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by pivotal 8y ago
When Reader shut down I migrated to newsblur, vowing to pay for things I really use, so RSS never died for me :)
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by pivotal 9y ago
I switched to Newsblur after the shutdown of Google Reader. It's paid, but after what happened with Reader I realized how important a good RSS feed was to me and that it was worth paying for. The cost is also reasonable.
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by pivotal 9y ago
What is your reasoning for not using query params for the login request? I know it's probably more RESTful to use POST, but otherwise if you're using HTTPS for everything, query params are just as encrypted as the POST body. Or is
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by pivotal 9y ago
I feel the same way. Headspace's guided take 10 course was a solid introduction for me, but once I got used to regular practice, headspace's "extras" weren't needed anymore. Now all I really want is a timer and trac
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by pivotal 9y ago
Banning smartphones doesn't preclude having dumb cell phones. My smartphone died last week and I thought long and hard about getting another one. Ultimately I don't have the willpower to totally resist, but these last few days wit
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by pivotal 9y ago
I used last year to learn Elm really well and plan on using this year for F#. Go for it! Elm served as a gentle intro to Haskell for me personally since it has easier to read errors and less overall complexity to grok at first go, but it so
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by pivotal 9y ago
I don't disagree that if you can get away with just a local development environment that it is likely easier to get up and running. However, it requires good documentation of project dependencies and discipline by the team to not accid
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by pivotal 9y ago
I've had quite the opposite experience. Vagrant has saved my team lots of time fighting environmental issues. The approach of running apache locally falls apart pretty quickly as you add more components to your application. Elastic sea
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by pivotal 9y ago
I've been running Nightly and experienced the same thing with inbox. If I attempt to interact with it before fully loaded, inbox will freeze up for minutes at a time. Love everything else about nightly, this is my biggest issue.
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by pivotal 9y ago
Same experience here! I had never seen them, but when we had our daughter my aunt wisely gave us barnyard dance. I was skeptical at first, but the collection of boynton has grown and is still very popular at 18 months. Doggies is a fun read
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by pivotal 9y ago
IMO you don't need a reason for something like this, it's just fun. We all spend a lot of time solving problems with software and I believe most of us neglect that you can make stuff just to make stuff. I wrote an angular directiv
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by pivotal 9y ago
This is an interesting thought. The nicest communities on reddit I've encountered tended to be small or to have a small "core" group that all knew each other and were highly visible in the community. /r/running for
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by pivotal 9y ago
The Hyperion books also have some interesting (and prescient) things to say about humans relying on a vast network of information instead of their own memories. They are some of my favorites.
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by pivotal 9y ago
I spent some time working through various Haskell books with varying success, then decided to do a code challenge (adventofcode.com) using Elm. I didn't finish, but after writing Elm for many days on end, suddenly Haskell clicked a lot
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by pivotal 9y ago
I learned the unidirectional data flow pattern with flux before redux and redux makes flux look like war & peace! :P The no frills way I like to think about redux is your rendered page is the result of a function operating on a state ob
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by pivotal 10y ago
Even as a former smoker, I never really thought too much about smoking sections until my wife was pregnant. Suddenly someone smoking in the wrong area was a threat to my unborn child and really rubbed me the wrong way. I'm all for pers
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by pivotal 13y ago
As a fellow "hipster programmer", I was also enticed by the Bellroy wallet ads... They showed up when I was in the market for a wallet and were exactly what I needed. Love mine, but seeing your post was kind of eerie.
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by pivotal 13y ago
This was my reaction to the tabs as well - now I have three inboxes to keep clean instead of one! I disabled them as soon as I could figure out how to.
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by pivotal 13y ago
I think what makes this shutdown different from Reader is that 37signals did this as soon as they realized it wasn't a profitable venture. I can't actually say how it went down at Google, but I suspect they knew they weren't going to be mak
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by pivotal 13y ago
I think the main use case for untapped is enabling your beer drinking habits via badge rewards ;)
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by pivotal 14y ago
I think I may be starting to feel this as well. I'm 27 and have been feeling resistant to staying a programmer. My father in law has been showing me the ropes of being handy - woodworking, wiring electric, etc. I've been brewing my own beer
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by pivotal 14y ago
I could tell it was fake because the Elon Musk link wasn't in the top 3. ;)
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by pivotal 14y ago
It's funny, new graffiti is vandalism, but old graffiti becomes history in and of itself. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, they have an entire Egyptian temple that at some point was shipped across the ocean, and to me the most
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by pivotal 14y ago
I'm in your exact position. Aging Nexus One that I plan on replacing, using t-mobile. LTE isn't an issue for me for a while, as I don't plan on giving my money to either Verizon or AT&T in the near future. My storage concerns were clear
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by pivotal 14y ago
I've said it before elsewhere, but for me reading the slides to a presentation I haven't seen is sort of like watching tv in a different language. I mostly know what's going on, and I can follow, but I'm pretty sure I'm missing the main poi
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by pivotal 14y ago
I was very frustrated by this. The feeling was only compounded when I couldn't easily find an "about us" link. Eventually I did, but that only made some vague hand waving about organizing life and syncing between devices. I'm still not sure
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by pivotal 15y ago
This is precisely why a blackout day of major web sites is necessary. If Google, Yahoo, Bing and Facebook are all down for the day, not only would the users be made more aware of the issue, but the media would be forced to cover the blackou
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by pivotal 15y ago
I think an action similar to what BoingBoing did on internet censorship day might be good. On the a user's first visit of the day, a popup stops the visit, saying "This site has been blocked. Not really, but under SOPA it could be.", with a
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by pivotal 15y ago
I think that most people aren't saying that they need the two monitors, laser mouse, etc. It is more of an issue of what helps them work the best. I spend most of my day using vim in a screen session on a remote server as well, but if I s
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by pivotal 15y ago
Neat idea, although I think you need to make it a bit clearer what the product is on that page. I had to click a few times to get the executive summary. That being said, I'm a bit grumpy I didn't try to develop a similar idea I had a while

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