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by pdenya 15y ago
Is your comment meant to be a complaint or a compliment?
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by pdenya 15y ago
Pixelmator ($30) is a cheaper alternative to photoshop and much more pleasant to use than gimp. It has tools for vector and rastor too.
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by pdenya 15y ago
Really interesting. I'm curious what their tools look like but the github repository the article links to is currently empty.
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by pdenya 15y ago
There might be a good explanation here for the emotional gains you get from hanging art and other decorations as well.
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Let's use priming to improve our lives(sebastianmarshall.com)
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by pdenya 15y ago
i use <input type="text" name="email" style="display: none;" value="" /> and verify that it's blank on the backend and if it's not I don't send the email. It doesn't block 100% but I get very few come through.
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by pdenya 15y ago
I don't know, I got it in the mail a week after checking out adwords but not spending anything. It said Google on it and the person I talked to was able to see and edit my account directly without me providing my password.
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by pdenya 15y ago
In my experience Google required me to speak to a representative to claim my $100 credit. I had already done research with the keyword tool and had a list of keywords I wanted to use and the prices I was going to initially bid for them. Th
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by pdenya 15y ago
http://www.heroku.com/pricing#1-0 http://aws.amazon.com/free/ Both of these are free for a year despite te confusing hourly breakdown.
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by pdenya 15y ago
For the Form Name section either darken the text or change the selection color. Add another Export button at the bottom and make it a bit brighter. Alternatively, fixed positioning would work. overall: Nice tool, nice UI, good idea, poor c
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by pdenya 15y ago
EC2 has a tier thats free for a year. So does Heroku if you're using a language/framework they support. I believe PHP fog does as well.
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by pdenya 15y ago
I loved the 3rd bullet point: "Software doesn't get bored and start wondering how to automate itself." I'm not sure if this will ever be applied to non-data driven fields but this is still extremely cool.
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by pdenya 15y ago
I'm surprised he didn't think it was worth going for a 3G ipad. I spend a decent amount of time working outside of my office on my laptop with a local environment. Impossible with this setup and no 3G. Maybe there's a tethering plan on h
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by pdenya 15y ago
Good essay, still fun to read. I hid the bracketed comments and images. After looking through them they don't seem to add anything to the conversation. I don't want commentary on an article as I'm reading it.
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by pdenya 15y ago
I think this was posted in response to this article ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3179370 ) rather than because of some recent update.
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by pdenya 15y ago
Thanks for this. I appreciate both the warning and the tl;dr. It's interesting and well written but I don't have the time right now to make my way through it.
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by pdenya 15y ago
Link bait headline. Obviously the issue here is that Data Centers are not reliable enough. A good failover option is necessary but generators and UPSs don't represent the primary costs behind data centers, removing them won't come close t
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by pdenya 15y ago
target="_blank" may or may not be a minor annoyance to some users. I've personally never gotten a complaint about it on any sites i've built/run. Just like every other tool it has it's uses. The standard way I've been seeing it used is t
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by pdenya 15y ago
I have windows xp running on a 7 year old PC that was low end at the time. Hulu and Youtube do pretty well on it but netflix chokes. If I were going to set it up again I'd probably go with Ubuntu.
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by pdenya 15y ago
Congratulations. I've been looking for something similar for a while. http://www.wired.com/geekdad/ is ok but I doubt it's what your looking for. http://www.happynerds.net/ will be good at some point to teach the kids about programmin
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by pdenya 15y ago
Run through almost any programming book once and do enough examples that you have a handle on what you're reading. The point of this is to get familiar with basic programming (syntax, conditional logic, etc). Once you're through the book st
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by pdenya 15y ago
Re: the can't afford advertising problem, you should be able to find a $100 adwords coupon fairly easily. Hopefully you can make enough from that to cover further advertising.
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by pdenya 15y ago
This article http://flyosity.com/tutorial/crafting-subtle-realistic-user-... specifically and that blog in general have been massively helpful for me in improving my design skills. I highly recommend you give it a read through.
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by pdenya 15y ago
Cool idea but I tend to glance through every email as it comes in and either respond, do nothing or mark them for a later action (flagging, etc) so it doesn't quite fit into my workflow. On the other end of this, there are definitely times
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by pdenya 15y ago
I'm seeing the same thing but I assume this is because the site is getting a ton of traffic right now.
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by pdenya 15y ago
Love the changes. Whether or not there's a lack of a good mime library in any given language it's always good to go from something that focuses on a standard based file not everyone is familiar with to a simple list of parameters. It's als
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by pdenya 15y ago
That's great for comments that are direct replies to posts but when points are displayed it's much easier to notice excellent replies to mediocre comments.
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by pdenya 15y ago
I understand the argument for not having points but I think I get less out of HN without them. I'm not able to quickly find gems within subcomments without actually reading thoroughly and I don't always have time for that.
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by pdenya 15y ago
I live in Pleasant Hill and commute to SF daily on the BART train. I code for the full 50 minutes - 1 hour each way (as long as I can get a seat). I haven't found anything difficult about it. If I run into something I need to lookup I eit
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by pdenya 15y ago
I agree with the other comments regarding $23 being too much for a t-shirt. That being said, even at $10/month I doubt I'd pay for schwag.

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