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rakeroutes.com 13y ago

Program like a Videogamer

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imgur.com 13y ago

Rebuilding a 1981 Accord

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rakeroutes.com 13y ago

Things most interviewees fail to discover

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rakeroutes.com 13y ago

Things I love about git

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www.esecurityplanet.com 13y ago

Raising Money Legally for Phishing

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www.vimperator.org 14y ago

Vimperator - vim bindings and commands for Firefox

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www.periscopic.com 14y ago

Periscopic: Our Research into Flash and HTML5: Ten Months Later, a Second Look

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rakeroutes.com 14y ago

Effective window management by dividing your monitor into zones - Rake Routes

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flowingdata.com 14y ago

Tornado tracks

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eyezo.com 14y ago

EyeZo: current ISS location

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benfry.com 14y ago

Zipdecode

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rakeroutes.com 14y ago

Getting up to speed on a new git repo

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unprotocols.org 14y ago

Git Branches Considered Harmful

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www.internetretailer.com 14y ago

Amazon will develop its own online TV shows

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github.com 14y ago

Attach comments to ActiveRecord's SQL queries

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integrityapp.com 14y ago

Integrity | Continuous Integration server

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daneden.me 14y ago

Just My Type

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www.patorjk.com 14y ago

Text Ascii Art Generator

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rakeroutes.com 14y ago

Rails isn't for beginners

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rakeroutes.com 14y ago

Fun with Rock, Paper, Scissors

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rakeroutes.com 14y ago

The problem with completely client-side applications

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rakeroutes.com 14y ago

Using bundler instead of rvm gemsets

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rakeroutes.com 14y ago

Coffee Taster: an easy CoffeeScript development environment for Ruby devs

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broadband.com 14y ago

Show HN: Price Internet service for your business location

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www.readwriteweb.com 15y ago

Building a better broadband map

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Those are some good basics.

Tracking user actions can be very useful: I use it on movieterminals.com to see everything that gets typed into each console. The theory being that (one day?) I'll use that to enhance the scripts to work how people expect.

Tracking an event per page 404 or 500 can also be very helpful. If you aren't already using something more robust to track errors you could even setup alerts to watch for those events and contact you.

Goals are good, although funnels are even better.

Finally: if you can afford it I've found that Clicky offers many great advantages over google analytics. More helpful default reports, a better realtime view, etc.

I don't know about UK pricing, but here in the US subscribing to Hulu Plus, Netflix, and specific shows on Amazon and iTunes (e.g. Mythbusters) is still much cheaper than a monthly cable subscription.

Read the read of the article.

""" That deal also includes first-run rights to direct-to-video releases, which will begin appearing on Netflix in 2013. What's more, the two companies have also announced a separate multi-year agreement that will see popular Disney catalog titles like Dumbo and Alice in Wonderland be made available on Netflix beginning today. """

Yes, but again: they aren't stating that it's some property exclusive to videogames that affect sleep but something about playing videogames (including all side effects) can have an affect on the quality of sleep.

The study doesn't seem to be claiming that videogames have an exclusively bad influence on sleep, merely that they have an influence on sleep. Where's the crock?

I'm currently dealing with similar issues. New symptoms started for me this summer, my GP and all the tests and specialists I've seen have no ideas.t

When I do my own research my GP brushes it off. I try to take that in stride -- I do recognize that I am uneducated in the field. But it's disheartening when a specialist comes up with my researched conclusion as one of their top possible explanations.

If you don't tick all their boxes on a list of precisely described symptoms -- which you must self-report -- for a condition that they've looked up moments prior to your appointment you won't get diagnosed correctly unless you are lucky and have managed to find a competent and caring doctor.

Bootstrap isn't a CMS. It does nothing to manage content but is instead a visual framework of HTML, CSS, and JS. It's essentially a good baseline of nice looking defaults.

It's popular because design is hard. Seriously hard. And the skills required to code up a cool web application do not often overlap with the skills required to make a site that isn't hideous to look at.

Bootstrap allows you to have a permanent check on the "design site" in your list of things to do for launch.

Not only does it look great out of the box, but it's also a great starting point for real designs (hence the name "bootstrap"). http://builtwithbootstrap.com/

Big thumbs up here for ievms. I use it all the time and I not so humbly was the first person to donate money to the project.

I can't believe that it's only raised $400 so far. It's completely excellent and I know lots of people out there depend on it.

At the time the web was only a couple of years old and it was yet to even hit the "lets get serious" radar of just about everyone.

Essentially, no. There was no one with a very refined aesthetic making websites at the time. Even the Louvre's website (one of the first art museum websites I remember popping up) was extremely ugly.