mcobrien

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Need Some Part Time Work? Use Your iPhone(gigaom.com)
2 points by mcobrien 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcobrien 15y ago
From the comments at Quora, this presentation is great (and dated this month): http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Infrastructure-at-Faceboo...
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by mcobrien 15y ago
I think acangiano was referring to the current Facebook claim ( http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-lawsuit-paul-ceglia-... ).
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by mcobrien 16y ago
If you want https you can install from github: curl https://github.com/37signals/pow/raw/master/install.sh | sh
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Unfortunately, Google just doesn't know enough about my social graph to make this much more than a noisy list of strangers and site owners trying to game the system. They say they "may" "soon" incorporate your connections on sites "like" Tw
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by mcobrien 16y ago
According to the blog post, "if you’re looking for a new pasta recipe, we’ll show you +1’s from your culinary genius college roommate." From the example, what you see is "Laura Delaney +1'd this", so at the very least you can evaluate the "
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by mcobrien 16y ago
That's how you (and I) use search, but a huge number of people search for the same things every day. We use the location bar or bookmarks, but a lot of people just google, then click the first link. These people see the same results again a
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by mcobrien 16y ago
I use bash aliases for the same thing: alias gs='git status' alias gc='git commit -m' alias gca='git commit -a -m' alias gd='git diff' I spend most of my time with gs and gd, then usually gca my changes all at once, or add those I want and
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Encoding video is a complex process and the professionals who prepare movies for the iTunes store have better algorithms and will tweak options for better, smoother playback. I'm not sure about the DRM, but algorithmically it's probably a l
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by mcobrien 16y ago
They're in pretty much every major supermarket in the UK and Ireland.
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IPhone Unit Testing Part 1: Writing the first test(recursiveawesome.com)
2 points by mcobrien 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcobrien 16y ago
I add an awesome bar and I have more stuff in the pipeline. Atomic is a more complicated browser than Switch or Safari. It's a great app, but not for everyone.
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by mcobrien 16y ago
That's awesome feedback, thanks! I agree with pretty much everything - my plan is to have a lot more on the site (which is based on a theme I bought), but I also wanted to release early and iterate. Sounds like I have some iterating to do,
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by mcobrien 16y ago
I like the name but tbh it means nothing without a logo and it's obviously distracting so I've changed the site for now. How do you think it looks now?
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by mcobrien 16y ago
I've thought about it -- it's not difficult to port iPad apps to other iOS devices -- I guess it depends on demand. People are more likely to share iPads of course, but for hackers the other things you can use Switch for (juggling site logi
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by mcobrien 16y ago
"In general references, don’t use an article. When referring to the user’s particular iPhone, it’s OK to use your." from (pdf) http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExp...
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by mcobrien 16y ago
I'm cringing. That was a mistake, fixed.
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Thanks! You're right - the icon does need work. I wanted to avoid using a globe, but maybe clarity > everything.
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Thanks for the suggestions! I've changed the main heading on the page. I'll have to look into making the name more prominent too.
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Here's the sort-of: it's a multi-user web browser rather than full fast-user switching but (at least for me), that's 90% the same thing. It's implemented with some nice UI and cookie swapping.
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Show HN: my new app is fast user switching for the iPad (sort-of)(mechanicalteeth.com)
38 points by mcobrien 16y ago|25 comments
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Don't talk to cops http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Wow, I hadn't checked Prgrmr's rates in a while. Their smallest is now $5 for 64MB of ram, and for $20 you get 1GB. http://prgmr.com/xen/
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Boy was U2's first album, so the sentence suggests Edge was using delay before he started recording U2 songs.
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Why should I firewall servers?(serverfault.com)
47 points by mcobrien 16y ago|15 comments
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by mcobrien 16y ago
So many I wouldn't know where to start. Databases have had not-null constraints for years, but an accurate model often means having null values. A better improvement would be to handle null references better - Rails' whiny_nil support is gr
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Like you, I get nothing from it but I know salespeople who couldn't live without it. Want to get a meeting with someone at X corp? Try LinkedIn. That line went cold? Get back on LinkedIn and find someone else. Great for finding prospects yo
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by mcobrien 16y ago
The embedded PNG is used for the scaled up "PNG side", the rest is SVG.
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Which was almost certainly price anchoring by Apple. If they leak to anyone, it's the WSJ.
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by mcobrien 16y ago
It seems a good way to prevent backlash is to deploy over a period of weeks. Before I got newtwitter I mostly ignored what other people were saying about it. Now if I complain it's old news.

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