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by tghw 15y ago
If we're going to cite the 90s, let's not forget that taxes were a good bit higher then as well. In fact, right at the end there, we had a budget surplus.
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by tghw 15y ago
I leave my tower on the floor next to the desk and all of the cables are long enough to reach even when it's at standing height. There is a tray below the back edge of the desk that you can rest smaller objects on, like a USB hub. I believe
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by tghw 15y ago
That's why I specifically called out OS X. In 1984, that model made a lot of sense. But sometime during the next 17 years, computers got powerful enough that the reason doesn't really make sense anymore, and we fall back to "because people
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by tghw 15y ago
I've never understood the "no open windows but still running" model of OS X. In some ways, this makes more sense, but it also makes it more confusing, since you don't know what state the application will be in when you try to get back to it
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by tghw 15y ago
I work with Rob. I always knew he was awesome, but I didn't realize he was this awesome. Great job Rob!
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by tghw 15y ago
How do you ensure transparency without regulation?
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by tghw 15y ago
This is not why they use mainframes instead of the cloud. This is why they employ competent sysadmins.
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by tghw 15y ago
The people she would be scared of already know her identity. In fact, they may have stolen it from her.
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by tghw 15y ago
This is actually a pretty favorable outcome for HTC, as the reported industry average for invalidations during IP review is around 90 percent. This is one of the biggest problems with the modern patent system.
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by tghw 15y ago
We give you SCSS/Compass and we host it for you. It's all about reducing friction.
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by tghw 15y ago
Have a fix in for the next deploy.
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by tghw 15y ago
We actually do maintain a history of all of the published versions and the current preview version, but we haven't exposed them yet, since it makes the interface more complex, but it is something on our radar.
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by tghw 15y ago
To be fair, nor is this. We use CodeMirror ( http://codemirror.net ), which at least gives you line numbers, syntax highlighting, braces matching, and (coming soon) autocomplete. Sure, it's no [vim|emacs|Visual Studio|Eclipse|nano], but it
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by tghw 15y ago
Yes and no. Live.js will do that sort of reloading for you, but it won't host it for you. You'd also have to set up on the fly SCSS=>CSS compilation. Neither of those are hard, but the idea is that you don't have to do any of that sort
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by tghw 15y ago
Mostly because good names are hard to come by, and WebPutty (if you unstick your brain from PuTTY) is a pretty decent name. We would have loved to incorporate transmogrifier into the name, but that's hard to type and spell.
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by tghw 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestions! We've considered embedding Firebug Lite, since it gets you most of the inspect stuff you'd want for CSS editing. We may still add it. Autocomplete is also high on the list of features, we just ran into some probl
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by tghw 15y ago
Yup, we used the Guiders library posted by the Optimizely guys: https://github.com/jeff-optimizely/Guiders-JS
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by tghw 15y ago
Haha. No, I think if we do anything like that, it'll probably be via Mercurial.
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by tghw 15y ago
Yeah, we didn't really make the connection at first (pun sorta intended...) We were thinking more like modeling putty or spackle for the web. Oh well :)
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by tghw 15y ago
Instead of specifying http://example.com/foo.png or https://example.com/foo.png , you can just use //example.com/foo.png. AFAIK the only downside to that is older versions of IE (6 & 7 I think) will download the image twice for some
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by tghw 15y ago
Thanks! Your point was one we expected to hear, especially here on HN. We actually did look into getting Mercurial (which is what we use internally and what we provide via Kiln) up and running in AppEngine, which has been done before, but w
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by tghw 15y ago
Haha, we were wondering how long it would take people to notice. Yeah, it is. We picked it before realizing it, and didn't know until we were getting permission for it. We'll probably change it soon, but since it plays a pretty minor role o
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by tghw 15y ago
Yeah, at this point we're not doing HTML because that would mean we would be hosting your whole site. Fortunately, with CSS3, there are fewer extra elements you have to add for stylistic reasons, so it's getting to be less of a problem.
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by tghw 15y ago
Officially speaking, we don't support the dev channel. It just isn't feasible. That said, if you could send us a bug report at webputty@fogcreek.com or via https://webputty.fogbugz.com/?pg=pgPublicEdit we'll take a look and see what we ca
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by tghw 15y ago
Don't get us wrong, we love Firebug, but it is kind of a pain to then take the changes you made, copy them out, paste them somewhere else, and then deploy it. Backfire makes that easier, which is good, but you still don't have SASS and Co
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by tghw 15y ago
If you try it out, you'll see that there are two modes, Preview and Published. Your changes don't go to anyone else until you are done with them, so we won't serve up half-baked CSS while you're still working on it. Once you're done, you hi
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by tghw 15y ago
Yeah, we know there are tools out there that do similar things (Backfire, live.js, etc.) but we do think the hosting will appeal to some people (with gzip and etags set up properly) and SCSS/Compass, which make working on CSS much nicer,
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by tghw 15y ago
Yeah, we're still working on a way to make this work better for the sort of ongoing web development that most HN readers probably spend a good amount of time doing, but we do think it is very useful for smaller sites that don't need paralle
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by tghw 15y ago
Clickable link: http://webputty.net Blog post: http://blog.fogcreek.com/webputty-css-editing-goes-boink/
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