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propelledjeanson Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards

Try WASD: https://www.wasdkeyboards.com/

Quite a few of my former coworkers had their sets made by WASD.

propelledjeanson Software engineering interview questions

The job with the best team. Generally, the job where you have to jump through hoop will have a team who has jumped through those hoops as well. It's all about vetting.

propelledjeanson Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product

The Product Hunt results for sign ups, leads, and shares are skewed. You're pointing at a completely different part of your product (mobile).

You should be pointing at the same link across all three sources before you compare the three sources. Note: fixing this does not affect the number of links clicked, of course, but it could significantly change the number of sign ups, etc.

propelledjeanson Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

http://best.ly

It's a SaaS providing A/B testing for mobile apps that started out as a side project.

propelledjeanson Hangouts for iOS

You're right for single messages, but I'm not seeing group messages in Adium.

propelledjeanson Hangouts for iOS

I'm not, at the moment. Let me know if I'm missing something.

propelledjeanson HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?

I add a lot of these articles to my Pocket and read them later. I wonder how GA reflects that.

propelledjeanson Poll: How much money have stock options brought you?

So, 7 figures?

propelledjeanson Poll: How much money have stock options brought you?

To what company?

propelledjeanson Rsync.net - a cloud service done the right way

Now I'm curious - does Dropbox use rsync under the hood? (not rsync.net, the rsync protocol)

propelledjeanson A closer look at LinkedIn's new app

Hah!

propelledjeanson Checkout github pull requests locally

Hub is wonderful. Everyone reading this, use it! :)

propelledjeanson Checkout github pull requests locally

'doh! Thanks!

propelledjeanson Checkout github pull requests locally

I'm not quite sure I understand. Why would you checkout a PR over the pushed remote branch that the PR references?

e.g. I push feature/foo to origin and open a pull request base develop. Why would one not just pull down feature/foo?

propelledjeanson HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

If you hire a sixth person, I'm sure you can afford $12 a month.

propelledjeanson Not for sale

Moo.

propelledjeanson Poll: Do you find article title changes annoying?

I don't understand why this would be annoying unless it was a significant change.