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darkmethod··on Bootstrap 2.2.0 released
Agreed. Competition is obviously beneficial. I appreciated the links to other front end frameworks as well. Being able to compare features and basic tenants across the two popular frameworks was a mini education and helpful.
darkmethod··on Stripe Button (beta)
I'd like to reiterate how important this point is. Not being able to edit the button text is the only hang up I have from implementing the "Stripe" button.

Stripe Team: Well done otherwise. Love it.

darkmethod··on Startup "Co-Founder" Equity
I'm a little baffled by your first paragraph. Have you been working for a company part-time for an entire year and have never received compensation from a company that is clearly bringing in revenue?

If you like the work/company that much, clearly 7.5% of $X,XXX is greater than 100% of $0. And you'll still be part-time to pursue other things/ideas/etc.

darkmethod··on Ask HN: what's the site that is a dir of devs and designers by location?
Perhaps sortfolio.com will help you.
darkmethod··on Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine
I didn't even look through all the functionality before I made my purchase (#182).

I use Evernote for nearly everything I do. Task lists, projects, ideas, goals. Evernote saves me one of my most precious resources: time. I've worked Evernote into my daily workflow for getting things done.

And I have a stack of Moleskines I've used for reminders, sketches, random thoughts that I scratch down in a hurry throughout my day.

This is the perfect product for my everyday use. Looking forward to when they arrive (they will ship in October). I just wonder if I bought enough of them.

darkmethod··on Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Streaming" numbers
"Great programming music."

I completely agree. Been listening to it all day. I'm thankful that the OP added this link to HN. It made my day that much brighter.

darkmethod··on UVA Computer Science professor resigns over incompetence of board
The comments found in that post you linked to is indeed a "breath of fresh air" to read through in the sense that differentiating opinions can still hold respect one for another.

Thanks for sharing this. I found it very encouraging.

darkmethod··on Solve 50 problems in 50 days
I was blown away at the simplicity and effectiveness of that solution in particular. It needs to be made known and implemented on a larger scale.
darkmethod··on Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users
>Good to know other people want to share about successful scaling with PHP.<

Absolutely. And it is an important enough topic to warrant the purchase of two books from my perspective.

darkmethod··on Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users
Much appreciated. Good luck to you! Looking forward to the book.
darkmethod··on Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users
Thanks! This is perfectly timed. I'm looking forward to it. I signed up immediately.

However, it looks like your mailchimp account is setup to link to phpscalingbook.com (which is the wrong domain). I clicked on the "continue to website" link after confirming.

darkmethod··on How to make a site really freaking fast
Curl is incredibly useful. However, I noticed that your line above was truncated prematurely.

curl -w "\nTotal time: %{time_total}\nTime pretransfer: %{time_pretransfer}\nTime starttransfer: %{time_starttransfer}\nSize download: %{size_download}\n Speed download: %{speed_download}" www.example.com

darkmethod··on Show HN: My 1-year project, iPad IDE with GitHub and Heroku integration
I have several apps on my iPad where I prefer white text on black. Within the general settings, I set my "Triple-click Home" button to toggle White/Black. Not perfect, but helpful.
darkmethod··on Big Data's Big Problem: Little Talent
I've seen this method of advancement with those around me at where I work. However, I've had the exact opposite experience that you have had. Although, I'm willing to admit to selection bias regarding the sample of candidates.
darkmethod··on Financial Software Projects (C++) - NYU Fall 2011
Can you please provide more information on this? A link would be fantastic. Thanks.
darkmethod··on What Level Programmer Are You?
If I ignore the rating system in this post, I see this list as an exercise to acknowledge my strengths and recognize where my weak points are. Doing so, I came up with a list of areas to explore in the near future.
darkmethod··on I Wasn't Paid
May I suggest that you refrain from surfing the Internet using IE7 while on a secured military network.
darkmethod··on Cancer Vaccine, tailor-made for each patient, advances to Stage 1 clinical trial
Hi. Message sent. However, your contact form timed out on me.
darkmethod··on Cancer Vaccine, tailor-made for each patient, advances to Stage 1 clinical trial
I've been at Roswell nine years. I intend to retire from here. I'm also a Buffalo native and I can't think of anywhere else in the city I'd rather work.

Roswell is run similarly to a college campus (I've had previous experience supporting NY State colleges), meaning there are many departments, each run fairly independently of each other and each with different technical needs.

The departments usually fall in one of three categories: there is an educational group that works with UB's medical campus, a clinical component that treats patients, and obviously a heavy research component. During my time here, there have been at least four startups/companies that have formed as a result of research I've helped support.

Roswell currently has about 3,300+ employees. The Programmer/Analyst positions you have seen are an attempt to fill needed positions in various departments.

Everyone's version of "cool technologies" is different. I'm of the opinion, for the most part, whatever gets the job done thoroughly and accurately works.

In the past nine years I've written and maintain about 20+ applications in VBscript, C#, Actionscript, PHP, Ruby, etc with the various associated frameworks. Since every department requires something slightly different I've had to adapt as needed. However, recently we've been running with an inhouse PHP framework called Surebert which was/is written by a co-worker.

http://www.surebert.com

https://github.com/surebert

Interestingly enough for me, I've never written anything professionally in Java, but a lot of my co-workers have.

Out of the five of us on the web team, I'm the Apple fanboy. So I'm on a MacBook, iPhone, etc. Another one is on Fedora, another is using a Dell (ugh). To each their own.

And Roswell lets me moonlight on the side. I've had fairly steady freelancing gigs for a couple years now.

Interesting place to work. Good people. Very little complaints (nothing's perfect).

darkmethod··on Cancer Vaccine, tailor-made for each patient, advances to Stage 1 clinical trial
Roswell Park employees also man the phones for the NYS Smokers Quitline.

http://www.nysmokefree.com/

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

darkmethod··on Cancer Vaccine, tailor-made for each patient, advances to Stage 1 clinical trial
Agreed.

Some great things are happening in Buffalo/Roswell, this is just one of the more vocal discoveries worthy of attention. I truly hope this trial continues on successfully as the PIs (principal investigators) envision.

On a personal note, I find it mildly entertaining to say that "I code to cure cancer". It is an honor to support incredibly smart people working to eradicate such a horrible array of diseases.

darkmethod··on Cancer Vaccine, tailor-made for each patient, advances to Stage 1 clinical trial
I'm proud to say that I work at Roswell Park. I'm one of five web developers in the IT dept. I write internal applications focused on supporting the many clinical trials happening here.

There is definitely a huge buzz going through Roswell's campus regarding this.

Here is the publicly available information regarding this particular Phase I study.

http://www.roswellpark.org/clinical-trials/list/191511

darkmethod··on Ask HN: (Backend) coders, did you learn web design? If yes, how?
ThemeForest is a great resource. Thanks for sharing this. I found what I was looking for under the Site Templates dropdown.
darkmethod··on Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
People in my office are actually cheering. I hope this is just the first of many companies to rescind their pledge.
darkmethod··on Facebook was the top search term for 2011. Address bar or search bar?
I have watched my wife countless times use the search bar in Firefox when she could of easily gone directly to a site using the address bar. Apparently she is not alone.
darkmethod··on An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress
I'm curious as to where you found this information. Thanks.
darkmethod··on Letter to a Co-Founder
The take-aways are:

0. no one is perfect.

1. co-founders keep each other on task.

2. relationships and perspectives matter.

I'm grateful for my co-founder too, however I'll be sending him this for a laugh which I realize is not oa's intent. But then again, doing so may just build that relationship that much stronger which is the oa's intent. Ironic, no?

darkmethod··on Strange line of Python
Thanks for pointing that out. That was clearly the only _strange_ part.
darkmethod··on Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21
Excellent response. This is surely a worthy topic to discuss yet must done carefully as I'm sure many can relate to this tragedy in some aspect.

http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

I'm not affiliated.

Please use use this service if you are even remotely affected by this discussion in a negative way. I fear this will escalate and push a reader over the edge who doesn't think they have an alternative. They do. If you are one of these, please seek help.

darkmethod··on LaunchRock Launches
If I receive a notice from a friend of mine recommending a service which I didn't previously request/discuss with him/her, I'm likely to delete the request altogether. Receiving these types of third party requests from a friend feels like spam to me.
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