…by James Golick and Joe Damato, who want to talk about things concrete, not like that Hacker News BS.
I'd love to see the API: The idea we live in a simulation isn't science fiction . Magic anyone?
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…to my laptop and keep it on when working. Instead of swapping tabs over to Reddit or Hacker News to get distracted, I've been trying to use my Mini as a focus point instead.
Here's what my board looks like, and what data it contains:
How many unanswered tickets our on-call queue holds
Who's responsible for on-call right now across the company
A graph of exceptions across all apps over the past 6 hours
Latest exceptions directly from our monitoring inbox…
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…well I'm gainfully unemployed, so that's no problem. I'll just take my iPad, browse Hacker News in the corner here for a little while, then we'll get the massage when you can do it."
15 minutes later, she comes back to me and said, "Hey, I know I told you it would take two hours, but it would be really, really helpful for me if I could massage your shoulders right now." I said, "Sure, no problem, can I ask why?" She said, "I had this slot booked …
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…was Firebase . It feels like every day there's a new headline hitting Hacker News that involves Firebase in some way. It's an exciting product.
Firebase enables you to very quickly store data, so you don't even need your own server . Perfect if you're a Designer like me who doesn't like managing servers and databases. On top of that, any data changes are real time .
It's just a matter of including the Firebase…
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- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Introducing Node.js and Engine Yard Labs
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…New York and Seattle through the meetups in each of those cities. Through Hacker Hours, our liberal co-working invitations, and online venues, our team has now personally mentored hundreds of Ember developers.
We can develop and deliver a customized curriculum to help your team get started or level up their Ember skills. Courses can be customized to half-day, full-day, or multi-day lengths.
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Hacker Newspaper is a miniapp like btcusd.gilesb.com, but for Hacker News, which I had written a few years earlier. I wrote it because Hacker News makes (in my opinion) terrible and obvious mistakes in typography, color theory, and web application performance , as well as terrible but subtle mistakes in application design . Anyway, Hacker Newspaper loads very quickly and renders very quickly, because it features a simple DOM, and very few external assets, so …
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- Derek Powazek: links for 2010-06-18
…Thank you so much for taking the time to have a podcast with us today. I was just looking back at Hacker News today, because I gave it up for Lent, but now that I'm back and can check [on the thread we met on ], I realized I have known you for exactly 1,300 days.
Matt : [laughs]
Patrick : You had your first HN post of Stormpulse about three years ago or so, give or take, and it was a like, "Rate my brief elevator pitch," and I gave you some advice on …
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…amusements with trivial benefits and significant long-term downsides, like junk food, television, and Hacker News. However, I'm not totally throwing Twitter away forever. First, it's good for advertising my products (which is another thing it has in common with TV and Hacker News). Second, I have a Twitter account where I used to post new music daily , and I still post a lot of new music there. That's been very good for me in terms of developing …
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…replaced and that it's the only layer that really exists. Good discussion on Hacker News .
As we've seen major web properties transition back to black hole portal type sites, where attention enters and never escapes the event horizon, Pinterest thinks we are also trending back to human curated content , with humans doing the indexing. Or is that just what the machines want them to think?
Complexity accretes. Rails, You Have Turned into Java. Congratulations! …