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   by user24 15y ago

   I'm a JS developer too, I decided to read the code before reading the explanation. I said to myself "where the feck does 'i' come from? I guess it must be coming from outside somewhere". Smiled when I read your description: > The variab
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   by user24 15y ago

   One thing I didn't see addressed was why it's a good idea to add in site-specific patches at all? I understand that taken as a whole there's no real fixed language that website used - it's all some of html5, some html4, some just totally br
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   by user24 15y ago

   So many 'zomg stupid patent' articles are like this. It's like they read "Method and system for transferring information over copper wires" and think "how can these guys expect to patent any and every conceivable system for transferring inf
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   by user24 15y ago

   you don't really want to be automatically generating chrome extensions. Instead have one definitive extension and have some custom options within it.
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   by user24 15y ago

   I'm upvoting you because well done for launching something. But what I see is "our service allows you to email your friends, but only with links, and not using your normal email client". Explain why I'm wrong? And which of my problems are y
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   by user24 15y ago

   The reason for this is that you can google ranges of numbers, and people a couple of years ago were using this feature to find credit card numbers that were posted online, eg searching for 4000000000000000..4999999999999999 It was around th
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   by user24 15y ago

   this isn't necessarily a point against scheduling posts. I have about 8 draft posts which sit there for months on end until I finally revisit them and get then done. There's even a fully written (and awesome) blog post that's just waiting f
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   by user24 15y ago

   > It also seems the actual spinning is done with CSS, not JS that means it'll be hardware accelerated where supported, which will increase battery life.
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   by user24 15y ago

   of all the things to get het up about...
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    by user24 15y ago

    Really glad to see that people are interested in this! We're actually planning to write up a little blog post about our learning experience with NodeJS etc, maybe open-source the code, and then post that to HN/reddit/etc. We've actually bee
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    by user24 15y ago

    yeah no worries, I just wanted to check that it wasn't someone trying to attack the site :)
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    by user24 15y ago

    yeah it's hilarious what people's doodles actually end up turning in to. Everything's logged on the server, I'm planning to do a stop-motion style playback video to put up on youtube eventually.
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    by user24 15y ago

    Thanks :) Yeah, we limit the length of line to try to avoid scribblers. We thought of rate-limiting the number of lines too, and adjusting the limit, so the first time you hit the limit you're stopped for 1 seconds, next time for 2 seconds,
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    by user24 15y ago

    I've got around 50% followers to follow ratio...
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    by user24 15y ago

    This is what we do for http://300lin.es ;) edit: My God, it's full of cocks.
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    by user24 15y ago

    Here's a graph of my entire list, annotated with "I don't know this person" and "This person is invited to my wedding". http://i.imgur.com/zd2Ts.png Top ten: 1) best man 2) random person who lives in my apartment blocked who I stalked onc
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    by user24 15y ago

    any approach that succeeds is valid. without knowing more it's hard to know what will succeed for you.
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    by user24 15y ago

    I used this exact tactic with http://twitter.com/u24_dailyquotes and now twitter won't allow me to follow anyone else, even if I unfollow some accounts. Be careful!
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    by user24 15y ago

    Wow, this is such good advice. You're right, I'm constantly having stern talks with myself about being a mature, clever guy and so why the heck am I wasting time, etc etc. Thankyou.
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    by user24 15y ago

    yeah all good points. If there was a html menu that delivered the same confidence as a PDF menu the that would be much better, as the html version would be more usable on mobile devices etc etc (and just generally more webby).
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    by user24 15y ago

    yeah, I switched to cd - for a while but got bitten by this too many times. $ pwd /some/long/compli/cated/v1.0.7/path/to/_stuff $ cd /simple/ $ do -stuff $ cd ./foo $ do -stuff $ rem now let's get back to that complicated directory again $
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    by user24 15y ago

    > Is a PDF download really so bad? I much prefer a PDF menu. In fact I actively look for a menu download link when I eat out, which is often. It reassures me that I'm seeing exactly the same menu that I'll see when I sit down at the tab
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    by user24 15y ago

    $ pushd / oh, neat. Thanks.
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    by user24 15y ago

    One I use all the time is this: $ pwd /Users/me/Sites/foo $ pushd . $ cd / $ pwd / $ popd $ pwd /Users/me/Sites/foo Or in English: If you're in a directory that you need to leave but you know you'll go back there in a minute, use "pushd ."
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    by user24 15y ago

    > In return she would sign a NDA Would work OK if she took it, but only until it happens the next time. AirBNB cannot afford to make 'pay them to shut up' a policy. And if she took the moral highground, it would look very bad indeed. An
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    by user24 15y ago

    Reminds me very much of Lockhart's Lament[1] - an excellent essay on the state of mathematics education, and which has featured on HN several times[2]. So yeah, if this topic interests you and you haven't yet read the lament, go and read it
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    by user24 15y ago

    The original gameboy. No backlight. No stereo sound. No colour! No game saves. (edit: although colour would have been ahead of its time, the other features could easily have been scope-creeped into the final product)
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    by user24 15y ago

    > Arrays are created with array() as opposed to a more modern []. What? Why is [] better? Because it saves you typing 5 extra characters?
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    by user24 15y ago

    Yep, totally. I got "Is reddit down?" from over a year ago, with 14 points, linking just to reddit.com. Clearly not a top post. Default the points to >=50 at least, possibly with an option for users to set it. Great idea though.
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    by user24 15y ago

    I have a checklist I go through before I invest significant time into my own side projects: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2011/05/why-your-web-app-wont-wor... Then I plan everything to the last detail, then I build it. When I was younger I j