pastylegs

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by pastylegs 12y ago
This looks great. I've been looking for an offline alternative to Evernote for a while now. Are there any other decent Mac apps I should consider?
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by pastylegs 12y ago
I wouldn't use Linode. Not that I don't love Linode but for a simply family blog it's total overkill. I use DigitalOcean for a couple of smaller sites and have no problem with them (and costs $6/month as opposed to $20&#
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by pastylegs 13y ago
It sounds like you are trying too hard to feel validated and you want immediate success. You have written a very long piece including your entire background, the success of your peers compared to yourself, the positions and awards you have
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by pastylegs 13y ago
- Adding visual diffs would be very cool. - Some sort of visual timeline would also be great, i.e. the ability to flip through screenshots with a javascript slider or something - Export to gifs of video might be useful - The ability to tag
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by pastylegs 13y ago
Is WhatsApp popular in the states? I'm Irish and living in Spain and in both countries it's incredibly popular. Most of my communication is channeled through it (I'd rather send a WhatsApp then call in most cases)
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by pastylegs 13y ago
This is very useful and nicely put together. Well done! An easy iframe embed link on the playback page would be nice (pro feature?). Also, being able to target a window using the spacebar (like the native screenshot app) would be useful, as
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by pastylegs 13y ago
I do something similar with my own personal site. It's using Jekyll and the repo is in bitbucket. When I commit to the repo, my server is pinged (to a lightweight Flask app) and the server pulls the changes and recompiles the static pa
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by pastylegs 13y ago
An interactive javascript shell for demonstrating useful curl commands and allowing users to test their own commands?
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by pastylegs 13y ago
"Frankly, if you're not into bingo and ballroom dancing, you may find there's not much for you to do on the ship other than work or read." What is happening to people? When you are insulating yourself from nearly every a
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by pastylegs 13y ago
I think you need to add some information. Who you are, why you are doing this, where you are, what you will be sending a customer, how you will be sending it, the ingredients used and so on. Presumably anyone who is willing to pay $30 a mon
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by pastylegs 13y ago
Price isn't the only thing that dictates value
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by pastylegs 13y ago
Jekyll
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by pastylegs 13y ago
1Password - https://agilebits.com/onepassword/mac . It's not cheap but it's certainly worth the price ($40)
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by pastylegs 13y ago
+1 to gandi. They also have a nice DNS versioning system so you can track all your changes.
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Ask HN: How do you discover project requirements and transcribe them to specs?
1 points by pastylegs 13y ago|1 comments
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by pastylegs 13y ago
I haven't read all the article yet, but I was just listening to a podcast yesterday on the subject of crack which might be interesting: http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/crack-works/
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by pastylegs 13y ago
It's interesting to see people doing this as it's something I've been planning to try. I've backed the Lima project on Kickstarter which will hopefully become my Dropbox replacement: http://www.kickstarter.com
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by pastylegs 13y ago
Or maybe you can go easy on someone writing an interesting blog post in something other than their first language.
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by pastylegs 13y ago
You reported the results of somebody exploiting your account, not an exploit. Why would they reward a simple bug report?
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by pastylegs 13y ago
I don't know a lot about Stripe, but I have been using Paypal to accept payments for work (I'm a web developer) from the US (I live in Ireland). Would Stripe be a viable alternative to this approach (I'm not fully comfortable
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by pastylegs 13y ago
I pressed back immediately after reading this opening. Not because I fall into the category of person the author describes but because I'm not bothered reading an article written by somebody who starts their blog posts by insulting the
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Django Discussions - a new community for discussing all things related to Django(djangodiscussions.com)
2 points by pastylegs 13y ago|0 comments
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by pastylegs 13y ago
It took me 3 kills to realise I was team killing! Nice game
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by pastylegs 14y ago
Thanks for introducing me to the 'grown up' world of app development reminding me to 'stop whining' about design. There's a big difference between being aware of good design principles and being competent enough to start making changes on y
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by pastylegs 14y ago
This sort of stuff makes me cringe