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This is similar to a product that my cofounder and I are developing: http://hootcourse.com/

Just out of curiosity, what resolution are you using? I just happen to be using my old laptop today and I could see how the hills could be more distracting than we had anticipated.…

The instructors using our tool have been very vocal, and we're absolutely thrilled about that. However, we haven't heard too much from our fellow hackers or our instructor's studen…

If you have any feedback or if you find any bugs, I would really appreciate it if you report them with the github issues tool. I should be able to hammer out fixes fairly quickly.

The purpose of the semantic web is parsing of documents in general, not JUST search engine parsing of documents. A disclosure tag would enable services such as aggregators (which t…

Google Cache: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:vKjGHzc30OIJ:devgrow.com...

Thanks. Great catch. Admittedly, I'm still disappointed though. If they were taking it seriously, I'd expect something bright and shiny on that front page of theirs.

That might be a bit of a stretch. I don't recall the administration of any K-12 school I attended ever explaining their reasons for doing anything (to the parents, maybe, but even …

I think it might be empty because ed.gov doesn't seem to actually link it anywhere on their site.

The site is back up now.

If you're considering adding similar functionality to your Django site, check out Tweepy. It's absolutely wonderful. http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy Python-twitter will work …

This isn't exactly the same type of thing the article talks about, but it drives me crazy when I see sites with subtly cut off drop shadows. The sharp edge catch my eye and it driv…

I have to say, I completely hate this too. You'll be reading through a post and BAM,"lol, WHY DON'T YOU SUBSCRIBE TO MY MAILING LIST". 9 times out of 10, I'm going to hit command+w…

In most cases, the name probably doesn't matter too much. If the content posted adds value and the particular social network entity is linked prominently, people will likely follow…

The transparent spacer image hack seems horribly antiquated to me. I'm surprised anyone still does it that way.

I'm particularly fond of Monaco, the default font for Textmate (OS X). That being said, Textmate also supports anti-aliasing which might help solve this problem for you too. What e…

Please don't ever e-mail someone their password. It breaks my heart.

I use Color Oracle for this sort of testing: http://colororacle.cartography.ch/

Greg posted as 'pyroman' here on Hacker News. Many of the articles he submitted were django / python / systems administration related that he had published to his blog, codespatter…

I recently left my sweet, sweet university job running a development team to start a private firm with some colleagues. We launched http://wejustquit.net for our friends and family…