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cvburgess··on The laws of shitty dashboards
This is not true. The check engine light can come on in some cars if the gas cap is not screwed on tight enough - easily fixed yet treated as serious as a major engine malfunction.
cvburgess··on PayPal’s Braintree Embraces Bitcoin, One-Touch Payments
Thanks for the links! The UI looks clean enough, I wonder how many users will chose to use paypal/venmo over adding a cc...
cvburgess··on PayPal’s Braintree Embraces Bitcoin, One-Touch Payments
The official Braintree post on the one-touch side of things is super interesting and vague[1] - does anyone know what the UX is like from a developers point of view?

[1] https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/one-touch

cvburgess··on Tim Hortons agrees to Burger King offer for $94 a share
The only real reason for this merger is a corporate inversion[1] - a lot of companies are doing it. Corporate inversions allow you to move your HQ outside of the US and reap huge tax benefits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_inversion

cvburgess··on DocumentDB
I'd assuming pricing will be similar and incredibly competitive... and thanks, didn't realize how limited dynamoDB was
cvburgess··on DocumentDB
Thanks, yeah I can see how this is more like hosted mongoDB - and I've seen dynode on npm, nice work!
cvburgess··on DocumentDB
Very cool features, thanks!
cvburgess··on DocumentDB
Does anyone know how this compares to AWS DynamoDB[1] ?

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/

cvburgess··on Fortheon – A multi-language cloud application platform
Sent! Hopefully they aren't drowning in emails right now...
cvburgess··on Fortheon – A multi-language cloud application platform
This looks great. I host several things on http://dotcloud.com right now but this pricing is a fraction of the DC price. I would love to see integration with some CI tools like codeship.io and obviously the documentation needs to get done ASAP. Good luck to the team, I'll keep an eye on the project for sure.
cvburgess··on Codetree – A better way to manage GitHub issues
Some screenshots or a detailed explanation of how this works would be great. I like the idea of the project, but with out knowing anything about it, I am hesitant to link this with my GitHub account.
cvburgess··on Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
This was exactly backwards for me... maybe I read it upside down? I jest, but the concept is cool, just needs to be refined I'm sure.
cvburgess··on Gittip, Year Two
For anyone wanting to donate to Gittip itself: https://www.gittip.com/Gittip/
cvburgess··on New DuckDuckGo design
Awesome! Thanks
cvburgess··on New DuckDuckGo design
The UI is super slick. Bravo!!

I miss some of the simplicity of the old DDG but after adjusting the only thing i find missing is the StackOverflow integration. It may totally be there, i just haven't had the right query yet...

cvburgess··on Avocode – preview and inspect PSD without Photoshop
Although I think this tool is fantastic, and an asset to the design community, i think it is an attempt at making the wrong tool for the job slightly less wrong. Photoshop was never designed, optimized, or planned around UI designers - it's audience is photographers.

I applaud projects like this, but sometimes its just better to use a tool that was build from the ground up around UI design, not an app that can be hacked to the point where it can somewhat deliver the results that UI designers need.

I personally use Sketch and Sketch Mirror and have found that the native support for device mirroring, retina resolutions, and CSS layer styles have become an essential part of my workflow. Photoshop gets REALLY messy as soon as you get a few iterations into a big project, and although there are hacks to get around some of the frustrations, at the end of the day they are just that: hacks.

cvburgess··on Stripe Open-Source Retreat
I wish more companies and hacker spaces would launch programs like this. With so many companies relying on open source, giving projects a little bit of stability is crucial.

The no-strings attached is also a huge deal. Versus being employed, this program lets people work on something that they are passionate about without the risk of the company assigning them to a new project that they aren't interested in.

cvburgess··on Crate.io – Big Data SQL in real time
I visited crate.io last month and remembered this. It was more than a little confusing at first.
cvburgess··on Stripe Checkout: Added an option to remove the "Remember Me" checkbox
This is great. The flexibility makes checkout a legitimate option for merchants... again.
cvburgess··on How We Built and Launched Mod For $22,450
I was wondering this too. Is there an ETA on Orange/Black if they are not available now?
cvburgess··on GitHub under DDoS attack right now (again...)
This is getting ridiculous. There are so many sites to attack, why Github?
cvburgess··on Stripe Checkout
I've experienced this first hand. Stripe is great, and so (was) checkout, but the silent iteration is terrible as a developer. You wind up with support calls saying "why does this look different" and you have no idea anything changed. It's tiring.
cvburgess··on King.com, Maker of Candy Crush, files for IPO
Waiting for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3361212
cvburgess··on T-Mobile, please fix your gateways
I've actually had really good experiences with T-Mo support. They have different tiers of "support" but if you get past what is essentially the "weed-out" tier, they are by far the nicest and most helpful telco support staff I've worked with.

I came from AT&T and can't compare T-Mo to much else. Do any of the telcos have what you would consider to be fantastic support?

cvburgess··on How's my SSL?
https://www.apple.com/osx/server/
cvburgess··on How to use Photoshop to design interfaces
Yes, actually the Sketch Manual [1] (but who reads the manual?) and (my favorite) community resources [2] that you can download, play with, and re-use over and over.

[1] http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/help/ [2] http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/community/

cvburgess··on How to use Photoshop to design interfaces
It's a lot of unnecessary, time-consimung back-and-forth that could be easily done in a program like Sketch.

Every approach is unique to its designer, and it's situation. But I have yet to (personally) find Photoshop (or a hybrid approach) more effective and time-saving when you deal with a large project. Artboards are MUCH easier to keep track of and group, and with something like Mirror [1] you will save hours in exporting/slicing/sharing over the course of a project.

Photoshop was not made for UI design. It can do it, but it will rarely be the best tool because Adobe is not catering features for that niche.

[1] http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/mirror/

cvburgess··on Python 2.x vs. 3.x survey results
Looks like you are correct [1] - this was not the case last time I checked. Thanks!

Any others?

[1] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python-runtimes

cvburgess··on Show HN: Given an API, Generate client libraries in Node, Python, PHP, Ruby
The web page was very pretty, but I still have no idea what this is/does. Help?
cvburgess··on Python 2.x vs. 3.x survey results
The only thing really "keeping" me on Python 2.x is how easy it is to host it. Although Flask/Django/Bottle all support Python 3, most (if not all) PaaS providers I have used only support Python 2.7.
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