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schmrz··on Ember 101: Learn Ember One Video at a Time
Great stuff, thanks! I just want to point out that ember-data wasn't used in any of the tutorials and that's a good thing—please keep it that way. Or at least keep ember-data out of the picture until it's more stable.

The official guides are focused on ember-data with little information on how to use an alternative approach until it's stable for production use. This was very confusing for me (I'm in the process of rewriting an application at work in ember).

schmrz··on Speaking in public
You know, I really avoid posting my articles on HN (or anywhere else for that matter) for some reason. I posted this one and I was just looking at that vote count to see if someone liked it enough to vote for it.

To see someone actually comment on it is really awesome. You really made my day and I'm glad you like the article.

schmrz··on Google Petitioned By Fans Of Google Reader To Reconsider Shutdown
I've read that Google reader is deeply integrated with Google Search so that's probably the reason.

Here's the link: http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/chris-wetherll-google-reader/

schmrz··on Disruptions: It is rude to send a "Thank You" e-mail.
My mother realized this long ago. Now we communicate mostly through Twitter.

My first impression was that this is just sad but I guess that different people (and cultures) have different expectations when it comes to communication.

With that said, the author is living inside a bubble created by his environment and his expectations. Saying that everyone should conform to his way of communicating is rude. Saying "thank you" to someone (through whatever communication channel you find most appropriate) is generally not rude.

schmrz··on Bootstrap 2.3.1 Released
Check out the 2.3.1 pull request for more details on the changes in this release.

This is the pull request: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/7111. I have no idea how anyone thinks that such commit messages are a good idea. The link certainly doesn't provide more details (unless you read each commit diff).

With that said, thanks for everyone working on Bootstrap. I've used it multiple times for smaller, personal projects and it's been a great time saver.

schmrz··on Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px Touchscreen
Seriously, why is everyone ignoring this?
schmrz··on Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011)
No meaningful disussion can come from this.

Other students went to the same school I'm sure. Why are we not seing the same results from all of them or at least from the majority of them? The question whether you should get university education is not an easy one. I'm strugling with it all the time and I am going to an university.

schmrz··on GitLab v4.1 released
Why would they get into trouble with Github?
schmrz··on Mega has launched
Not really sure about the quick part. I'm still trying to get to the website. The loading animation on start up was incredibly slow and now the site isn't responding at all.

Edit: I'm trying to access it from EU if that makes any difference. Seems like http 500 error is returned for assets hosted on eu.static.mega.co.nz.

schmrz··on No, you are not ‘running late’ – you are rude and selfish
That's interesting and hard to understand at the same time. In which country do you live in?
schmrz··on Show HN: Send SMS to your number for free from shell
This seems to be using a hack I also figured out back when I was in high school, working on a project. I also wrote about it years later on my blog[0]. If you look at the source it creates an event with an sms remainder but the time of the event and the scheduled time of the remainder are created in such way that the remainder is sent immediately. There's also a low limit on the number of characters you can use (~60).

[0]: http://www.randomshouting.com/2011/02/06/Free-SMS-notificati...

schmrz··on Effective JavaScript Reviewed
I completely agree, that's why I'm saying that it shouldn't be in the codebase. It should be handled by external tools that are performing the concatenation.

Of course that begs the question if this is necessary at all since I personally haven't seen it used but I haven't read the source of many JavaScript projects either.

schmrz··on Effective JavaScript Reviewed
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that the straightforward option is that the tools that perform concatenation handle this as well. Are there any downsides to this approach?
schmrz··on Ask HN: Should you TDD a MVP?
I think that this is a wrong question to ask. You have probably so many more important questions to answer while working on your MVP.

If you are accustomed to test driven development then you will know (or at least you will be able to reason about it) when to apply it and when not to. It is just another development practice. But I do not think that you will fail if you do TDD or if you do not. But you do risk failing if you emphasize the wrong things such us should we use X or Y development practice. Use whatever works for you and your team (if you are not alone).

To give you a more concrete answer: follow common sense and your team's suggestions. Avoid making a development practice one of your priorities.

schmrz··on On Being a Junior Developer
Most of us like handling computers more than humans but it's not really that black and white. In order to get the most out of your career you will need to learn how to handle humans too.

That of course doesn't answer your question. You can probably keep your job whilst having poor communication skills but that will be a (significant) limiting factor for you.

schmrz··on PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe
If someone was wondering here are the supported countries: Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Rep ., Turkey, UK, Hungary, Cyprus (Greek part), Israel. (from https://www.paymill.com/en-gb/support-3/worth-knowing/terms-...)
schmrz··on Ask HN: Dropbox security bug?
Public means that anyone can access it without any verification/authentication info. Private in this context would mean that it's limited to people who received the link.
schmrz··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2012)
SEEKING WORK - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Remote)

Developer working mainly on web applications and distributed processing using Hadoop and Hbase. I can work 15-20 hours per week since I'm only looking for part time work.

You can contact me via amir dot hadzic at randomshouting.com.

schmrz··on Hopefully more controversial programming opinions
I'm not sure if that's scary or awesome. Probably both.

Thanks for sharing!

schmrz··on Hopefully more controversial programming opinions
I wonder how much that initial version changed during the 20 years of maintenance.

I find it hard to believe that someone was maintaining it for 20 years without improving the quality (of the code/design) and making it easier to maintain. Have you seen the code base of the initial version or of the version that is currently being used?

schmrz··on Pwdr - an open source powder 3d printer
While I do agree that the page design is nice I don't consider this a good presentation of the end product or an open source project. The first thing that you should show if you are selling the product—doesn't matter if it's to fellow open source developers or customers—is that it works. And the best way to show that is with a simple and short video.

It could be of course that the presentation is not yet finished completely. Nevertheless, the idea is really nice and I would love to see the project take off.

schmrz··on Indie Game: The Movie released on Steam
If you are from Europe (or Australia) you probably want to buy it from their website directly since it's $9.99 there.

I'm from Europe and the price on steam is 9.99€. Never really understood why they never lower the price when it's in euros.

schmrz··on Google raises maximum size for Android apps to 4GB
I hope they took into account that the /cache partition is quite small (45.2MB on Galaxy S running CyanogenMod). For me it's not even possible to install applications that are bigger than a few megabytes. For example, I can't install World of Goo directly from the market app.

Edit: I probably should explain. Market seems to download apps to /cache partition before installing them.

schmrz··on Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time
Okay, so the consensus is that the article is a joke (khan academy helped me a lot couple of years ago in high school so I agree). Why is it on the front page of HN then?
schmrz··on Markdown Editor
This might be a shameless plug, but I have created a javascript markdown editor a few months ago. I had some problems with the wmd editor (weird quirks and bugs) and generally wanted to play around with js. So, uedit[0] was born. You can use the demo page[1] to see it in action. It works in ie6+ and doesn't require any other js libraries.

List items are added automatically and you can use shortcuts for the most frequently used markdown tags such as bold, italic, code listing, images etc. It also uses it's own undo/redo manager for more granular control.

[0]: https://github.com/amir-hadzic/uedit

[1]: http://amir-hadzic.github.com/uedit

schmrz··on More Paypal nonsense
Also, have any of these people contacted paypal before using their services? I'v spent around an hour waiting for and talking with paypal support to make sure that I'm able to use paypal for my new project without any problems.
schmrz··on CodeSprint begins today at noon (PST), with 65 participating startups
Is anyone else bothered that all of these contest problems are in no way associated with the real-world requirements of the specific startups that are taking part in this?
schmrz··on Strugling with WMD? Try uedit instead.
Here you go: http://www.randomshouting.com/uedit/
schmrz··on Ask HN: What is your AWS backup strategy?
Generally you should always make sure to have backup plans but sometimes it's not worth it. Do you really need to maintain a backup strategy which requires a lot of resources for less than 12 hours of downtime per year ?
schmrz··on Google+ Users Are Nearly All Male
"* = Based on a sample set of 29,215 Google+ Profiles."

And http://findpeopleonplus.com has "947,996 Google+ users indexed".

Maybe we should consider the fact that Google+ has more than 10M users now ? Also, you can hide your gender so the stats might be off.

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