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Whenever chef deploys a new revision the site is broken until bundler has finished running. Lesson: don't deploy so frequently :)

Hi. Thanks for your feedback. I will be adding more details about the difference between free and pro over the next week or so. I am hoping that I can get engineers to use splinch …

doh! thanks for the catch.

Thanks. All the text shadows or specific ones? I used it only in places where I thought that it made the text _easier_ to read because it helps increase contrast. I'm probably mist…

Thanks! I've already made a few of your suggested changes to the site.

Hi all. My expertise lies in networking and development and not in marketing and business development. I'm probably not best suited to the life of an entrepreneur, but with the hel…

I am shocked and amazed to see one of my projects posted to HN by someone other than myself. Apparently someone else cares enough about what I'm doing to tell their mates about it.…

I guess that makes sense, I would be pretty annoyed if Facebook sent me a notification every time they roll out some random new feature. I like the idea of bots, but I don't see a …

Nice work guys. I'm really impressed with the App updates today and the website update. One thing I was surprised by was that you don't have an option for "Allow Notifo to send me …

It's one of the default themes from Roxen webserver (roxen.com).

Hi all. I'm a small startup based in New Zealand. My product needs to have recurring billing and I was hoping to use a payment service like Chargify so that I don't have to deal wi…

So, your customer says "give me a website that does X", you say "sure" and go about throwing together an app to meet the spec. What happens after the jobs done and there is a new f…

there are ~230k words. once it runs out will start randomly hyphenating two words togther. in the mean time I'm looking at using wordnik's API for word selection - apparently they …

Yes, it lets you use the same URL twice - bit.ly does the same. Potentially different people want to share the same link and see their own stats: http://s.mashd.cc/stats/nonsubstan…

I have experienced this very thing with a SunOS box at the remote end of a satellite link. It was in the US and we were in NZ. Let's just say that you can do a lot with bash and a …

Funny, I wrote an blog post about this last week. http://blogs.auckland.ac.nz/z00m/2009/11/24/signal-to-noise/

Okay. Here's my workflow: - block out at least three hours of time - stock up on coffee and shutdown all distractions - code until my brain breaks. This has implications for office…