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rlivsey
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About rlivsey
homepage: http://livsey.org email: richard@livsey.org twitter: @rlivsey
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Comment #6777826
It would be nice if the history UI wasn't purely linear, but that it remembered the last x pages on the current domain and the last x pages on the previous n domains.
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Comment #6733332
This is just the conclusion, link should be http://www.polygon.com/a/ps4-review/
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Comment #5951551
I'd assume that single in this sense means "not married", as opposed to "not in a relationship at all". Wikipedia backs this up [1] but I'm not familiar with Ecuadorian legal nomen…
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Comment #5948881
To add more anecdotal evidence, I too had childhood asthma (was on a ventilator when very young, inhalers until ~16) and am a "natural" stomach breather.
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Comment #5896480
In other news, "UK internet providers reject default porn filters" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22934600 It's almost like you can't believe everything you read online. I'…
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Comment #4500902
Yeoman uses Bower for package management
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Comment #4394363
Translation: 'Fuck you, 3rd party Twitter clients.' They'll still cut them off at the knees when they hit at most 200,000 users. Nitpick - it's 200% of what they're at now, so if t…
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Comment #3826622
That's certainly something to be considered when outsourcing key parts of infrastructure yes. I know the Pusher guys personally, so I'm confident they'll be around for the foreseea…
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Comment #3826611
I was going to put a smiley after that first line as it was kind of tongue in cheek, but HN isn't the place for smilies! People pay Heroku/AWS each month, I don't see any differenc…
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Comment #3824503
Pusher costs ~$49/month, my time is worth $1000/hour [1] It took me about 5 minutes to setup Pusher and for that I get private channels, presence, someone to handle the scaling etc…
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Comment #3812040
I've found hanging around on StackOverflow and the #emberjs IRC channel to be very useful, if only just to try and answer every question I see as an opportunity to learn. I didn't …
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Comment #3801835
Exactly, it's not a programmer thing, it's a culture thing. Non-development oriented conferences I've been to end up in the bar too. It's not just conferences, plenty of non develo…
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Comment #3319010
After using PayPal on a number of projects over the years (both successfully and painfully unsuccessfully) I've come to the conclusion that PayPal is fine if what you're doing is c…
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Comment #3086008
The TechCrunch video didn't work here on my iPad, I assume it's flash. There's one on Gawker which works: http://gawker.com/5847556/watch-stephen-colberts-tribute-to-... Edit: s/it…
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Comment #3056788
We were using Spreedly to abstract out the payment gateway side of things for our subscriptions. However, to use them you need to be able to disable CVV checking using PayPal's "ad…
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Comment #3053393
I find the pomodoro technique really useful. Just the simple thing of having a countdown timer going makes me focus on the task at hand and restricts my procrastination to the brea…
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Comment #3040631
This is the coffeescript equivalent, not sure how to get it working in the visualisation though as it doesn't involve swaps. VA = [4, 2, 5, 7] for y in VA setTimeout('console.log('…
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Comment #2740194
We haven't sorted out the VAT situation yet, we've not launched the payment process & that's one of the things on my list to sort out before we do! Thanks for the recurly link, we'…