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Re:Joe – CLI Python tool for generating .gitignore files on Friday October 02, 2015 @09:13AM (#10318253)
Saves time, I guess. The same reason you'd wanna use something like `howdoi` to get StackOverflow answers directly inside the terminal.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/14286317/544059

Re:Paris city centre goes car-free for a day on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @04:58AM (#10302629)
Exactly. The City of London is administratively a city and a county. Looking at these boundaries, it is the smallest English city [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London#Geography

Re:Ask HN: What is the best domain registrar with a solid api? on Thursday September 24, 2015 @06:28AM (#10270822)
OK, thanks. Yeah, we'll look into the Name.com API if we don't get some more prompt responses from DomainBox (with whose customer service we're chatting for the past two weeks to get even the most basic API calls working).
Re:Ask HN: What is the best domain registrar with a solid api? on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @12:04PM (#10265859)
Have you used Name.com, perhaps?
Re:Ask HN: What is the best domain registrar with a solid api? on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @11:47AM (#10265737)
NameCheap seems to have an XML-based API:

https://www.namecheap.com/support/api/intro.aspx

Not something that fills me up with joy :/ There's an unofficial Ruby wrapper that hasn't been touched in a year... https://github.com/parasquid/namecheap

Does anyone have any other recommendations?

Re:Open-source alternatives to GMail on Thursday September 10, 2015 @11:14AM (#10198537)
With CloudFleet, we're trying to provide the complete self-hosted service for Mailpile.

https://cloudfleet.io/

(currently in development - looking to launch around November)

Re:Global Weirding: Visualizing Climate Change on Thursday November 27, 2014 @12:12PM (#8668075)
My thoughts exactly. Wonder how much CO2 was emitted just to power the animations in the background :P
Re:Shutting down Ubuntu One file services on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @11:14AM (#7516075)
How can I self-host Ubuntu One? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7516047