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by seldo 15y ago
I think I might like leaving my ideas in their raw form, though. I tend to create a bulleted, indented outline of what I'm writing before fleshing it out.
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by seldo 15y ago
I like the "ideas pane" a lot. I have exactly the same workflow, except my "ideas pane" is just a text file in Dropbox. I work on posts there until they're big enough to paste into my blog. I'm not really interested in running my blog on so
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by seldo 15y ago
From the HTTP headers, it appears to be Ruby on Rails, running on Nginx. Server: nginx/1.0.10 + Phusion Passenger 3.0.11 (mod_rails/mod_rack)
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by seldo 15y ago
Enthusiastically seconded. Nothing makes me hit the back button faster on a startup/app website than a mostly-empty page with a video on it. Especially when the video is just a close-up of somebody's face talking, i.e. there's nothing that
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by seldo 15y ago
Would it be tacky of me to mention that LGBT geeks might be interested in my side-project, GayGeeks.org?
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Ask HN: why were magic cookies so-called?
1 points by seldo 15y ago|0 comments
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by seldo 15y ago
Waking up at 2.30am to a total service outage sucks, but at least I know all you bastards are awake and screaming too. That makes me feel slightly better. (We're back now. Kudos to Pingdom for noticing and alerting)
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by seldo 15y ago
It's weird that they would introduce the Medium instance as "new", when it's actually a return -- they used to have Medium instances a couple years ago, and retired them.
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by seldo 15y ago
I agree completely, but there's a double-standard here. What if instead of (mostly) photographs pinterest was mostly video? Then it would be YouTube, and everyone is pretty clear that you shouldn't upload a video to YouTube if you don't own
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by seldo 15y ago
Traditional banks have insurance which protects them in case money is stolen: http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/information/fdiciorn.... Individual cash deposits are also guaranteed by governments in most countries. Bitcoins are not
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by seldo 15y ago
San Francisco, CA (Mission District) awe.sm are building a social media analytics platform. Lots of companies have the same use-case: they need to track their content as it travels through Twitter and Facebook, and capture how much traffic
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by seldo 15y ago
Whether or not you think a logo should literally depict a name, I think her point was that the logo was originally intended to be a literal window: the Windows 1.0 logo was a picture of on-screen desktop windows, the 1989 version was a ph
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by seldo 15y ago
I constantly use overlapping windows. If I'm tailing a continuous log, I don't need to see the full text of each line, I just need to see when the pattern changes, which I can get by having the first 10 characters peeking out from behind th
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by seldo 15y ago
On top of which, their status page is itself having issues. Latest update says: "04:20 PM PST: Had to restart MySQL. InnoDB recovery happening now. 04:13 PM PST: Tracking down the source of the unicorns now" Ouch... InnoDB recovery? Never a
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Github is having an outage(status.github.com)
29 points by seldo 15y ago|1 comments
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by seldo 15y ago
It's really funny that you would pick an XKCD that is about how sexism works as part of your argument that it wasn't sexism, merely rudeness. The whole point is that a man being rude about another man in this particular way -- by superfluou
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by seldo 15y ago
Doesn't it sound super-weird though? You'd never talk about a guy's marital status and the attractiveness of his spouse in his introduction at a tech conference; why on earth would you say it about a woman?
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by seldo 15y ago
Although I admire OSS as a concept, generally when I contribute to an open-source project it's "by accident", e.g. I'm trying to fix/have fixed a bug that's affecting me or one of my customers, and it's easier to contribute the patch back t
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by seldo 15y ago
As a current Stripe customer we built our whole subscription billing system on their clever invoice_ready webhook, but this new way looks a lot more robust. Win!
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by seldo 15y ago
Congratulations izs :-)
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by seldo 15y ago
I think this would have been a closer analogue to Louis C.K.'s experiment if the songs had not been available for download without payment. This is just busking -- playing the music whether or not people pay, but hoping they do. Obviously,
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by seldo 15y ago
While I admire your enthusiasm, the last thing an experienced web developer wants is a "brand new" domain registrar. The primary aspect you want in your registrar is longevity, because transferring domains is a huge pain in the neck. GoDadd
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by seldo 15y ago
Totally independently of their SOPA stance, I would recommend Namecheap over GoDaddy. I've been using Namecheap for years; they are reliable and have a sane (if not terribly pretty) user interface.
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Awe.sm for developers is SendGrid for social media(blog.snowballfactory.com)
2 points by seldo 15y ago|0 comments
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by seldo 15y ago
San Francisco, CA (Mission) - awe.sm http://totally.awe.sm/jobs We're hiring front-end and back-end engineers, plus an SRE (think: ops guy who gets to write production code) and a designer. Right now, we help companies track and analyze t
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by seldo 15y ago
Heh. So few people get the reference...
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by seldo 15y ago
It seems like having the center of political power inhabited by the 1% explains why the concerns of the 99% are so easily dismissed by national politicans.
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by seldo 15y ago
As a beta customer, not having to deal with 95% of PCI and merchant accounts etc. really made a huge difference to how fast we got going.
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by seldo 15y ago
What do people think of Meg Whitman's record at eBay? She ran for governor on her record as CEO there, but eBay has always seemed to me like a terribly-led company, sitting on its laurels as first-mover and squandering opportunities to move
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by seldo 15y ago
TLDR: on big machines with lots of memory (72GB), vanilla MySQL has great performance but suffers from minutes-long "stalls" during which throughput drops to zero. The only viable way the author found to avoid the stalls is to decrease thro

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