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by jemmons 17y ago
Transmit is every bit as fast as Yummy downloading and uploading a 10Mb file (S3 and SFTP), so I'm not sure what your impression is based on. The last release was 11/24/08. It's always updated to take advantage of/fix bugs introduced by new
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by jemmons 17y ago
I gave up both for Xtorrent, but YMMV.
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by jemmons 17y ago
Calculating/displaying average karma discourages the type of behavior we want to cultivate on HN. Users that care about their scores will only contribute to highly visible conversations in ways that are more likely than not to be up-voted.
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by jemmons 17y ago
You mean the difference between a pull and a cherry-pick? I've been a user of git for a year now and this is my understanding: git pull is just a synonym for two commands: git fetch and git merge. git fetch gets a copy of the remote branch
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by jemmons 17y ago
You essentially just called a community stupid. When provoked with such nonconstructive criticism, I'm not sure why you would expect said community to respond with anything but "No, you're stupid."
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by jemmons 17y ago
I downvoted you because you quickly played the "personal attack" card in the same breath as you laid all the blame for what you perceive as a slide in HN quality at the feet of those who upvote different stories than you would -- which amou
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by jemmons 17y ago
This might be the perfect ad. It completely recasts the cynical MS Laptop Hunter ads in a personal and emotional light. The MS ads are all about megahertz and inches and, unbelievably, always end with the consumer getting handed a big wad
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by jemmons 17y ago
I'll likely get downmodded for this, but someone has to speak truth to poster: There's no way to read Amazon-protected content without using an Amazon-approved device (Kindle, Kinde for iPhone) or cracking the DRM. Cracking the DRM is illeg
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by jemmons 17y ago
Agreed. Keeping in mind that what we know of WebOS suggests it's just a presentation layer on top of webkit and making the assumption that palm's "core apps" that provide services to lesser apps are of the same scope and resource usage as i
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by jemmons 17y ago
When you have a problem with a mac you can't fix it, 90% of the time the problems are hidden away and impossible to troubleshoot. Demonstrably false. As far as systems and hardware are concerned, I worked as one of the guys who troublesho
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by jemmons 17y ago
How about a bookmarklet to drag into my bookmarks bar? I know it doesn't seem like much, but constantly copying and pasting URLs into shortening services is an inconvenience (and is seriously low-hanging fruit).
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by jemmons 17y ago
1. Launched personal computing revolution 2. Got overtaken 3. Learned lesson 4. Launched iPod revolution 5. Not overtaken despite the predictions of many articles like this. 6. Launched iPhone revolution 7. Still no sign
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by jemmons 17y ago
Both great! I would add Envy Code R: http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod...
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by jemmons 17y ago
Number one is Arial? Way to blow all credibility right up front.
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by jemmons 17y ago
The money quote: "When the focus of energy is put on customers rather than fighting pirates, you end up with more sales."
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Demigod: So much for piracy(forums.demigodthegame.com)
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by jemmons 17y ago
Too many rounded corners! There's no law against right angles, and rounded corners on top of rounded corners make for "soft" boundaries. For example, look at the first screenshot. Large round buttons. Above that, large round header (or some
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by jemmons 17y ago
How about the author's argument against macports: "You will learn a lot more than you ever wanted to about source-code and build systems." Um, we are talking about why a developer might want to use a mac, right?
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by jemmons 17y ago
So rather than fixing broken behavior of existing apps, we should instead bloat the platform with new features ripe for abuse? That seems... unwise.
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by jemmons 17y ago
I'm sure this is what browser makers thought when they put in the ability to "pop up" a new window in front of the current one. "Some websites might use it for annoying or nefarious purposes, but the only protection people need is the freed
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by jemmons 17y ago
"Demonstrates a good understanding of common use cases" is another way of saying it "gives the people what they want". I understand giving people what they want is in fashion right now in user interface design (mostly with people who refer
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by jemmons 17y ago
If people tweet about it, it must be good!
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by jemmons 17y ago
Let me be the first to say "thank you", Apple, for protecting me from exactly the sort of shenanigans this app offers up as "features".
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by jemmons 17y ago
Only if they're doing it for the money.
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by jemmons 18y ago
I really hate that old tale about the man telling the doctor "It hurts when I do this!" and the doctor advising him "Don't do that." But here I go (with apologies): Why are you trying to convince people to get on twitter? Twitter scratches
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by jemmons 18y ago
How many of these do we have to stare down before the internet punditry learns to take three deep breaths before clicking "post"? Remedial reporting here would have saved a lot of faces from a lot of egg.
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by jemmons 18y ago
You either have a tenuous grasp on the definition of "one-to-one" or vastly overestimate Comcast.
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by jemmons 18y ago
No.
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by jemmons 18y ago
When I think "Polar Rose", I think "A service that encumbers photos with hovering icons that in no way indicate their purpose while obscuring my picture."
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by jemmons 18y ago
The moment you admit to "optional extras", you've already lost the war.

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