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Re:Mistakes Web Designers Make on Sunday June 02, 2013 @03:59AM (#5807719)
>Basecamp has a great homepage.

Stopped reading there.

Re:How is Github dealing with spam? on Thursday February 28, 2013 @07:25AM (#5298352)
Github isn't dealing with SPAM.

Go to gists, click explore.

I've seen some ugly stuff like these: https://gist.github.com/imwinner/5056251 https://gist.github.com/onhkys/5056233 https://gist.github.com/onhkys/5056224

since the beginning of the gist.github.com re-launch

Re:Ruby 1.9 doesn't implement ISO 8601 properly on Sunday February 24, 2013 @11:47AM (#5274822)
It is. Luckily enough that was fixed in rails recently: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/31f807c7aaaf12c16ea157...
Re:MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQL on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @03:35AM (#4165978)
MemSQL isn't open source. If I can't hack it, who cares.
Re:Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds on Monday June 18, 2012 @02:57AM (#4125327)
MS Vista has no drivers: "Vista sucks! Mi$roSoft sucks!"

GNU/Linux has no drivers: "Fuck NVIDIA!"

Re:Laravel : A New PHP Framework on Sunday May 27, 2012 @03:08AM (#4029514)
Validations in routes, you're doing it right https://github.com/laravel/pastes/blob/master/application/ro...
That's really stupid. There's no plausible reason that the end of that method shouldn't have a semi-colon. I honestly wouldn't advise anyone use Twitter Bootstrap. You should always use semicolons in Javascript even if you're hippie. Hippies use coffeescript.

And I think Google's style guide[1] is prevail over Github's style guide[2].

[1] http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascript... [2] https://github.com/styleguide/javascript

Re:Google Play on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @03:26PM (#3672695)
The only problem with Google is they just have no taste.
Re:Convore Shutting Down on Monday February 20, 2012 @04:57PM (#3614121)
Leah Culver can't do startups right. First Pownce, now Convore. What's next? Grove? Let's wait and see.
Re:GitHub: About This Week's Availability on Friday February 10, 2012 @07:43PM (#3578150)
I think if you build your app properly the only problem with DDoS is traffic. Github partnerships with Rackspace so their cloud traffic can't be expensive. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Re:We are sorry on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @05:03PM (#3568743)
There is no proof of that they really deleted all user address book data.
Re:We are sorry on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @04:47PM (#3568664)
They still didn't respond to my email that I sent >24 hours ago.
Re:Amazon S3 Price Reduction on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @06:19AM (#3561326)
Re:Bullshit on Thursday December 29, 2011 @03:33AM (#3402975)
Microsoft: "Next generation web is coming"

Hacker News: "We don't read it"

Everyday I see hardcore nsfw 18+ pics on Google+. I have even reported a few of them, but zero reaction was given. They're still here.
Re:Ask HN: Your predictions for 2012? on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @07:30AM (#3395579)
iPhone 5 I guess. New MacBooks.
Re:Bye Daddy: Search who hasn't fled GoDaddy yet on Monday December 26, 2011 @08:45AM (#3392878)
I can confirm that. Try for example: stackoverflow.com or github.com
Re:DNS hosting suggestion: Amazon Route53 vs Zerigo on Sunday December 25, 2011 @04:19AM (#3390750)
bump
Re:My 3 hour weekend project: Fix My Movie Subtitles on Sunday December 25, 2011 @04:16AM (#3390748)
Copyright 2012? Really?
Re:Wikipedia will be leaving GoDaddy on Saturday December 24, 2011 @03:17AM (#3388516)
Will GitHub boycott GoDaddy because of their support for SOPA?

DNS hosting suggestion: Amazon Route53 vs Zerigo

I would like to know pros and cons of each. That said I have used Zerigo (not free, DNS Essentials 1 plan) for a year and it acted pretty well.PS: I'm not interested in other DNS hosting solutions except Route53, Zerigo and Rackspace DNS.

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