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by masnick 14y ago
I see how having a free demo account might be helpful for trying out the service, but a permanently free account is totally contrary to the idea of posthaven. Really though, paying $5 to try it out isn't a huge deal if you don't like the se
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by masnick 14y ago
Disagree. This is something you should have to pay for, especially given their promise to keep your stuff online forever. Paying makes the business model clear; a free plan starts to muddy the waters and certainly is no benefit to paying us
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by masnick 14y ago
> Why do you find this more friendly than Google Authenticator? Just because it pushes rather than requiring the user to open an app? Exactly. I have so many things in Google Authenticator that I have to scroll. The timer is also annoyi
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by masnick 14y ago
I think it will unless they can break your passcode.
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by masnick 14y ago
Apple has done a great job walking users through this process. Setting up "trusted devices" (iPhone, iPad, etc.) works really well: Apple already knows which devices you own, so all you have to do is select the device and you get an instant
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Android under New Google(marco.org)
7 points by masnick 14y ago|1 comments
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Comcast (xfinity) tricks users into installing crapware(maxmasnick.com)
1 points by masnick 14y ago|0 comments
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by masnick 14y ago
Thank you, this has driven me crazy for years. Every blog page should have a way back to the startup's main site. This could be as simple as a bar at the top of each blog page that links "back to startup.com" appropriately if linking the lo
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by masnick 14y ago
Agreed. There should be a link back to the home page for the blog that is not the startup's logo. The logo should go to the startup's actual home page.
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Monosnap: cross-platform screenshot tool (Skitch done right)(monosnap.com)
1 points by masnick 14y ago|0 comments
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by masnick 14y ago
I wrote about different ways to set up a reliable blog about a year ago. The post is still relevant, except I'd add SquareSpace as a good option and obviously remove the part about Posterous. See http://www.maxmasnick.com/articles/bulletpr
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by masnick 14y ago
Zotero looks awesome, definitely going to check it out.
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by masnick 14y ago
This is a great idea. Microsoft Word-style version control (track changes) is not nearly as simple and powerful as Git (assuming you have already wrapped your head around Git, which isn't a reasonable expectation for many non-programmers).
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by masnick 14y ago
Just happened to me too. There is no better way to piss off your uses than deleting all their email. I could see having a 2 year deactivation, but 4 months? I'm sure the storage space isn't an issue, so this can only be a ploy to try to for
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by masnick 14y ago
This looks really interesting. I'm excited to see someone is working to bring GitHub to iOS. Looking at the screenshots, it looks like it could use some UI polish ( http://worqshop.com/ ). For now, this will keep me from dropping $5 on this
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by masnick 14y ago
I wonder how they calculate active uses. I check Google+ maybe once a month...am I counted in there? I wish these statistics were reported in user-hours/month or some other unit that provided real information. I suspect this wouldn't look g
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by masnick 14y ago
Clickable: http://www.doitbefore.com I don't do Facebook logins on 3rd party sites, but the landing page looks nice.
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by masnick 14y ago
You sound upset. It's reasonable to decide to not use free software because you need more support than the vendor can provide. It's unreasonable to be upset about a free software vendor not providing enough support. This is like the whole c
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by masnick 14y ago
Yeah, one of my primary use cases is saving PDFs from my ScanSnap, so the free bandwidth totally doesn't cut it. $45/year for a pro account is completely offset by the time saved with the full text search alone.
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by masnick 14y ago
I (try to) use it for storing and organizing stuff that I would otherwise organize with the file system. Evernote is better than the file system/Dropbox primarily because it does full text search of PDFs (even scans), words in photos, and p
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by masnick 14y ago
Yeah, what they did to Skitch is really unforgivable. Hopefully the same team who works on Evernote can put some time in on Skitch and add the features they removed back in. The old Skitch UI was ugly and non-standard but very functional. I
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by masnick 14y ago
I have tried using Evernote for many years (since v1 for Mac), but it never really clicked until this version. For me, the key feature is shortcuts to notes/notebooks and recent notes. Prior to this, it was too time consuming to sort throug
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by masnick 14y ago
Can you post a URL? It's hard speculate without some background on what you're doing and how you're doing it.
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Global warming makes satellites move faster(arstechnica.com)
2 points by masnick 14y ago|0 comments
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Regression and extraction(37signals.com)
50 points by masnick 14y ago|14 comments
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by masnick 14y ago
This looks awesome. It's amazing to be able to add this kind of functionality to your application with just a few lines of JS. https://www.intercom.io/ is another example of really great functionality with just a few lines of JS (in this
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by masnick 14y ago
I've never found it necessary to use the --path or --binatubs options with rbenv. For --path, I just use the default which presumably puts everything in the main rbenv folder for gems. I've never had a problem with this. For the problem of
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by masnick 14y ago
Here's what Apple wrote -- somehow I'm guessing this isn't what the court had in mind. From http://www.apple.com/uk/legal-judgement/ : Samsung / Apple UK judgment On 9th July 2012 the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled that S
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by masnick 14y ago
Agreed...do you have any idea how effective the big job boards are? In my experience (one post for a somewhat weird job), we didn't get any hits from the big boards. Is there any sort of public reporting/metrics for the effectiveness of the
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by masnick 14y ago
I just saw your email! I wish I knew more about the UK job scene....I'm in the US so I don't have any personal experience there. Are the big job boards the same there? (I'd guess Github, StackOverflow, 37s, angellist are the big established

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