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Author here. I don't want to interrupt a good flame war, but I am just a normal dude who posted a tweet about a hack project and was asked by Twilio to write a post about it after …

Fixed, thanks for letting me know!

I'd hoped this was something like Napster built on WebRTC data channel. No such luck.

Fellow Votizen dev. I agree about the white flash. We decided to give nvd3 a try for charts, and it does that as part of its default animation. We'll probably disable animations or…

Humility breeds a state of mind which evidences itself through action. There's not really more, except that actual humility isn't something you can measure directly. So the advice …

It was specifically prompted by the way I see people headed in software, particularly in the bay area. I used the general term maker though, as I think the same ideas apply to many…

I'm a developer at Votizen. Just our voter history (whether a voter actually voted in a particular election) is, on average, 10 rows per voter record. 200 million voter records * 1…

The rate limit has been increased a bit but still remains. So, the bot is up for now, but it's not really a solution, just a temporary fix. Go get your nostalgia on while it lasts!…

Aaand looks like I went over twitter's daily tweet limit. I didn't know that even existed. Its api says statuses/update is not rate limited. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted ...…

In an homage to Andy Baio (http://waxy.org/2004/03/infocombot_for/), I've created a twitter bot wrapper for dumb frotz. To begin or restart a game of Zork, tweet "@playzork play zo…

It's setting iframe src on a timer to detect when the hosted html file is present. Yeah, that's unfortunate about the back button, something we didn't think about during the hackat…

Perhaps I'm alone or in the vast minority, but I love being an adult and would never trade it for the "good old days" of being a kid. I can completely identify with the complaints …

I think Neal Gaiman is the only one calling it "The Gaiman Principle" ...

The kicker for me was discovering that Facebook's PHP shell ( http://www.phpsh.org/ ) is in fact written in Python.

It is, but I don't get to show you the result of the chain that way. :)

Doesn't that limit you to potential employees who aren't currently employed? Hiring should be at least as important to the team as to any manager. (After all, they're the ones who …

In a previous life, I was a C# dev for fat client windows apps. Without any serious web development experience, a Django shop took a chance on me, and I learned the whole stack on …

It's not pretty, but you can do it: >>> sum([['a', 'b', 'c'], ['d', 'e', 'f']], []) ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'] This makes use of the optional start argument and list add operat…