whichdan

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   by whichdan 14y ago

   Rackspace Mail is nice, but I found the interface and features a little lacking. FastMail is extremely useful when dealing with several email accounts filing into multiple folders with multiple personalities. The new beta interface has some
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   Just say "references available upon request" and try to find other people you've done programming projects with who would be comfortable being a reference. Focus on what you want out of a new position, and what you could bring to the compan
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   Start looking for a new job discreetly. If you need extra money and they're not willing to give you a raise or let you work on a side project, it's definitely time to move on. It's understandable if they don't want you to take contract work
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   Chrome or not, this is by and far my favorite Google Doodle. Every single knob works.
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   Me too. I use Mac fulltime now, but I really like Aero Glass.
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   Firefox > View > Page Style > No Style Safari > Develop > Disable Styles Opera > View > Style > User Mode It doesn't look like Chrome has an option by default, and I don't have IE on hand to test.
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   Anything on Ninja Tune.
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   There's Hirelite[1] which touts itself as "Speed Dating for Jobs." Not exactly what you're looking for, but I thought it was worth mentioning. [1] http://www.hirelite.com/
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   by whichdan 14y ago

   I wonder why they suggest that? Their homepage is 115kb, so clearly they're not trying to absolutely minimize the size of their pages.
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    Only half? (I wish I was joking.)
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    This happens -all- the time at reddit meetups. We're clearly a group of mostly programmers and techy people, yet everyone describes their profession as "programming." I have to pry out what they actually do. That said, benologist has the ri
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    Snow: 33 Lines PHP: 66 Lines - w/o PHPDoc: 45 Lines -- w/ Single-line foreaches, exceptions, and ternary operators: 34 Lines So if we use the same formatting, the PHP is only one line longer, and 5 of the lines are just end-braces. Now, tak
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    ☑ Too F'in Many
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    Thanks - 5.9% + $0.95 is a little pricey though. Stripe alone is 2.9% + $0.30.
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    Ask HN: Best solution for abstracting billing in a SaaS app?

    1 points by whichdan 15y ago|2 comments
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    I telecommute for a company that uses Skype for everything - we have a company-wide group chat, and separate group chats for developers, marketing, etc. This makes it easy to throw out a quick question or see who's online at any given momen
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    I take the environmental-friendly approach with ridiculously long showers.
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    Just speculating, but could you update an SQLite DB with JS and use an API to commit the change? Or would that be ineffective since the API keys would be publicly available? I'm assuming the db access would be infrequent, like a blog that u
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    I wonder whether enough developers would care about that extra few seconds on the initial view to make a noticeable impact?
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    Yes, it's completely unrealistic to expect a designer to work for $2k/mo in the US :)
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    Someone in another thread (sorry, don't remember which) made a good point that including several frameworks by default would discourage people from trying new/novel/less popular frameworks. I think linking to the library from Google's CDN i
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    How do they pull the memcached key with the latest timestamp? Is there a memcached equivalent of "SELECT value FROM memcached WHERE key LIKE 'prefix%' ORDER BY key DESC LIMIT 1;"?
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05/08/article-0-012B17C3... Have you considered trying these?
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    "Chrome seems to be able to do it under 10ms, IE9 and Opera at around 20ms and Firefox at 80ms (though I probably have a plugin that is causing that pain). IE7 at over 100ms. On mobile the pain is extreme, for example: on my iPhone 4S this
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    The last one I used was a T400; I should have mentioned that. I wasn't aware that the newer models have multitouch trackpads - are they nice?
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    Do you know how much power 4gb vs 8gb of ram draws? I've heard this before but always wondered how big of a battery drain it is.
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    As far as I know, the multitouch trackpad doesn't have fully-functioning drivers for Windows/Linux. On a 2011 15", I can run Ubuntu fullscreen seamlessly (literally swipe left and right between Mac and Ubuntu, with no cursor capturing or an
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    They're definitely 30-50% cheaper, but it shows. The ThinkLight instead of backlit keyboard, smaller single-touch trackpad, heavy 9-cell battery that quickly loses its capacity, mediocre screen, heavier weight.. but it still holds its own c
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    Really looking forward to checking this out once it's back online - a marketing site with a community even half as strong as HNs would be absolutely great.
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    by whichdan 15y ago

    I get where you're coming from, but I really don't think this is the case. I can churn through 400 reddit comments quickly, but 20 pages * 20 threads/page with [bulletin board software] is nothing short of a pain - not to mention the quote