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Re:Show HN: Derulo, a tool for manipulating JSON files on Sunday August 03, 2014 @08:47PM (#8129721)
If you need a JSON "API" to test it against, may I suggest derulo.json: http://gabebw.com/derulo.json
Re:HipChat is now free for unlimited users on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @04:30PM (#7812658)
I asked Slack and they told me how to fix it:

Escape closes the blue banner for the current channel.

Shift-Escape closes that blue banner for all channels.

Re:Improved searching with The Silver Searcher on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:40PM (#5293637)
With Ack, I had to set up a bunch of --type-add lines to ~/.ackrc so that Ack wouldn't ignore e.g. SCSS files. ag searches every file by default, except for VCS files (e.g. .git/ and .hg) and files that are ignored by your VCS.

Ag's default behavior is way better, and less confusing to new users. Plus, it's faster.

Re:Show HN: Timeboxing app for Mac on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @06:42PM (#5069832)
Yup, same error here. Full dump: https://gist.github.com/5db045977b157096f448
Re:Cards Against Humanity: Results of "pay what you want" on Monday December 17, 2012 @03:37PM (#4934206)
It's a reference to the movie Idiocracy, which is set in a future where (among other changes) Starbucks is an erotic massage parlor: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fmUAFjqIPc4/T8aZMNekMfI/AAAAAAAAFB...
Re:Ask HN: So, what is your problem? on Sunday November 25, 2012 @09:45PM (#4830175)
Try Trunk Club: http://www.trunkclub.com/

They do a brief interview with you over the phone, get your measurements, and send you a trunk of clothes every month. You only pay for what you keep. My friends have been very satisfied with that they've gotten.

Re:On Being a Junior Developer on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @10:51AM (#4814655)
Here's a shameless plug for https://www.apprentice.io/ - we offer great (paid!) technical mentorship for 3 months with one of the best Rails firms in the US.

We have locations in SF and Boston.

Re:Pandora doesn't hash their passwords on Thursday September 20, 2012 @07:26PM (#4551296)
Try inspecting the element (in Chrome inspector or Firebug or whatever). My password is visible there. When doing a simple view-source, I just see "${password}" though.
Re:How we keep GitHub fast on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @09:22PM (#4482402)
That's actually a list of git tags (http://learn.github.com/p/tagging.html), and they're on the current site, e.g. https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/tags
Re:How we keep GitHub fast on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @09:21PM (#4482400)
I believe GitHub admins have that little search bar on every repo, while regular joes can only search private repos.
Re:New Stanford class on Cryptography on Saturday November 19, 2011 @02:44PM (#3256027)
Re:Github's new look: The Code Tab on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @04:08PM (#3104341)
I assume you're basing this off the screenshot. The "Search source code" input is only available in private repos. Since kneath/resque is a public repo, apparently one benefit of working at Github is getting that input on all repos, whether public or private.
Re:Why not just use an IDE if you want IDE features? on Saturday October 01, 2011 @11:09AM (#3060164)
Re: jumping to method definitions, have you tried running ctags on your project directory, then pressing Ctrl-] (go to tag) on the method name? It should work.
Re:Why must you laugh at my back end? on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @07:56PM (#2943694)
Good point, with broad examples. Seems like you've led an interesting life - not many people would pull out "blacksmiths" as an example :)
Re:Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine on Saturday August 27, 2011 @11:33PM (#2933204)
2 things:

1) Please show the first few lines of the song under each result

2) Please stack the results like traditional <li>s - the "cloud" effect makes them very hard to scan.

Re:Your Code is My Hell on Monday August 22, 2011 @01:00PM (#2913131)
Yes, Ruby has private methods:

    def i_am_public
       ...
    end

    def i_am_private
       ...
    end
    private :i_am_private

    private

    def i_am_also_private
       ...
    end
Re:Coding backwards on Sunday August 21, 2011 @09:18PM (#2910871)
Take this as faddishness or not, but this sounds like README-driven development from Tom Preston-Werner: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-devel...
Re:I don't know how to IE6 on Monday August 01, 2011 @02:39PM (#2833728)
I really didn't think the GP would get an answer to that extremely specific question. Thanks, and I'll be checking this out.
Re:Donut math - How donut.c works on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @11:45PM (#2788448)
A slightly unobfuscated version of that code:

  counter=0;
  pointer;
  main(){
    while(counter<641){
      for(pointer=0;
          "##K#8(38D-##C]L5870.X7\\M_b;90\\"
          "MC-M/NZGB6Q,I0VGB6a0FbN<VG.6Q\\bNb7^@`X=N@`XQaOVX:^]NX=:Z8PY]B`:>P"
          "NY8^$#SM):XA"[counter/6]-35>>counter++%6&1;
        pointer++);
      putchar(" _/\\\n,`)('<-"[pointer]);
    }
  }
Re:Ray, a Ruby game library on Sunday July 17, 2011 @04:12PM (#2774083)
Is it possible to detect absolute position of a polygon? It looks like polygon.pos gives position relative to where it was created (and therefore polygon.pos.{x, y, height} are sort of broken).

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