MitziMoto

I will probably get eviscerated for this, but I've always been confused why Reddit was so ugly. I am absolutely NOT a designer in any sense of the word, but here's some things I would change.

1. Change the #0000FF links. Something, anything, slightly desaturated from pure blue would look better IMO. <Insert contrast comments here>

2. Whitespace. I can feel the function over form guys typing away furiously from here! BUT YOU CAN FIT MORE CATZ WITH LESS WHITESPACE! I like a little bit of extra whitespace, so sue me. I think an extra 20 pixels between submissions would go a long way. Maybe even a light HR too?

3. The "tabs" at the top are just flat ugly and dated. In fact, everything within the blue header just looks dated.

http://www.reddit.com/r/googleplus for example does a nice job of making Reddit look better without drastic changes. Although I think their titles could be slightly larger and I hate text-decoration: underline;

I recently had to implement search on my product and found Postgres' full-text search to be fairly impressive. More than enough for what I needed.

Implemented through the wonderful textacular gem: https://github.com/textacular/textacular

I tend to bounce back and forth between "Impostor syndrome" and "Dunning–Kruger effect". I guess that makes me about average?

I honestly cannot figure out which guy (PIH or SG) this article is "making fun of" (maybe it's both?). I've read it twice now, and it can kind of go both ways.

Maybe that's the point.

I built and run http://theclunkerjunker.com. It started as an affiliate site I started on a whim one night (Or a few hours, more accurately). Within a year it was pulling in $30k/month with almost no expenses. Eventually the affiliate program fell apart and I completely re-wrote it and turned it into a legit service. I don't quite make $30k a month anymore, and it's noticeably more work now, but it's still profitable and I can work at my own pace.

It says the Chromebook Pixel works. I wonder what it is about the Pixel specifically that allows it to work. I imagine a Linux port isn't that far off, but unfortunately I don't have any windows machines left in my house.

Probably to get more people to buy things from the Google Play store.

Does anyone out there know of something similar to FastMail (or gmail) that is self hosted? I've been dying for a fast, modern webmail app that I can host myself, but everything I've tried is just terrible (by comparison).

Some benefits over stationary towers is that you can easily move the balloons based on different things like natural disasters, political unrest or even to just improve bandwidth under heavy load.

I don't have it available yet, but if I had to guess I'd say the primary benefit is the algorithms that sort mail into these categories.

It's called "Spintax". People in the internet marketing business use this all the time. Not just for comment spam, but to generate different versions of entire articles for submission to article directories and what not.

This is one of the more well known "spinners" as they are called: http://thebestspinner.com/

I think it's pretty clear that the intention of this tool is to provide alerts/notifications to users. Not sure what all the clamoring like "It doesn't do this" or "It doesn't work exactly like alert() in this way" are all about.

Anyway...Nice work, zackbloom. The notifications look and work great.

Exactly this. As a full time remote worker, I fear the "monkey-see-monkey-do" fallout that could come of it. Yahoo may not be a "leader" in anything, but their CEO is one of the most respected people in Silicon Valley. When she makes a move such as this one, people notice.

Another problem with this is that tech companies (mostly startups) also fall into this trap where they feel like if they're not using the absolute latest and greatest frameworks they cannot be successful. This leads them to only hire developers who are "experts" with these frameworks (which is basically no one since they're so new) and they spend more time figuring out how to adapt this new technology to their business than they do shipping an MVP. It becomes a viscious circle because now the developers who are experts in some older technology feel like they have to spend all their time learning the latest shiny toy so that they can compete for jobs with said startups.

This is really awesome, and thanks for introducing me to Postmark, it looks like exactly what I need for my current project.

The top photo looks kind of silly on resolutions above 1440, but otherwise it's very nice.

Yeah, If they show me one more ad relevant to my interests, I'm deleting my Google account all together!

I've been dying for something like this. My ideal client is basically a clone of gmail, but one that connects through my local internet connection. I know gmail can do POP and IMAP, but it cannot connect to my workplace VPN. RoundCube definitely looks like a good start, I will check it out.

Craigslist needs to be stopped. This is the third incredibly useful service I've seen shutdown in as many weeks. I was heartbroken when Carsabi had to stop indexing Craigslist a couple weeks ago.

Because it leads you down a rabbit hole of unproductivity.

Thanks for sharing!

I'm just about to start a full-remote schedule at the job I've had for 7 years. I'm extremely nervous about my future with the company. I work for a big, older tech company where remote working is an afterthought, not ingrained in the culture like Treehouse.

We're moving from Massachusetts to Tampa, FL to pursue a job opportunity for my wife (She's an attorney). I am extremely lucky to have been approved by the corporate chain to continue my responsibilities remotely.

Who knows, if it doesn't work out with them, maybe a job at Treehouse is in my future!

This is really cool. Just set up a message to my wife when I leave work. "I'm heading home from work. Based on traffic data, it should take me XX minutes to travel XX miles". Took about 10 minutes to write thanks to some good examples in the documentation.

Looking forward to watching this evolve. Should be extremely powerful with the right set of triggers and hardware integration.

If you can access your email account with only the backup code and no password, Google is doing it wrong.

Love it! Super addicting. My only complaint with these types of games is that I always feel like people are cheating.

But at least it makes me feel better about how bad I am at these word games ;)

Not bad. My one suggestion is to make the entire div of the story clickable, not just the title. Keyboard arrow support is cool though :)

Love the idea, and your products look amazing. I've definitely got the site bookmarked if (when?) I ever need to hit the job market again.

My only concern with these types of resumes is that I've heard stuff like this can't be read by automated resume parsers used by some companies. I don't know how true that really is, does anyone know?

I just wish DDG could implement autocomplete/search suggestions. It's probably silly, but I've become as accustomed to typing a few letters into Google and it knowing exactly what I'm looking for as I have to tab complete in a unix terminal.

I've also really become accustomed to "instant" search. And I'll be the first to admit I thought was a total gimmick when it was announced.

Edit: After reading what I wrote, I realized it came off as if I didn't like DDG or didn't use it. Neither of those are true. I really like DDG and use it fairly often.

The way Chrome handles SSL certs on Linux has always driven me crazy. My company's firewall uses a man in the middle SSL certificate so on most SSL sites I have to "proceed anyway" everytime I restart my browser. Chrome on Linux can't seem to permanently store the exceptions, even with every certutil command known to man.

This in itself wouldn't be all that bad, the real problem is most sites (Facebook for example) use multiple SSL domains for things like images and other resources. So I'll get a page that half loads until I go an "proceed anyway" on each of the problem domains.

I just want to stick up for the new Gmail interface here. I find it to be both more aesthetically pleasing and more functional.

I just wen't through this exact exercise for a project I'm working on where I want to figure out the best image to display from a given craigslist listing.

I used an approach most similar to Goose where I download the image to get the meta data, then get rid of odd aspect ratio images (I think I have it set to anything with bigger than a 3.0 aspect ratio, but it needs to be tweaked). I also get rid of things like 1px wide images (or anything smaller than the thumbnail I want to display).

So far it works "okay". It's far from perfect, but its WAY better than nothing.