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by westi 14y ago
Worldwide Telecommute / REMOTE Automattic is currently hiring for the following positions: - Account Engineer - http://automattic.com/work-with-us/account-engineer/ - Front End Engineer - http://automattic.com/work-with-us/front-end-engi
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by westi 14y ago
Cool. I completely agree that using PHPBB for a startup blog would be "strange".
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by westi 14y ago
Owen wants more people to use Habari instead. Habari was started by a group of ex-WordPress developers - http://asymptomatic.net/2007/01/09/29/whats-up
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by westi 15y ago
Nice and fast, Thanks - https://github.com/olark/hashmonitor :)
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by westi 15y ago
Great. Looking forward to this.
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by westi 15y ago
Is hashmonitor open source or going to be open sourced? Seems like it would be a really useful contribution to the JS development community to make this available for everyone to use.
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by westi 15y ago
We've made it possible for users to opt-in to show a ribbon to raise awareness until the 24th and blacking out their sites for the protest on Wednesday as well if they want. You can read more here: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/j
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by westi 15y ago
s/Tech Company/Open Source Project/
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by westi 15y ago
> How are they useful? Why would anyone care about how you developed a single bugfix or a feature? In my opinion in a collaborative environment it is immensely useful to know about how a feature / bug fix was developed. Hiding away the
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by westi 15y ago
My point is that these interim commits are useful information for other people too not just you. They help show how the feature developed, what other implementation ideas you tried along the way etc.
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by westi 15y ago
I completely agree with this. If a change was worth committing then it is worth sharing that commit with everyone. Otherwise you run the very real risk of loosing important information about the design of a feature the bugs that were found
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by westi 15y ago
This is cool. Some bugs in the information returned though. For example: http://underthesite.com/technologies/WordPress-Batcache-Plug... "WordPress Batcache Plugin is closed source. " Batcache is Open Source :)
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by westi 15y ago
Indeed. This article is more "why C++ makes this particular program easier to write" and is in no way any proof that C++ is better than C.
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by westi 16y ago
We have been providing a stable and reliable API for a long time. Just because it doesn't look like how you envisage it should doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Matt's post was true at the time and WordPress.org the open source project has nev
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by westi 16y ago
We don't use Smarty for a number of reasons. Anyway PHP is itself designed as a Templating language and works very well. Adding Smarty or any other templating language into the mix just means that users and developers have to learn both PHP
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by westi 16y ago
If your interested in a rewrite of WordPress then I'm sure the Habari guys would be interested in your help. They started a while back on doing pretty much just that.
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by westi 16y ago
Feed Readers are like mailing lists. You have to scan the subjects and decide if you want to dive in. You don't have to read everything from everyone you subscribe to. Also Hacker News is for me a feed reader - I benefit from everyone else
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by westi 16y ago
I just wouldn't want to actively encourage anyone to enter their password in a webpage like that. We need to train people to behave more securely.
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by westi 16y ago
A friend an I have considered a number of times setting up something like http://ismypasswordsecure.com and just collecting passwords that way. This is of course pure evil and we never figured a way in which it had a return apart from pub
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by westi 16y ago
Thinking about this some more over lunch today I think that a merge of the functionality of Dopplr and FourSquare would be a really interesting thing. Combining the social gaming and tips from FourSquare with the trip information and tips f
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by westi 16y ago
I really miss the utility that Dopplr provided and while Tripit does provide a good service it is not the same service. I find it really sad when a startup that was providing such an excellent service is bought up a dies like this. If it re
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by westi 16y ago
Personally, not surprised at all in the way this went. That "icon" just distracts from the main page content and draws you away from the coupon code itself. I suspect a smaller less prominent icon - maybe in the top right hand corner of the
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by westi 16y ago
I really admire the way Jason and the team have taken on this problem space. They react well to customer feedback and it has been a great experience to watch them grow as a user. I look forward to the next innovations from the team.
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by westi 16y ago
So the one "small" hole in the merging infrastructure in subversion is what makes git "shine" above subversion? This issue is well documented and accepted as a deficiency - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.advanced.... P
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by westi 16y ago
Yes. But they have a habit of making non-bug fix changes in point releases and the implication is these would be installed silently.
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by westi 16y ago
This is only useful if they don't break extensions on update. Too many firefox extensions don't survive an update. I'm happy for security fixes to get pushed out this way but normal bugfix / feature enhancement releases less so.
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by westi 16y ago
Good discussion of the options. I'm a big fan of the simplicity and usability of the hot-backup.py script that the subversion team provide
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by westi 16y ago
In general if you follow the guides available from people like slicehost/linode etc in how to get your VPS secure it is likely to be more secure than some shared hosts seem to be. You do need to keep on top of keeping the VPS up to date but
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by westi 16y ago
Excellent.
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by westi 16y ago
Looks really nice. I looked around the site but I couldn't see what the licence was for the WordPress plugin?

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