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Somehow I still prefer Jon Hicks original re-brand of the phoenix logo the best. That is the 2004-2005 version displayed in the article. See [1] for an earlier evolution write-up of the brand logo.

http://thinsmek.com/a-history-of-the-firefox-icon-and-detail...

They added a green button which i assume is "fork on github". It seems they want to encourage people to use github rather to clone to local filesystem.

I think their goal is the right; to reduce the vertical space usage at the top of the page before the "content". They did however remove some of the useful tabs and keep the least useful. Programming language stats and project description & project URL seems less important to me than the "code, issues, pull request etc" tabs.

The code browser is in my opinion one of the most useful features of github. Commit history and blame combined with the "unnecessary noise" you describes makes it very easy for me to find out the last time I touched some line or file and what changed.

Why do you really care about the file size and amount of files btw?

I guess this is more an issue with GitHub OAuth permissions which are not fine grained enough. What you want is read-access to all repositories.

I would not give anyone access to all my private repositories, however.

[] Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar

Maybe that one.

"we're limited to the US, but we're actively looking into options for international payouts"

I get the feeling of déjà vu when I hear this phrase.

Signed up and hooked up AdWords, Analytics and Facebook in 2min for a small social builder game I'm working on (http://www.kogama.com). Waiting eagerly for the data to be imported. First impressions are very good and I like the angle you are attacking the analytics problem (understanding and learning from data, rather than collecting).

Nice! impressed by speed and quality of the results + features. Definitively going to use this in the feature. Also enjoyed your blog post on how to create a search engine.

Still feel this is missing the preciseness of former google code search. It doesn't respect many of the symbols common in programming languages.

Here is an example. The query "format(args" will match "func formatArgs(args", but not "func format(args".

https://github.com/search?q=format%28args+repo%3Asimonz05%2F...

Main navigation doesn't work in Chromium Version 23.0.1271.91 (167501) due to a floating error. "Featured Sites" doesn't fit on the nav.

I wish they simply fixed their regular code search. It has never worked and is one of the features I miss. Russ Cox's Google Code Search was an excellent example of how this should look like, to bad it's gone as well.

I was looking for something like this (today) to keep some database passwords I need from time to time in git without storing them in plain-text.

Thanks for solving another man's problem.

Just came home from work on my bicycle in Copenhagen. Didn't know we had superhighway's. I understand the effort of trying to make the long distance routes more pleasant, though.

We have another problem however, which is that the inner city is very crowded in rush hour. I hope the expand the high traffic lanes to become even wider at some point. Currently all lanes are double-lanes, but triple lanes would be really nice in choke-points. This might sound stupid to someone which doesn't even have bike lanes in their city, but this is an actual problem in Copenhagen. It's not so much about being able to go fast, but also about safety.

This feature exists at distro-level package managers. Why should Redis solve this as well?

I guess my problem, as a consumer, is that I never expect to actually to be able to buy a Google hardware product. Compared to a hardware company like Apple, I know I can go to my local store to get that fancy device I just heard about on the radio. While, with Google, It's like their glasses, their autonomous car, their phones, their computers; it seems to only be some really polished R&D thing.

How does Google manage to only have one retailer who actually sells the device in Europe. It feels as if every time they [Google] introduce something new and cool (phone, computer ...) it is only available for a selected few. Then when we all forgot about it they add a few more retailers.

Creating a simple editor which works, seems to be quiet hard, judging based on all the horrible examples we have of existing ones. Hopefully, they'll keep it clean and don't add many new features.

> Feature request - ability to add 'notes' to a document. I'd imagine these as toggleable divs that would be able to be inserted anywhere in the doc, then made visible or not by toggling a class. When 'on' the visible portion would just be a small box/space/marker that, when clicked, opened up a larger div with the full note.

I think this suggestion fully qualifies as something they don't want to do, "[to create] unmaintainable tag soups and inline styles".

Lovely. Looking forward to it.

What about us Euro JavaScript junkies? Are we not entitled to a text version of the talk, maybe in the form of a HN comment. Are we not!?

> Would Gnome 2 -> XFCE or Gnome 2 -> Gnome Classic not make more sense?

In my experience, the more minimal window managers such as XFCE, Open Box and so on required lots of configuration to get right. Furthermore, they don't give you a big advantage over something like Gnome or KDE, except for being more configurable. I'm using the tiling window manager dwm with minimal changes to the default config (added 2 shortcuts and changed some colors) for almost 3 years now. I think the pure simplicity and stability of the software is compelling compared to a minimal version of Gnome.

Look at github.com/robots.txt and you'll see there is no bingbot listed there. I'm not sure if this affects the result in your query, but it might well just be a case of bing respecting a robots.txt file.

Growing up on the Norwegian country side. We walked or went by bike in the summer. In the winter we went by ski or "spark" [1]. I remember on Saturday's we were allowed to go to the closest grocery store for candy. This was 4 km away. The trip took me and my sister one hour each way. We were 6 and 8 years old by the time.

From the age of 9 I went by bike to school each day. I loved riding that bike — such a freedom. I never thought about those 14 km back and forth[2]. From and to school was just about getting there. After school involved more activities.

Currently I reside on one of the most bicycle friendly cities in the world. Approximately 40% use their bike to work in Copenhagen. I always use my bike when I can. During the summer we sometimes bike around the isle of Amager. It's 42 KM all the way around, but the trip takes you through so many different scenes of nature.

To me, getting around by foot or bike, is freedom. It's the only way I know. I can drive a traktor, but have never driven a car.

[1] http://g.api.no/obscura/pub/978x1200r/04135/1326712053000_Sp... [2] http://g.co/maps/nck6s [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porsche_Traktor_Diesel_Sup...

I cant see how adding such a wast amount of features makes the API cleaner. You made the library more complex than what it already was. Fixing Fabric should in my opinion be done, not in a backwards compatible way, but by forking it and taking away all the crap you don't want, then build a cleaner API. Adding more features to something which already is bad doesn't make it better.