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by rawsyntax 15y ago
USAA's online banking is open to everyone. It's their driving insurance and some other products that are not.
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
It's a risk yes, but I've been using it this way for about a year and encountered no problems. I'm thinking of TIMTOWTDI, and that perhaps many people don't know about defadvice.
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Learn Emacs: use defadvice to modify functions(rawsyntax.com)
39 points by rawsyntax 15y ago|7 comments
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
I did this once... about 4 years ago. I found that I became a very uninteresting person. I worked and had no hobbies. Now I have more stuff, but not so much stuff that it restricts me from hanging out with friends. I think it's more impo
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Learn Emacs: delete-file-and-buffer(rawsyntax.com)
3 points by rawsyntax 15y ago|0 comments
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
Try out git-svn
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
I keep a local copy of old git repos on my harddrive. I backup my harddrive religiously. Provided you don't have giant repos, this works well
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Learn Emacs: align-regexp(rawsyntax.com)
3 points by rawsyntax 15y ago|0 comments
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
it's important not to have BAD design. It's not important to have THE BEST design
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
Link to the real article http://mashable.com/2011/06/15/tumblr-surpasses-wordpress/ Also the comparison only includes hosted wordpress blogs at wordpress.com
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
Doctors and lawyers have continuing education requirements that have to be fulfilled to keep their licenses. This is in addition to day job.
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Ask HN: Advice for building blog traffic
3 points by rawsyntax 15y ago|4 comments
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
For the record, enabling UUIDs in rails is straight forward. It's not the default though. Why turn on UUIDs? They are not as guessable as normal IDs.
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
But if you started programming at 50... that's different than having done it for the last 30 years.
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
Interesting.. I hadn't thought about using git as a form of rsync
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
it replays your local commits on top of the changes you pulled down.
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Why I love Git(rawsyntax.com)
9 points by rawsyntax 15y ago|6 comments
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
It depends (on the particular startup). In my experience there isn't an average startup, they all vary quite a bit.
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
the site could use a FAQ. I'm not sure I'd like to give up my address and email and all that, not knowing exactly how the site works first.
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
pretty cool, but after 7 cards it repeatedly bugs me to register. I'd rather just run through the commands quickly, not register, and not necessarily rate how well I knew them. That said, it did teach me a few new rails commands that I didn
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
if you're worried about the startup community in your city, you can always try telecommuting
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Getting started with Git(rawsyntax.com)
2 points by rawsyntax 15y ago|0 comments
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
Anecdotally, I got 130 upvotes, and something like 8000 visitors on a recent article posted here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2597973 ), which is more like 60:1
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
A better solution for monkey patching is in the works: http://yehudakatz.com/2010/11/30/ruby-2-0-refinements-in-pra... That being said, any language feature can be abused and misused
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
If you don't like Mac don't use it. I find it to be a good dev platform, however I run prod on ubuntu and am familiar with using ubuntu too. I wouldn't expect my MacBook to solve deployment / sysadmin issues for me.
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
I agree with designing for mobile first, makes for a less cluttered UI
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
Pay the first developer fairly. Then move on
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
Looks like it's time for these apps to pivot. More / different functionality than what's coming in the new operating system
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
also disks are cheap, and flac amounts to a digital copy of the physical CD. You could decode it to the original WAV files from the CD if you wanted to
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by rawsyntax 15y ago
or telecommute

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