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aram··on Fold the DOM like paper
Such experiments push the limits - I believe their point is not to make something that works everywhere, at least from the start.
aram··on Your life's personal dashboard
Sorry about that; I didn't check the URL in clipboard.

I can't change it right now but will re-submit with the correct link.

[Edit] Found the previous discussion instead. Just for reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6546194

aram··on Pythonic command line arguments parser, that will make you smile
Repositories in that team are very interesting and provide the same implementation in various languages, from Scala to Lua:

https://github.com/docopt

Here's also the link to the website and demo video:

http://docopt.org/

aram··on AcidXmail - Send emails that disappear (like Snapchat for email)
Looks interesting - looking forward to see the source and see how did you achieve the deletion exactly.
aram··on Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
My thoughts exactly. It would be great if they would open-source the code.
aram··on Show HN: Site for musical artist recommendations (and anti-recommendations)
I like the simple, no-framework approach to the UI.

Sometimes it works much better than stuff you get with bootstrap/UIkit/Foundation/whatever.

aram··on Github seems to be experiencing security issues
Very strange; I just checked my security history and see that there have been 5 unsuccessful login attempts from China/Venezuela to my account (last 14 hours). Everything before that is pretty clean and without fake logins.

Does anyone have more information on this?

aram··on An HTML5 remake of the original Super Mario Brothers
Exactly - that's why I posted the link to Github repo.

The game still works - just clone the repo and start index.html.

aram··on Is Youtube down for you?
Yes, but they say the're working on it :)

> A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.

aram··on Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub
Signed up immediately. Very promising, especially if the history stays up there for anyone who joins the "repo" discussion later on.

This could be really important for bigger projects where new/significant features should be discussed openly. This way the information stays attached to the repo and others can refer to it later on.

Looking forward to seeing it in action!

aram··on Open Source tutorials for Backbone
Github repository:

https://github.com/thomasdavis/backbonetutorials

aram··on SQLFiddle.com - Online playground for MySQL, PGSQL, SQLite and MSSQL
It's interesting that the whole stack behind the service is listed here:

http://www.sqlfiddle.com/about.html#source

Also the source code is available on Github:

https://github.com/jakefeasel/sqlfiddle

Disclaimer: I'm not the author and I'm not affiliated with the site in any way.

aram··on Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
Even though it shows somewhat advanced technique of using the "content" CSS property with element attributes, flashing titles when hovering anchors in headings is just extremely annoying.

I tend to move my mouse over the text when reading and this is making all paragraphs jump whenever I do that.

aram··on S.F. programmers build alternative to HealthCare.gov [video]
Hats off to the guys - good job.

Here's the link to the site: http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/

aram··on 177 Days of GitHub
Thanks for the link. I just checked and both URLs are the same - how come that mine was accepted as well?
aram··on 177 Days of GitHub
Here's one:

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

aram··on Build Tools for iOS
You have to admin that it doesn't happen too often :D
aram··on Ask HN: Which recurring tasks have you automated?
Nope. You create your own templates, which can literally be anything - any language, any framework, any library.

I'm planning to make it a "Show HN" post once it's more or less tested and ready for others to check out.

aram··on Fix Ubuntu
Check out Mint XFCE; in my case it was the most suitable distro/flavor. Simply because of the lowest number of additional overrides and configuration I had to do to make it comfortable for use.
aram··on Which of the java web development framework is best for startup project?
Haven't heard of it unfortunately so I can't comment on it.

Generally speaking, the number of followers/contributors at Github is a pretty good sign of the overall activity of certain framework. Play has way higher numbers - you can see that here:

https://github.com/playframework/playframework https://github.com/apache/wicket

aram··on Ask HN: Which recurring tasks have you automated?
Starting a new project from a boilerplate and renaming/replacing/cleaning up the things.

It's a CLI Python script that copies templates to your desired location and asks you for replacement values. It works with regular expressions as well as strings and executes commands after cloning (e.g. initiate a git repo). It works of course for any language and any framework.

I started open-sourcing it and adding some things that will be useful for more people (e.g. files/folders to exclude, i18n, developer output, multiple template paths, install/setup script, etc.).

aram··on Which of the java web development framework is best for startup project?
It depends on what your project is about and what are you building.

Check out Play - I'm not a Java dev, but it should be fairly popular: http://www.playframework.com/

aram··on Ask HN: What are the reasons for switching to "hosted" e-commerce platforms?
From my experience, the biggest reasons are not having to worry about the server, updates, things work out of the box because they are made for each other and hosted stores usually have easier-to-understand admin panel.

Everything offered in the package is already optimized for the primary purpose of the platform (filtering orders, clients, adding products etc.). If you compare that with say Drupal or Magento - there are a lots of things you need to add and configure additionally (=> time and money) and still there is a chance that modules will conflict or that something will become incompatible over time.

The thing is that hosted shops work for clients only until they hit the ceiling - often they will require certain functionality that is simply not possible, and depending on how important it is they will have to switch again. Think custom workflows, fulfillment integration, specific payment processing or any other non-standard feature.

aram··on Show HN: I open-sourced my travel planning startup, Wanderlust
Got it now - thanks :)
aram··on Show HN: I open-sourced my travel planning startup, Wanderlust
Not sure what you mean - this is actually built with RoR.
aram··on Show HN: I open-sourced my travel planning startup, Wanderlust
Here's the link to Github repo:

https://github.com/danecjensen/mywanderlust

aram··on A Look at Ads on Instagram
It was expected, especially after those articles showing how Instagram has been used as a selling platform on Middle East[0].

[0] Just one of them: http://www.digitalks.me/social-media-marketing/instagram/how...

aram··on Iversity – Open Courses
Also check out NovoEd; Stanford's Venture Lab was merged there:

https://novoed.com/

aram··on Obamacare.com - Drupal website with stock theme and default branding not removed
The website is supposed to be responsive - just try resizing the screen to see the original theme logo and other elements.

Used theme is called "News Center". You can find it just by Googling "News Center Drupal theme".

aram··on Microsoft Launches Remote Desktop App for Android and iOS
My experience hasn't been so smooth on non-Windows machines: RDC for OSX is the only application that constantly crashes on my Mac.

Every second time I close it, it stops working and wants to send report to MS. Ridiculous.

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