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by robbles 14y ago
Interesting. I didn't realize that there were specs like ALPS for defining how to implement this kind of thing. Isn't it still a little difficult to do this for APIs that don't neatly fit into some kind of generic profile (e.g. microbloggin
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by robbles 14y ago
Can you give an example of an acceptable implementation of a HATEOAS REST API (wow, that's a lot of letters) with an associated client that actually uses it? My experience has been that you can't communicate much through HATEOAS that's actu
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by robbles 14y ago
Really handy tool, thanks! I second the suggestion of allowing the background to be applied to another element.
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by robbles 14y ago
I actually don't think the domain name is that bad. I was more alluding to my own poor memory for the names of useful apps like this. It is pretty long for a domain name, but I think I'd remember it thanks to the similarity to http://lmgtf
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by robbles 14y ago
Cool project! I also use a browser extension for this currently, but the obvious advantage to this is you can use it on any browser immediately as long as you remember the domain name. One suggestion - it would be a bit more useful if you h
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by robbles 14y ago
Can you imagine how much more pleasant participating in HN, GitHub, etc. would be if all programmers were this pleasant and open-minded? Regardless of the particular merits of the technique he talks about here, I think we can all learn a le
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by robbles 14y ago
Great idea - I'm definitely going to use this. Two suggestions: - Could you make it search through a specific users' pinboard.in bookmarks? (e.g. your own, if you have a lot) - When you press enter/return on the 'tags' input, it doesn't sub
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by robbles 14y ago
This is great! I recently worked on a feature that had to do some funny time zone conversions - having this lib definitely would have helped.
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by robbles 14y ago
Handy addition to the "mount | column -t" trick: You can use this within Vim to pretty-format text tables, initialization of variables, etc. Just highlight the lines in question in visual line mode (V) and type !column -t<CR>
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by robbles 14y ago
Wait, how do you have a week-long "company-wide" break? Does that mean nobody is working for a whole week?
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by robbles 14y ago
It's sometimes used to clear the connection state with persistent connections to the database (say for example in a high-traffic web app). Changing to the same user clears any state and local settings from the previous use of the connection
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by robbles 14y ago
What would you use an HMAC generated in JavaScript for? I'm trying to think of uses that wouldn't be completely insecure, but I'm coming up empty. You need to have the key client-side, so what's the point?
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by robbles 14y ago
Really cool project, and looks like it was executed really well in many ways. However, I couldn't help being reminded of this comic: http://xkcd.com/196/ I feel like there's a lot of social factors that would make using an invention like
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by robbles 14y ago
It's not very hard to crash a browser or browser tab. There's a certain point where all situations can't be reasonably handled by the browser, and it makes more sense to crash when something unexpected happens. Here's an example I posted a
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by robbles 14y ago
I don't think this is new to cellphones / mobile culture. I've known plenty of people who would spend all their time at parties and social events taking endless pictures, then spend hours showing them to everyone they knew afterwards. Like
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by robbles 14y ago
Agreed, this kind of content is the best of HN in my opinion, along with programming / ops "war stories" like this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709438
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by robbles 14y ago
Can you actually get similar results to paying for promotion just by having really engaging, viral content? My understanding was that this doesn't work so well anymore. I think paid promotion should be a way of boosting the visibility of co
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by robbles 14y ago
I'm not sure that there is a large group of developers that "jump from one ORM or VCS or editor or framework or DB or design pattern or language to another twice a week" actually. I think there are enough developers around these days that w
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by robbles 14y ago
Another part of that item was confusing to me as well - "ORM tools". I'm assuming this isn't referring to an ORM library or framework, since this section seems to be about editors, IDEs, and other desktop software. What are "ORM tools"?
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by robbles 14y ago
I think it's a fantastic idea. Will it work while the device is locked though, or do I have to walk around with my iPhone/iPad open all the time? The page doesn't really make that clear, and it's the most important decision factor for me si
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by robbles 14y ago
Just tried this out on my setup, and it made a huge difference. A large project that used to take ~1s to load the first time is now pretty much instantaneous.
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by robbles 14y ago
The phrase "steep learning curve" is probably a misnomer, since the graph most people are talking about has "learning" or "experience" on the dependent axis, and time on the independent axis. So a steep slope on a graph like this would repr
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by robbles 14y ago
Good point - it seems like they take this risk into account in the design of their service in a couple of other ways too, like in the triggered actions. For example, you can't send a message to an arbitrary phone or Google Talk account, onl
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by robbles 14y ago
I love color palette tricks like this. Reminds me a lot of the old color cycling tricks in 8-bit color games ( http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_C... ). Never thought of using this to redesign the color scheme of an
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by robbles 14y ago
I'd say you're confusing interest in your work and work ethic with ambition. They aren't the same thing. Without ambition driving you, it's pretty difficult to motivate yourself past the point where the project you're working on stops being
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by robbles 14y ago
I've been programming since I was 12. I would say the only advantage it gave me was an unshakeable faith in my ability to figure things out - it really built up my problem-solving skills and gave me an attitude of "I'm going to figure this
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by robbles 14y ago
Vim sometimes chokes on long lines , and very rarely on long files. Both of these are caused by the plugins and settings you have enabled though, not by how the editor works. If you have a plugin that scans through every line in a file (ye
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The Cusp(hazelwoodfire.blogspot.ca)
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by robbles 14y ago
Greplin does have a browser extension for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bjclhonkhgkidmlkgh... I had it for a while, but I just found I forgot to use it and went directly to searching the services instead.
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by robbles 14y ago
Right, I see the use in this now. How difficult would it be to wrap this up in a reusable script that you could run directly, instead of having to manually work through the debugger prompt?

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