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   by xyzzyb 15y ago

   That's like saying a programmer should just concentrate on programming instead of finding a good text editor.
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   by xyzzyb 15y ago

   Yes, but the salt could also be useful for sites that require passwords to include a number, a non alphanumeric character, etc.
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   by xyzzyb 15y ago

   I don't get it. The unit "calorie" already takes the different compositions of the food into account. It's simply a measure of how much energy a typical person's body will extract from that specific food. A sugar calorie is completely diffe
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   by xyzzyb 15y ago

   Huge success using the Hackers Diet (counting calories) here. Its online weight tracker is tops. Walker made the book available as an ePub earlier this year: perfect for the iPad. http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
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   by xyzzyb 15y ago

   The best intro book for Rails should be Michael Hartl's ruby on rails tutorial. http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
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   by xyzzyb 15y ago

   Exactly. Just think of all the robots and probes we could've created with the money spent on the shuttle program.
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   by xyzzyb 15y ago

   Seriously, reeder is already a great experience for me. My app use looks very similar to your screenshots, but with the typography of reeder already baked in. With just a click I can: take notes, pinboard an article (or any link in the arti
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   by xyzzyb 15y ago

   I have a great experience pointing Reeder at the hacker news rss feed. Its readability feature allows me to, with a click either parse the linked article into a nice looking format or read the HN comments.
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   by xyzzyb 15y ago

   Neither: we bought themes off themeforest.
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    by xyzzyb 15y ago

    I'd bet that a brilliant marketer with additional schooling was behind that.
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    We have our business website hosted out of the Amazon cloud. Our primary servers are actually located in their affected data center. But we also have a great data team behind it, so we aren't being (to the outside observer) affected at all
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    How about hover.com? Simply fantastic documentation and support. The phone number, should you call it, even connects to a real person.
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    Indeed. Paired with gnu screen and some bash scripts Terminal is very nice. I've got, for example, ctrl+a+t setup to trigger a script that opens a new screen tab, prompts for [user@]host:, starts up an ssh session to the host, renames the t
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    Building a better broadband map(readwriteweb.com)

    1 points by xyzzyb 16y ago|0 comments
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    This will only backup the master (or any other specified) branch. I find it's better to just have a bare repo in dropbox added as a remote called "dropbox" and use: $ git push dropbox --all or $ git push dropbox --mirror
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    Why not fireworks over photoshop? Its hybrid vector/imaging toolset make for a good web design experience.
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    TwoShay has a great writeup of this technique: http://www.two-shay.com/articles/habits-calendar
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    Using seeds to version content in development is also pretty sweet.
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    Very nice! I really dig the fact that you can share existing app layouts and that CMS content can be rendered as a regular Rails view.
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    Django strongly enforces MVC (MVT to be pedantic) programming. The templates and backend programming are kept not just at arms length, but in separate rooms.
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    My preference: DuckDuckGo: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=fantasia I prefer uncluttered and informative results at the top instead of news headlines.
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    I would, but you don't have an option for openID.
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    The problem here is that the photographer lost data that he had no way of backing up. His photos are fine, his online collections, uris, and social networking are all gone and only existed on flickr's servers.
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    Exactly. I used to have a flickr account but since dropbox/facebook came along if I want to share anything it goes in dropbox (public) or facebook (public, but it's easy for my family to see the pics).
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    Bandwidth.com / Broadband.com - Cary, NC (no remote) We're hiring for quite a few positions: http://bandwidth.com/about/join/careers.html Everything from web programming to tech support to billing to sales. I started with the company as a
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    I much prefer Divvy ( http://mizage.com/divvy/ ) over SizeUp for window management.
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    "You are descended from royalty": http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=5...
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    More like a take on the Superman insignia.
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    I find them quite natural. When reading a response, the subject of the email has already clued me into the context, I really don't need to re-read what I already sent, even an edited version. Top answer with my email below for reference, if
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    by xyzzyb 16y ago

    But it is. If users don't get a result in the first page, they'll try a different search instead of continuing to the next page.