jonpaul

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   by jonpaul 15y ago

   Hey HN, a friend (current business partner as well) of mine built this. I thought it was cool, so I decided to pass it along. The main use case is when you're away from your computer or don't see the desktop notifications, you can still kno
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   Show HN: Web app to send email notifications when a Dropbox file has changed(boxification.com)

   3 points by jonpaul 15y ago|3 comments
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   by jonpaul 15y ago

   Bingo. Git workflow/collaboration needs to be made simple for everyone involved. Shameless plug: http://gitpilot.com is our attempt at solving the problem. But, I think you hit the nail on the head that developers need to make Git easier
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   by jonpaul 15y ago

   I typically choose MIT; I'd like to see a comparison of BSD vs MIT/Apache.
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   by jonpaul 15y ago

   How do you know if someone has been hellbanned?
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   by jonpaul 15y ago

   I think you hit the nail on the head. I'm surprised that this hasn't been brought up by a previous commenter. In America, culturally, Christmas is a celebration to receive gifts. I don't see it this way, but on the surface, I think that man
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   by jonpaul 15y ago

   Nebraska, USA. I believe there are maybe like two other HN users from Nebraska =(
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   by jonpaul 15y ago

   I believe that the parent is referring to the link that the OP submitted. If so, the parent is correct. The link submitted doesn't state much at all, other than purchasing options. The OP should have submitted the actual homepage, the page
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   by jonpaul 15y ago

   I thought the zlib support could only handle gzip files and not zip files? This would indicate that it only supports gzip files: http://zlib.net/zlib_faq.html#faq11
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    While it is indeed cool that this is done in the browser, it'd be nice to see some emphasis on using it within Node.js. Presumably, it'd probably work without too many modifications.
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    Spending the first 20 mins watching this talk is well worth the time for any programmer. The talk is about how your head and your gut react and function differently; and how it impacts you writing code.
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    Crockford on JavaScript - Section 8: Programming Style & Your Brain(youtube.com)

    2 points by jonpaul 15y ago|1 comments
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    Wow. This email lacks empathy and understanding of the situation that Backify users are now in. I'd be surprised if they converted any users over to LiveDrive. People want a company with a personal touch. Why don't most companies understand
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    Thank you for this. jsDom was the only other server side DOM implementation, and it's garbage (buggy).
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    You would use it for testing your pages or for screen scraping. Having the DOM server side allows you to use most client side JavaScript libraries such as jQuery.
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    Sincere meta question: do you have a SSD? I've found that any machine without a SSD feels sluggish after using a machine with one. I have a MBP with 8 GB ram and a 6 GB/s SATA III SSD... it screams past any machine that doesn't have a SSD.
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    Awesome! I had a similar on building something like this. One thing is for certain, members of the community lean more towards a simplistic, minimal, and clean toolset. Express.js delivers, and this seems to as well. I've dedicated myself c
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    Thanks. I found this a couple of weeks ago, and it seems like it might be useful: http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-flexbox-20090723/ Demo: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/flexbox/quick/ I wanted to post this for anyone who stumb
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    Interesting... I as a Silverlight dev now learning JS/HTML/CSS would say the complete opposite. I find it very difficult to create similar layout functionality like DockPanel and friends. Any tips?
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    I am/was a Silverlight fan. When Microsoft made it clear that they were focusing on JavaScript (I realize it's not standard's compliant) with Windows 8, I finally spent a lot of time considering the situation. Apparently a lot of the Silver
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    There was another service that did this and did it well. But apparently it isn't around anymore. It was called Mail Finch. Here is the Mixergy interview, IMHO it's great: http://mixergy.com/mailfinch-paul-singh-interview/
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    It's my understanding that making your URLs human friendly makes them more search engine friendly IF the url contains relevant keywords to the page. The link you provided is just about dynamic vs static urls, which is not what I'm referring
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    Exactly. I use MongoDB because schema-less databases make prototyping my applications easier. Migrations became a pain point.
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    Does anyone find it a bit ironic that these page URLs are NOT search engine friendly? Just a long string id... seriously Google? Maybe not irony because they own the search engine... but still makes you scratch your head wondering why.
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    I've used MongoDB in production since the 1.4 days. It should be noted that my apps are NOT write heavy. But, many of the author's points can be refuted by using version 2.0. Regarding the point of using getLastError(), the author is comple
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    I've done this. Feel free to hack up my scripts: http://procbits.com/2011/10/10/automating-generation-ios-pus... http://procbits.com/2011/10/07/automating-the-mac-os-x-keych... All code is open source on Github as referenced in the arti
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    My first impression: what problem does this solve? Why do I want to connect with people with similar movie interests? After I started rating movies that I've seen, I could see the value in the recommendation engine aspect... I'm not a fan o
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    I agree completely... I was hoping to see a live version. Live versions can help OSS spread and generate hacker interest. However, it should be noted that I'm thankful that the author decided to share this.
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    As a person who's used Cappuccino a bit, I'm really surprised that it hasn't gained more traction. The apps that you can create with it look stunning. It has a lot of functionality out of the box; it's really a cool framework. I bought one
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    by jonpaul 15y ago

    The biggest problem that I have with Bitcoin is that there's a bit of an impedance of trading dollars for BTC and vice versa. When you could use Dwolla, that helped, but now that Dwolla pulled out (at least that's my understanding), it's ev