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Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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I just love how github ends up being blog, forum, wiki, disqus-clone etc. for us tech people. As for the stand I used this cheap ikea-hack: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c7/c9/a0/c7c9a072c328a3596186e1b71... (can't find the original post sry)

100 years from now maybe github will be the new geosites. Or maybe my great great grandkids can review that PR I made today.

Wow, great thought. Maybe I had better write better commit messages then.

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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I'd consider Youtube to be one of the top easiest sites to get one's data (or someone else's!) out of. Why do you think it's not?

Do you mean downloading using unsupported 3rd party tools? Because those have to be regularly updated to ensure they even work and could some day stop working entirely if Google decided to care about blocking such tools. In comparison, GitHub offers a simple clone button (among ways) which gives you everything.

No, I mean Google.com/takeout

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Agreed it is confusing, the JPEG "is" the CAD file (although there is a DXF file as well) but laser cutters will often use a JPEG as the profile image. Here is my guess, you laser it out of acrylic, you slot the two large parts together to form an 'X' (looking down from the top) and you glue in the four wedges using solvent glue to stabilize the X shape of the two pieces.

Which is daft because you can just cut another slot and shove a bit in at an angle to lock it — no glue needed. Also the CAD is useless unless you have the exact thickness of material to laser cut since you can't adjust the cut width. This could easily have been a clever script to generate an SVG to match your material thickness and laptop dimensions. This is submission is well below the bar for what I usually see on…

Yes if the two halves had matching horizontal slots forming T's with the vertical slots, the whole thing would lock together with friction. That's a pretty obvious improvement.

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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I actually dislike that fact very much. Oh, I don't disagree that github is that for so many users...and i can not disagree with the convenience of what github provides...I simply dislike that it is all controlled/owned by github...a single point of technical/infrastructure failure, and a single corporate entity where so much content (content beyond raw code, that is) is hosted...not unlike the facebook effect. I wis…

Everyone says that people want a decentralized set of repositories for open source. I have never seen it happen and instead we just get better and better iterations on sourceforge.

I think Gitlab does very well as a decentralized set of repos.

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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> easily So they added a button to dump all issues and PRs without messing with the API?

We’re programmers... working with APIs is what most of us do day to day, they’re not holding it hostage behind complicated and metered usage APIs.

GitHub API is decidedly metered. https://developer.github.com/v3/rate_limit/

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We’re programmers... working with APIs is what most of us do day to day, they’re not holding it hostage behind complicated and metered usage APIs.

GitHub API is decidedly metered. https://developer.github.com/v3/rate_limit/

When I say metered, I meant "pay per query", not rate limits meant to keep the service online.

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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I just love how github ends up being blog, forum, wiki, disqus-clone etc. for us tech people. As for the stand I used this cheap ikea-hack: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c7/c9/a0/c7c9a072c328a3596186e1b71... (can't find the original post sry)

100 years from now maybe github will be the new geosites. Or maybe my great great grandkids can review that PR I made today.

Reminds me of how increasingly online everything has become, which is being documented in perfect detail. Would be interesting how sociology would change a couple decades from now.

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Do you mean downloading using unsupported 3rd party tools? Because those have to be regularly updated to ensure they even work and could some day stop working entirely if Google decided to care about blocking such tools. In comparison, GitHub offers a simple clone button (among ways) which gives you everything.

No, I mean Google.com/takeout

That only helps you backup your own data. Github (or rather Git) facilitates distributed backup.

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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I just love how github ends up being blog, forum, wiki, disqus-clone etc. for us tech people. As for the stand I used this cheap ikea-hack: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c7/c9/a0/c7c9a072c328a3596186e1b71... (can't find the original post sry)

I actually dislike that fact very much. Oh, I don't disagree that github is that for so many users...and i can not disagree with the convenience of what github provides...I simply dislike that it is all controlled/owned by github...a single point of technical/infrastructure failure, and a single corporate entity where so much content (content beyond raw code, that is) is hosted...not unlike the facebook effect. I wis…

Is there a github clone people can host on their personal site that handles git, wiki, issues, and pages? Not talking about gitlab either. Only for hosting at the project level to keep things simple.
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