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Julia also has a useful Any type.

We had a rule at the company I messengered at: Never ask what’s in the package.

But I honestly doubt anyone ever trusted us with drugs, the most memorable things I delivered were A) a pee cup (luckily empty) and B) an industrial size sink from Wall St. to 42nd.

There is definitely still a market in NYC, but you're right it’s smaller. Architects, lawyers, the fashion industry, and photo/video studios were our major clientele when I was working a few years back.

Biggest thing for me was learning to get up early, and sticking with a schedule even on weekends.

A lot of us have the privilege of working flexible hours and for me that meant getting hammered and showing up to work at 11am still a bit hungover. I now show up to work at 9 and leave by 6, and don't go out with my old drinking buddies. Likewise I don’t try to pull crazy hours because that shit stresses me out and I cope with that by drinking/recreational drug use.

I've wanted to write more about this topic but never have the courage, in part because I still drink sparingly and am not sure that makes me an authority.

Had this exact experience happen to one of my coworkers.

We started embedding a secondary “password” in some of our email addresses, by leveraging googles username+tag feature. So something like johndoe@gmail.com becomes johndoe+1bayjdh1x91nj12e@gmail.com

One less piece of guessable info.

Don't forget Camping!

https://github.com/camping/camping

I've been thinking this for a while, but I have a feeling there is a decently large market (at least enough to sustain a small company and team) for really nice "dumb" phones.

No data; just text, and talk (and in my vision a really nice camera) with the ability to sync/backup contacts etc.

What are the odds the 10th result for me was "Learn Python the hard way by Zed Shaw"?

We’ve seen similar results at our company. Plain text emails always get more click throughs in A/B tests.

And personally I prefer them. If I must use html, I only stick to the basic styling elements with no css.

Strange, the author neglected to mention the 511 ride share program in NYC, which was encouraging carpooling before Sandy.

http://511ny.org/rideshare/

I hope you're joking...

Well done!

I actually had the same idea, but changed it slightly when it came time for execution because I wanting to use geolocation api's. Never really ended up finishing it though, turns out theres not much quake activity on the east coast and I lost intrest. :(

http://quakes.arrly.co

Just searched for "picasa" on my (iOS 6) iPad. First two hits were apps that actually had picasa in the name, (the ones he mentions) followed by his apps.

What exactly his he whining about?

Search for a competing app and his doesn't come up first? Does he also complain to google (irony) about his page ranking? Why is this on the front page, let alone #1?

I haven't read through all the comments but standardized and unbiased copy writing would really benefit the site. "Promise to inform about data requests" gets a plus while "No transparency on law enforcement requests" get a minus.

Both labels could be changed to "Notification of data requests", and a user would have the benefit of knowing you were comparing the same thing across multiple sites.

As it stands it's hard to compare a sites rating.

Another (possibly more prominent) example: Github has "You don't grant any copyright license to github", right below that SoundCloud has "You stay in control of your copyright", and below that 500px simply has "Ownership".

Assuming those all refer to the same thing (owning your data/copyright), a simple, "Copyright ownership" would be much clearer and unbiased copy.

We're using a subset of the font that only includes the icons we're using on the site. The distributed font contains much more. :)

You can also just use Unicode values. See the icons on the blog page.

So something like "ģ" or "\0123" will also work.

🏩

Have you tried browsed the Internet for extended periods of time on an iPhone? It's painful. The mobile experience still sucks for 90% of the web, bandwidth is limited and slow, and don't even imagine having all your standard tabs open. Mobile web is still very much broken.

I pointed it out earlier but like the author also don't have home Internet. It's pretty easy to avoid grabbing the iPhone and opening up safari for anything more than reading a few blog posts.

For what it's worth, I've not had Internet at home for about a month. I still have access at work, so not entirely the same situation, but it is nice not having the vice at home. And like the author have filled the rest of my time productively.

I recommend anyone give it a go, and if you haven't get rid of your tv too.

I do just that actually. Although my reasoning was more about how insanely cheap and reliable it is, and wanting to get familiar with the technologies for the first time.

I would say Cloudfront is actually overkill for a static site, I didn't really notice any decreased page load times in my testing, and having it purge the caches is another hoop you have to jump through.

There is something entirely geeky about it though, and it puts a smile on my face knowing how unnecessary the technology behind my site is.

I'd be willing to share my rakefiles for publishing this set up if anyone is interested.

The point of normalize, at least how I use it and understand it, is if you wanted to change a default style you just go into the normalize.css file and change the style of links, or buttons in there, and be assured they work cross browser.

As apposed to having to to declare a reset, and then re-declaring everything again.

He says this in the article too: "Approach 1: use normalize.css as a starting point for your own project’s base CSS, customising the values to match the design’s requirements."

The point of normalize is not to keep links blue, and buttons gray. They find the rendering discrepancies between browsers, fix them, and make it easy for you to change.

Thanks for the heads up on this. I'm really tired of using compass just for the css3 mixins.

> I’ll break the bad news to you up front: you have to stop worrying about what happens when people resize their browser. First of all, no one does this. Yes, YOU like to resize your browser and watch DOM elements bend to your will—and so do I—but real-life regular people users don’t. And of course it’s not even possible on mobile and tablet devices.

> This whole responsive thing isn’t about passing a CSS fluidity test. So let’s let it go.

Thank god someone finally brought this up.

I would word it differently then. Using the term quality in a sliding scale manner leaves doubt in my mind. I want to know all your work is excellent.

if 0^0=1 than ex nihilo

This has nothing to do with tipping. Groupon is a flawed business model.

Consumers who are willing to pay $ for something are not going to be repeat customers who will then pay $$$ for the same thing.

It's a modified pyramid scheme, the only people that benefit are consumers and Groupon it self, even though they are losing money out of their asses.