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by xbryanx 16y ago
I suspect that it is intentionally hard to find.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
Great to see attention paid, to one of the many lesser known women who pioneered computer programming.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
Gotta break out all my old C64 casette tapes.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
This (comment activity shows up in Facebook stream) is precisely why I won't be commenting on Techcrunch articles any time soon. I have no interest in advertising to my aunt and high school ex-girlfriends that I have a minute opinion about
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by xbryanx 16y ago
Which part is awkward? Not challenging, just curious.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
Agreed. It's definitely not high enough contrast for such a thin font.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
Am I the only one who is frustrated by Hacker News' domain abbreviation with links like this? It makes the link look like it's from Google, and not just a hosted google doc. Could the URL abbreviation change to include subdomains as well?
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by xbryanx 16y ago
Make sure to check out the dada experiments listed as inspiration over at - http://the389.com
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by xbryanx 16y ago
No DRM? What are they talking about. As a "Safari Books Online by O'Reilly" subscriber I'm constantly confounded by annoying "features" that seem to have almost no purpose but to prevent you from copying anything from the online versions (l
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by xbryanx 16y ago
I'm working on a death clock right now. It's called the yearly budget for our non-profit grant funded project.
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Video lecture from the New York Times Graphics Department(channel.walkerart.org)
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by xbryanx 16y ago
Workarounds aside, I won't pay. It's totally a fair price, and so is the $5-20/month the 100 other services I use are asking me to pay. But in the aggregate I can't afford it. The web has allowed us to become readers of many perspectives, a
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Build Your Own Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer(fourmilab.ch)
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by xbryanx 16y ago
Why wouldn't the CNN bar be replaced as well? It seems to be part of the same Clear Channel video screen.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
I agree (on apachetop). I wish it were easier to discover essential tool like this beyond post-mortems. This will be a lifesaver in the future.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
As someone whose duties include branch management and team happiness, moving the DVCS has been a revolution. Improved my job happiness significantly.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
And if you look at questions on Stack Overflow you've got: 532 tagged [Git] 119 tagged [Mercurial] Just to give you a (unscientific) sense of the bias in the Stack Overflow community.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
Ha!1 Nice to know that even the almighty at Google are prone to some typos every once and a while.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
What we know about Mac OS X Lion: That it will almost certainly break all the tools you need to run a local web development environment and be a pain to upgrade, but after a few months of weird hacks will go back to being a fabulous working
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Public Laboratory - DIY Climate Science(publiclaboratory.org)
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by xbryanx 16y ago
If anyone's looking for an alternative (yes, an expensive one), I've been extremely happy with Atlassian's Bamboo CI tool for a couple years now.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
I don't think this means that you are required to build subscription functionality into your app if your app's company offers any sort of subscriptions. So if the Kindle app on iOS doesn't support subscriptions yet, then they aren't compell
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by xbryanx 16y ago
Then I guess you don't know the grammarians I know.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
Sometimes people make a silly clown shaped molehill out of pile of moles...aka...a joke. But I guess I broke the first rule. It wasn't funny. Frowny face.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
Gah! Their support email example uses two! exclamation marks! I'd! be torn as to whether to give them a grimace or a frown on that point alone!!
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by xbryanx 16y ago
When do we get to see who is really in power now? It's hilarious to me that all the pictures of the 1-10 powers in Egypt are grainy screengrabs from old TV programs.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
If I understand the garbled translation, the Nokia workers took advantage of extremely flexible work time to stage a coordinated, but totally non-rule-breaking walk out. I've never heard of this sort of half-strike method, but it's interest
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by xbryanx 16y ago
Your privacy ends where the IRS' authority to tax you begins. Thank goodness.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
The number on take away from this story was the link to the great git magic resource at the very bottom.
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by xbryanx 16y ago
I do like the impact of the logo, but am I the only one who thinks it's a bit too "military?"

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