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Similar discussion from a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12603303

Ontario/Quebec are definitely commonly called "East" out here in Vancouver. The Maritimes are, well, the Maritimes. Central usually means the prairies.

Yup, I've tried most of the common switches, but ended up getting blues. Obviously it depends on personal preference, but I'm just saying that if you want a tactile, clicky keyboard, reds are usually not your first pick.

I find it a bit ironic that after complaining that Apple keyboards have lost all of their "sound" and "force", he goes out and buys a keyboard with Cherry MX Red switches, which have no tactility, no feedback, and very low actuation force.

I can't imagine how one can code productively on an iPad - the environment and ecosystem just isn't there. I'm sure it's just as good, or better, at things like multimedia consumption and entertainment, but a lot of things still require the use of a 'desktop' environment.

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12046444

The HA part looks pretty cool!

I'm not a big fan of the design though. I find the visual hierarchy of the layout a bit confusing:

- There isn't enough whitespace around the content, making it feel cramped

- Scrolling isn't a bad thing. I usually find a top-down flow (from title to content) easier to navigate than reading down from the title to the byline and date, then back up for the content

- Comments and comment form below the content makes sense since people usually like to read and post comments after they've read the blog post. Having them at the top forces users to scroll up again.

axg and I collaborated on this project for a hackathon. It's written in Go and HTML/CSS/JS; the source is on GitHub: https://github.com/wrighte

I'd love to see SSL support on custom domains as well, but I know there are a couple of reasons why it hasn't happened already:

1. GitHub Pages likely isn't a core focus for GitHub, however useful it may be

2. GitHub Pages is currently completely interface-less, relying only on an automated build system running each site through Jekyll and deploying it. In order to support custom certificates, they would need to build an interface for certificate uploading/maintenance (and of course putting the certs & keys into the repo, like the current CNAME system, won't work).

Let's Encrypt does validate that you own the domain, using certain "challenges" involving the web server, etc.

Their technical overview explains how it works: https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/technology/

Let's Encrypt is also limited in that it issues Domain Validated certificates only. They aren't planning on issuing EV certificates (the "green address bar").

Yep, it's just shorthand. It's something I've been using in some projects recently as an alternative to something like jQuery, so I thought it would be useful in some sense to share it!

I guess this is just stemming from my view that a huge library like jQuery isn't necessarily needed anymore, now that most browsers support things like a good native API for DOM manipulation and traversal.

1. Thumbs up for making loading times a priority!

2. Using Hugo instead of Octopress won't make your site any faster to users ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

3. You're almost completely forgetting about server-side performance. I'd recommend looking into GitHub Pages for a free and fast (CDN-backed) way to host a static site.

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Unrelated, but:

4. I'm not a fan at all of the self-upvoting link at the bottom of your post. Not cool.

This (quite recent) HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416549 and the top comment on it explain C-51 quite well.

Current Canadian politics summary: Stephen Harper.

I'm actually wondering why the politicians voted for the bill today. Federal elections are only a few months away, and surely with such a large show of backlash from the public and the media, they would be more mindful of the effect of this on their chances of getting re-elected? What's the use in passing a bill if it means you potentially won't get to take advantage and/or abuse it for more than a couple of months?

It's really quite rare that the Senate will reject a bill that has passed in the House, seeing as members of the Senate are appointed by the elected parties.

Downloaded & running on OS X.

Super impressed with its performance: it opens up & scrolls smoothly through a ~40M text file just fine. Memory usage is quite high though, but that's expected with an Electron-based app.

It'll be interesting to see what the performance is like, since this has been a recurring problem with web-tech based applications (especially editors like Atom and Brackets).

Seems like it has lots of potential.

The product/download site should be at http://code.visualstudio.com when it goes live later today (it's currently showing a login page).

But first you have to pay for our control panel!

If you write a blog post about the supposed "back doors on emails and messagnger", you might actually get upvotes as opposed to downvotes.

> In addition to ensuring both parties are in agreement on the terms of an offer, the second element that ensures a contract is legally valid is that both parties exchange something of value.

I highly doubt the scammer even understands his own contract. (This section of the contract was copy-and-pasted from an SBA blog post)

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I'm wondering, though: what are the OP's options if he does reside in India?

Slack is growing their security team, if you want to help them improve the security of the product: https://slack.com/jobs/dfd75111/security-engineer

As I mentioned below, I chose "calc.go", but that didn't work well with the `go get` command, so I had to get rid of the ".go"

Thanks, and great suggestion! Would you mind opening an issue on GitHub for it? I'll probably get around to implementing it soon.

Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/645/

The algorithm I use combines shunting-yard and postfix (RPN) evaluation, but I guess it wouldn't be too hard to modify the source to just do the RPN part.

If you want to try that, the relevant code is the Evaluate function in `compute/compute.go`.

A Google search for "command line calculator" doesn't turn up much, so I honestly didn't think there were many decent ones out there (aside from dc/bc). Are there any you have in mind?

Did not know about this. It looks great, I'll definitely be trying it out!

The project name was originally calc.go, but as you can imagine that didn't work out too well with `go get`.

Surprisingly that domain name is still available :O