robmil
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Comment · 2 years ago
I wrote one years ago, but I suspect the schema has drifted quite far out of sync: https://github.com/robmiller/ruby-wpdb
Comment · 11 years ago
Rory Stewart, the speaker here, is a slightly unconventional politician, having in 2002 walked across Afghanistan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Stewart
Comment · 11 years ago
Vim ships with a command called `view` that will start it in read-only mode, and makes it very much a viewer — not just an editor.
Comment · 11 years ago
…and Ruby has the PTY module which includes an `expect` method, which is in the same ballpark:
Comment · 12 years ago
mailto: is the same principle and has been around since the 90s.
Comment · 13 years ago
If you don't want to appear rich or a good robbery target, why buy a Ferrari in the first place? Plenty of other rich people somehow manage to get by without such extravagant displays of wealth.
Comment · 13 years ago
I'm using MailMate[1], which is a brilliant client developed by the Danish coder Benny Kjaer Nielsen. It has too many neat features to name, but the one I absolutely couldn't live without is the ability to write emails in Markdown.
[1]: http://freron.com/
Comment · 13 years ago
It's at such a fragile point, though. Monetising a previously entirely free service is risky at any time, but there's lots more risk than usual here (fickleness of audience, existence of competitors, fundamental simplicity of offering).
We've seen plenty of startups fail at this point before; is there anything to suggest Snapchat will beat the odds?
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