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You shall not commit (Without passing tests)(sorcery.smugmug.com)
4 points by rdoherty 15y ago|0 comments
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by rdoherty 15y ago
Take note that this is a privacy policy for a preliminarily reviewed add-on (only reviewed for basic security issues) and most likely written in jest.
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by rdoherty 15y ago
Other ways to move the web forward: stop supporting Internet Explorer altogether...when you start having to support Trident then it's almost like having to code a site twice Really? I've been pretty happy with IE9, generally 98% of my cod
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by rdoherty 15y ago
Link to Heroku's blog post announcement: http://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2011/11/21/announcing_h...
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Peter Jackson reveals the Red Epic secrets behind The Hobbit (video)(engadget.com)
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Russia Sending Life to Mars (and back)(dvice.com)
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by rdoherty 15y ago
Oh hi, OP here. I wrote this a long time ago. My opinion has changed a little in that time. I've already heard the arguments for/against GWT and understand its benefits. Not really sure why it's on HN now and honestly a little embarrassed
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by rdoherty 15y ago
mint.com does a pretty good job of tracking your overall spending and saving for multiple accounts.
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by rdoherty 15y ago
While we're on the topic of processing credit card payments, anyone have recommendations for processing monthly subscriptions online? (Merchant account and gateway). Similar to this article, there are many hidden and weird pricing schemes.
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Newt Gingrich's Drupal website cost $800,000(epolitics.com)
5 points by rdoherty 15y ago|0 comments
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by rdoherty 15y ago
It's 135TB worth of drives, but with RAID don't you see a far less useable amount? Also, considering saving money on hardware costs is a key factor in Backblaze staying competitive, they must be saving money elsewhere and/or have other com
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by rdoherty 15y ago
Neat technology, but at first I thought I was going to read an article about some sort of messaging/event system. It's not; Staircar is basically a way to deal with high write to read ratio data. It's not for subscribing to or publishing ev
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by rdoherty 15y ago
Hanlon's Razor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor ) I really doubt 37Signals took their manifesto down for nefarious reasons. Changing architecture, codebase rewrites, SCM tool, etc, all could have caused that page to be remove
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by rdoherty 15y ago
I have the exact same problem. IMO what happens is you start to learn all the ways things can go wrong, edge cases, bugs, etc and you realize how fragile your code (and other's is). Throw on poor time estimates and you learn how difficult i
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by rdoherty 15y ago
Honestly they were asking for it. Kudos to whomever hacked them and took the high road. Are there any security firms that actually know what they're doing? I'm beginning to think there isn't.
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by rdoherty 15y ago
I agree, I'm not sure what's so different about HN's information where something like Lucene, Sphinx or any other full text search tool couldn't handle.
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by rdoherty 15y ago
Looks pretty awesome, would love to see more screenshots though.
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by rdoherty 15y ago
"My profile on StackOverflow careers was viewed by employers a whopping 1 time and had 3 search hits." I've had similar experience with StackOverflow Careers. Even though my skills listed and location are in the top 5 for each, I have 31 vi
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by rdoherty 15y ago
Please please don't put labels inside text fields. Once you've entered information you don't know which field it is, especially after you've filled out the entire form.
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by rdoherty 15y ago
SEEKING WORK Mountain View, CA, remote Frontend engineer with experience at Yahoo and Mozilla. Expert in frontend performance, layered semantic markup, CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, etc. Preferable tasks: frontend optimization and scalability con
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by rdoherty 15y ago
I started reading this article thinking it was like any other 'how to travel the world and live cheap'. When I got halfway to see that he quit his job, moved to Mexico and has a successful business all while living with MLA I was astounded.
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by rdoherty 15y ago
Menlo Park, CA Gibi - http://gibitechnologies.com/ We're a GPS tracking+web app product company, still very young with a LOT to do. We're looking for our second technical hire; preferably someone with high traffic environment experience (
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by rdoherty 15y ago
Days? The current existing version can tow 7 tons from LEO to LLO in 6 months, so I don't think we'll get to Mars in days.
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by rdoherty 16y ago
Practice by negotiating every day on small things. Someone wants to schedule a meeting at 3? Push for another time. Buying new tires for your car? Ask for a discount, say you won't pay more than X. That's how I've improved my negotiating sk
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by rdoherty 16y ago
SEEKING WORK Remote and local, SF Bay Area. Performance engineer and frontend web developer. Worked at Yahoo! and Mozilla as a frontend engineer specializing in performance and scalability. Available for consulting and short duration work (
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by rdoherty 16y ago
I'm glad someone is showing average bandwidth rates for this many ISPs; I'm not sure I've ever seen any tech site test that many. I gotta nitpick the graph though, it's incredibly hard to figure out which line is which ISP (too many lines a
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by rdoherty 16y ago
Unless my math is wrong going from 1024x768 to 2048x1536 is quadrupling the resolution, not doubling, as the article states. Am I missing something?
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by rdoherty 16y ago
180KB? I only see jQuery (70KB uncompressed, it should be gzipped down to ~20KB) and the 2KB plugin on the demo page. So that's about 22KB for this effect when most sites already are including jQuery anyway. I'm actually impressed by this t
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by rdoherty 16y ago
You can start writing patches now, there are tons of resources to get started. Pick a small bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ (even fixing a typo) and fix it. It may take a week, but who cares? You can get help via patch reviews and as
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by rdoherty 16y ago
Link to Add-on Compatibility Reporter: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003

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