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rudd | 14 years ago | on: Branches: Everyone Should Use Them

You can always replace the branches with tags (git tag failed-branch-mybranch mybranch && git branch -D mybranch). That way, you still will have access to the unmerged commits later, but your list of branches is clean. Your tags will bloat up, but I personally don't go through my tags nearly as often as my branches.

rudd | 14 years ago | on: The Five Stages of Hosting

I'm on the EC2 free usage tier and having no problems for my minimal use of a VPS. For just playing around and testing stuff, it's great.

rudd | 14 years ago | on: Raphaël 2.0 is available

But SVG isn't supported in any version of IE... For me, that's the main reason to use Raphaël.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Chrome has transcended version numbers

The screenshot you're referencing is from OS X! If you don't quit Chrome for a while, then open "About Google Chrome", that dialog or something very similar will display.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Why HTTP Streaming?

This is the first thing that came to mind for me. I recently wrote a WSGI Python app that made use of chunked encoding, so that it could emit multi-hundred MB text files without loading them all into memory first, and one of the big hurdles was running into an error after having sent some data. In the end I had to implement a fancy Javascript check and keep some state in the app to check if there had been an error and the downloaded file was no good.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code

While I wait for the site to load, I figured I'd comment with my own placeholder-cat experience. A site I worked on was taking a while to get me the actual images, so I took to Pixelmator and fixed myself some LOLcat placeholders. People loved it, except for one of the QAs, who said it was going to give her nightmares.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: StackOverflow’s Careers 2.0

I think the name is "Careers 2.0" as in, this is the new version of how you manage your career. Before, you searched for jobs on job boards, sending out your resume, etc. Now, the employers come to you. Careers 2.0.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Google Translate Easter Egg

It seems that it's fixed. When this was posted, it translated "I HATE YOU" to "私はあなたFacebookを利用しています".

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Hacker News app for Android (with login, voting, and commenting)

Cool, I'm using it to write this. Seems to work well enough. I wish there was a light theme, as I'm not really a fan of the light grey on black. Also,the voting doesn't seem to work correctly. I voted up this story, then quit the app and re-launched it, and it said I hadn't voted. Trying to vote it up again though failed, as the vote had indeed gone through.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome

410 days ago? I had just noticed this behavior in Chrome myself a few weeks ago, and thought it might be new beta behavior that no one had really talked about. Guess not.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome

Why would they save work on the in-tab UI and make the close-tab X button on the right? The window control buttons are on the left like any other Mac app, and the same goes for the closing X button on the Developer Tools frame. Both of those are on the right in Windows. As you saw with the Arabic screenshot, they've already done the work to allow the closing X buttons to be on the left; if they wanted the Mac tab closing buttons to be on the left, they'd be on the left. It's not just a holdout from Windows.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Pivotal Tracker will no longer be free in 6 months

Interesting timing, as my team was about to start using Pivotal Tracker for our project. Hopefully this encourages them, and the fact that they'll have to pay $50/month after July doesn't scare them away. Not really a big price tag, but any money over free is the hurdle.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: TapeDeck Goes Exclusive to the Mac App Store

It seems like a number of apps will probably do this. For instance, I can't find Twitter for Mac outside of the app store, which is disappointing because I'm still on Leopard, stuck with Tweetie 1.2.8. I would say to be wary of losing your Leopard user-base, but being on the Mac App Store probably will give you enough exposure that you'll make up for it and more.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Mac App Store: Open for Business

I will say this: Apple is not afraid to leave old technology behind. While website XYZ aims to support multiple versions of every browser, including those released a decade ago (IE6), Apple won't even support Leopard with its new store, which was the version that came with the Mac I got just over a year ago.
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