michaelrkn
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3 months ago
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on: Remove Attachments from Gmail Messages
I've been inching close to running out of free Gmail space for years, doing a round of cleanup just before I run out, but I finally got to the point where I can't find any more places to save room without deleting messages I want to keep a record of. I was frustrated that I couldn't delete attachments from my messages, since I don't want to delete the messages themselves. I stumbled across this tool and was excited (clever approach - copy the message without the attachment, then delete the original), then annoyed that it never mentioned the $5 I would have to pay until the very end of the signup process, then decided to go for it since it is cheaper than paying Google. Anyways, it works and is a very handy way to save space on Gmail! Just wanted to pass it along in case it could help anybody else.
michaelrkn
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3 years ago
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on: Americans are choosing to be alone, but we should reverse that
My girlfriend and I moved into a small apartment building and got 4 other families with kids to move into the other units. We’re trying to create a more supportive and social environment for us and our daughter: chicagofamilyhousing.org
michaelrkn
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How Does Zelle Work?
Thank you!
michaelrkn
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6 years ago
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on: Show HN: Zoom Redirector
I once used Zoom's web interface and the video quality was horrible. When I switched to the downloaded app, it was much better. Not sure if this was a one-off problem or an underinvestment in their web interface.
michaelrkn
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Starting Your Own LLC?
I made a simple website to walk you through the nuts and bolts of starting an LLC or S Corp:
https://www.startmybusiness.us/. Let me know if you find it useful!
michaelrkn
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8 years ago
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on: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries
There's also
https://www.fbexporter.com/, which uses the Facebook API to get the metadata and put it back in the EXIF data, but unfortunately it will only export photos you are tagged in, not all photos you've uploaded.
michaelrkn
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10 years ago
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on: Time Warner Cable owes $229K to woman it would not stop calling
michaelrkn
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11 years ago
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on: How Standing Desks Can Help Students Focus in the Classroom
I've bought many tables from multitable.com. They start at $550. By using IKEA tops and buying in bulk I keep the price under $500 each.
michaelrkn
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11 years ago
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on: Getting to work on diversity at Google
I think a lot of it has to do with the environment where you grew up and/or have spent a lot of time. I'm white and grew up in a heavily Asian community; when I'm the only white person in a mostly Asian group, I don't feel self-conscious, but when I'm in a mostly black or Latino group, I usually do.
michaelrkn
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12 years ago
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on: Rails Google Summer of Code students and mentors
Is there any update on the outcome of last years SoC projects?
michaelrkn
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12 years ago
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on: Rails Google Summer of Code students and mentors
It's actually mostly done.
To connect to your database, simply run:
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(:adapter => 'sqlite3', :database => 'db/development.db')
Or, if you'd like to store your database config in a YAML file:
database_configurations = YAML::load(File.open('./db/config.yml'))
development_configuration = database_configurations['development']
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(development_configuration)
To use the Active Record rake tasks, use this gem: https://github.com/rosenfeld/active_record_migrations. It also provides a rake task for generating migrations.
It would be great if that gem weren't needed - I think that's where the big opportunity for improvement is.
michaelrkn
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12 years ago
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on: An In-Depth Introduction To Ember.js
Angular and Ember have the same use case. They're just different approaches to client-side MVC.
michaelrkn
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12 years ago
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on: Engine Yard's sponsorship of RVM is coming to an end
michaelrkn
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12 years ago
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on: Programming is a Terrible Job
Protip to employers: Make your jobs interesting and fun, and you'll find that your employees are way more productive than you ever thought they could be.
michaelrkn
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12 years ago
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on: How I used Dropbox to store my website content
Check out site44.com - it's an off-the-shelf solution to do this.
michaelrkn
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13 years ago
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on: Camino browser reaches its end
+1
michaelrkn
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13 years ago
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on: A Better Way to Manage the Rails Secret Token
I had the same feeling. Inspired by this post, I just moved my secret token config into production.rb, test.rb, and development.rb, and deleted secret_token.rb.
michaelrkn
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13 years ago
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on: Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta
woot! here's to hoping we get support for regional redundancy in the US soon.
michaelrkn
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13 years ago
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on: HTML5 Video at Netflix
they have a reputation for only hiring very senior-level engineers.
michaelrkn
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13 years ago
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on: Three Wise Monkeys: a plain speaking, easy to read, open source NDA
