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by rubergly 3y ago
Came here to ask the same question. Really hope there are some good recommendations!
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by rubergly 7y ago
VIZ Media | San Francisco | Android Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite VIZ Media is an anime/manga publisher based in San Francisco. We're one of the largest comics publishers in the English market (rivaling Marvel & DC),
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by rubergly 10y ago
VIZ Media | San Francisco | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite VIZ Media is the leading company for anime and manga localization and distribution. We’re looking for someone to join our small engineering team, where we work on web and mo
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by rubergly 10y ago
VIZ Media | San Francisco | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite VIZ Media is the leading company for anime and manga localization and distribution. We’re looking for someone to join our small engineering team, where we work on web and mo
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by rubergly 10y ago
Software Engineer at VIZ Media, the leading company for anime and manga localization and distribution ONSITE - Mid Market, San Francisco Works on web and mobile app development to improve and extend the reach of renowned anime and manga tit
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by rubergly 11y ago
In case it wasn't obvious, the word "female" is an adjective, and referring to a group of people by an adjective instead of a noun has a demeaning connotation in English, especially when it's primarily used for one group
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by rubergly 14y ago
Which is your favorite? This is a great list, but hard to pick out the best from just reading all of these sites.
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by rubergly 14y ago
"Play Station"? I assume they're aggregating similar terms, so is this just a case of choosing the wrong aggregate name? Google Trends reports "playstation" is MUCH more common than "play station" (looks like at least 10:1).
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by rubergly 14y ago
Looks great. I can only imagine that this is the first step towards allowing users to store their credit card information securely with Stripe and not have to pass it through every merchant site. I can't wait until the day that Stripe's eas
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by rubergly 14y ago
Spending more time doing X is correlated with spending more time talking about X? Spending more time talking about X is correlated with spending more time arguing about X? Spending more time arguing is correlated with higher relationship co
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by rubergly 14y ago
...how have they been granted a monopoly?
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by rubergly 14y ago
Stripe gets a lot of love here on HN, and it's almost universally praised as having no faults and being better than Paypal in every single way. And yet I never see anyone discuss the experience for users. I actually really like the ability
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by rubergly 14y ago
> Baskerville seems to be the king of fonts. What I did is I pushed and pulled at the data and threw nasty criteria at it. But it is clear in the data that Baskerville is different from the other fonts in terms of the response it is sol
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by rubergly 14y ago
More realistically, Visa was probably hoping that many consumers would, like the author, already have the option of and be forced into using their Visa card. I agree that this seems, in addition to being extremely frustrating to almost all
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by rubergly 14y ago
As I was ranting a bit about Fog Creek's choice of label colors in Trello ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4330851 ), I started to wonder: do development shops of 30+ people typically not include anyone who is red-green colorblind? Typ
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by rubergly 14y ago
I've had the exact same experience. The only situations I've really run across problems with color is with labeling or tagging, if colors play a critical role in distinguishing the tags. This was particularly bad in Trello before they intro
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by rubergly 14y ago
I read the title as "Valve Linux Box" and was a fairly disappointed.
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by rubergly 14y ago
Looking at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1072027/Screenshots/1z.png , I find the comment about "perfect spacing and clean typography" almost laughable. I also prefer design that incorporates smart typography to convey importance and structure. H
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by rubergly 14y ago
all of those are significantly more complicated. you really can't argue that a shape made up of one very simple shape is only slightly less complicated than a shape made up of a couple/several simple shapes. by that logic, you could argue t
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by rubergly 14y ago
Am I the only one who sees a clear, functional difference between "todo" and "list" apps? Todo apps: Any.do, Orchestra, 2Do, Do It Tomorrow, TeuxDeux List apps: Clear, Cheddar, Listary I always keep one of each one my phone, because they se
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by rubergly 14y ago
also, know emacs a little if you're an OS X user -- the emacs bindings provided in OS X text fields are amazing.
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by rubergly 14y ago
it sounds like IFTTT is its API.
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Ask HN: Where Should a Young Hacker Live in the Bay Area?
5 points by rubergly 14y ago|4 comments
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by rubergly 14y ago
All the praise I've heard about Stripe has been from a developer's perspective. But, as a user, I find logging in to PayPal(/Google Wallet/Amazon Payments) and clicking a couple buttons much more convenient than having to enter (+ look up)
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by rubergly 14y ago
Do any reading apps have pinch zooming? I don't see how pinch zooming would work with reflowing text well.
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2nd Annual Worldwide Stack Overflow Meetup Day -- Apr 28(meetup.com)
2 points by rubergly 14y ago|0 comments
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Back-End Engineers Are the Unsung Heroes of the Tech Industry(pandodaily.com)
2 points by rubergly 14y ago|0 comments
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by rubergly 14y ago
I'm not anywhere near an expert, but I wanted to point out that there is a difference (I assume substantial) between someone who drinks 10-15 cups of coffee a week for several years and then goes off permanently and someone who drinks the s
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by rubergly 14y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Congrats and good luck!
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by rubergly 14y ago
Compared to articles on sites that Lifehacker that boast claims like "10 Ways to Perfect Your Sleep Cycle!"; I really love the honesty of articles written like this with the perspective of "it worked for me; I'd recommend it, but your milea

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