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Re:Apple's Audacity on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @04:23PM (#20098849)
> But the "Sign in with Facebook" button didn't appear by magic on the Android app, did it? Someone had to add support to their app for it.

It would be nice if you could add an identity provider to your OS and the app could ask the OS to identify you using your provider of choice for that application.

Re:China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:02AM (#20000615)
It's not always going to be running at top speed.
Re:Ask HN: Learning modern web design and CSS on Monday September 25, 2017 @05:56AM (#15329130)
Thanks. That was two years ago. I wonder how much has changed since then?

Ask HN: Learning modern web design and CSS

So I've been mostly doing back end stuff for a few years. My ability to fix float issues in IE6 just isn't relevant any more. What's the best way to get an understanding of modern CSS and web design? Preferably simple approaches that don't involve horrible, huge, redundant class names or bloated, overbearing frameworks.This is for a couple of personal projects. I may ultimately end up hiring...

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I would say I'm ten times more productive at 35 than I was at 26. Seek inspiration, self-knowledge and maturity away from the computer screen. Climbing a mountain as a metaphor for making persistent progress with a project works much better when you have struggled to climb a mountain or two in the fog.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2015) on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @11:46AM (#9304478)
SEEKING WORK - Berlin / UK / Remote

British full stack developer. Lots of experience building rails and django applications. Likes React, immutable servers and learning new languages. Dislikes Chef, Angular and Drupal. Looking for small but interesting projects.

> Mr Moore is said to have paid Mr Evens to hack into hundreds of victims' email accounts to obtain more nude photos to post on the website.

I think this is what they are charging him for - not for hosting genuine UGC.

Re:Isomorphic JavaScript: The Future of Web Apps on Monday November 11, 2013 @05:50PM (#6714671)
A great thing about the web is that a multitude of server side languages can be used. While I don't ever want to have to write the same template twice, having everything converge on nothing but Javascript doesn't seem like a very inspiring future to me.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013) on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @10:30AM (#6476393)
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013) on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @09:57AM (#6476136)
The url for the freelancer thread points back here.
I'm in the uk and get a redirect loop from this page. Changing to .co.uk works http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=de&tl=en&prev=_t&...
Re:Too scared to write a line of code on Friday May 24, 2013 @06:58PM (#5765681)
This calls to mind what Zed Shaw wrote about creative and defensive programmer mindsets. http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex27.html
Re:3UK treats political satire as porn and blocks it on Thursday January 17, 2013 @06:57AM (#5072170)
Does anyone know the censorship policies for all UK network operators? My contract is up.
Re:Show HN: An IDE for poets on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @04:14AM (#4777154)
I'm not going to sign up just to check the interface out. Maybe you could implement lazy registration.
Re:Bootstrap Live Editor on Monday October 29, 2012 @01:01PM (#4713199)
An approach I'd like to try is allowing the template designer to expose a certain amount of grid changing freedom. I'd also like to experiment with content types that have a render method parameterised by width (and possibly height).
Re:Bootstrap Live Editor on Monday October 29, 2012 @11:16AM (#4712622)
Thanks! That was what I meant. I'm building a CMS and I'd like to include a layout manager.. I'll certainly be checking out Jetstrap for inspiration.
Re:Bootstrap Live Editor on Monday October 29, 2012 @10:20AM (#4712355)
I'd be very interested to see some sort of visual grid editor for bootstrap or a similar framework.
Re:Anvil - a Mac app for Pow on Saturday October 06, 2012 @05:28AM (#4620178)
Does anyone know why pow uses the .dev tld rather than .test? .test is reserved for local testing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test
Re:20 Hours of Tent.is on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @02:27PM (#4577173)
Do you have a password reset? I've forgot mine for richard.tent.is
Maybe you could release an API so other people could write clients.
Maybe have some filtering by country visible on the home page. It took me a while to figure out you actually had British beers in your database.

Also, I realise you're a ruby programmer but you should really consider including Python IPA http://littlevalleybrewery.co.uk/our-beers/python-ipa :)

Re:Mapmaker, Artist, or Programmer? on Monday September 03, 2012 @06:39PM (#4472097)
Wow, that sounds quite scary. I'd love it if you did release the source though, it'd be a great project for me to build an interactive version. (Whether or not it would get further than any of my other side projects is another matter :) Anyway, my email is in my profile and I'd be very interested if you did release something.
Re:Mapmaker, Artist, or Programmer? on Monday September 03, 2012 @06:03AM (#4469847)
I'd love to see some of the code behind these maps. Are they rendered with mapnik? How practical would it be to make some of them live and interactive? Especially now we have vector graphics in the browser.
Re:Python Deployment Anti-Patterns on Monday April 23, 2012 @04:59PM (#3880940)
Thanks - that does sound like a big advantage of the deb / rpm route. Plus you don't really want your app servers spending their CPU time compiling.
Re:Python Deployment Anti-Patterns on Monday April 23, 2012 @04:02PM (#3880668)
Fabric isn't normally deployed on target servers though - it connects to them through SSH.
Re:Why Javascript is a Joy on Monday March 26, 2012 @06:12AM (#3755927)
> Moreover, JS is really fast to write and test. Write – save – refresh; it’s an absurdly fast dev cycle that lets me iterate on questionable portions of the code much faster than any environment I’ve worked in.

I'm planning on looking into headless testing to eliminate the whole icky business of switching to the browser and hitting refresh. I find this much more of a drag than rerunning server side tests in a terminal.

Re:Django's future, and Python 3 on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @05:40AM (#3702411)
Django's conservatism in this regard doesn't really impact on application developers building on top of Django.

Usual practice is to use virtualenv which allows for an up to date python on OSes with an ancient system python.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2012) on Thursday March 01, 2012 @09:24AM (#3652143)
SEEKING WORK - Remote or onsite near Manchester, UK.

Python, Django (including extensive geodjango experience.) Postgres, PostGIS, mysql, PHP, linux admin skills, strong client side skills including jquery and mootools. Currently exploring nodejs, mongodb, coffeescript and backbone.

Portfolio available on request.

Contact: [email protected]

Re:Programming Styles in the Node Community on Friday January 13, 2012 @05:48AM (#3460032)
Two spaces are the norm for ruby development but it seems fairly new in javascript.

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