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Gloss - A minimalist CSS editor (beta)

gloss.io

2 pointsby rudle14 jaar geleden0 comments

Square open sources fdoc

corner.squareup.com

11 pointsby rudle14 jaar geleden-1 comments

Books: Bits vs. Atoms

codinghorror.com

20 pointsby rudle14 jaar geleden2 comments

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6 jaar geledendiscuss

Headline is misleading as USCIS is suspending in-person visa operations. Renewals and transfers of US visas are often conducted via courier and post.

From https://uscis.gov

> As of March 18, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has suspended routine in-person services until at least April 1 to help slow the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). USCIS staff will continue to perform duties that do not involve contact with the public. However, USCIS will provide emergency services for limited situations. To schedule an emergency appointment contact the USCIS Contact Center.

10 jaar geledendiscuss

> The length of the beard is proportional to ops experience.

I know you're trying to be funny, but this statement excludes all people who can't grow long beards from being considered "ops".

14 jaar geledendiscuss

I hope apps don't kill websites for the same reason I'm glad people don't build flash microsites anymore.

The number one reason I prefer the web is that it's extensible! If there's a web app I don't like, I can write a userscript to modify it to my needs. The web has a standard API (HTML/JS/CSS) and a means for extension so I'm free to make the web suit me. This freedom is something that I miss when I'm using a mobile device and I hope it never goes away.

15 jaar geledendiscuss

Great idea!

I see:

  Could not generate a preview, please check the URL is valid and   does not redirect then try again.

It seems like the service is down, so the error message is probably incorrect. That being said, you should follow redirects, this is a no-brainer. You can make HEAD requests to save bandwidth. Also, this one is minor, the enter key should submit the form.

15 jaar geledendiscuss

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15 jaar geledendiscuss

Kinda "useless" without links to the patches.

15 jaar geledendiscuss

It's rather strange to see a QWERTY layout when using dvorak. That said, if you showed a dvorak layout to a QWERTY user, you'd have a powerful demonstration of how much less finger travel there is and it convince them to switch.

15 jaar geledendiscuss

104wpm and then 96wpm

This is considerably higher than I usually score (which is why I took it twice), especially considering I was on a laptop keyboard. This leads me to question the accuracy of this test.

15 jaar geledendiscuss

There's also the reader extension http://labs.postrank.com/gr You can set the treshold, and it will dim out the items that are below it. It greatly increases your ability to "fly through" items, without worrying too much about what you're missing.

15 jaar geledendiscuss

As far as topics are concerned, I'd really like to see a vim plugin created from start to finish. The tutorials and docs that exist leave a lot to be desired, and this seems like a nice venue to demonstrate (and explain!) the capabilities of the vim plugin system.

15 jaar geledendiscuss

You should integrate more sites (assuming that's how this works). A query that I expect to work is "Simeon's Dilemma", which currently returns no results.

15 jaar geledendiscuss

What a great project.

FYI: the sliders don't show up in FF5, you should maybe add some browser compatability messaging.

15 jaar geledendiscuss

What, exactly, does Comcast have a monopoly on? Basic internet access might be considered a necessary utility, but an unlimited 15MB line is certainly not.

Also, http://www.google.com/search?q=high+speed+internet+seattle+w...

15 jaar geledendiscuss

Why?

I was turned off by the American view point of this post.

I can't even stream Netflix in my country, and this guy is complaining that he can't watch 250GB of it?!

15 jaar geledendiscuss

> My opinion on all this is simple. The ability to access broadband internet is a right, and should be defined as an essential utility.

Yawn... first world problems.

Broadband is assuredly not your "right", it's a privilege. If the terms of the contract are broken (and they were, twice) you have very little recourse.

More to the point, get a Comcast business line. You will get hassled less, and I hear it may actually be unlimited.

15 jaar geledendiscuss

I whipped a little ruby script to download the kindle versions.

https://gist.github.com/1056111

The URLs are really, really, nice. You can substitute "kindle.noimages" for any other format you'd like.

15 jaar geledendiscuss

Grossly misleading headline.

The real title of the question is: "I need mathematical proof that the distance from zero to 1 is the equal to the distance from 1 to 2"

15 jaar geledendiscuss

>> The source code isn't in any repository because I don't work with repositories.

You really should be using version control. If you want people to contribute to this open-source project, you can't beat a public repository (like github) at which you can receive patches from other developers. Right now, it is not apparent how I can work to improve your project.

15 jaar geledendiscuss

Where are you getting your stats from? You can access live stats via Yahoo's Fantasy Baseball API like I do in my app here http://trackstatter.heroku.com and https://github.com/rudle/track_statter

15 jaar geledendiscuss

This is awesome.

Any plans to expose an API? This would help rescue teams that are stuck in jira or trac.