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by jacquesc 10y ago
Yep, this drives me crazy. Finally found a solution (Request Desktop Site) but it's incredibly buried. Shocked that content providers arent suing over this. Google removes all ads (which as a user I like), and any links to the content
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by jacquesc 10y ago
Your comment seemed absolutely bonkers to me until I thought: what if I could still use my 2015 macbook pro in 2023 and be happy. That would be awesome, though unlikely since nothing on my laptop is user servicable.
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by jacquesc 10y ago
I would have said the same thing about OSX a decade ago. I wish someone would throw a lot of money at it. Apple has money but OSX keeps getting worse.
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by jacquesc 10y ago
I agree. The age of hardware performance gains papering over software optimizations is definitely over. The developer world has to get used to it. People also run a lot of code that "compiles" (not strictly converting to binary).
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by jacquesc 10y ago
This is supposedly the Pro model. Until my video processing and compile times are instantaneous, there's always room for performance increases. Phil Schiller specially blamed RAM battery drain for it being limited to 16GB. http:/
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by jacquesc 10y ago
Come on, are we really blaming the RAM for battery life? Apple chose to put a much smaller battery in this model (75 watt) compared to last year (100 watt) for the purpose of thinness. Find me a single review that laments the thickness and
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by jacquesc 10y ago
Apple should actually make a mac mini (again)
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by jacquesc 10y ago
PC Laptop world is actually really competitive. Check out Razer, Alienware, Yoga line, and Microsoft Surface. They're innovating like crazy. Touch screens, OLED displays, external GPUs, different form factors, VR capable performance, e
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by jacquesc 10y ago
Agreed. But if you call anyone who disagrees with you on economic policy a racist and sexist, it opens the door for an actual racist and sexist to get in.
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by jacquesc 10y ago
To be clear, his audio jack doesn't work. He gets audio via USB. So no less broken than an iPhone 7.
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by jacquesc 10y ago
I bought a Mac Pro in 2013 (the entry level model) and have been using it reliably for about 3 years. With two 27 inch lcds, and a thunderbolt external drive, it's been solid development machine. I can also boot an external windows dri
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by jacquesc 10y ago
That assumes everyone cares about weight / thinness over of system performance. Apple no longer gives users an option to choice their preference.
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by jacquesc 10y ago
Verizon seems to think it's a better investment to spend money on ads saying their network is good, than actually spending money on making the network good.
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by jacquesc 10y ago
From a fellow workaholic: Talk with him and see what really excites him. Suggest that you work together with him on an open source side project (possibly related to a something your team is building). A piece of the project he can get excit
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by jacquesc 10y ago
I second that. Tokyo's a fun town, but for food -- Osaka beats it hands down.
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by jacquesc 10y ago
While that's generally been true since the late 90s, when Marissa Mayer took over Yahoo did have quite the honeymoon period. Yahoo genuinely became "cool" for at least a year or 2, and everyone was glowing about Mayer being o
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by jacquesc 10y ago
I love the promise of Ember too. But if you look at the stats, along with Angular & Backbone it has pretty terrible satisfaction ratings. And in my personal experience, it also has some of the worst word of mouth of any JS frameworks. W
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by jacquesc 10y ago
The result of this thinking is when I press the back button, I have to refresh the page manually because the data is stale. My daily use case for this is Github Issues. Simple repro: Click an issue, make a change, press back. Now the list v
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by jacquesc 10y ago
I tried Quill out a couple months ago, but dropped it after I spent days trying to get @mentions working with no luck. Has been very difficult to find a solid js library to handle Facebook/Github style @mentions and autocompletes. Anyo
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by jacquesc 10y ago
Using the beta for the last couple weeks (easy to install on nexus via android.com/beta), I really like the notification improvements in 7.0. They are grouped by app now, which makes things easier to navigate, and the new clean styling
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by jacquesc 10y ago
They provide a basic CDN hosting service, essentially asset caching.
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by jacquesc 10y ago
Rails is such a huge community, and Sprockets has to be one of the biggest pain points for many years. My solution after years of agony has been to just throw it all out, and use a diff asset packager underneath rails. Really happy that peo
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by jacquesc 11y ago
Thanks! I agree about the lack of public comments being a big mistake. We should have just thrown Disqus in there to get it started. We tried to do a weird, more complicated feedback feature and it didn't really work out.
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by jacquesc 11y ago
sorry, i messed up the dns records. jacques@forwardtrail.com will work for now
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by jacquesc 11y ago
It was good advice, and I agree with you. We added email about a week later and got a couple hundred signups to it. But by then there wasnt enough traffic or submissions to really make those digests valuable. We should have had it at launch
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by jacquesc 11y ago
Here's the traffic chart if anyone's interested :) http://cl.ly/0A3K3U0V1V0e
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by jacquesc 11y ago
Nope, we didn't have any legal issues. Product Hunt was actually pretty supportive (and listed us https://www.producthunt.com/tech/open-hunt ).
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by jacquesc 11y ago
If someone wants to take over OpenHunt, email us at support@openhunt.co The code and production database is available (with all the users and projects), so you'd be able pick it up right where it left off. I was going to write up a pos
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by jacquesc 11y ago
That's true, but YC provided a lot more than money. And they didn't publish the failed interviews online.
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by jacquesc 11y ago
Angular Attack organizer here. Let me know if you have any questions!

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