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   by tga 9y ago

   You probably meant http://www.tbray.org/ongoing .
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   by tga 9y ago

   Another way to sleep your Mac: set a hot spot (System Preferences > Mission Control > Hot Spots, at least in 10.10), and just move your mouse to that corner.
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   by tga 9y ago

   In the majority of cases you can't "delete a line in isolation", because it's part of a program. You have to look around and understand what the impact of deleting that line will be -- and modify nearby lines as necessar
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   by tga 9y ago

   It's not a lot of effort to add it to a new machine. It goes something like: git clone --bare https://example.com/myconfig.git $HOME/.myconfig echo "alias myconfig='git --git-dir=$HOME/.myconfig
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   by tga 9y ago

   I'm a happy follower of https://legacy-developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way... . Just a plain Git repository in $HOME, no other tools required. This makes it instantly portable to any machine (wi
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   by tga 9y ago

   Thanks for the comment, sounds like I should revise the text. You actually get a real human ( ahem, duck ), even one that can code and ask questions about what you are doing, and potentially help debug the problem.
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   by tga 9y ago

   Thank you!
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   by tga 9y ago

   The duck pool auto-scales to meet the demand, of course.
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   Show HN: Duck as a Service(duckasaservice.com)

   31 points by tga 9y ago|18 comments
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    Freestyle Edge Split Mechanical Keyboard(gaming.kinesis-ergo.com)

    2 points by tga 9y ago|0 comments
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    by tga 9y ago

    May I suggest another great back to basics CSS framework: http://bootstrapdocs.com/v1.4.0/docs/ It's only 12K minified and it includes everything you've come to expect from Bootstrap (that's now 120
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    by tga 9y ago

    Good news, you can also make your own Type 5 adapter using an Arduino. Check out this great project: https://github.com/benr/SunType5_ArduinoAdapter .
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    by tga 9y ago

    Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14618911
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    ExtReact: 115+ React Components(sencha.com)

    9 points by tga 9y ago|4 comments
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    by tga 9y ago

    While IDE transforms can be handy when getting started with small projects, you cannot use them for automated builds (projects with multiple contributors, continuous integration). Any serious project using TS does indeed require a build ste
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    by tga 9y ago

    You're limiting your options by insisting to have both app and email hosting with the same company. My suggestion is to investigate them separately. For app hosting, fire and forget (Heroku, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk), shared hosting (l
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    by tga 10y ago

    Here are two projects to look at: Citadel, ( http://www.citadel.org ) -- A lot of features, but the UI is somewhat dated. It would be interesting to see a revival. OpenXchange, ( https://www.open-xchange.com ) -- Commerc
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    by tga 10y ago

    > in developed economies unemployment does not really exist Tell that to the millions who are officially unemployed -- and that does not include everyone not working. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/country-list/unem
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    by tga 10y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Hamburg, Germany / remote Are you looking for someone to help with defining and building your early stage web platform or do you need to make large amounts of data accessible and useful? Let's talk! My experience is
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    by tga 10y ago

    And this is why giving cruddy companies insane amounts of cash works out well for humankind. Few sane companies would have been able to put significant resources behind something like this without a solid lead in hand.
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    by tga 10y ago

    I was going to complain about churn and such, but we've all heard the JavaScript framework fatigue story a thousand times. I'll summarize it to this: don't expect a solid, stable, boring library to come out of someone'
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    by tga 10y ago

    For some negative context on Coinbase, take a look at http://reddit.com/r/coinbase . It looks like, despite the shiny front and claims, they are still not a solid, trustworthy company, even though they play with a lot o
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    by tga 10y ago

    Ikea sells electrical standing desks too, available around the world: Bekant, ~$500ish http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S19022530/
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    by tga 10y ago

    Unity (and many other Linux UI projects really) current state: reinventing the wheel, with chances of hitting a usability sweet spot just before the next rewrite. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_X11/Window_M
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    by tga 10y ago

    It's a lot easier to find a good, memorable name, with the corresponding .com still available, if you go for two words instead of just one. http://www.leandomainsearch.com is a good tool for English names. Pick one base wor
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    by tga 10y ago

    Worth mentioning, a somewhat similar project with more entropy: http://radioiss.com . I love it in the background when working, for the dose of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect .
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    by tga 10y ago

    What's an investment of a few billion, Uber is in for the long game. You can to compare them to other big names in the transportation/logistics industry, like Webvan ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan )
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    by tga 10y ago

    So true, you got me on that one! I'm totally on board with this interpretation.
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    by tga 10y ago

    That's not so relevant. A smart, motivated 17 year old high school student could very well write an interesting ML library. edit: removed negative negativity
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    by tga 10y ago

    Comfortably running on the GAE free quota makes it more , not less likely to disappear unless you're there to move it when Google pulls the plug.