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remi

3,373 karma · joined March 2, 2010

Web developer from Quebec City. https://exomel.com.

@remi

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/remi; my proof: https://keybase.io/remi/sigs/12q6vsLXo-XrbEG9XYZY8VXcnubp0NbLW9ZHGFl2I9Q ]

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remi··on Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 1)
Technically, it’s a single quotation mark :)

A prime is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol)

remi··on Basecamp Personal
The guy who created activeCollab first released it as open source → http://web.archive.org/web/20060810011430/http://www.activec...

Then, he realized it could make money and put a $499 price tag on it → https://www.activecollab.com/pricing.html

remi··on IBM Exec Husband of Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Takes to Twitter to Defend His Wife
Why is that?
remi··on Metasploit Rails 3 Remote Code Execution Hours Away
No, rails-3.2.11 has fixed this vulnerability.
remi··on Rails is omakase
What is this post responding to?

This: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/61b91c4c55bcbd5a2ec85d...

remi··on New GitHub Status Site
Do you know if there are plans to make it available on https://status.github.com as well?
remi··on Fun with Toilet
What did you expect from such mature people ( http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet )…
remi··on GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
Well, since their DNS servers are currently down, didn’t you already get downtime?
remi··on How To Cheat On Facebook Apps Permissions
There’s a great Chrome extension that lets you choose which permission to give to the app when authorizing it: https://github.com/chadselph/fprivacy
remi··on How Eduardo Saverin Sold Facebook Ads in 2004
Actually, John Hicks did the Firefox icon: http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/branding-firefox
remi··on How Eduardo Saverin Sold Facebook Ads in 2004
Trivia: these icons were designed by Susan Kare (http://www.kare.com/portfolio/01_facebook1.html) who also designed some of the most famous Macintosh icons (http://www.kare.com/portfolio/03_apple_macicons.html).
remi··on Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha
You should try it for yourself. The public alpha is free for everyone.
remi··on DotJS.eu, a conference in Paris on Nov 30th with jashkenas, fat, mrdoob ...
The animated footer is amazing.
remi··on Rails core killed ActiveResource
That’s funny, today I released a small project of mine I started over the weekend that is meant to be an alternative to ActiveResource:

https://github.com/remiprev/her

It’s still very basic, but I hope to get more features into it in the next weeks.

remi··on A vim plugin that lets you edit PNG and GIF icons
Tim Pope is awesome.
remi··on OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"
Looks like he just apologized: https://twitter.com/#!/tfadp/status/186460580201238529
remi··on Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
It says “Wide @font-face support means Font Awesome even works in IE4” but not as the way it is implemented on the demo page.

That technique is not compatible with browsers that do not support the :before pseudo-class (eg. IE7). The icons could be used though, but not that way.

remi··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2012)
SEEKING WORK - Remote or on-site (Quebec City)

Ruby, PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (+jQuery), RSpec, Git, Twitter & Facebook APIs, AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, SES), WordPress.

My open-source code on GitHub: https://github.com/remiprev

My personal website: http://exomel.com

You can contact me at "remi", the usual symbol and then "exomel.com".

remi··on Basecamp Next: UI Preview
http://webdesignerwall.com/demo/css3-image-styles/
remi··on BASH autocomplete for SSH
Also, `brew install bash-completion` with Homebrew.
remi··on Ask HN: Who is using Jekyll? (+feedback)
I've used Jekyll to build http://utilise.ca, a french clone of Daniel Bogan’s http://usesthis.com. I'm not a big fan of the Liquid template language either.

You can check out the entire source code here: https://github.com/remiprev/utilise.ca

remi··on GitHub - Shiny new commit styles
You’re right; I didn’t realize I could edit the title after I posted it.
remi··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)
Quebec City / Montreal, Quebec, Canada

We are looking for iOS, Android and other mobile developers, as well as Ruby/whatever backend and HTML/CSS/JavaScript frontend developers.

We are a team of passionate people working with large companies on exciting and innovative projects, as well as our own homemade products.

We are dedicated to building the best place to work at :)

We have a small website listing our available positions as well as showing pretty pictures of our environment: http://vie.mirego.com/en

remi··on What are the Open Source startups?
GitHub — http://github.com
remi··on What are the Open Source startups?
Automattic — http://automattic.com
remi··on Wikipedia traffic statistics for Hacker News (or any other article)
Too bad Wikirank has been shut down... it was a great way to visualize Wikipedia pages traffic.

http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000998.html

The stats data dumps are available here: http://dammit.lt/wikistats/

remi··on Elegant Markdown for a more civilized age
Haml is also great for writing <table>'s.
remi··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

We are looking for iOS, Android and other mobile developers, as well as Ruby/whatever backend and HTML/CSS/JavaScript frontend developers. We're a team of passionate people working with large companies on exciting and innovative projects, as well as out own homemade products.

We are dedicated to building the best place to work at :)

Our jobs page, in french : http://vie.mirego.com/fr/emplois

remi··on Simpson's paradox
I like how the article uses "Lisa" and "Bart" for people’s name in the example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_paradox#Description
remi··on Man counterhacks paypal phisher, deletes data, warns other victims via phone
This is the image linked in the post: http://i.imgur.com/vNqt3.png
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