johnthedebs

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by johnthedebs 14y ago
The problem that remains in Mountain Lion is that you can only use 1 display at a time when in full-screen mode. It's better than Lion in that you will be able to choose which of your displays is used to go into full-screen mode, rather t
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by johnthedebs 14y ago
FWIW, Mountain Lion will fix this and comes out in about a week. It doesn't fix the fact that you're left with one (or more) useless displays in full screen mode, but it does let you choose which display to do the full screening on.
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by johnthedebs 14y ago
Also, morale. Remaining employees will have a hard time focusing if they're worried about losing their jobs.
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
The response to this seems mixed so I think it's worth saying: it's very important for them to at least try this. The current YC model may have been met with the same response when first proposed (I expect it wasn't even this good, I don'
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
For what it's worth, it was intended to be a slow transition (3-5 years) since it's a chicken/egg situation because of backwards compatibility. The good news is that adoption should pick up very quickly after this fall. Python 3.3 will make
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
For those interested in how PyPy works, I highly recommend watching these presentations by Dave Beazley about RPython: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjnRLG8ATn4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkt_BtR9Kzk Also, for those going, I beli
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
It shows you that it's not about: price, protection, or availability. Many times it's just because people want it for free and are not willing to part with their hard-earned money. It's entirely about price, (lack of) protection, and av
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
Really, what's the problem? If you can look past the fact that Jobs didn't kiss the customer's ass you may realize that a CEO of a Fortune 500 company was personally responding to the customer's problem in the most effective way he could at
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
In my eyes there's a huge difference, they just look the same if you don't bother to listen to what he said and don't pay attention to Apple's response in the context of the way they run their business. It wasn't a friendly response, but it
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
One of the most frustrating examples of people telling lies about Jobs is the meme that he told an iPhone user that they were "holding it the wrong way" when they complained about the iPhone 4 antenna. What he actually said was (and this is
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Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up(plus.google.com)
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
The crucial difference here being that Microsoft had a monopoly.
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I see your point, but disagree. I think it makes a lot more sense for HN to do whatever HN believes is the most effective thing, rather than do what reddit did. I see it as fake work. We would being doing something ineffective to prove a po
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
It may be that they're gaining market share so quickly in part because of this advertising.
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
I agree: great topic but light on details. If you're considering ideas for additional posts, I'd personally love to see case studies from Pinax itself to see exactly how/why to use the techniques you talked about.
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
Just wanted to add to this (not that it's needed to make the point): Louis C.K. isn't your child.
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
You seem to be looking at this the wrong way. Instead, consider that once a person has decided they want to cause terror so much that they are willing to blow themselves up, they'll go to great lengths to make sure their one opportunity to
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
Hey Patrick, first of all congrats on your engagement and your business success. Secondly, I was wondering if you could share a bit about how you decide which ideas to invest your time in. Why did BCC and AR make the cut, while other ideas
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
I think I've seen Gumroad before (here on HN?) and thought it was an awesome idea. Just took a look at your other work and I've gotta say - thanks for building such great stuff!
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
The best way to scale this down to lesser-known acts is to reduce the barriers to entry for both the comic and the audience. More specifically, if comics had a free service or tool that allowed them to set a price, upload some content, and
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
I've seen...really smart developers use notepad...there's probably a lesson to learn. I find that really hard to believe, and I can't imagine what the lesson would be. It's akin to a NASCAR driver driving a Camry. It's true that the tools
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
I think what it means is that, in this case, the FTC gets to watch and make sure Facebook complies. If they don't, they get penalized for it. FTA: The proposed order also contains standard record-keeping provisions to allow the FTC to moni
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
Looks like a great update (line-by-line committing ftw). I mainly use GitX for git GUI duties, but this looks like it's ready to replace GitX. It's very handy to be able to switch between projects easily from within the app, and the direct
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
Seems more of a trade-off than an improvement. That's exactly the point. Instead of trying to compete directly with the iPad, Amazon is serving a different part of the market.
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
If you're going to criticize it, at least do so in a constructive way. In your list of 7, I see 2 real complaints. 1) Agreed, this can be annoying. 2) The buttons are visually smaller, but have the same target click area. 3) It behaves the
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An HTTP load balancer that is configurable at runtime (from ep.io)(github.com)
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
While this seems like a reasonable solution at first, it doesn't fix the vulnerability. It should be obvious when you consider that the attacker already deals with natural variation in network speeds and server load. Turns out it's very str
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
Even if the iPhone 4S would've been a worse phone than iPhone 4, they would've still sold at least a million units in first weekend. I think everyone knows that. No, I don't think everyone knows that. If we learned anything from the past
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
This is great news, very exciting for people who need a nice place to stash all their private git repos but didn't want to upgrade their GitHub plans for not-that-important projects. Very interesting that they've decided to compete directly
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by johnthedebs 15y ago
I didn't know what they did until I approached them. After thinking about it for a while that night, I came to the conclusion that this was the point.

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