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dustinrodrigueson Show HN: PEP – an idea to help bring password managers to the masses

Probably shouldn't just be using HTTP for a password change.

dustinrodrigueson GoRails – Ruby on Rails screencasts for web developers

Are there similar tutorials for Django? I really enjoyed RailsCasts when I was looking into Ruby on Rails.

dustinrodrigueson Out of 15M brackets, none remains to win Warren Buffet's $1B March Madness bet

This person submitted a Yahoo bracket, but it wasn't part of the billion dollar challenge. But still, 32/32 is nothing to shrug at. The rest of his bracket is pretty reasonable too, except for Oregon in the final four. Oftentimes, people who are correct after the first sets of games are people who don't have a very sound bracket and randomly chose upsets that happened to end up correct.

dustinrodrigueson How the .0001% Made Its Money

It's not that he inherited his wealth, it's that he grew up in a privileged environment that gave him opportunities most other people didn't have.

dustinrodrigueson Odometer – A JavaScript and CSS library for smoothly transitioning numbers

Pretty neat, but the kerning on the font is awful: http://i.imgur.com/ssPu5J9.png

dustinrodrigueson My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook

    Hardware

    Look, no one’s going to beat Apple at this game, so I won’t lie to you. It’s not as nice as typing away on a MacBook Pro. It also costs less than one-tenth of the price of the MBP, so, given that, the hardware performs much better than one-tenth the quality components.

I agree that Apple products are significantly more expensive, but saying that it's "less than 1/10" the price of a MacBcook Pro is a bit disingenuous. The most comprable Apple laptop to the Chromebook is the 11" MacBook Air, whose price starts at $1000.

dustinrodrigueson Free TrueCrypt Hard Drive Password Cracking

    correct horse battery staple

dustinrodrigueson Piccsy Pitchdeck

I believe you're referring to http://investors.dressrush.com/

dustinrodrigueson Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI

Maybe not, though:

"The latest Chrome OS release is only available for Samsung and Acer Chromebooks as Cr-48 Chromebooks will skip Chrome 19."

from http://googlesystem.blogspot.jp/2012/04/new-window-manager-f...

dustinrodrigueson Kickstarter: rails.app

I think that installing and configuring a database like Postgres or MySQL would be useful since it's often a non-trivial step in getting a production app ready (e.g. for Heroku).

dustinrodrigueson New MVC client side JavaScript framework - Serenade.js

All these frameworks make me think of this XKCD:

http://xkcd.com/927/

dustinrodrigueson Show HN: A free HN iPhone/iPad app I launched a few months ago

I too am grateful for the back button update. The day before you released the update, I followed some links and wanted to go back, only to be taken to the front page of HN. Then I saw the update and it solved the exact problem I was having.