stephencelis

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by stephencelis 17y ago
My friend (and the co-creator of the site) likes to point out that Facebook, Twitter, et al., are ego-strokers, and he wanted to make an ego-buster. I don't think either of us expected it to become as successful as it has already. It's all
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by stephencelis 17y ago
Not a substitute, but a complement.
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by stephencelis 17y ago
This is definitely a concern. We're working on a lot of anti-abuse features that will roll out, though, before it leaves private beta.
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by stephencelis 17y ago
Try "HACKERNEWS".
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by stephencelis 17y ago
There's JavaScript embed code for blogs, and links for tweeting and posting to Facebook, but we agree, and we'll be working (as we find time) on better integration with other services.
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by stephencelis 17y ago
The site is in very, very early beta. It's a side-project with a friend, but we're trying to work on features as we can. Facebook Connect and Twitter OAuth are high on the list, but so far, users have had enough of an attention span to meet
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by stephencelis 17y ago
I helped co-create this site and was surprised to find it linked here. It started as a fun project with a friend: a humorous idea that, as the attention it's gotten has shown, is apparently controversial, as well. I have to say, though, tha
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by stephencelis 17y ago
Well, it's certainly not for everyone, but shortcomings are only shortcomings as long as you agree with them and don't care to work on them.
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by stephencelis 17y ago
No sneakiness here! While we track visitors and users in order to look out for abuse, this data is not and will not be made available to profile users.
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by stephencelis 17y ago
They're not ;) See below, or, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1083043
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by stephencelis 17y ago
throw_away mentioned the joint venture, but its easiest to see the difference if you look at Macmillan's logo (nowhere to be found at mhschool.com), and maybe more importantly, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill's titles, which are all educational, and
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by stephencelis 17y ago
http://www.macmillan.com Macmillan is not McGraw-Hill.
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by stephencelis 17y ago
This was making the rounds just yesterday: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor/
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by stephencelis 17y ago
Has this patch been submitted to the 2-3 stable branch for 2.3.6?
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by stephencelis 17y ago
I've added a few HTML5 form helpers to this gem: http://github.com/stephencelis/rerails/tree/2-3-stable So something like this would do the trick: <%= f.email_field :email %>
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by stephencelis 17y ago
Dropbox is much more convenient for non-coders, and there's nothing stopping the developer from additionally running `git init`.
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by stephencelis 17y ago
Oh, it's completely awkward, and completely fun. The point wasn't to create a new library to supplant others (if someone used this code in production, I think the joke would be on them), it's to have fun with what's possible in Ruby, and pe
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by stephencelis 17y ago
I think the point of the original post is that Ruby can parse URL-like syntax (e.g., http://twitter.com/statuses/show/6592721580.json ) as code, no strings attached.
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by stephencelis 17y ago
WebKit nightlies have been updating differentially for a few weeks now. It's nice to see a 2 megabyte download instead of the previous 50 or so. It remains to be seen, though, if Apple incorporates this into its more generalized software up
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by stephencelis 17y ago
100,000, actually: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/11/04appstore.html
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Nginx HTTP Push Module(pushmodule.slact.net)
31 points by stephencelis 17y ago|10 comments
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by stephencelis 17y ago
Never said to the contrary, but skills can be acquired, and roasting is one of the easier ones to work on.
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by stephencelis 17y ago
Most coffee is still good when it was roasted a week ago (whole-bean, of course, and true, a week is starting to push it). The problem is that plenty of places—Starbucks, etc.—sell several-month-old beans.
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by stephencelis 17y ago
I'd definitely second the recommendation to roast your own. Green beans are cheap, and the you can't really have better control over freshness. Hackers interested in roasting their own should probably just grab a cheap $15–20 hot air popcor
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by stephencelis 17y ago
Freshness is great, yes, and the quality of the beans and roast are usually higher from places that actually disclose the roast date, but grind is very important. Coffee is very much about the extraction: under-extract, and the coffee will
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by stephencelis 17y ago
I live in his general neighborhood and used to work down the street from him. The roads in the area have been on and off messes the past few years (littered with potholes and generally torn up), but they're improving, and his general commut
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by stephencelis 17y ago
I think he meant the Thirsty Cups, _why's band: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Thirsty+Cups
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by stephencelis 17y ago
It's one thing to be inactive for a day, it's another to drastically truncate your online existence.
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by stephencelis 17y ago
They've been around for awhile >> RUBY_VERSION => "1.8" >> require "enumerator" => true >> [1,2,3].each => #<Enumerable::Enumerator:0x29326940>
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by stephencelis 17y ago
I'm more worried by the style guide. Just in the screenshot, I notice a lot of oddities and inconsistencies: * Unnecessary parentheses abound * A camelCase preference over snake_case * And nocase ("myname") * Calling methods with

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