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DivisibleByZero

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About DivisibleByZero

www.nicholasbardy.com

Contact: nicholasbardy@gmail.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/nicholasbardy

Job offers welcome.

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    When I saw the headline I was really hoping this meant that made their site responsive. Github is pretty much unbearable using a tiling window manager.

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    Comment #5625053

    It's always bothered me that Google doesn't have pretty URL formating. Well done here.

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    Comment #5573581

    I was just debating the merits of going with one of the lightweight jquery substitutions for a phonegap app. This couldn't come at a better time. Dropping the cruft and supporting …

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    Comment #5555560

    Simply amazing.

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    Comment #5471683

    I'm not sure about books, but I can offer a bit of advice. Try and get a friend who is good at Linux. Standing over the shoulder and watching someone using Bash, vim, etc helps a l…

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    Comment #5420083

    A seriously impressive email. As many before me have stated this is a bad situation for SendGrid and I wasn't sure if firing their employee was a good move on their part. This post…

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    Comment #5271791

    Wholeheartedly agree. Showing weakness to someone who you respect and someone who respects you is incredibly difficult, but incredibly rewarding.

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    Comment #5049924

    Thank you for this. Depression at any level is very real and very serious. Most people will tell you to talk to friends and family. You will be alone, it will be hard; but most imp…

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    Comment #4404377

    Agreed. This would be fabulous as a vim plugin.

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    Comment #4319582

    There would be a trend where people drawing the future tend to draw things they would want in the future. Which in turn society tends to build things they want. It becomes a self-f…

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    Comment #4245999

    There’s an ongoing debate about whether startups should focus on harder problems. Is there a really a debate or am I missing something? This is honestly the first thing I have seen…

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    Comment #4244638

    Reading this post I get a nice feeling of joy for belonging to the software community. Being so entrenched in the software world it becomes easy to gloss over these details. The ou…

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    Comment #4209080

    Exactly my thoughts. There really needs to be some healthy competition in client side languages.

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    Comment #4200247

    This brings to mind another great esquire article. http://www.esquire.com/features/honesty0707 It's a practice truly strange to tell people exactly how you feel or exactly what is …

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    Comment #4200230

    If you try this same sort of thing yourself, I think you'll be surprised at how naive it makes you feel. It's a very foreign feeling, stretching for compliments.

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    Ask HN: Do companies donate to open source projects?

    Lots of companies contribute patches or release open source code of their own, but is anyone giving them money? Do any companies have policies of donating to open source projects u…

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    Comment #4102523

    Definitely agree. I have been following light table religiously and missed the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3875857 story because I probably saw it after the change. If a s…

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    Comment #4057046

    It's really exciting to see a great development tool. While I love vim and will passionately fight for it's place as the best 'text editor'. I readily recognize it's faults as a de…