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northisup··on How GitHub No Longer Works
Not actually a video.
northisup··on Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement
check out https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail for a mature gmail alternative.
northisup··on How to Create 100,000 Parking Spots in San Francisco
what I just read: "just move several hundred thousand tons of concrete and make people rearrange the architecture of their houses. no biggie"
northisup··on Reginald Braithwaite is a GitHubber
Why on earth is this interesting enough for the greater HN community to care about?
northisup··on Mozilla should move Persona out of the US
I don't think you know how to persona...
northisup··on Adium Redesigned
Looks awesome! But not not actually reborn, more of just a concept of how to make it a lot better.

Can we, as a community, stop saying "LOOK I MADE SOMETHING" when it is actually just a landing page or mock up?

northisup··on Disqus Gravity — The web of discussions
The frontend is written in d3 and the backend is good old fashioned Django on Postgres.
northisup··on Ask HN: Congress is Passing an Internet Sales Tax: Why Doesn't HN Care?
What is wrong with an internet sales tax? If you live in the US and buy something there is a sales tax associated with that purchase.

Why is buying via the internet any different?

northisup··on The same app 4 times: PHP vs Python vs Ruby vs Clojure
Weird that performance was the first reason mentioned when saying that is why he picked clojure. Ease of development is usually the top of my list. Then ease of hiring developers to maintain the system. Clojure is hard to dive into and hard to hire for right now. Two big minuses in my book.
northisup··on BitNami (YC W13) Launches App Store for Server Software
Don't we already had an app store for servers called apt-get?
northisup··on Antigen is to zsh, what Vundle is to vim
zprezto, 'nuf said.
northisup··on Show HN: My first node.js app
Sweet that you made your first app. But the fact that you made an app really isn't that novel, how about teasing us with what it does in the title instead of a now common place technology?

Tell us that you made the "Groupon of twitter" or the "foursquare of plurk" then tell us how you did it all with just node and MangoDB.

northisup··on The Meaning of 'su'
$ man su

SU(1) BSD General Commands Manual

NAME su -- substitute user identity

SYNOPSIS su [-] [-flm] [login [args]]

...

northisup··on Debuggex: A visual regex debugger
In python you can add flags like 'case insensitive' when you compile the regex.
northisup··on Debuggex: A visual regex debugger
now with ip address matching: http://www.debuggex.com/?re=%28%5E%5B-%21%23%24%25%26%27%2A%...
northisup··on Debuggex: A visual regex debugger
Very cool visualization. Trying to match an e-mail with this (from django.core.validators) but it isn't working: http://www.debuggex.com/?re=%28%5E%5B-%21%23%24%25%26%27%2A%...
northisup··on Don't Drop Out to Do a Startup
Don't let somebody else tell you that your square peg needs to fit in that round hole over there.

I have a B.S. and a M.S. in computer science and I am 100% confident that it was the right choice /for me/. I also work at DISQUS with some of the smartest best systems engineers I have ever known, none of them took computer science, only some graduated college, and some never even finished high school. Education is a very personal thing and America's system works for most people, but when it feels wrong go find something else that feels right.

northisup··on Show HN: Firefeed - A Twitter clone built with Firebase
apparently not webscale?
northisup··on Why 84% of Kickstarter's top projects shipped late
summary: "Because China"
northisup··on Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)
SENSATIONALIST TITLE! This seems great for web dev, but Sublime is just killer for Python, I don't see this making any editor 'look out' if you spend most of your time in a backend language.
northisup··on LoJack for bikes
Can we stop posting landing pages that are simply fishing for interest in a non-existant product?
northisup··on Charm shutting down because of unfixable kernel panics with Rails on Ubuntu
Does rails not run on Centos, Debian, or SuSE?
northisup··on How MIT Became the Most Important University in the World
Is it because people from MIT go around saying it is the most important university in the world?
northisup··on 375 Million pageviews for $15 a month
We should sell this bumper sticker: DISQUS, doing the hard work so you can scale your static site.
northisup··on Android can be beautiful
This is a list of apps that in no way use the android default widgets. So yes, it can be beautiful when you do all the hard work yourself.

(and yes, these apps look fantastic)

northisup··on Bootstrap Based UI for Logstash (Open Source Splunk)
Why on earth does being made with bootstrap matter for this? The headline should read "Logstash UI that doesn't suck"

What something is built with doesn't matter, that it works matters.

northisup··on Those budget 27" IPS displays from Korea are for real
We bought a bunch of them at DISQUS, our current failure rate is about 20-30% failed within the first three months of use. Would not buy again.
northisup··on Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser
It isn't 60 seconds if I have to wait two weeks for an invite code...
northisup··on Say hello to the real real-time Web
This article is so full of platitudes and buzzwords it is embarrassing.
northisup··on Try Out the New Disqus 2012
If you are interested in how we do the realertime notifications stay tuned for a blog post (and talk at EuroPython). Hint it isn't node.js.
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