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by systemtrigger 13y ago
I count 18 instances of the word "tweet" and 7 of "Twitter" in that short post. For the love of language please stop referring to the medium. She makes a fair point, and I agree with her in the case of the man whose full
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
Author asserts Meteor scales poorly, which inspired his script "demeteorizer" which helps only if the project is deployed to author's hosting service "modulus.io"
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17455578/unthinkable_tho... "Evolution, so far, may possibly have blocked us from being able to think in some directions; there could be unthinkable thoughts." Which p
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
Oh I see, it passes coordinates to your rest api which returns neighborhood based on fences you have created. Cool. I can imagine this would be useful for drawing fences around businesses and making an app that changes its display of closes
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
I am near you, in Chandler, so cannot help test SF but would be interested in PHX. After reading your JavaScript I have a question: HTML5 geolocation returns lat/lon so what are you using that isn't shown in the script to get neig
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
Impressive attention to detail. I love how there is a slight difference between the way the second hand ticks, between models. Did you start each one with a photo as scaffolding and draw the SVG on top? Did you use Illustrator or Gimp? Beau
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
Open a page you admire in Chrome, inspect it in DevTools and play with its style rules. Start a project and copy liberally from the masters.
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
I'm confused then because according to founder Greg Kidd 3taps does not get its data by scraping Craigslist: "...We didn't get the data from them anyways. We're finding it from other sources which have already indexed it
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
You can, if you don't mind it breaking in IE < 9.
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
You are correct, it is off by the height of the bar at the bottom of the window. It uses fixed positioning -- not absolute positioning as was prescribed in the hack. Also he sets the modal height to 50%. The CSS of the demo is not the CSS o
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
margin: auto; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; The JavaScript console error I see is: Blocked a frame with origin "http://s.codepen.io" from accessing a frame with origin "
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
One thing I would like to know about Alibaba is how to best distinguish between good and bad suppliers. One of the criticisms levied upon Alibaba is that there is no way of knowing which of the suppliers can be trusted and which are not eve
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
You could use Flickr's API to acquire the images. Filter on interestingness, favorite tag and size. If it is only for your personal use, there are no limitations -- otherwise filter on license.
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
I am saying it seems much easier to write about compelling user experiences than to create them, and given the price they are charging for their product it makes me wonder if I should be writing papers about user experiences instead of prog
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
I'm in the wrong section of the industry apparently. I have been focusing my efforts on building technology when what I should have been doing is writing blog articles about user interface design. I suspect many more people will buy th
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
I recorded my thoughts while browsing your site. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26816257/railyo.mov
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
For 6, yes he's referring to that. Learn python, but maybe not now. You are taking on plenty with git, ruby, rails, html, css and js. The best way of honestly representing your expertise is, in my opinion, web application developer.
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
Sure. I used the 3taps API to make: http://cl.meteor.com You browse Craigslist posts using the direction keys on your keyboard. I stopped when I realized I did not know how to solve the image hosting problem.
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
Every day I have a list of ~500k images hosted on CraigsList that I want copied to Amazon S3. Once a day my service would send IWouldPayForThat the list of urls, and IWouldPayForThat would download then upload all of the images to my S3 buc
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
When a company lowers wages on its rank and file its executives should not enjoy increases.
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
Even if your friend's numbers are off by an order of magnitude it is an interesting thought experiment to try to reverse engineer the business. According to SPS' FAQ customers receive product within "4 to 10 business days.&qu
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
A static page is the simplest form of website. It is trivial to build a static page using Meteor. I hoped one of the authors would tell us why they chose not to dogfood on the marketing page for a book on Meteor.
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
This looks fantastic. I am considering a purchase. Just curious, why didn't you use meteor to make discovermeteor.com?
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by systemtrigger 13y ago
Some friends of mine turned a 1963 firetruck into a 2:1 scale VW bus: http://walterthebus.org . The suspension was a key reason they went with a firetruck. A bus foundation would not have supported the 330 gallon water tank used in the onb
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by systemtrigger 14y ago
When a template subscribes to data in a server collection, there is a delay between the moment the subscription begins and the moment the client displays the data it receives from the server. On page load you really notice the delay because
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by systemtrigger 14y ago
Reminds me of something DHH said in his talk Unlearn Your MBA. He said "I have been talking to a lot of people in the Web 2.0 space and a lot of them have taken venture capital. I have not met one who said he wouldn't do it different if he
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by systemtrigger 14y ago
And now we learn the true reason MS ignored W3C all those years: To make money. Step 1: get people to use obsolete software. Step 2: license support.
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by systemtrigger 14y ago
Completely agree - to which I would add the new alternative you speak of has already arrived: Google Chrome. I can design an entire page in Chrome without ever a need to refresh. Grids, typography, CSS - not to mention JavaScript, images an
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by systemtrigger 14y ago
I am no expert on this topic, so can only speak from my own experience having taken MB twice, 7 years apart, scoring INTP on both occasions. Each time following the test I read a few pages in the book about INTP as well as a few pages on ea
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by systemtrigger 14y ago
With all due respect, I don't believe you. Your comment history on HN is "Should buy the .com" and you have conveyed zero insight around today's question. I judge you are trolling.

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