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misterjinx

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misterjinx··on Build Your Own X
That is what I meant by my comment, I was not referring to learning exercises, I should've been more clear, though.
misterjinx··on How Pocket Hit 20M Users with 20 People
They announced [1] back in June that the old extension will not be actively developed, and recommend everyone to move over to the new one.

[1] https://getpocket.com/blog/2015/06/pocket-is-now-built-into-...

misterjinx··on Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket
was going to ask about the bounty and then saw this. bummer.
misterjinx··on Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are
why would they? after all they are public keys, they are supposed to be public. if you really are afraid of github exposing your public key, I think you can always create a separate pair to use only with github.
misterjinx··on Stack Exchange Engineering: How We Built Our Blog
It is not possible to subscribe to feeds individually ? For instance I would like to subscribe only for the engineering RSS feed. At the moment all I could find was a general feed for the entire blog.
misterjinx··on Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?
This is one of the reasons I've always thought that each project should have a minimal developer documentation that should include the project's scope, how it's structured, what are its main components and how they are connected etc. This would help a lot a future developer to faster start working on the actual project and reduce the initial time spent on figuring what is all about.
misterjinx··on Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimited Cloud Drive Storage
There is something very unclear to me regarding the usage of the cloud drive for kindle related stuff. I mean, until now every ebook I purchased on amazon was available on amazon cloud. Also, they offered this option to documents you sent to your device by email. How is this new cloud drive going to affect me ? They already told me in the email that the current 5 GB plan is no longer available and has been replaced with a free 3-month trial of one of the Unlimited plans. The existing documents are available to download and view but if I want to upload new files I must select one of the Unlimited plans. So no more cloud storage for kindle (of course, unless I choose to pay according to new plans) ?
misterjinx··on Angular 2.0 Website
Thanks for that. I was able to see it after a force refresh. Looks good now.
misterjinx··on Angular 2.0 Website
White text on white background image ? Look how this renders on 1920x1080 resolution http://i.imgur.com/sPWpL6C.png. I cannot read that text, I don't understand anything from it.
misterjinx··on Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework
Talk about timing. Yesterday I was checking up on this to see if there is something new and today this shows up. Great!
misterjinx··on Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess
hmm, didn't notice that. perhaps some text to indicate that you can use the arrows to see the moves ?
misterjinx··on Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess
regarding tactics, please also add some info about what was the expected move when you fail a tactic.
misterjinx··on Show HN: Newtrien – nutrition facts labels for recipe blogs
I just wanted to point out, that even though I'm not in the target, the product looks excellent. I can see by the level of presentation and the way labels are created that you've put a lot of time and effort in developing this, there aren't many products these days that show so much accuracy from early stages. Great job!
misterjinx··on Firefox Dev Tools: Box model highlighter, Web Console improvements
The box model highlighter looks great. This was the only reason keeping me from switching from firebug to dev tools entirely. Also, the other improvements are great news as well. Good job!
misterjinx··on Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps network this year
I'm pretty sure he's talking about Romania. You can read more about this here http://business-review.eu/featured/rcs-rds-offers-highest-fi... and a reddit discussion on the subject at that time here http://redd.it/1nz2ig (many comments)
misterjinx··on Your user agent
This made me to switch to DDG (for the second time) as default search engine. I'll give it more time now, I didn't know about all these "goodies". For instance, I just searched for a youtube link and it offered me a box with a link to the wanted video and also the possibility to play it right from there. This is so cool :)
misterjinx··on Nginx Plus
is there anywhere a side by side comparison between the two versions ?
misterjinx··on Yii 1.1.14 release candidate is available
well documented, yes, powerful, could be, but to say about yii that it is well organized is way too much.
misterjinx··on Show HN: Laravel 4 - This framework is revolutionizing PHP.
hmm...so in the docs they say about pure php views, but in the quick start guide they mention only about blade. since this is what I read, this has to be the cause for letting me believe the only way you can create views is with the template included in the framework.
misterjinx··on Show HN: Laravel 4 - This framework is revolutionizing PHP.
I don't know why everyone it is so excited about this framework. I've had a quick look over the documentation a few months ago, when there was this hype around this new kid from the block thinking that there must be something really interesting.

I stopped reading the minute I saw they are using a template engine for rendering the views. I simply don't get it. Why would someone use a separate template engine when PHP itself is a very good one to use ? Why to add an extra layer to the app ?

We don't have to recreate anything, the views should be pure PHP, not code written in some <insert template engine name here> that is then translated to PHP.