mcobrien

I read this after patio11 linked to it. It's an amazing resource, thank you!

@emdowling - your comments aren't showing up here - maybe because your account is new? The service looks awesome btw!

http://pcod.es - share, track and promote iOS promo codes (could easily be expanded to share promo codes for anything in a controlled way). Ruby on Rails.

Domain only: pushp.in - I have an offer for this so you'd need to be quick.

I've considered that, but the last time I tried you couldn't use the words iPhone or iPad in a Google Ad. Has that restriction gone away, or how do you work around it?

"Last week I came back to this idea and realized that there are good alternatives available, it should not be treated a reason to stop."

- Awesome, I'm glad you decided to go ahead with this. This is a crowded space but you've been able to make a useful tool with features other sites don't have. Congrats!

You're right: this is a British English construct and presumably allowed by the BBC style guide.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun#section_2

I tried this out earlier, just before you sent the beta email out. A few thoughts:

1. Keyboard shortcuts! I really wanted to deselect items by hitting escape but it didn't work. I kept trying anyway because I'm so used to Balsamiq :) I'd also love to be able to hit / to quick-search the list of elements I can add, then return to add the selected item. Again, Balsamiq really nails this.

2. I wanted to add a div with Bootstrap's pull-right class, but couldn't figure out how. Some means to add custom elements with custom css classes, even in a limited way, would really help me.

3. I typed some text (directly into a grid .row) but it didn't show up in the CSS+HTML tab. Not sure if this was a bug or not.

I really want this to work and it would save our team loads of time (meaning, we would pay for it :). Looking forward to what you do next.

Sounds good! I've filled in my details on the form.

If you're a hacker in need of a Mac/iOS todo list, I couldn't recommend TaskPaper (http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper/) enough. It's a hybrid outliner and todo list, but scales from simple lists to multi-project, tagged lists with loads of notes and documentation.

Best of all, the file format is plain text, so you can keep it in source control, edit it in Vim (there's even a vim plugin - https://github.com/davidoc/taskpaper.vim), or whatever you want.

Watching the video, I was struck by how slowly and carefully everyone was writing. I guess I might do that if I someone was filming my handwriting, but if it's to compensate for the speed of the sensor it's a problem.

Competing with paper and a pen is hard enough, but if you can't scribble fast it might be a dealbreaker.

You're right to want to avoid duplicating your code inside your test. In this case, I'd work out some simple permutations and test against those values, sorting the results so order doesn't matter.

    assert(sorted(permute((1, 2))) == [(1, 2), (2, 1)])

Using CSS means you have to specify image locations in two places, with potentially different base URLs.

Using Javascript means you have to load scripts before the img tag, which can hurt performance.

Using http headers or a special URL format makes working with CDNs more difficult.

This is actually a tricky problem to solve and it looks like the authors have considered some of the above problems.

(I still hope they change it. Nested elements might be a way to go.)

I already know and use both, but find I'm much more productive with ruby because it's so expressive.

While this project isn't going to do much to simplify my Cocoa code, the rest of my app could be much simpler as a result.

I've written an alternative iOS browser myself, and my guess is this bug is due to the Safari UI misinterpreting the network events that get fired when pages and frames are loaded.

Wrapping UIWebView makes it really hard to distinguish between page loads and iframe loads to figure out which URL is currently displayed. While Safari uses lower-level interfaces, I'd guess this is happening at a higher-level than webkit, so cross-domain restrictions should still be in place.

Themeforest link: http://themeforest.net/item/pastel-dashboard-admin-template-...

OSX isn't released once a year. With the exception of the just-announced Mountain Lion, it has received major updates every two years since 2003. It also gets "service packs" in the form of point releases every couple of months.

$29.99 still seems like a great deal to me.

There are some sample images here, though sadly not at full size:

http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-808-pure...

This is great! One minor thing I noticed is that on the homepage, the bottom three swatches don't seem to link to individual files properly -- they all download the bootstrap.min.css, regardless of what you choose in the split button.

I guess it depends on what you're writing. Using rbenv and bundler keeps ruby apps in check, but if you want to install a whole load of stuff, you could take a look at Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com).

If you're hungry for more, http://vimcasts.org/ is awesome, but sadly hasn't been updated in a while.

I'm surprised it wasn't higher. I got 15,000 uniques in a day and my link (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1940129) only had 36 upvotes.

I guess there isn't a direct relationship between links people find voteworthy and those they just want to visit.

Whenever I'm pretty sure of a hunch I have, I like to review this list to remember how utterly useless human cognition is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

My iPad app does something like this: http://switchapp.net/

It's not full user accounts, but a multi-user web browser. You can protect your bookmarks, logins & web history and it also has a guest mode.

What's more is it redirects to a GitHub-hosted URL. Maybe it's just me, but it seems cheap that twitter would advocate hotlinking off a GitHub server when they have so much capacity of their own.

A million dollars and a public paypal email address (check the screenshot). I really hope he has a secure password.

Right now, I'm trying to strike a balance between making info available to devs and respecting user's privacy. The site gets the emails and IP addresses of people who get apps but doesn't reveal those to the dev.

The only "metric" that's available is the number of codes that have been used.

I've thought about making an opt-in so developers can contact users later. This way you could get people's permission to follow them up with questions on the app. How does that sound?

Clickable link: http://pcod.es/

Free copies of my apps so you can see how it works:

Switch, the multi-user web browser: http://pcod.es/pi6

Awesome Shopping, a super-fast shopping list: http://pcod.es/As1

Thanks for sharing this. I have a bright five year-old and, having read articles like this one, my partner and I try praise effort as much as we can.

Here's the problem. For nearly all of the tasks she's set in school, she doesn't need to expend much effort at all. We say, "nice work, you must have tried really hard!" and she replies, a little confused at us, "no".

It sounds like you found everything too easy as well. What kind of feedback would have worked for you?

I'm not sure I like it, but this works

    def nil.method_missing(*args, &block); end

So now you can call nil.whatever.you.like and get nil. It's also still falsy, but now every nil value in your app silently works and doesn't throw an error.

It's both impressive and scary that Ruby lets you (or that new contractor you're not sure about) change the fundamentals of the language in one line of code.