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by mjackson 13y ago
Hum is able to both send and receive emails. People who receive stuff you send over email will be able to reply using the usual reply button, but it's not a full-fledged email client. The email integration is there to make it easy for
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by mjackson 13y ago
You make some excellent points about using email in a support organization. To be fair though, Hum isn't designed to be used by employees in a call center. Instead, Hum addresses a much more fundamental shift in communication patterns
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by mjackson 13y ago
Hey all! Co-founder of HUM here, and happy to answer any questions you may have about it. We've been cranking away on this product for the better part of the past year and are very excited to be rolling it out over the coming weeks.
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by mjackson 13y ago
Huge congrats Sam! I think this move makes a lot of sense for a lot of reasons. You've been cranking out some really great stuff lately. Best of luck to you and YC!
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Bouncy Balls physics simulation using your microphone(bouncyballs.org)
3 points by mjackson 13y ago|0 comments
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A Readable Wikipedia(blog.weare1910.com)
1 points by mjackson 13y ago|0 comments
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by mjackson 13y ago
On a project that I'm working I recently converted a ~260 line Rakefile into ~150 lines of gulp ... and our build is now almost instantaneous (took a few seconds to do with Ruby, mainly because we had to shell out to things like the le
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Procrastination is a Mindfulness Problem(zenhabits.net)
2 points by mjackson 13y ago|0 comments
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by mjackson 13y ago
Thanks! :D
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by mjackson 13y ago
Please, you can make your point without profaning the name of Jesus Christ, a man whom many of us worship and who is dear to our hearts. To use the name of any sacred personage in this manner, as an expletive, conveys a lack of understandin
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by mjackson 13y ago
I actually built this page a few years ago when I was working at Twitter during a hack day (bonus points if you can find the easter egg!). It's fun to see it on HN again. Anyone who is interested in Twitter's current open source c
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by mjackson 13y ago
The very next post on this blog is all about ... drum roll ... a custom framework that the moot team built, after deciding to not use any frameworks. https://moot.it/blog/technology/riotjs-the-1kb-mvp-framework..
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FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate (2004)(newsroom.ucla.edu)
30 points by mjackson 13y ago|10 comments
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by mjackson 13y ago
> The real problem is the core NodeJS libraries aren't promise compliant. This isn't a problem at all in practice. To say that node core is not "promise compliant" gives people the idea that there is something that pr
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by mjackson 13y ago
Very well said. One thing I might add for others who read this is that many of Ember's design patterns are modeled after Cocoa, which has proven to be one of the world's most robust platforms for building apps. If you're fami
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by mjackson 13y ago
They're selling 70M shares, aiming to raise approx. $1.8B. However, there are over 700M fully diluted shares. At $26 a piece this makes a total valuation of $18B.
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by mjackson 13y ago
There isn't very much to see here, if anything. A few meaningless microbenchmarks, and some "plain old JavaScript objects" that hijack jQuery's event subsystem so they can emit events just like DOM elements. We've b
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by mjackson 13y ago
> Because static type analysis allows you to develop more accurate code faster and with lower maintenance cost. This statement may be true for you, but it's not for everyone. It's a dangerous argument because it assumes that st
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by mjackson 13y ago
> As much as I love JavaScript, there are just some things I don’t want written in JavaScript – my shopping cart, for example. After developing almost exclusively in JavaScript for the better part of the past year (and doing a lot more i
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by mjackson 13y ago
I don't ever write code like this personally. The multiple levels make it more difficult to reason about, IMO.
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by mjackson 13y ago
For the curious, the equivalent example from the OP using promises[1]: function getUserFriends(userName) { return db.users.findOne({ name: userName }).then(function (user) { return db.friends.find({ userId: user.id }); });
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by mjackson 13y ago
This is brilliant stuff. And yes, it's satire. Wish I could upvote a bazillion times.
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by mjackson 13y ago
My favorite: http://instantdomainsearch.com Includes the ability to save and encrypt searches, links to whois data, as well as alternative names based on similar spelling.
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Glowing CSS-only spinner animation(codepen.io)
2 points by mjackson 13y ago|0 comments
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by mjackson 13y ago
This post does not contain a single criticism that indicates a fatal flaw in the platform. Design flaws and analytics can all be improved. What he fails to mention is how Medium is actually moving web publishing forward. It's not suppo
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by mjackson 13y ago
Browsing around ansible's website, I found the "quickstart" link. From that page[0]: > We’ve recorded a free 2-hour presentation designed to ... Wait. The quickstart presentation is 2 hours?! Looking for an easier way to g
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by mjackson 13y ago
Short, sweet, and to the point. Thanks!
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by mjackson 13y ago
This was submitted way too early (some of the pages are still "lorem ipsum" placeholders), but it's still cool. Looks like the author is basically using V8 to script Redis, similar to how Lua can be used [1] to script it alre
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by mjackson 13y ago
High five for the Heroku API designer who decided to use the Accept header to indicate the acceptable format and version of the response. This is the way to design HTTP APIs. Instead, most companies put the version number in the URL and use
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Google's g_editable HTML attribute(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by mjackson 13y ago|0 comments

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