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by swanson 13y ago
The issue is that by the time you bring in an ORM/database migrations, form builder, link builders, asset pipeline, admin panel, etc you have basically hobbled together your own ghetto version of Rails without the vast resources/s
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"Have It Your Way" Software(mdswanson.com)
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by swanson 13y ago
If you find this fascinating and haven't seen the TV show LOST (does such an intersection existing?) - there is a similar mechanism introduced near the end of the first season that has a big impact on the plot. I wonder if ABC ever mad
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by swanson 13y ago
Be careful or LayerVault might sue you over that Present icon.
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by swanson 13y ago
Open Sans - http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans Reenie Beanie (great for 'handwritten' stuff) - http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Reenie+Beanie
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by swanson 13y ago
Absolutely nothing.
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by swanson 13y ago
You are waaaay overthinking it. Probably was just flagged to death because people are getting overloaded with NSA stories, especially when there is no new additions. I would probably have flagged it if I saw it, doesn't really advance
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by swanson 13y ago
Perfect opportunity to let me Auth with GitHub wink wink
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by swanson 13y ago
Yeah - the intention was to write a little bit every day or so, but I needed to quantify it to keep myself honest and track progress. I guess I could have said "write 20 things this month" or something similar.
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by swanson 13y ago
This is really cool Andrew, thanks for sharing!
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by swanson 13y ago
My personal stance is that my blog is MY space on the internet. It is for my thoughts - if you want to share your thoughts, that's great, but please do it on your own space (or a common space like HN/reddit).
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by swanson 13y ago
A text analytics API sounds interesting to me - even if it isn't the first one. Start with the basics and build from there, describe the existing solutions and why they aren't appropriate for your needs, show some of the open sour
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by swanson 13y ago
Don't worry Jason - I was pimping luck surface area last month: http://mdswanson.com/blog/2013/07/19/getting-traction-for-yo... ;-)
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by swanson 13y ago
> How do you successfully build an audience? Just keep writing. Don't worry about building an audience, focus on improving your own writing ability and finding your voice. I wouldn't even really say I have much of an audience -
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by swanson 13y ago
Not necessarily - you can have a standalone blog (e.g. https://github.com/swanson/swanson.github.com ). GH Pages does allow you to easily setup a project page per repository, but it is not required.
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by swanson 13y ago
I know some people like Tumblr. Or Blogger. They aren't sexy but who cares? The important part is the writing. And as long as you have your own domain you can move later when you have a free weekend and want to migrate elsewhere. If yo
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Do things, write about it(mdswanson.com)
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by swanson 13y ago
Just swap out ActionMailer with the `pony` gem!
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by swanson 13y ago
I'll add some of mine. * I can watch MOVIE XYZ on Netflix/Amazon * Small indie movie is playing at the local Arts Cinema * A band is releasing a new album * I've spent more than my monthly budget * Someo
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by swanson 13y ago
Yeah, googling for "top 10 stories from hacker news" returns http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ as the first result. Maybe he will see this thread and sign up :)
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by swanson 13y ago
> Do these, in our field, even exist anymore? (barring Yahoo) Company dress codes and time tracking? They are pretty common outside of the startup culture. "No shorts and a collared shirt, please track your billable hours".
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by swanson 13y ago
Why not book a few hours with Michael directly? http://anyfu.com/mhartl
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by swanson 13y ago
Some kind of admin/logging console for cron jobs (specifically integration with the `whenever` gem). I have a few jobs that run daily/nightly/weekly and I would love to be able to get simple information like: when was the las
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by swanson 13y ago
I posted this in another thread - it is nothing groundbreaking but would be a good small project for someone to tackle: Simple Ruby gem I was surprised didn't exist (that I could find): `validates_twitter_username` Given user input for
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by swanson 13y ago
That actually looks pretty promising - the biggest thing that I've seen that drives usage on GitHub is README badges. It sounds silly, right? Just a badge? But look at Travis, Code Climate, Gemnasium, etc. You see those badges on a pro
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by swanson 13y ago
This is basically what FollowGen[1] does. HN discussion of when the guy that built FollowGen wrote about how Twitter should shutdown his app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5607186 [1]: https://followgen.co
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by swanson 13y ago
Took me a minute... InternalStringUtils.isAllLatinCharacters("Patrick McKenzie") == true
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by swanson 13y ago
Don't make me give you a schedule. Pick 10 matched people from my zip code, then have us all mark "Yes/No" to 3 times in the next week (with an "I'm too busy" option). Create smaller groups based on overla
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by swanson 13y ago
That isn't Octopress doing it btw, that is a feature in Jekyll.
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by swanson 13y ago
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?

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