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Crash Plan already offers this: http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Backup/Seeded_Bac...

As I believe many larger backup services do nowadays.

Everything is a hack nowadays it seems.

Says the business in the business of business calls.

I do anything from front-end design, styles and scripts to back-end programming and server management and I've always just said "developer".

Folks within my field get a sense of what I'm about from that or ask further questions about the specifics, and those who aren't and maybe aren't familiar with the term don't stick a label on me that may be too specific.

It's been very interesting to me, having done mostly web work for nearly 13 years, to see the labels change. Whether it's "front-end ninja" or "full-stack developer" it's usually very general. Everyone seems to want a label but no one wants to commit to something specific.

A plumber wouldn't usually say, "I'm a plumber and do mostly joint fittings, but I also specialize in X, Y and Z" -- they just tell folks they're a plumber.

Stick with something simple and give the details when asked.

Solarized has a toggle plugin you might be able to use/modify so that you can switch themes easily.

It might be less than ideal, but I cloned my profile in iTerm and set it to use lighter colors (Solarized Light) and just switch to it when I kick on darkroom. You should be able to map this profile change to a keyboard shortcut, depending on what you're using, to make the switch a little easier.

Always glad to see tree being used.

Same here on 27.0.1 under OS X, even with the console open. No errors reported. Works great in Chrome/Safari/Opera.

With the added benefit of being able to chew it all day.

Always had Firefox as my default, even when it was stuck on large, slow releases and was lagging a bit behind Chrome as far as features and speed.

My reasons are pretty trivial, and I'll readily admit Chrome can be better to work with in certain dev cases, but I like being able to customize the UI. (I think the back/forward buttons belong to the right of the address bar where they're easier to reach with a mouse and I like having an RSS button, dang it.)

If you're doing all of that, why not take it a small step further and setup your own instance of GitLab? It's a bit more work, but it's by no means difficult if you follow the install directions.

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/install...

I'm not clicking that

W3C validator, Yeoman, Code Pen, Bootstrap...is this list really appropriate for the Hacker News crowd?

> Unless ActionScript somehow becomes the dominant programming language of the future, in which case the future looks darker than I thought.

Agreed, but I am ready for the call from Mr. Stark.

Same here. Switched to iTerm for proper mouse support in Vim, and you need only click (no option key) to move your cursor in Vim if you have `mouse=a` in your vimrc.

I used to be a die-hard Terminal.app user but with Mavericks it felt incredibly sluggish doing everything from opening to listing files to editing things and this is another reason I moved to iTerm.

Be warned, though, that if you're using Vim with Solarized you and you're trapped in low color mode you want to be sure you're declared as a 256 color term and update your `vimrc` to remove the following for the colorscheme to work properly:

Remove:

* let g:solarized_termcolors = 256

* let g:solarized_termtrans = 1

* let g:solarized_contrast = "normal"

* let g:solarized_visibility = "normal"

Google Analytics and the rest do more than just log web traffic details. They also offer event tracking and real-time stats, with a decent UI, so that your marketing director or boss can easily jump in and check things out.

I realize there are similar offerings that don't require a third party but I don't see them as equal alternatives.

Let me just re-size this button with rounded corners in Photoshop...

I believe if you're going the Homebrew route you're accepting the cask's versions of things as a means to synchronize installations. This could be handle for teams that need to be using the same versions of specific libraries or apps, system administrators who want to manage upgrades paths, etc.

It could also be as simple as "that's the way it works because that's how homebrew works". It's all symlinks, and I personally am a fan because if I want to cleanup what's been done with Homebrew it's very easy.

I do completely understand your point, and agree to a certain extent, but I'm sure there are situations where you wouldn't want things simply copied and left to run/update on their own.

> Next year WordPress will still be a leader.

> 2014 will be yet another year of doing more while writing less code...Webydo, Froont or Macaw

Yeah right. As someone who'd consider themselves a WordPress expert and has been building clients sites with it (and other OSS offerings like Magento) for a long time there is no way in hell someone is going to use a WYSIWYG builder to create WordPress themes/sites.

If WordPress is the leader, maybe the argument that there is less code writing going on is a general one that means folks are using the CMS with plugins instead of rolling their own solutions -- where clicks replace code, in a sense. But you or someone else still needs to build the templates, customize the admin, register functions and nav and widgets, etc.

I suppose if you're really hell-bent on building a site with WordPress without coding you could like at a DMS add-on like PageLines but really, for most work with WordPress, you're writing code at some point.

Haha...yes, sorry about that.

L4D and L4D2 are so similar I'm not sure I understand how one is muted and the other is too Hollywood. The only real differences between them are a few changes to infected, melee weapons and some additional gameplay mechanics.

E: there's a really cool technical presentation here that goes through some of the technical changes in L4D2 [1]

[1]: http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2010/GDC10_ShaderT...

If you want to see the future, look to the past...right? With all of the advances in JS/CSS features and performance I would expect that a lot of the garish 90's Flash "enhancements" will make a return beyond some of the simple scrolling and animation touches we see now.

Full 3D spinning cube navigation, automatic audio playback, loading screens, constant page/background animations, etc. It's all going to come back in some way, and that's not some sort of wishful thinking on my part.

Having watched and been a part of the evolution of the web during the rise of Macromedia, what we're seeing now with CSS and JS is very similar to the simple SWFs people were putting together back then. Once everyone gets comfortable with the way things work, it's going to evolve.

Me to OP: what's on?

My experience has been that there is nearly always a plugin for what you're attempting to do but they're hard to find (mostly because of naming) or they're poorly coded or missing features. Thankfully, most of them are GPL'd so you're pretty free to do whatever you want with them.

I understand the potentially precarious position this puts the government in with regards to handling leaks and whistle-blowers in the future but I'm okay with that. Pardon Snowden, pardon (encourage?) future whistle-blowers.

I didn't look it up at all. Took me a few seconds initially to acclimate to the UI, find the "Insert" menu and try a couple things. I don't feel like their methods for inserting make perfect sense, but I've never had a problem with it.

Have you tried it? You select N rows, it then says Insert > N Rows Above and Insert > N Rows Below. I've never had any problems inserting rows, but perhaps I'm not using the product the way others do.

I switched to a yoga ball a few years back and my lower back pain went away completely. While sitting in general might not be ideal for long periods of time, at least with a yoga ball my back is forced to support itself, is constantly moving/adjusting and I get the adult equivalent of a bouncy chair at my desk.

For me personally it's been a great success, but I have yet to see any conclusive "yoga balls are better than chairs" articles that didn't read like new age dribble.

As a Michigander, I love this thing.