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dabit··on [dead]
Good news or bad news?
dabit··on Tips to display syntax highlighted code in presentations
Correct, my bad. I updated it with a couple of tips for non-Mac users.
dabit··on AWS Instance Connectivity issues in US-WEST-2
Yup, our EC2 instance on US-WEST-2 can't connect to our RDS server.
dabit··on Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up
Am I the only one that read Stripe: Bacon at first glance?
dabit··on Google's robots.txt
For the lazy: http://www.youtube.com/robots.txt
dabit··on Important BufferBox Update
Is this Whatsapp's future? Stay tuned.
dabit··on Rejected by Kickstarter? 'Roll your own' with Selfstarter instead
Here's an alternative that I wrote after reading about Lockitron.

http://blog.crowdint.com/2012/10/13/crowdfunding-your-projec...

dabit··on Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app
Was working on something similar when this came out. https://github.com/crowdint/fundraiser

Great job by the Lockitron team.

dabit··on I bought something from a Best Buy vending machine, and it didn't go so well.
Best Buy's policy makes sense.

I think they are trying to avoid the probably very common scenario where you forget your headphones for a trip, nothing to worry about, just buy a pair from the Express machine, return them as soon as you are back home.

dabit··on EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
Perhaps Pivotal wins by being able to get a ton of enterprise engineers from EMC, turn them into Rubyists and scale their already very successful model. If they are profitable at ~100 employees, they would be even more profitable at ~150, ~200.
dabit··on Email interceptors in Rails 3.x
Didn't know these existed. There's probably uses for them in production too.
dabit··on Open source blog as another Backbone, Slim, Rails, Bootstrap sample app
Worth mentioning that we were using 0.10, took around 1 minute on a brand new MBP. Worse on older machines.

Enabling LSI for related posts made it worse.

Maybe its fixed on newer versions.

dabit··on The evil unit test.
Was this a sarcastic post?
dabit··on Steam loses user database
Wait, how do you change your Steam password?
dabit··on Dell: Apple should close shop (1997)
Who should be closing shop today?