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by xbryanx 15y ago
I was able to get fees like this reversed once, but not before I got a very demeaning, public, and personal lecture about personal responsibility from the banker. To quote from the BankSimple article, "After that, I said some bad words."
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by xbryanx 15y ago
I can't get over the extremely negative connotation I have with the word lemon. Not "lemons," which sound nice and zesty. But a "lemon" which sounds like a regretted crappy purchase.
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by xbryanx 15y ago
A great way to learn the Vim navigation keys.
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by xbryanx 15y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data. "Not exactly scientific" indeed.
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by xbryanx 15y ago
If you can't remember why the onions are in there you've written poor documentation.
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by xbryanx 15y ago
I'm befuddled by these sorts of posts that are big on theory and light on details. I run tests, via a continuous integration server, and have high confidence in our code when we deploy However, we do updates at night because we often need t
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by xbryanx 15y ago
Huzah. Contrarians, please remember that, regardless of your opinion or business size, you are required by federal law (ADA of 1990) to make your services accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing. For some great examples, scroll down to "
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by xbryanx 15y ago
Are those people supposed to turn their eyesight back on, through some magical switch, as well?
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by xbryanx 15y ago
I'm happy they obscured it. I always thought it was weird that it was so prominent. For most coders, using github to code (not visitors or downloaders), this big download button was visual cruft. If your primary goal is to make downloading
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by xbryanx 15y ago
Really happy that they've made branch switching easier. It was a pain in the previous version.
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by xbryanx 15y ago
Please stop trying to reinvent the browser scrollbar on your blog. Can't page down with this junk.
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by xbryanx 15y ago
I want to read the news story written five years in the future about how the rapid growth of e-readers/tablets affects literacy and reading rates across multiple socioeconomic scales. I have no clue what it would say, but am pretty sure it
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by xbryanx 15y ago
I know I'm being a total pleeb, but given the remarkable access to the music I want to listen to, at a very cheap cost, I'd probably be willing to sign up for a mandatory mayonaise delivery service to get access to Spotify.
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by xbryanx 15y ago
I was surprised how much I learned about available Git tools and commands just by filling out the options in this survey.
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2011 Git user survey(survs.com)
57 points by xbryanx 15y ago|7 comments
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by xbryanx 15y ago
The vast majority of the world's petroleum geologists keep their data secret.
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by xbryanx 15y ago
I use and manage our JIRA instance in a small tech group inside a large non-profit. Probably only ever had 10 users. I love it, and our team has grown to be more efficient as a result of its use. Now, Confluence? Not a big fan. Tried it, di
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by xbryanx 15y ago
I applaud this group for innovating in the stagnant world of assistive devices. I'm curious to see how their work progresses in a world where braille literacy rates are on the decline and where braille readers are the minority of the US bli
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by xbryanx 15y ago
I love this collection of Python scripts to provide Git stats for my projects. Appropriately named http://gitstats.sourceforge.net/
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by xbryanx 15y ago
And I'm sure the people in charge of the F500 IT systems and PCI compliance are super frustrated at these basecamp/campfire implementors. "Just works" can often mean, "ignores some really important organizational rules," or "creates a bunch
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by xbryanx 15y ago
Exactly! I'd love to see a post with this much detail talking about the technicals of their deploy process. Using this free-wheeling branching model, requires some very flexible deploy tools, which I don't think(?) exist in the wild. Please
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by xbryanx 15y ago
Anyone know some Vim luminaries who'd be good "keynote" speakers/demo-ers? I'd vote for Drew Neil - http://vimcasts.org/about
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by xbryanx 15y ago
If you object to the P2P aspects of Spotify, wouldn't it be pretty simple to find out the port that it's broadcasting on and block outgoing communication? I wonder if anyone has tried this. Maybe Spotify would notice and quit playing.
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by xbryanx 15y ago
I'm a big fan of using Notational Velocity for just these same reasons - http://notational.net/
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by xbryanx 15y ago
I'm tired of the "meetings are toxic" claim. If you're going to use such bombastic and broad language you need to back it up with a broad set of examples. Sure, business culture has gone overboard with the meetings, but let's not throw the
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by xbryanx 15y ago
He had a minute to come here and offer some astute advice that has the potential to improve the developer's bottom line.
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by xbryanx 15y ago
I wonder how well this works. The closed captions I look at on TV from time to time are so regularly garbled and misspelled that it might miss most of the proper nouns I am filtering for.
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by xbryanx 15y ago
I'm curious if any of the Stanford students who are paying thousands for this course are worried about the diminished return they might get from their professor. Don't get me wrong, I love this idea as the free recipient, I'm just curious i
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by xbryanx 15y ago
Flickr is an amazing resource for sharing and using Creative Commons licensed photos. We use it extensively in creating museum exhibits. I hope that Google+ makes it easy to search and share photos with Creative Commons licenses.
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by xbryanx 15y ago
Only a company as financially successful as Berkshire Hathaway could get away with this non-existant branding. I doubt people would appreciate this spare design from a consumer level bank.

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