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This is similar to a product that my cofounder and I are developing: http://hootcourse.com/

Just out of curiosity, what resolution are you using? I just happen to be using my old laptop today and I could see how the hills could be more distracting than we had anticipated.

The instructors using our tool have been very vocal, and we're absolutely thrilled about that. However, we haven't heard too much from our fellow hackers or our instructor's students. If you've got a minute or two to spare, please let us know what you think.

If you have any feedback or if you find any bugs, I would really appreciate it if you report them with the github issues tool.

I should be able to hammer out fixes fairly quickly.

The purpose of the semantic web is parsing of documents in general, not JUST search engine parsing of documents.

A disclosure tag would enable services such as aggregators (which the author mentions specifically), to deal with disclosures consistently. Given the recently raised legal implications surrounding this issue, it sounds like a pretty good idea to me.

Google Cache: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:vKjGHzc30OIJ:devgrow.com...

Thanks. Great catch. Admittedly, I'm still disappointed though. If they were taking it seriously, I'd expect something bright and shiny on that front page of theirs.

That might be a bit of a stretch. I don't recall the administration of any K-12 school I attended ever explaining their reasons for doing anything (to the parents, maybe, but even that was rare). Though, even if the schools did explain the change, surely they'd be a bit more delicate than shouting "blame the fatties!" over the intercom system.

Admittedly, I might secretly be an optimist.

I think it might be empty because ed.gov doesn't seem to actually link it anywhere on their site.

The site is back up now.

If you're considering adding similar functionality to your Django site, check out Tweepy. It's absolutely wonderful.

http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy

Python-twitter will work too, but it covers significantly fewer API calls than Tweepy and doesn't have native oauth support (though oauth-python-twitter solves the latter nicely enough).

This isn't exactly the same type of thing the article talks about, but it drives me crazy when I see sites with subtly cut off drop shadows. The sharp edge catch my eye and it drives me crazy.

I have to say, I completely hate this too. You'll be reading through a post and BAM,"lol, WHY DON'T YOU SUBSCRIBE TO MY MAILING LIST". 9 times out of 10, I'm going to hit command+w and move on to whatever is in the next tab rather than trying to close whatever is blocking my view of their content.

I really don't understand how this can be an effective advertising for whatever service they are pushing. Basically, they're saying: My content isn't good enough to get you to subscribe or follow me with a simple link at the end of the article, so don't even bother reading the rest of it because you'll only be disappointed.

In most cases, the name probably doesn't matter too much. If the content posted adds value and the particular social network entity is linked prominently, people will likely follow/friend it regardless.

With this app, things were a bit hairier because the name of the twitter game was '@libs', so just saying the name of the game in a tweet could lead users astray. Certainly, constraints such as this should be taken into consideration before deciding on a name.

The transparent spacer image hack seems horribly antiquated to me. I'm surprised anyone still does it that way.

I'm particularly fond of Monaco, the default font for Textmate (OS X). That being said, Textmate also supports anti-aliasing which might help solve this problem for you too.

What editor do you use?

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Please don't ever e-mail someone their password. It breaks my heart.

I use Color Oracle for this sort of testing: http://colororacle.cartography.ch/

Greg posted as 'pyroman' here on Hacker News. Many of the articles he submitted were django / python / systems administration related that he had published to his blog, codespatter.com.

http://searchyc.com/pyroman

I recently left my sweet, sweet university job running a development team to start a private firm with some colleagues. We launched http://wejustquit.net for our friends and family just after the announcement. When I need a little kick in the butt, I just swing by and it scares the motivation right back to me.

If only it would try to eat me every so often, I'd work all the time.