Anybody know why %G was used instead of %Y?
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Great stuff.
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Though I do wonder how the more vocal Bitcoin supporters would react if the project never grew beyond "electronic petty cash," even if it was successful at being that (i.e., widely used and easy to set up).
My worry is if Bitcoin "fails" in its larger goals (e.g., challenging the USD's global domination), it'll be seen as a failed project which will keep it from even being able to accomplish its smaller, more manageable goals.
Maybe Bitcoin will conquer the world, maybe it won't. I have no idea.
What I do know is there is real utility in being "electronic petty cash" which Bitcoin can easily become.
Imagine: Alice sends Bob a few bitcoins after Bob writes a particularly insightful comment on HN. Bob then comes across a great blog post by Charlie and sends him a few bitcoins. Charlie then finds an open-source project by Diane that will save him hours of work and sends her a few bitcoins. And so on.
It rarely would get converted to USD and wouldn't amount to much when it did. Instead, people would just earn a bit here and spend a bit here.
Bitcoin enthusiasts miss that USD works fine for most people. But right now it's really hard to do the above scenario using traditional banking. I don't want to connect my bank account to some website to send a someone a few bucks. It's just not worth the hassle/potential risk.
I can't be the first person to think of this. But I'm just not seeing much movement in this direction. Am I overlooking something? Or do I just need to be patient?
Most importantly, for me, is to avoid those websites even during my "breaks." If I need a quick break, I'll physically get up and away from my computer. Otherwise that "five minutes" usually ends up being closer to an hour or so.
Just make sure adding items is as seamless as possible (I use a bookmarklet). If there's too much friction adding items, you're less likely to do it.
Also, I'll sometimes add certain keywords/phrases in the "notes" field that match how I anticipate I'll try finding it again.
For example, if a Django app uses redis but only for optional features, I'll still add "redis" to the "notes" field. In six months when I'm trying to remember the project, the only thing I may remember is it featured redis in some capacity. From there, it's pretty easy to find.
Nobody denies your blobs are safe and available elsewhere when Github goes down.
It's the infrastructure around those blobs that makes Github so popular. It's your issues and pull requests, your wiki, your connection to Travis-CI that are gone when Github goes down.
That is why people get angry when it goes down.
It handles all the "dirty" parts of feed reading (checking for new items, normalizing fields) and adds near instant updates for sites that ping hubs.
When I finally get around to writing my own feed reader, I definitely plan on using it.
I use it every day for jotting down quick notes, keeping a work journal, as well as planning out larger projects.
There's already an active community of programmers and writers using it to do some pretty interesting things. And the guys behind it are constantly listening to user feedback[1] to build functionality to match how people are actually using the product.
If you're hesitant about connecting to Dropbox, give http://littleoutliner.com/ a try. It uses the same outliner code as Fargo, but uses your browser's localStorage for the storage mechanism. It's really pretty cool.
If you do decide to give Fargo a try, make sure to open the Community Feed (Docs > Community Feed). If you can't figure something out after going through the very thorough documentation[2][3], feel free to shoot us a question.
[1]: http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/may/mathewTaughtMeSomethi...
Or my favorite, the entities that send a PDF export of an Excel spreadsheet.
I use River2 for my high volume feeds while I stick my rarely updated and "must read" feeds into NetNewsWire. Has been working pretty well for me so far.
When using NetNewsWire, I'm in "slow down mode" where just about every item (in theory) is important to me. But when I'm using River2, I'm in "scan and click mode" and just trying to see what the latest news is.
Using separate applications like this helps keep me "in the zone."
If I were to put high volume feeds in NetNewsWire the temptation to read all the posted items would be too great. In River2, items older than three hours just drop off the page. There's no "unread count" or "read older items" button to tempt you.
So far I'm thinking of using a river for my "firehose" feeds while using newsblur (or something) to keep tabs on my "must read" feeds.
I played around with Dave Winer's OPML Editor/River2 but it just never clicked for me.
Matz? Or is his role just more informal compared to Guido?
"Just based on what you know, please tell me your hunch about what percentage of the federal budget goes to foreign aid. You can answer in fractions of percentage points as well as whole percentage points."
Results: Mean = 27%, Median = 25%
And my favorite part: "What do you think would be an appropriate percentage of the federal budget to go to foreign aid, if any?": Mean = 13%, Median = 10%
Once you understand the internals -- I remember being amazed at what .git/objects/ really was -- nearly everything about the git ecosystem becomes measurably easier to understand.
Once you understand how your project looks in the eyes of git, it becomes a breeze to manage.
In addition, their developer section (http://sunlightlabs.com/) is full of APIs and datasets for dealing with government transparency data.