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Jason Lotito
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Jason Lotito's personal blog at jasonlotito.com covers programming and business. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “What I Know About Designing Credit Card Forms”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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- What I Know About Designing Credit Card Forms2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-31
What Hacker News says?
I wrote about Credit Card forms a while back as well. http://www.jasonlotito.com/programming/what-i-know-about-des... Anyways, you mention in your post: "Making something a simple form that is fully internationalized and has useful validation is no where near as easy as they would like us to believe." It's not easy, but it's not as time consuming and as difficult as you think it is. Getting the phone numbers right d…
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on “Dear American Website Owner”Submitted What I Know About Designing Credit Card Forms as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI wrote two articles with the same goal, using simple rules describing when you should simplify. I also cover cyclomatic complexity, which you seem to want to describe. Regardless, the two rules I focus on: * Idents are intents to modularize http://www.jasonlotito.com/programming/blocks/ * Comments indicate future refactoring http://www.jasonlotito.com/programming/comments/ They are both covered here:
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on “Reducing Code Nesting ”Submitted Why companies reinvent solutions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is actual evidence to back up his original statement, and even to say that nesting increases defects. It's called cyclomatic complexity, and can be tested for quite easily. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity I wrote an article on a similar concept here: http://www.jasonlotito.com/programming/blocks/ It covers one method I use to reduce the complexity of my functions.
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on “Reducing Code Nesting ”Submitted How to learn a new programming language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor a simple review, I wrote up my initial experience with Silvrback, after migrating over a blog from WordPress. http://jasonlotito.com/over-the-us I should note that I've been very happy with Silvrback. It's easy to use, fast, and works as expected.
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on “Silvrback is now open to everyone – high-quality, Markdown-powered blogging”Submitted How not to automatically detect location as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAssuming the quality remains good, I'd really like this. Especially knowing money would go to the author. Are you focusing just on ad revenue, or are you looking into other ways to bring in money (like subscriptions that remove ads, etc). I wrote an article recently about how social news sites are hurting brand recognition for smaller sites, so it's nice to see what amounts to a "social news site" that puts the bran…
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on “NewsTilt is at the initial press release stage... good luck, guys”Submitted Social news sites benefit more than the sources they link to as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's not. At least, I've never seen the movie. I forgot where I heard that. So I googled it. In a search looking for that exact quote, I came up with only a few links. All from either comments I made previously or a blog post. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2504632 That was where I originally used it. I was proud of it, mostly because it was short and to the point. I'm usually not short and to the point. Anyway…
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on “Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?”Submitted A browser button for Privacy settings for sites? Last section of link article. as a story · 1 points
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