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x0t

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About x0t

Ruby Developer. I'm known as 'nilmethod' elsewhere.

http://altbit.org http://www.hackernewsers.com/users/x0t.html

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    Comment #4387701

    The main page has been updated with a FAQ to address some of the questions that keep coming up.

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    Comment #4387690

    I've updated the landing page with a FAQ that addresses this. The point is that you don't have to actively look for news, it's sent to you on regular intervals. There are plenty of…

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    Comment #4387680

    As previously mentioned, Google Groups has an RSS feed. I'll look into a Twitter account.

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    Comment #2969690

    My guess was on shell, but I was pleasantly surprised.

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    Comment #2960889

    Won't mirroring a project show up in your public timeline? I'm mirroring Rainbows! ( https://github.com/nilmethod/rainbows ) and bits of it show up in my timeline when my mirror sc…

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    A Thousand Lashes

    I'm learning that having an extra set of eyes on your code is invaluable.

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    Comment #2614839

    I don't think you can tag gists. Snipt's searching/tagging looks a little better.

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    Comment #2602741

    While the article is old, I think it's a decent howto for installing plan9. Now I just need a use for it...

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    Comment #2204360

    479 area code here, the time was off by one hour (18:49 rather than 17:49).

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    Comment #2203043

    What about dust?

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    Comment #2145439

    Consulting by night to bootstrap a couple of products while working a day job as the "Infrastructure Administrator" (read: netadmin managing linux boxen) for a small municipality t…

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    Comment #2144217

    How about Google Voice for SMS?

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    Comment #2087558

    Are you using Git locally or are you paying for private repos somewhere (via hosted server or Github)?

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    Comment #2087539

    - E-mail/calendar/docs: Google Apps - Hosting: Linode - Invoicing: Google Docs, Billings Pro - Project management: Pivotal Tracker, Basecamp - File-sharing: Dropbox, UbuntuOne - Ve…

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    Comment #2049375

    The first line actually got me... I forgot for a moment that this was a fantasy linkbait thread. Well played, sir/madame.

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    Comment #2049275

    "P = NP" "K is a ghetto", where K is the language/library of the week.

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    Comment #2006710

    That was my first thought.

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    Comment #2006672

    Congrats to DataMarketplace, hopefully they made some scratch off the deal. I hope Infochimps decides to lower their commission, 50% is a bit steep. Maybe this explains the issues …

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    HN Parents Google Group

    Inspired by the Ask HN thread "How does having a baby change your life". User grandalf brought up the idea of having a Google Group for parents on HN, so I pulled the trigger.

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    Comment #1838415

    Done! http://groups.google.com/group/hn-parents Maybe this would be better suited for The Fridge, though?

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    Comment #1838267

    Thanks so much!