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by pearkes 13y ago
When Google phased out their undocumented weather API that a lot of people used[1], leading up to it for a few weeks they just randomly returned 403 to random requests. Good way to confuse developers and motivate them to use a real, support
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by pearkes 13y ago
Ayn Rand's philosophy is widely criticized for being contradictory. This seems pretty accurate to me. But I don't think modern readers of Atlas Shrugged , The Fountainhead , Anthem , et al., are listening to her as a preacher,
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by pearkes 13y ago
This one does. :)
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Amazon Unpacked(ft.com)
73 points by pearkes 13y ago|66 comments
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Venmo Touch(touch.venmo.com)
1 points by pearkes 13y ago|0 comments
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by pearkes 13y ago
I use a statsd compatible alternative called statsite.[1] It's written in pure c and behaves like you would expect statsd to, with some additional improvements. I'm definitely more comfortable deploying it as opposed to installing
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A Bill Allowing More Foreign Workers Stirs a Tech Debate(nytimes.com)
7 points by pearkes 13y ago|1 comments
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by pearkes 13y ago
Consulting, only American co's right now. Though, the local tech scene is open to American / English only folks, as it's already so diverse. I know that SoundCloud (arguably the biggest name in the Berlin tech scene, at least
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by pearkes 13y ago
I agree that it's highly dependent on personality, but for me I think "living" somewhere has worked well so far to broaden my perspective. I recently moved from San Francisco to Berlin, and have been living here and learning
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New Dropbox Homepage(dropbox.com)
43 points by pearkes 13y ago|43 comments
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by pearkes 13y ago
> In the end, you spend hours upon hours researching the best way to handle registration, authentication, email confirmation, and a million other little things. I've found SAAS-like applications (user registrations, emails, forms) a
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by pearkes 13y ago
Here's how: $ VAGRANT_LOG=[debug, info, warn, or error] vagrant up https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/blob/master/lib/vagrant...
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Show HN: Gethub(github.com)
2 points by pearkes 13y ago|0 comments
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Clear in the iCloud(blog.helftone.com)
3 points by pearkes 13y ago|0 comments
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KFC smugglers bring buckets of chicken through Gaza tunnels(csmonitor.com)
3 points by pearkes 13y ago|0 comments
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by pearkes 13y ago
You can buy a RapidSSL standard cert through DNSimple[1] for $20. Easier to set-up then doing it yourself too. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/x7q6tme55gerkql/2013-05-... [1] https://dnsimple.com
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Paid for Stripe(paidhq.com)
114 points by pearkes 13y ago|38 comments
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by pearkes 13y ago
It appears this repository[1] was forked from a repo that also had a bunch of suggestions: http://letsmake.github.io/bettertogether/ This original repo[2] was made by someone who appears to now work at GitHub.[3] [1] https://github.com/s
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Logstalgia - Website Access Log Visualization(youtube.com)
2 points by pearkes 13y ago|0 comments
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by pearkes 13y ago
> giving you more control over your instances and the ability to SSH into them. FWIW you can do: heroku run bash Which let's you mess around on a new dyno (not an existing one).
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by pearkes 13y ago
When building the Golden Gate Bridge: > Most speculated that a bridge would cost over $100 million. > Joseph Strauss, who had designed nearly 400 bridges, claimed it could be built for $25 to $30 million. > "Strauss was a strang
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by pearkes 13y ago
I agree. I think that's an improvement that needs to be made on DO's side, though. I could certainly "map" them to human names on my side, but that's not going to be consistent, IMO. I've sent them this feedback. :)
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by pearkes 13y ago
(author here) Thank you. Yes, agree on all points. In the issue tracker.
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Tugboat: A command line client for DigitalOcean(github.com)
91 points by pearkes 13y ago|15 comments
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In Search of True Process(medium.com)
1 points by pearkes 14y ago|0 comments
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Heroku.json(github.com)
1 points by pearkes 14y ago|1 comments
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Idiomatic Python [video](neckbeardrepublic.com)
46 points by pearkes 14y ago|24 comments
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Mutation Testing For Go(github.com)
1 points by pearkes 14y ago|0 comments
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WSGI Middleware for Web Socket Powered Debugging(github.com)
2 points by pearkes 14y ago|0 comments
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by pearkes 14y ago
I feel like there's a certain point where thoughtfulness trumps speed while building something. Why is there such a desire to do X in N minutes? How can something unique and truly useful come from 5 shell commands?

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