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by zefhous 15y ago
About $30/month from a very small free iPhone app with iAd. Thinking about making it a paid app and seeing how it does. If you're curious: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nations/id386514813?mt=8
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by zefhous 15y ago
The link should probably be to this page: http://blog.mongodb.org/post/5545198613/mongodb-live-at-crai...
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by zefhous 15y ago
I don't think so. Wufoo and SurveyMonkey are both profitable and they both charge for a product that solves a real problem.
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by zefhous 15y ago
One of my favorite things about Rubular is the "Make Permalink" feature. Paste the link as a comment above your regex and you can easily get back to the same place later. The permalink includes your test string(s) and makes it really easy t
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by zefhous 15y ago
Yes, using Backbone is convenient and great. But instead of using it and not worrying about the details why not read the annotated source and learn something? http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/backbone.html
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by zefhous 15y ago
Actually, Apple also provides a "Genius" section on the iPhone App Store app. It's been around for a while, but I don't think they've put it in iTunes or pushed it very hard. But yes, in general I agree with your assessment of the problem.
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by zefhous 16y ago
I feel the same way, but there is a much more lucrative reason to use bitcoins: The lack of transaction fees. I don't know about you, but it really bothers me that you have to give up ≈3% of your revenue to the credit card companies if you
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by zefhous 16y ago
I can see it being used with wkhtmltopdf (uses webkit to generate PDFs) so invoice generation or something doesn't require an external request.
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by zefhous 16y ago
This is great, thank you! Took me a while to figure out how to get signed in with instapaper... Turns out it's in the Settings app. I wish Apple provided an API to link from an app to its settings page, and back to the app from the settings
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by zefhous 16y ago
Yes, Sass provides a setting that prints the source line numbers with the compiled CSS for development. I think this is on by default, but you can turn it on in the config file with: Sass::Plugin.options[:line_comments] = true # or wi
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by zefhous 16y ago
Ideally, I use Sass with Compass ( http://compass-style.org/ ). This alone is a great start to keeping things organized. One of the things I love about Sass is that it allows partials and variable declarations, which both help immensely wit
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by zefhous 16y ago
As others have mentioned, this isn't really true full-text search support, but instead an old page with an example of how you can get that kind of functionality. Full-text search should be coming, but it's still a ways off... The most recen
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by zefhous 16y ago
Seems really expensive (5.9% plus $.95 or 8.9% flat per transaction). I've been getting setup with Stripe. They just lowered their rates to 3.5% (from 5%) plus $0.30 per transaction. Good API and no other fees. Seems great so far... https:
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by zefhous 16y ago
Brian Regan comedy sketch about that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8kThoZpF_U
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by zefhous 16y ago
Thunderbolt will replace them. And it will itself be subsequently replaced for its own shortcomings.
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by zefhous 16y ago
Anyone know if you can boot from a Thunderbolt Connected drive?
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by zefhous 16y ago
It worked for Jesus...
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by zefhous 16y ago
The way I learned was by switching to Dvorak and not changing the physical keys. I highly recommend it.
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by zefhous 16y ago
What looks fake? Why would I fake it? I'd be happy to answer questions if you are actually interested.
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by zefhous 16y ago
Yes, sorry it's so small. http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4778/protestl.jpg
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What it's like in Egypt: An email from my mom
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by zefhous 16y ago
Indeed. I have done some research on flywheels and I believe that they can be much more efficient than batteries. Another huge benefit to flywheels is that they are consistent and do not suffer loss of capacity over their extremely long l
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by zefhous 16y ago
All thanks to jashkenas: CoffeeScript, Underscore.js, and Backbone.js. Using those tools has helped me to really enjoy writing JavaScript and to start doing it in a much more organized manner. They have been a huge catalyst for my growth as
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by zefhous 16y ago
Yeah, I'm not too serious about HN being involved. I just always think it's funny when there's a story on a popular website about some website being over capacity because everyone starts visiting and checking if it's up yet.
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by zefhous 16y ago
This is pretty exciting. Great news! I would love to use this for a number of things I'm involved with, but I am surprised by the package that is offered. I'm not saying that what they offer (1 year of 350 GB for $800) is not worth the pric
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by zefhous 16y ago
And now thanks to this story Hacker News is participating in the DDOS because we all want to see for ourselves if PayPal is responsive...
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by zefhous 16y ago
Also, Ruby lets you call private/protected methods with Object#send.
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by zefhous 16y ago
That's a good point, but not entirely true. I'm half Lebanese. Despite being "randomly selected" often, my Beirut-born brother has taken a box cutter on every flight he's been on since 9/11 just because he can. TSA is quite uneffective.
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by zefhous 16y ago
Christianity. Say what you want about Christianity itself — I'm not arguing for or against it — but I believe that it's because those are the societies in which a Christian morality was prevalent. A key aspect of Christian morality is fairn
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by zefhous 16y ago
I don't think so. Backbone is more about the Models, Collections, and persistence. Backbone doesn't do much with views or even touch templating, it just gives you a basic way to hook up the views to the data. From what it looks like Knockou

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