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There are a number of approaches you can take for this. Many developers simply have a production and staging store. Another approach is to have a production and staging theme which…

It would probably be something less suspect like Magic cards.

ActiveMerchant is just an abstraction layer around various gateways. It's goal was never to provide a full-stack solution, but to simply making working with numerous gateways easie…

> you don't need special licenses or laws to enforce that. Just have a law that says "you must have insurance valid for the kind of driving you do" Licenses provide the proper chec…

Have your programming interviews changed at all in the last while? The list sorting thing isn't necessarily the best way at finding good candidates.

You are comparing apples and oranges. If you are running the same application on equivalent hardware at the same API level then you should be fine. Android has issues with hardware…

I believe you don't need to do anything along the lines of JRuby where you would sometimes need to bridge libraries from Java-land into Ruby. This most likely makes the same assump…

This might prevent you from getting drunk, but the result is going to be some terrible gas. Anyone who homebrews will know this because of those times you've drank beer that still …

Threes is indeed a better game. There's subtle changes in the mechanics that make your decisions much more important than in 2048 which is effectively broken. Maybe they spent too …

While in the UK over Christmas that was a plan though because of all the flooding and bad weather my partner and I decided against it since we didn't want to lose our last day in b…

I'd say it depends. There's lots of things that can really throw people through a loop. Maybe you are using an editor they aren't familiar with, or perhaps you don't have your envi…

Let's throw you into a high stress environment give you data you've never worked with before and on top of that, just for funzies throw some namespaced SOAP at you. Oh and here's t…

A players should work on pulling people in other categories into their category. If everyone works on making everybody better you can make the place better. Rejecting people becaus…

Or you know... just name them to something generic like "sewer access point covers"

I've taken to using Draft for all my writing and then just export the post or whatever to submit it to my blog that's self-hosted on Wordpress. Using Wordpress to simply serve up m…

I changed one line to make it work faster. From the "best" score I was worse than it by 150 or something. Not that I care really.

Or just populate a hash with the input and see if the entries exist in the hash. If they do print it otherwise print the non matchy one.

Earning money is one thing. But teaching someone how to budget has drastically better chances of using their money more effectively. Besides, once they get old enough to work (mayb…

I actively practice using gender neutral nouns whenever I write stuff. Sometimes I'll slip up, but I'm pretty confident this isn't the case with the HN crowd. Using they, spouse or…

It might be good to generalize that a bit. Fear, spouses, family commitments.

What other community are you talking about? The only one that comes to mind is the My Little Pony one.

The Pony logo was awesome. I wish it would've stuck more to be honest.

> working on one's own source is so much better that I would use a fully FOSS solution and self host it if I ever needed to do an e-commerce site again Except now instead of focusi…

I'll put this out there that I'm more in the "I'm a maintainer" group, so my lens when looking at code is very much in the "how can I maintain this" sense. There were a few article…

Let's just blame it on reddit