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by stevefink 16y ago
I know there's a plethora of URL shorteners these days, and most platform providers (eg: Twitter) are introducing their own so they can harvest analytics themselves. For whatever reason though, I keep trusting Google with all of my most per
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Google URL shortener available to the public(goo.gl)
153 points by stevefink 16y ago|120 comments
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by stevefink 16y ago
That and most places with a clue that are hiring competent sys admins will expect at least some knowledge of sed and awk.
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by stevefink 16y ago
This is one of the most creative time sinks I've ran across in a while, had to link it here.
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Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site(erkie.github.com)
684 points by stevefink 16y ago|74 comments
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by stevefink 16y ago
DNS issues are the cause for so many outages by a myriad of prestigious web shops. It's incredible how often overlooked something so pivotal to your infrastructure goes without being properly monitored. I have seen entire businesses suffer
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by stevefink 16y ago
samy is simply one of the brightest minds in our field, period.
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by stevefink 16y ago
Not to down talk the existing state of iOS HN native apps - but last I checked, they just weren't worthwhile over simply visiting the website with mobile Safari. There was no capability to view more than the top 20 submissions, upvote, thre
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by stevefink 16y ago
Clever idea however also like Match.com I envision 90% of the users here to be the male, aka non-technical types with an idea and no engineer to implement it. The other 10% is mediocre looking women maybe looking to mingle if something extr
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A console application for interacting with HTTP servers(github.com)
1 points by stevefink 16y ago|0 comments
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by stevefink 16y ago
I'm impressed with how transparent Google was with handling the issue. Unfortunately, things like this can and will occasionally happen. You can either put up your own Postfix server if you do not like it - or you can thank Google for conti
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by stevefink 16y ago
Although it's a matter of opinion, I break it down like this: 1) SQL is an acronym 2) Acronyms are typically enunciated letter by letter, although it's not uncommon for them to be enunciated as a word either (ARP is read as a word, althou
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by stevefink 16y ago
RVM is one of those tools that you add to your arsenal that makes you go back and think how you ever got by without it before. This is particularly true if you are working on multiple projects, all of which have their own Ruby versioning/ge
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by stevefink 16y ago
Kind of off-topic, but Matt (the author of cocoawithlove.com) is one of the best hackers in the iOS/Mac community. You will notice a great majority of his posts contain very valuable information and are simple to consume because of his uniq
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by stevefink 16y ago
This is a good reference point, at least for starters, when someone asks you "what kind of NoSQL database should my application use, if any?"
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by stevefink 16y ago
While I agree with most of Jeff's sentiments - I do have to diverge on marking how fast software moves by something as arbitrary as a version number. Something such as versioning is completely ad-hoc and should not mark the advancement/matu
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by stevefink 16y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but what exactly is appealing about this service and/or is new and innovative? It's trivial enough to put a web interface in front of BIND or djbdns to replicate this behavior to where I'm trying to understand
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by stevefink 16y ago
Save so much time and energy with this tool. Realized how much more I get done on a daily basis because of it and almost felt guilty not to donate a few bucks.
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by stevefink 16y ago
Re 2): With great power comes great responsibility.
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by stevefink 16y ago
Signatures have existed preconfigured on smart phones since the beginning of time. The iPhone did not by any means change the game here. Have you never seen "Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry" before? By default, most users are not s
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by stevefink 16y ago
Just when you think you have read all of the most relevant links on HN for the month, Hacker Monthly gets released. It's amazing how much quality content slips my radar. Kudos - this PDF also looks fantastic on the iPad.