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by jcoder 12y ago
It looks like each page a user navigates to is appended to the URL. I hope the team develops the notion of "browsing modes" with the option (on by default I would think) to use canonical URLs for a given page. Otherwise, a user tr
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How Home Depot Copied Apple to Build an Ingenious New Bucket(wired.com)
1 points by jcoder 12y ago|0 comments
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by jcoder 12y ago
Similar comics existed (and exist) growing up in the U.S., but they are less prominent in comic book stores, and more prominent in traditional book stores or the Sunday paper. E.g., Calvin and Hobbes ( http://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by jcoder 12y ago
> increasing connascence Well, you're trading connascence of position for connascence of name, which in this case is much better because you are providing context for the argument data.
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by jcoder 12y ago
> At the time, Kew possessed virtually the entire planet’s population of Nymphaea thermarum. If preservation is the goal, maybe the plants ought to be spread around a bit. Sounds like the theft could be a net gain for the species (shrug)
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by jcoder 12y ago
> What a terrible article Those are quotes from interview subjects, not editorialization. If the subject's opinion is horrible, you want that to show through in the article.
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by jcoder 12y ago
Then don't upvote it. Asking that people prescreen their submissions to not offend your subjective definition of "interesting" or "informative", is introducing a chilling effect.
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by jcoder 12y ago
Their primary computer must be one of those.
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by jcoder 13y ago
It makes coffee? Seriously, same idea, but it's still newsworthy because it's a bad, bad, dangerous idea .
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by jcoder 13y ago
Makes sense, thanks.
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by jcoder 13y ago
Was his prior history as @N already lost at that point?
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by jcoder 13y ago
Absolutely sincere, but pre-coffee as well :)
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by jcoder 13y ago
Yes I agree with that. Sorry for not taking the time to make a coherent argument :)
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by jcoder 13y ago
You may have missed my point, but that's probably my fault :P.
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by jcoder 13y ago
What an incredibly important book for little boys, to normalize learning from women early on so they don't grow up to form stereotypes like "programming is for men". Bravo!
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How's My SSL? checks the security of your TLS web client(howsmyssl.com)
9 points by jcoder 13y ago|2 comments
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by jcoder 13y ago
This seems really useful, but I don't think Github would approve of the Octocat usage: http://octodex.github.com/faq.html
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by jcoder 13y ago
> 3)... "Your document will not be uploaded. The cryptographic digest is calculated client-side."
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by jcoder 13y ago
I understand the desire for a challenge, but you might consider not submitting them. Effort goes into advancing a candidate's application at each stage, so someone out there is wasting their time so you can get your "good job!&quo
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by jcoder 13y ago
I had never heard of it until now, but now that I've seen Jade, it doesn't seem like a replacement for Markdown at all. I use MD to add semantics, formatting, and links to text. 99% of the Markdown documents on my computer will ne
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by jcoder 13y ago
> Do you think he should have just said "sure man, sounds great, go for it!" His friend would have made a lot of personal progress in their understanding and abilities.
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by jcoder 13y ago
What about long-term maintainability of a large application? Rails has its issues there, but a body of best practices has grown up around maintaining long-lived rails apps. I wonder what the author's opinion would look like were it bui
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by jcoder 13y ago
I've worked several programming jobs since switching to Dvorak, and it has never been an issue---it takes < 10 seconds to change the layout OS-wide. No need to request a special keyboard (and I leave my keycaps as QWERTY because I t
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by jcoder 13y ago
...because Obama lived in Indonesia?
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by jcoder 13y ago
Except the most successful political fundraising machine in history that ran on Jekyll [0] :P [0] http://kylerush.net/blog/meet-the-obama-campaigns-250-millio...
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by jcoder 13y ago
How do you prove that onions.io is running https://github.com/onionsapp/Onions-Rails-API ?
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by jcoder 13y ago
It's ads and trackers all the way down?
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by jcoder 13y ago
Whoosh!
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by jcoder 13y ago
WJW: https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000/499/002/9bbefc6069c0... A hand-drawn sketch of the planned UI would look less vaporwarey.
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by jcoder 13y ago
Considering what we've learned, anyone's definition of "appropriate measures" has probably changed.

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