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>Basecamp has a great homepage.

Stopped reading there.

ellie42on How is Github dealing with spam?

Github isn't dealing with SPAM.

Go to gists, click explore.

I've seen some ugly stuff like these: https://gist.github.com/imwinner/5056251 https://gist.github.com/onhkys/5056233 https://gist.github.com/onhkys/5056224

since the beginning of the gist.github.com re-launch

ellie42on Ruby 1.9 doesn't implement ISO 8601 properly

It is. Luckily enough that was fixed in rails recently: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/31f807c7aaaf12c16ea157...

ellie42on MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQL

MemSQL isn't open source. If I can't hack it, who cares.

ellie42on Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds

MS Vista has no drivers: "Vista sucks! Mi$roSoft sucks!"

GNU/Linux has no drivers: "Fuck NVIDIA!"

ellie42on Laravel : A New PHP Framework

Validations in routes, you're doing it right https://github.com/laravel/pastes/blob/master/application/ro...

ellie42on Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely stupid code”

That's really stupid. There's no plausible reason that the end of that method shouldn't have a semi-colon. I honestly wouldn't advise anyone use Twitter Bootstrap. You should always use semicolons in Javascript even if you're hippie. Hippies use coffeescript.

And I think Google's style guide[1] is prevail over Github's style guide[2].

[1] http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascript... [2] https://github.com/styleguide/javascript

ellie42on Google Play

The only problem with Google is they just have no taste.

ellie42on Convore Shutting Down

Leah Culver can't do startups right. First Pownce, now Convore. What's next? Grove? Let's wait and see.

ellie42on GitHub: About This Week's Availability

I think if you build your app properly the only problem with DDoS is traffic. Github partnerships with Rackspace so their cloud traffic can't be expensive. Correct me if I'm wrong.

ellie42on We are sorry

There is no proof of that they really deleted all user address book data.

ellie42on We are sorry

They still didn't respond to my email that I sent >24 hours ago.

ellie42on Amazon S3 Price Reduction

What about Rackspace Cloud Files? http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/files/...

ellie42on Bullshit

Microsoft: "Next generation web is coming"

Hacker News: "We don't read it"

ellie42on [dead]

Everyday I see hardcore nsfw 18+ pics on Google+. I have even reported a few of them, but zero reaction was given. They're still here.

ellie42on Ask HN: Your predictions for 2012?