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A neat idea, but I'm against hiding the underlying regular expressions from a user. They're such a powerful tool, anyone using them for matching or extraction should read up on them. That said, for simple use this is cool and probably something that would appeal to beginners.

A 0 config 0 feature simplified version in Ruby https://gist.github.com/3832504

Looks like I've lost all the command line tools. Trying to install them via Xcode 4.4 results in telling me I don't have the appropriate permissions to download them (I have an Apple Developer account but I'm not signed up to any programs).

This of course breaks homebrew installs (I found the issue when trying to run an application that uses image magick).

Anyone else having this issue?

I think the new UI. One thing I have noticed, though, is that my 'stream' is displaying posts from all sorts of people I have no idea about, not just people in my circles. A little confused with that, the only option I have is to select individual circles.

GitHub for Mac 1.1 15 years ago

Great update, I love the line-by-line committing. One thing that would sell me on this app, though, is having an interface for repo issues. Without that, this is more of a "Git for mac" than a "GitHub for mac", in my opinion.

Keep up the great work guys!

Whilst that might be an interesting idea, it would probably drive people away from focusing on great content. "Ooo I want comments and I'm only two blog posts away!"

I agree this is an issue, and one I've come across a couple of times. I use 1Password for OS X and iOS. I have the database synced with my Dropbox and backed up locally too. I have two strong passwords that I remember. One is to open up 1Password, and the other is for my personal email address. Now's the time people start yelling at me telling me I should use 1Password for my personal email login too, but that proved, many times, extremely inconvenient.

I use the Chrome and Safari 1Password extensions for 1-click logins, and it's a setup I'm extremely happy with. On the few occasions I've needed to access an account without access to my 1Password, I've reset my password via my personal email address and changed the password when I next have access to 1Password. I'm not going to pretend password managers solve all problems, but they certainly help.

Interesting. I'm running iOS5 beta3, and when I attempt to hit the Stream, the app dies. Does this happen for anyone else? EDIT: Also when I click on someones profile in the 'cirlces' list.

I can't really give any impressions on the app without these things working, but viewing photos and photo comments feels nice and responsive.

A nice writeup. I think the title is a little misleading though. The 'programmer' part was telling me that there would be a few more specifics on some of the smaller details. I'm really looking forward to checking out Google+ though. This review, like many, only makes me want to get my hands on it sooner

Hacker News Search 15 years ago

+1 for this. I use AutoPatchWork so it's not very accessible (I can imagine this the same for those not using AutoPatchWork too, though)

I can't see that they've done any of this. They've been pretty polite about the whole thing. At least that's what the article says. The fact they mention that their terms give them the right to deny users access to their service at any time doesn't mean they're threatening. It's just a reminder.

They're said the DMCA was a mistake and they hold their hands up to that. Aside from that, I can't see how they've done anything wrong. OK so asking the author to remove it from 3rd party sites is a bit cheeky, but that's all they did.. ask. I would have asked too, the author didn't have to. He clearly didn't want any trouble.

Imo Dropbox should have just fixed then, and sat there and laughed when people tried to use Dropship and it not work. It would have saved 'Dropbox attempts to kill open source project' and may have even caused for 'Dropbox fixes file hashing issue x days after open source project built to exploit it'. That way, both win. But that's just my 2 cents

It's actually built for this purpose. It's not supposed to be anything like ripl is. I'd also recommend using that as a lightweight IRB alternative. But Pry isn't supposed to be that.

Also, Pry is currently weighing in at less than 2 thousand lines. It's not going the way IRB is going, but it is indeed very feature full, and probably will contain stuff you may not use every day. It's also easy to extend, so moving commands out of core and abstracting them into their own external libraries would be simple, would we ever want/need to slim the library.

Link to GitHub repo: https://github.com/banister/pry

People should know Pry is relatively new. We're actively writing code daily to improve it. We have some pretty awesome items on the TODO list, so keep an eye on it!

To answer an FAQ: There's no reason not to replace IRB with Pry, or at least extend IRB with Pry inside of your ~/.irbrc

Tell me why I suck 15 years ago

I totally agree. I guess it's limited to the cases where you feel you can help the candidate with further job searching

Tell me why I suck 15 years ago

It's not really happening at the moment, I'm a freelance developer now. But after having a discussion with a friend going through the same trouble, I had the question.

I probably didn't ask as much as I should/could have, I possibly asked 5-10% of employers, and when I had either no response or a negative 'you didnt suit our needs', I guess I just gave up. I think it's extremely dependent of the company, and surprisingly the person you're dealing with directly inside the company.

Tell me why I suck 15 years ago

A very good point. It's actually the UK, but to be honest.. The same can be said in most countries nowadays

Tell me why I suck 15 years ago

I didn't really think of "Oh maybe some companies DO want to give feedback, its just better that they dont, for say perhaps, legal reasons". The sorry part makes total sense though, I've seen that a lot.

I guess there are those kind of people who feel discriminated against what might only be some helpful feedback, it's a shame, because it's one of the most educational means of response I've come across, in my experience.

Thanks for your response

Nissan Leaf 15 years ago

Depending on the genre of said website, it's unfortunately more likely to be > 60% - Shame, but true

A very mixed bag of responses in the comments. It appears to me that the writer may have inadvertently asked his users to click on adverts, because it helps him generate profit. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but Google does, and it explicitly says that in its Adsense contract.

With that being said, Mr Winter deserved a human voice at the very least. A discussion, not a computer generated decision. Perhaps the adsense account for the personal website should have been ceased, but doing so for the youtube one too, is petty. Of course (assuming) a computer can't tell the difference between these outlets a human voice would have helped in this matter.

After reading some of the comments, I really think pulling down the youtube videos and throwing up 30 second 'previews', with a link to the full version on Vimeo, is a great idea. There's no doubt it will generate less income, but you'll get your cut.

This project was implemented as a Ruby Summer of Code project, and the guys have some of the best mentors around. It just works, and it works well. It's extremely new and I think the source could do with some work, but the interface is beautiful and it's extremely simple to use. These guys have done well and I can honestly see this library being a huge part of Rails application administration