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numbnutson Hangouts for iOS

Not just you. Anyone know why?

numbnutson What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

Steve Klabnik's apology:

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/294302391279435776

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/294302539510337536

He posted this ~2 years ago: http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2010-09-24-trolling-is-a-...

I guess he's still working on his communication skills.

numbnutson The State of jQuery 2013

Maybe the GitHub requirement[0] will raise the barrier to entry? I never used the old plugin site but I'll give the new one a chance. GitHub will make reviewing plugins so much easier.

[0]: https://github.com/jquery/plugins.jquery.com#how-it-works

numbnutson The State of jQuery 2013

I understand why they'd drop IE8 support in 2.0 but it's still a bitter pill to swallow.

numbnutson The State of jQuery 2013

http://plugins.jquery.com/

They wiped out all the plugins (with no recent backups) in the process of removing spam.

numbnutson Show HN: My weekend project - Hacker News inside Sublime Text 2

Sublime Text 2 isn't too far off from being able to read mail, is it?

How is ST2 plugin development? Is the API stable? Well-documented?

numbnutson Exploring Emacs

Emacs' help system is fantastic and is one of my favorite things about it. But I had no idea you can navigate to the C source code too. That makes me so happy. :D

numbnutson Exploring Emacs

Evil[0] is where it's at for vi/m emulation. In my, albeit short, experience Evil is much less obtrusive than Viper and Vimpulse.

[0]: https://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home

numbnutson Nexus 4′s Glass Back, the Worst Idea Since the Last Phone With a Glass Back

I see it now. Yup, that's a bump. I hope my picky Nexus 7 likes it.

numbnutson Nexus 4′s Glass Back, the Worst Idea Since the Last Phone With a Glass Back

  But the absolute best is Logitech's solution: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Logitech-Micro-USB-Cable-/2...

Which is? It looks like a regular USB cable with an embossed logo.

numbnutson Using Slate: A Hacker's Window Manager for OSX

I do. Spectacle is much simpler. Having recently switched from Vim to Emacs, Slate's configurability scares me.

numbnutson Using Slate: A Hacker's Window Manager for OSX

Because there aren't many dynamic tiling WMs on OSX. The only one I know of is TylerWM and last I heard it didn't work very well.

numbnutson Ask HN: Where do you guys find graphics for your side projects

Icon fonts are awesome.

http://glyphicons.com/ (Paid if you want formats other than png)

http://www.justbenicestudio.com/studio/websymbols/

http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/

Found this directory of resources in my designer brother's bookmarks: http://skout.co.za/. Not sure how updated it is though.

numbnutson Apple announces iPad Mini with a 7.9-inch, 1,024 x 768 display - $329

You get two cameras with the iPad Mini. Usable ones at that, it seems. The N7's (I have one too) front-facing camera is barely adequate for video calls.

numbnutson Vimium: Vim Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Chrome

Same story for me. Used Pentadactyl until it started causing some performance issues. Now on Vimperator and my fingers couldn't be happier. I guess I didn't really need all the Vim-ness of Pentadactyl.

numbnutson Facebook's "like" may land Filipinos in jail

The fact that I upvoted you means I might get charged as well. Hooray!

Are you based in the Philippines? Short of taking to the streets or "joining" Anonymous Philippines, what can we do as regular Juans?

numbnutson Facebook's "like" may land Filipinos in jail

This is the law in question if anyone wants to read it:

http://www.gov.ph/2012/09/12/republic-act-no-10175/

The relevant sections that are causing most of the the ruckus:

Section 4(c)(4) (PUNISHABLE ACTS):

(4) Libel. — The unlawful or prohibited acts of libel as defined in Article 355 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended, committed through a computer system or any other similar means which may be devised in the future.

Section 19 (ENFORCEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION):

SEC. 19. Restricting or Blocking Access to Computer Data. — When a computer data is prima facie found to be in violation of the provisions of this Act, the DOJ shall issue an order to restrict or block access to such computer data.

The Senator Guingona in the article published more of his thoughts here: http://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/13041-gagging-the-com...

numbnutson Download any ebook free from Packt Publishing (through the end of the month)

Site's crawling for me and registration seems to be down. People like free stuff.

numbnutson Why Are Programming Languages Sites So Ugly?

Ahh, the rounded font. I actually didn't notice until you mentioned it. Typography is one thing I don't think I'll ever get my head around.

numbnutson Why Are Programming Languages Sites So Ugly?

Perfectly valid criticisms. I actually agree with yours, especially with the (over)use of orange. But I still wouldn't call it "horrid".

I didn't mean to sound like I was dismissing hermanhermitage's opinion. But by just calling the design horrid and the OP a troll without specifics, he falls into the same "this is bad and that is good" trap.

As a wannabe-designer I am legitimately curious what hermanhermitage doesn't like about the OP's site. I've seen much worse.

As for the OP misunderstanding the primary users of programming languages' websites, that seems to be part and parcel of some designers, isn't it?

numbnutson Screenshots of every prompt theme in the oh-my-zsh framework

I've been using https://github.com/dotphiles/dotzsh. Not sure what the differences are.

Can anyone point to vanilla (no framework) zsh configs? I'd like to drop dotzsh eventually. I don't like the Janus-philosophy when it comes to my tools.

numbnutson Show HN: Reply to Hacker News comments inline, without leaving the page

This looks nice. Anyone know of anything similar for Firefox?

numbnutson Why Are Programming Languages Sites So Ugly?

Agreed about the Go site. Not ugly at all but, personally, I'd set a max-width on the container and maybe up the line-height a bit.

What don't you like about the OP's site? It's certainly "hip and modern" but what makes it horrid?