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You can get around that by using a service like Uptime Robot to ping your site every hour and keep the dyno running. That way you have a free 24/7 app that doesn't go idle. I think Heroku is trying to get rid of that with these changes.

I have a handful of little apps that I do that with. Too bad that won't work anymore, they aren't worth $84/yr each to me to have them running 24/7.

I'm curious how many people will be regular subscribers to all of these services or just sign up for a month to watch a new show and then freeze the account.

When Game of Thrones premieres I'll be getting an HBO Now account for a month, and then will freeze/cancel it until another new HBO show starts that I want to watch. I do the same with Netflix for House of Cards and a couple other shows. Unfortunately Amazon makes this difficult because you pay an annual subscription to Prime.

By doing it this way I might bounce around between services and only spend $10-20 for content streaming in any given month.

Where can I find the blog?

From firsthand experience, I would strongly suggest not working remotely as a new grad. I had a lot of experience before and during college, and then just happened to fall into a remote job with a company that is completely remote when I graduated this past spring. I was intrigued by the idea of having no commute and working from home/wherever, but I'm finding that I don't absorb as much information being remote as I have in my previous jobs. Work-related communication is great because my company works hard at that, but it's all the other stuff that I don't get when I'm not sitting near other developers - stuff like best practices, new technologies worth trying, active brainstorming, and development tools. Earlier this week my coworker mentioned a browser add-on he'd been using for 6 months that is incredibly useful to our job and I had never heard of it; I think if we were working in the same location then that tool would have been mentioned a lot sooner and everyone on the team would have been using it 6 months ago.

The ultimate goal as a fresh grad is to learn and absorb as much information as possible, as quickly as possible, and I think that working remotely hinders that.

Also as others have suggested, it's important to find a mentor(s) when you're a new grad, and that's harder to do as a remote worker.

> I wrote a small Python script on the spot in a couple of minutes that did the same work... That convinced her to learn some Ruby.

Why didn't that convince her to learn Python? Especially since she could eventually use SciPy, NumPy, etc.

Abbreviating San Francisco to SF is understandable, but I wasn't sure if PA meant Pennsylvania or Palo Alto.

It's interesting that the images show the Office app being used on an iPad instead of a Surface.

HipChat integrations can be frustrating/lacking and I often find myself resorting to Zapier. The integration with JIRA is a joke and a huge pain to setup/manage for large workflows, which is especially surprising since HipChat and JIRA are both part of Atlassian.

I do like the newest version of the HipChat Mac app a lot though.

I'm not sure the integration frustrations merit the 4x cost increase in switching to Slack though. Hard to justify that unless your team is very small.

> We switched from Hipchat and we didn't really have a good reason - it just felt better.

This is interesting. How many employees are using it? Slack costs 4 times as much as HipChat ($8/user/month vs. $2/user/month) so it seems silly to jump to a much more expensive product for no reason.

I get the feeling that you didn't read the original post.

I'm surprised they haven't implemented many of the features that RES has. I certainly don't use RES to it's full extent, but I find several of the features crucial to my Reddit experience.

The line from the docs that flurp quoted might be exactly why people didn't transition to using the API - it suggested that Pinboard was developing Oauth and no one wants to update their code twice.

I expected women on bikes based on the link, but the nudity in the second photo was definitely not expected.

Please edit that link and put NSFW tags. Thanks.

You joke, but Apple did have a clothing line at one point...

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-80s-clothing-line-2014-...

Very interesting lectures and it's great that they are doing this. Both of the speakers could benefit from a public speaking class though.

I always had difficulty finding the correct amount of time to nap for where I would wake up feeling refreshed and not drowsy, until I read about Dali napping with a spoon in his hand. The idea is that you hold the spoon off the bed/couch so that as soon as you start to drop past stage 2, your hand releases the spoon, it falls to the floor and wakes you up.

I now do this combined with a caffeine nap (green tea) and it works perfectly. There's a point where I deep in my conscious I realize I'm dropping the item. As it hits the floor my eyes open, and I feel refreshed almost immediately afterwards. The time for me is about 25-27 minutes from laying down to the drop.

Awesome idea. The next step would be allowing choice of departure time and arrival time and showing weather loosely based on that. The prediction might be less reliable but then at least I could put in that I was leaving for somewhere at 7pm and see the nighttime temp plus rain/snow/etc.

Flask is Python so it would fall under 'etc' on Python / Django, etc.

Looks cool. You should make some sample datasets available for the trial accounts to play with.

Wow Newslines is a cool idea, thanks for pointing that out.

Andrew Godwin, the creator of South built the new migrations feature for Django 1.7. Here is a presentation he gave on the topic at PyCon US 2014: http://pyvideo.org/video/2630/designing-djangos-migrations

Not anymore. "The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error. Please contact the website administrator."

I've noticed more desktop applications being built on HTML5, node-webkit, etc. Can anyone point me towards some good resources for getting started in this? I'm specifically interested in building a Windows application this way.

Not all of them are using Square. There a lots of merchant companies that offer card swipe phone adapters, including PayPal and Quicken.

They only studied 23 people. I don't think anything at all can be claimed from such a small sample.

From what I could tell, he made most of his money on an app that was using a trademarked name from a video game, I'm surprised no one went after him for that.

[3] is broken, should be https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

I found this part interesting. So the only way to even find out the reason for your account being banned is to hire a lawyer.

> A reason has to be internally attached to the account ban. The problem was that notifying the publisher for the reason is not a requirement, even if the publisher asks. The exception: The exact reason must be provided if a legal representative contacts Google on behalf of the account holder.