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My experiences with Verizon FiOS

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:29:00 -0800

First: Verizon is better than Time Warner Cable. Period. They're both evil though.

Verizon has, so far:

Missed an installation appointment on Sunday without notifying me, wasting an entire weekend day with an excessive 8am-5pm arrival window.
Told me that if my appointment was still open the next day it would be automatically rescheduled for the next day. (hint: that was a lie)
When I called them to reschedule a new appointment, the earliest appointment they would give me was Sunday. (As in a week from the original installation date.)

I work from home and if I didn't have tethering using my iPhone I would be shit out of luck today.

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node-bones: a nice little node.js app skeleton

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:27:00 -0800

https://github.com/antipax/node-bones

Here's a nice little application skeleton for Node.js 0.6.x that I whipped up in preparation for a hackathon at Group Commerce. Twitter Bootstrap, Jade, Express, CoffeeScript and LESS are included, along with all the boilerplate you'd usually have to write. Automatic asset compilation is all set up and you've got a nice little configuration file which is just CoffeeScript. It's also ready for deployment on Heroku.

Hope you find it useful!

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How To Safely Store A Password

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:22:00 -0800

codahale.com

You don't want to end up like Gawker, do you?

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