imjared

Glorified SMS? I get that the compose window is smaller but this is pretty unbelievably hyperbole. On my main screen, I get over 4000 characters before having to scroll and even on my 13" laptop screen, I can fit close to 1700 characters in the compose window before I get a scroll bar (http://cl.ly/image/0H1A2O3u251U). In contrast, the "old" version only gives me about 650 characters on my small screen (http://cl.ly/image/0h3O2H3g0P21). Perhaps I'm missing something but this seems to free up real estate.

Probably the same team that has usage data for hundreds of millions of users.

I think I get it but this is a weird analogy. Fine dining is an experience; great software provides value in that it enhances workflows, allows you to do your job better, etc.

Is there a reason to use https over a protocol-relative url? My go-to is <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>

1) a "witch hunt" can be taken in the metaphorical sense to mean a hunt for any enemy/dissenter.[1] I think the term is used rather judiciously.

2) "It is likely" isn't good enough. You're hypothesizing. Could they have found them? Maybe. Could they have not found them? Maybe. All we know is they didn't find the bombers but instead slandered a number of individuals and family names in the process.

3) I'm not sure what your background is but I like to believe that our federal law enforcement (FBI, Police, SWAT Teams, etc.), while not perfect, is pretty well-trained and collectively has thousands upon thousand of YEARS MORE experience than I do in collecting evidence, timing its release, and generally fighting crime. As such, I imagine the timed release was not to delay or elongate the process but was very intentional.

I do agree with you that it seemed to take longer than is desirable to find the suspects (especially since once they were found, one got away) but a "better system" is by no means the hive mind of untrained "armchair investigators."

Perhaps in the future there will be a way to crowd source information but the responses of Reddit 4chan, and yes, even some here on HN were well-intentioned but harmful. An apology from Reddit seems perfectly acceptable.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Metaphorical_usage

Forked to see the power of SASS! http://codepen.io/imjared/pen/DhHCx

(help of: @brandon_vaughan)

Came here to say this. They did a knockout job with this. Some pieces that just aren't easy to make responsive are done really, really well. For an example, check the filtering mechanism here: http://www.rogerebert.com/great-movies.

Also- the infinite scrolling is lightning fast. They're getting JSON and throwing it into a template(?) while loading images from Cloudfront. This is the way it should be done.

Big ups to the devs behind this. A migration is never easy and it looks like they handled it expertly.

Wanna trade? I'll do your git if you do my taxes?

DMV in the District had a pretty long line but was fine otherwise. The biggest problem I saw was people who had not read the provided information/required materials in advance of coming then started arguing or pleading their case.

Every time I have ever used live chat it has been horribly slow, obviously outsourced, textbook/flow-chart driven, and almost entirely worthless. I have spent hours upon hours dealing with people who can not communicate clearly from Hostgator to Comcast and had almost every experience end in failure.

Similar to the author, when I have called a US-based customer service number and spoken to a representative, my problems are either resolved almost immediately or I receive a very clear explanation of what the issue is (usually at this point it becomes apparent that I've misinterpreted something).

Another option that can sometimes work well is tweeting the customer service or brand account. I kind of hate that customer service is being pushed to 140 characters or less but I think the perception of what it means to be "good" at social media results in companies over-delivering or at least being very mindful of customer needs. This has been my experience with Comcast.

my live chat example from Comcast: https://gist.github.com/jfsiii/4450046#comment-712192

Going to go out on a limb here and say that status.github.com is probably hosted somewhere other than github.com

This is great news.

I was introduced to SourceTree for Mac when I started at my new shop and I've gotta say that I love it. I don't consider it a crutch so much as a part of a faster workflow. I enjoy the ability to quickly see diffs, to pick and choose what files I want to commit with just a click+drag, and generally moving through simple git things (push, pull, commit, merge, rebase, resolve merge conflicts) with the click of a button or a keyboard shortcut.

It's not as powerful as using CLI (you can't perform an interactive rebase, for example) but for the most part it fits my workflow of branching, merging, and pull requesting pretty nicely.

That's a pretty bold (and borderline offensive) statement. You're effectively thumbing your nose at anyone who develops open source projects and even more so, anyone who subscribes to a philosophy of the open-nature of the web.

thanks for the mention, and yes, it's definitely quite cynical :)

That said, I'm still trying to figure out what's so enjoyable about it. What about it is "enlightening" or makes you go "warm and fuzzy inside?" Basically, what differentiates this from using a full screen window in your text editor? Is it the contrast of colors? Is it because it's on the web? I wonder if I'm not using github to its full potential since I don't get it. Any insight to process or use cases other than how it makes you feel (I agree, it looks pretty, I guess) would be really appreciated!

Open sourced: https://gist.github.com/4627220

Out of pure curiosity, what use do you have for this? I can't wrap my head around this being anything more than a shiny new thing. It doesn't have syntax highlighting, doesn't have keyboard shortcuts, and therefore seems to be worthless for anything other than markdown editing (for which I would rather just use my text editor).

I've had a similar experience with Simple. The app is beautiful but it's really just another credit card. I love my bank and the features they provide (insurance, different types of credit cards, loans, etc.) are significantly better than what's really just a pretty iPhone app.

This is a nice looking redesign but I think I'll probably stick to jqapi.com for quick reference. It's fast, I can find methods by URL (eg. jqapi.com/#p=get), and search auto-completes.

On things to fix:

While I appreciate the use of history, I promise you I don't need to hold my position on the page for every single letter I type in the search box: http://screencast.com/t/1qFwxlz5

I ended up with a history entry for "search results for 'c'", "search results for 'co'", "search results for 'cog'", etc.

Maybe trim this down to only firing after 10s on inactivity in a text input or use onblur? I'm not too sure what the answer is but it (page history) definitely loses any usefulness when architected in this manner.

Slows the loading of the site to a crawl.

I'm not really surprised to read this. These cases, I'm sure, are a dime a dozen. I did the same thing in middle school; I pirated Photoshop and started to learn the ins and outs. Led me to getting an internship which led me to getting a job and settling on a decent career path. Now I own most of the thousands of dollars of software I used as a kid.

I can agree and sympathize with this until he said that most people pirate out of need, not greed. Not sure that's really accurate but I'm also not sure it's measurable.

Really? I see it more as a framework, similar to any other language's or technology's. To make a bit of a reaching analogy, I don't think HTML is weak just because Twitter's Bootstrap is useful. If you want to roll your own solution every time, have at it. But if you want to have a great starting point, this looks like it could help speed things up.

If you use Google, you can add w3schools.com to your list of sites blocked in search results. I did this and it makes MDN my top result almost 100% of the time when searching for spec-related information.

link: http://www.google.com/reviews/t screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/2l2r3f3y1a3x

Bit of mudslinging going on about a "clipper chip." I was much too young to really know what was going on with this (can read up on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip), but it's interesting to see that there were security concerns in 1996 similar to the ones we have in 2012. http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/internet.htm

It's not. It's just a novel, somewhat funny use of github.

Right, that's what I went to. I figured I'd give their tool a whirl but it's just an obfuscation of git. I guess it might be easier for some but it just gave me error after error.

I wanted to use PHPFog for an ExpressionEngine site but deploys seemed to take an unreasonably long time. Their pseudo-git (CLI task `pf`) is also kind of silly.

If you're not going to be doing a lot of dev work and making a lot of commits, I'd recommend.

1) If you're in the US like you say you are, this is a resume, not a CV. 2) The "website" link for Food Trucks Near Me does not work.

Also, I'm a bit baffled by these graphs. While they look nice, I'm not sure what they're conveying. Is there an endpoint for learning/competency (100%) like a bar graph would suggest? If anything, I think a pie chart might reflect your abilities better since it doesn't claim that a College Senior is 50% done/proficient/knows everything about Python or whatever (I don't claim that you're not awesome with Python but that's quite the bold claim, even for someone with many, many years of experience).

Otherwise, looks good and definitely beats a paper resume.

"Planetary Protection Officer Catharine Conley" ... Best job title ever?

This seems like a typical "gotcha" story. TSA has approximately 60,000 employees and to show that one stole something, or even one hundred have stolen things, doesn't raise any real red flags to me. I wish it didn't happen but I don't think this can really be used as an overarching critique of TSA. If we want to argue against TSA, let's keep arguments framed around invasive procedures, general incompetence, or the cost/benefit ratio that they seem to provide.