jnpatel

Don't you frequently deal with:

  /private/tmp/foo.txt locked by jnpatel@mac... (pid 14836): (s, q, p, ?)?

because of the lock files?

In the comments of the original article, the author mentions this condition applies to any country on the embargoed list [0] (which includes Sudan).

0: http://www.pmddtc.state.gov/embargoed_countries/

and they just keep getting easier to make...

http://magicmockups.com/mockup/1/

The current beta supports a Markdown pseudo-syntax (# for headings, and * for bullet lists) but not an entire Markdown standard as far as I can tell.

This could significantly help local businesses stay competitive in the face of services like single-merchant delivery services such as Amazon Prime and Spoon Rocket.

It's worth noting Uber Rush is also integrating with a few other services such as delivery.com and ChowNow [0].

[0] https://rush.uber.com/how-it-works

but as the post notes, it's underutilized in Berkeley's Mathematics Department

> "We explained to you before you accepted the position that the idea of employing a full-time lecturer is controversial in our department."

On OS X, I like Papers (http://www.papersapp.com/) since it allows me to download the papers directly from the application.

It's always exciting to see the list of services supporting U2F for 2FA grow. It now includes Google, Dropbox, and GitHub.

I haven't yet tried Zulip's threading model, but I can certainly say I'm not pleased with Slack's.

It can be very frustrating to try and trace a conversation backwards in a crowded Slack channel. I haven't used IRC in a while, but at least my client had a feature to toggle highlighting on a back-and-forth conversation, but that wasn't perfect.

> Includes detailed study of knee-jerk criticism when exposed to unfamiliar systems.

This hits home.

It seems strange that it uses HTML5 Geolocation, but still drops me in Russia by default. Are others seeing the same behavior?

Since Facebook employees are (almost) required to have the website open for chats and groups while working, I'm just curious:

how distraction-free are you able to keep your pomodoro work intervals?

I'm just curious from where in his campaign management the impetus to pay attention to this sort of detail would have come.

Bikeshedding during code reviews

I found this tutorial featured previously on HN really helpful to start my transition from jQuery to React.

http://reactfordesigners.com/labs/reactjs-introduction-for-p...

Another example: Dropbox originally had getdropbox.com, and didn't obtain dropbox.com until more than 2 years after founding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(service)#2007-2011

Aw man, I was hoping to see the final website your daughter ended up with! :)

This is pretty neat stateless app, however the current implementation leads to performance issues on slower connections.

Have you thought about some optimizations you could make to filtering/searching to minimize the initial load time, while still keeping all the logic client-side?

Are you referring to Duo Push, or something more?

I agree, this is one of my favorite tricks. I like to think of xargs as a `map` function over stdin lines.

As the article mentions, especially useful when combined with the -P flag for paralellism.

    cat urlpaths.txt | xargs -I{} -P wget domain.com/{}

Another handy trick, is to use `sh -c` or `bash -c` to include multiple commands with xargs.

    cat dirs.txt | xargs -I{} sh -c 'cd {}; touch file;'

This line didn't bug me so much. Would you have been okay with something subtly milder? e.g. Databases are at the beating heart of every business in the world

or even: Data is the beating heart of every business in the world.

How does Borg compare with Google's Kubernetes?

While arithmetic syntactic sugar is useful since it's much clearer, I agree that I'd often prefer a function call to some unintuitive symbol syntax.

Another example for me, in Python, is:

    print >> sys.stderr, 'foo' 

vs.

    print ('foo', file=sys.stderr)

Can you elaborate?