dabit | 10 years ago | on: Aaron Patterson joins GitHub
Good news or bad news?
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dabit | 11 years ago | on: Tips to display syntax highlighted code in presentations
Correct, my bad. I updated it with a couple of tips for non-Mac users.
dabit | 12 years ago | on: AWS Instance Connectivity issues in US-WEST-2
Yup, our EC2 instance on US-WEST-2 can't connect to our RDS server.
dabit | 12 years ago | on: Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up
Am I the only one that read Stripe: Bacon at first glance?
dabit | 12 years ago | on: Google's robots.txt
For the lazy: http://www.youtube.com/robots.txt
dabit | 12 years ago | on: Important BufferBox Update
Is this Whatsapp's future? Stay tuned.
dabit | 13 years ago | on: Rejected by Kickstarter? 'Roll your own' with Selfstarter instead
Here's an alternative that I wrote after reading about Lockitron.
http://blog.crowdint.com/2012/10/13/crowdfunding-your-projec...
dabit | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app
Was working on something similar when this came out. https://github.com/crowdint/fundraiser
Great job by the Lockitron team.
dabit | 14 years ago | on: I bought something from a Best Buy vending machine, and it didn't go so well.
Best Buy's policy makes sense.
I think they are trying to avoid the probably very common scenario where you forget your headphones for a trip, nothing to worry about, just buy a pair from the Express machine, return them as soon as you are back home.
dabit | 14 years ago | on: EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
Perhaps Pivotal wins by being able to get a ton of enterprise engineers from EMC, turn them into Rubyists and scale their already very successful model. If they are profitable at ~100 employees, they would be even more profitable at ~150, ~200.
dabit | 14 years ago | on: Email interceptors in Rails 3.x
Didn't know these existed. There's probably uses for them in production too.
dabit | 14 years ago | on: Open source blog as another Backbone, Slim, Rails, Bootstrap sample app
Worth mentioning that we were using 0.10, took around 1 minute on a brand new MBP. Worse on older machines.
Enabling LSI for related posts made it worse.
Maybe its fixed on newer versions.
dabit | 14 years ago | on: The evil unit test.
Was this a sarcastic post?
dabit | 14 years ago | on: Steam loses user database
Wait, how do you change your Steam password?
dabit | 14 years ago | on: Dell: Apple should close shop (1997)
Who should be closing shop today?
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