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You are in for a treat man. I read it once every year (not cover to cover just my favorite parts esp the prison) just to fire myself up.

Side note: The movie is also quite good.

All at the same time! How do you manage? I have tired doing that several times but I usually end of reading the one I like the most first which is why now I focus on only one book at a time.

I did that with harry potter. Wanted to do the same with eragon but they never made any more movies :(

Really like the editor of the penflip.

Wow nice work. When I travel outside I usually use wikipedia to get a list of places where I should go. But a direct recommendation from friends is a lot better since wikipedia lists only places/things that are relatively popular.

I think a mobile app that keeps track of the paces you have been and then syncs it to wanderlust for friends to see could be really good. I think facebook does it but here it would make sense.

Really good work.

It could be true but how come snap chat is worth so much and not what's app. Is it because they have actual revenue model while snapchat's value is speculative?

I don't really understand how valuations work. I read somewhere that they intend to make money by flash sales which I think is a really good idea for low priced products but it is not clear if they will make the money off transaction or allowing the product to be sold on their market place.

It would be great if investors could shed some light on what they think is so valuable about the company in which they are investing so much.

Big fan of Bill. As a kid I used to read comic strips of calvin and hobbes in our daily newspaper. That comic section was the only reason I bought the newspaper. When they stopped publishing the stips I stopped buying the paper :)

Most of us who read calvin and hobbes know that how philosophical it can be. Nuggets of wisdom can be found beneath the funny quips.

> Everybody seeks happiness! Not me, though! That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Fascinating. An average 60 year old man sleeps for 20 years (considering a normal 8 hr a day sleep) that is 1/3 of his life. A polar bear and some other hibernating animals sleep for half of their lives. Amazingly polar bear is cognizant enough to feed her baby while she is sleeping.

Sleep also lowers the heart beat. It is generally accepted that all mammals have the same life span in number of hear beats. An elephant lives longer than a mouse because it's heart beats slower. Could that mean that people who live longer generally sleep more.

Whales are known to live for a long time. Wonder how much they sleep.

That was my first reaction too. I would love to read about his adventures. 23 years is a very long time travelling. I am not sure of my facts but Alexander the great traveled (or was on an expedition) for about 15 years. He has far surpassed that feat.

Nice work. I don't know much about hardware programming but if I manage to recreate it I am going to use it on Christmas :) How much did it cost you?

First of all I would recommend that you go through code samples in to do mvc

http://todomvc.com/

Read or try out a few libraries so you can get a feel for them.

For fronted development I use knockout js. Their documentation is very good. The interactive tutorials offer a great way to learn the framework. The framework itself is not vast and you can get started pretty quickly.

Although it is a matter of preference among the devs but I like the declarative binding style of knockout. It felt natural to me.

lol

Well I am looking for the exact opposite. Focusing my "programming energy" for my own stuff while having a source of income from some other job. I have found nothing yet though.

First of all great job guys. The website looks really good even better than HN. One thing I dislike is the scroll bar in the middle. It makes navigation a bit cumbersome in my opinion.

I see you are using redis! It would be great if you could share some details about your usage like how much memory your app uses and what are your costs associated with it.

Nice work guys. I especially like the integrated pricing system. Adding a means of payment is a tricky aspect of a product. If that is taken care of well it saves a lot of time.

Fantastic commitment. Gives me inspiration to roll up my sleeves and start my next project.

Thanks for that link

I dont think it is in built but screen capture should work.

How did you implement the filters though?

Very cool.

Ah I get it. Yeah I will redo them.

No problem man. I will look to add syntax highlighting by default in specter.

Anyway I updated the pages to have the feeds into them by default so it does not cause any confusion.

Ah thanks for letting me know. I had opened an issue to change my implementation but I guess I will leave it now. Thanks once again.

It is already built into specter. Use the urls

/feed/rss and /feed/atom

So all you got to do is add an anchor tag that points to these urls.

Settings can be set in the preferences file.

Regarding syntax highlighting...

Can you not use javascript libraries to do this? I have got no idea how to go about implementing this..

I have a question...

>Specter takes the elegant/lazy approach of not using sessions at all - access to edit and create pages is entirely via url, and permission to actually perform those changes is granted by including a 'secret' (a password) in the form. It's not the most secure form of defense (I'm not using ssl, so a wireless sniffer could easily determine my password, for example), but its sufficient for a nonprofessional.

Is there something that I can do to make it more secure but still follow the lazy approach. I am asking cause I use heroku which is not secure as well.

Why thank you sir for this detailed write up! You did a great job.

You mean the the themes? Well I just added them to demonstrate that all you need to is change the css from boostrap to bootswatch in order to change the theme.

http://bootswatch.com/

Well I have never worked with MathJax but from the cursory glance it looks like all you need to do is add js files and you can do that in specter.

Giving credit where it is due. Specter was inspired by simple

https://github.com/gschier/simple-blog

I wrote about it here

http://www.staticshin.com/inspiration-behind-specter

ha ha nice one. With lots of free time and nothing much to do I thought I might as well build something that people can use until ghost comes around.