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GilbertErikon What It’s Like to Get Online After 25 Years in Prison

I know that HN likes to solve problems, but I don't think spending time debating the best mechanism to provide internet access to a population that many of us don't understand is worthwhile.

How about someone spend some time learning about best ways to rehabilitate criminals and whether internet access should be a part of that? (I'm poking fun that most of us have science, engineering, design backgrounds instead of Criminal Justice degrees).

It's easy to armchair quarterback a two sentence solution, but I doubt anyone leaving comments is going to change career paths into 'Correctional Facility IT'.

GilbertErikon Go Circuit – Distributed Go Programming Framework

I think App Engine can be just fine depending on your needs. It's great for prototyping ideas. I just find that at some point you have to draw a line as to whether you're going to pay GAE to serve your project or if you're going to take care of that overhead yourself.

GilbertErikon Go Circuit – Distributed Go Programming Framework

Quick popularity like making it to the front page of HN, Reddit, Slashdot, etc. can become quite the curse when you're running a small app on App Engine. Of course, after throwing a few buckets of money down the well, you'll quickly learn to start optimizing for the platform. I don't know what this framework does, but it might be useful to link to a static page in the interim and then have people click through to your app.

GilbertErikon How to become Internet famous for $68

...and how many people do you know? Not how many people are you following/interacting with on Twitter, but what's the number of people in your creative community? 100, 200, 250 tops? Just because your niche of friends is using Twitter as a preferred communications platform lends it no more credence as a popular/preferred platform over Live Messenger/Skype, Google+ Hangouts, Instagram, Facebook Messaging, etc.

As an experiment, count up the number of distinct people (that're following you back) that you've had twitter conversations with in the past 60 days.

GilbertErikon How I learned to love rebase

It's a shame because Quicksand looks like a great Sans Serif font. I hope that the immediate repulsion I felt when I opened this article doesn't detract from people reading the great gentle introduction to using rebase.

GilbertErikon How I learned to love rebase

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_sHgQoVOruvTmJjdHlWUTk4dGM/...

Ya know what. It looks fine in Firefox, but that font looks like garbage rendered in Chrome. I don't know if it's the font-family or the font-size, but something's making me want to scratch my eyes out or make me want to kill my screen with fire.

It's probably an unfair generalization to assume that all female Python developers don't use Chrome.

GilbertErikon How I learned to love rebase

Sorry to nag, but I haven't yet brought myself to make it past the first paragraph. Maybe it looks elegant or classy on someone else's screen, but I had to go re-enable Evernote Clearly just to be able to read it. Am I the only one?

GilbertErikon What it's like having a kid

The title of the post should be, "My experiences with the delivery of my baby." The whole 'having a kid' part is the next, oh... 10 to 15 years.

GilbertErikon A web-based Excel/database hybrid

'ra-jik': sounds like the English word 'Tragic'.

GilbertErikon The Web Is Wrong

Is it just me or does it sound like this guy REALLY wants everyone to move from html/css/js back to Flash apps?!?

GilbertErikon Simple cli to manage your tasks (you haven't seen one like this before)

All the features that I would recommend are already in TaskWarrior. Have you seen/tried it? Maybe you should highlight some of the competitive advantages your app has over it. http://github.com/taskwarrior

GilbertErikon Ask HN: How do you read RSS feeds?

I think the key for me is subscribing to more posts than I could ever possibly read, and giving myself permission to not have to read all of them.

Much like I used to read a newspaper, I've turned google reader into my information aggregator. It alerts me to daily podcasts, local/regional/national/global/financial news, interesting articles, etc... I read what's interesting, throw the rest away, star whatever I may want to revisit or leisurely read on the weekend, share whatever I want people to see on my blog, and 'mark all as read' when I start my weekend.

I skim whenever I'm waiting on a build or have a spare minute between meetings, but I separate out into categories things I'd like to read and things I may read if there's extra time. I spend about 2-3 hours a week in google reader, but much less time wading through comments and ads for a net gain.