.parkwhiz.com/ | Full-Time | On Site ParkWhiz is looking for experienced software engineers to help lead development efforts on the parking platform o
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Ask HN: How do you get into A/B testing?
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by nborgo 12y ago
Alex wrote about the topic after losing that sponsorship: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/opinion/the-calculus-of-cl... It's a nice, quick read. Especially if you're even vaguely interested i
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by nborgo 15y ago
For those put off by the first 40 lines, here's the good part: "SonyPictures.com was owned by a very simple SQL injection, one of the most primitive and common vulnerabilities, as we should all know by now. From a single injection, we acces
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by nborgo 15y ago
Just as important: if I am already most certainly aware, why are you wasting my time by telling me? The same goes for people who write "obviously". If it's obvious, why write it? If the person doesn't already know, then you sound pretentiou
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by nborgo 15y ago
Hopefully this doesn't come off as too harsh, but would anyone mind telling me why Hype is better than Flash? Judging from their gallery, it's just as bad. It only "fixes" the CPU hogging part of Flash (and, presumably, Flash's lack of mobi
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by nborgo 15y ago
Be sure to test the "Try for free" button in magenta, too. It'll really pop with complimentary colors, which could be a good or bad thing.
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by nborgo 16y ago
Kind of. They're cut down from carrots that are made to grow as long, thin and quickly as possibly. Not exactly from a carrot that you'd find in your garden. That's not to mention the peeling and washing they go through, which I can't imagi
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by nborgo 16y ago
The swipe and onion skin are pretty simple. Both of them put the images in the same place. When you swipe, the width of the top image changes. For the onion skin, the opacity changes. Difference has some canvas magic going on.
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by nborgo 16y ago
If everyone starts aiming for the little blue center, I wonder if people have a better chance of clicking the icon. Maybe they thought of it like extra padding around navigation links. When we aim for the original icon and miss by a couple
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by nborgo 16y ago
Moving the left and right arrows with the cursor is a great idea, especially since they don't move until you get close. It might be nicer if they would animate to the position when you first move the cursor over, though. It's kind of jumpy
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by nborgo 16y ago
"An earlier draft of this post said 'lucky.' I have since reworded because, honestly, screw luck. Luck had absolutely nothing to do with it. Decades of good engineering, planning, and following the bloody checklist are why this was a seriou
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by nborgo 16y ago
They're all very simple grids, which is the beauty of it. You could put them together in a couple minutes with something like 960gs or Blueprint.
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by nborgo 16y ago
Isn't that the benefit gained from testing, rather than BDD?
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by nborgo 16y ago
Might I suggest Jammit? You can write a rake task that packages all the assets, uploads the files to s3 and deletes the asset folder. Change the asset host to your s3 bucket or Cloudfront. Whenever you deploy, do 'rake deploy:assets' and yo
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by nborgo 16y ago
The creepiness probably has more to do with their color choice and cut out triangle than the shape of it. Their model makes it look more sinister than a ball with ribbons taped on to it. For me, though, it gets disturbing when you think abo
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by nborgo 16y ago
Honest question: which browsers can't handle gzip'd responses?
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by nborgo 16y ago
Since you added PayPal, you might as well throw Braintree in there. It's pretty great. I've been happy using it for an app I'm working on. Oh, and Mailchimp's API, too. I have a feeling that this list is going to go on and on. http://www.b
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by nborgo 16y ago
I doubt that most people expect the site owner to find their IP address (let alone what an IP address even is and what we can do with it) or what page they came from. When I bring up analytics with normal people, they tend to be a bit shock
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by nborgo 16y ago
I just set up Braintree and it was very easy. Probably not as easy as PayPal + Spreedly, though. If you want to go with a "real" payment gateway, I highly recommend it. If anything, using Braintree removed all sorts of restrictions. They ke
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by nborgo 16y ago
Really? If you are serious about your startup, you should waste hours on a Coming Soon page instead of spending them on your product? Drop the few dollars on a service like this and get it other with. This looks like a more ambitious versio
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by nborgo 16y ago
Until it redirects you to: http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/?front_door=true
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by nborgo 16y ago
After watching a little bit, its reputation seems unfounded. To anyone interested in streaming: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
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by nborgo 16y ago
To change the font, go to Preferences > User File Preferences and paste this in there: "font_face": "Monaco", "font_size": 13
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by nborgo 16y ago
I think there might be Wordpress addons that do this. It looks like Patrick's blog ( http://www.kalzumeus.com/ ) uses one and I've seen a few other blogs with the same thing. It's annoying.
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by nborgo 16y ago
I usually use padding on an element to show a background image to the left of it, but the pseudo background-crop looks pretty great. Definitely going to use that one. Is there anything stopping me from animating the background rotation with
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by nborgo 16y ago
Oh, whoops, I didn't notice you wrote Katana. Hopefully my comment didn't seem like I was trying to take anything away from your gem. I'm tempted to give Katana a shot with my next app. Who knows, I might like it more.
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by nborgo 16y ago
Might I suggest "herogit"? You can keep doing "heroku <command>" like normal – it just treats different branches as different apps, which I quite like. They put it in the last newsletter. For example, I have a "staging" branch for m
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by nborgo 16y ago
There's always QuietURL for Firefox, which converts text to a link when you hover over it. It's nice to have.

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