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by willwagner 17y ago
Thanks, we'll get it in the next update. FWIW, the url it is supposed to go to is: http://www.boomtango.com/plugins.shtml
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by willwagner 17y ago
Thanks for the comments; both spot on. I have to say that I've put screencasts in the category of "easier said than done". What I thought would be a simple exercise turned into a grueling marathon one night trying to get 2 minutes worth o
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by willwagner 17y ago
In haste, I guess we didn't read the fine print. Lesson learned. I'll remove it from the site tonight and figure out a better way of displaying that content directly.
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by willwagner 17y ago
uggh. That's a bug. We'll fix it in the next update. We don't change the default throbber; not sure what might be going on with that but I'll take a look.
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by willwagner 17y ago
That's something we're definitely considering. One idea that we've been noodling on is to add a downloadable app that managed all your storage and had a simple http rest api. Then in the extension, you could optionally point to that inste
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by willwagner 17y ago
I haven't installed it, but from looking at the docs, I think there are couple major differences. One is that we provide a UI with several views that let's you slice and dice your way into finding the content you are looking for. For insta
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by willwagner 17y ago
It's not mentioned anywhere on the site, but it does do that. Unfortunately, the browser history doesn't contain as much data as boomtango tracks (the full content of the page, any information we grab off the dom, thumbnail previews) etc.
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by willwagner 17y ago
Hi, For a long time, I've griped that the browser history system is old and neglected, but given some love, could potentially be a powerful tool. A lot of my web searches are for content that I have seen in the past, and while browser hist
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Ask HN: Review our app, Boomtango(boomtango.com)
57 points by willwagner 17y ago|34 comments
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by willwagner 17y ago
When looking at Ask.com compared to Google, Ask looks like a failure, but I wouldn't mind being the Ask.com of online video guides. It's still one of the top 50 sites worldwide (according to Alexa at least), with a fraction of the employees
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by willwagner 17y ago
We noticed this after finding an error in our apache config such that some of our assets were set to be cached longer than we really wanted (30 days), much to our chagrin. It turned out that even though you tell the browser to keep somethi
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by willwagner 17y ago
I liked manywaffles.com so much I purchased it! You are a jibber-jabber naming guru. Thanks!
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by willwagner 17y ago
open -a finder <dir> is a pretty handy way to open a finder window to current directory.
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by willwagner 17y ago
The RGB thing also drives me completely crazy to the point that I have started muttering obscenities under my breath like a mad man every time I see one.
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by willwagner 17y ago
I wondered how long he was on the waiting list ever since the news broke. From my own naive lack of understanding, I wouldn't have guessed you could get a diagnosis, get on the waiting list, get a transplant, and be back to work in 6 month
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by willwagner 17y ago
Reid Hoffman from Linkedin isn't skinny (not sure if he was when he founded linkedin though)
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by willwagner 17y ago
If you are in the sf bay area and want to try freshly roasted beans, I highly recommend ritual roasters ( http://www.ritualroasters.com/ ) in the mission district of SF, or if you are in the south bay, barefoot coffee ( http://www.barefootc
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by willwagner 17y ago
I see your point; I misread it first time around. From a security point of view for user content, nodeValue is a much better approach.
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by willwagner 17y ago
I'm confused by this comment. I don't think you can shove arbitrary html into a nodeValue, although you can do it with innerHTML. Using your example, this works fine: e.innerHTML = "Hello & world, here's some HTML <span>Some h
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by willwagner 17y ago
I think you mean Eric Meyer and the book Cascading Style Sheets, The Definitive Guide ( http://meyerweb.com/eric/books/css-tdg/ ). I really like this book and highly recommmend it. It hasn't converted me into a CSS fanatic, but it has help
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by willwagner 18y ago
Interesting article. I don't doubt that stress can limit creativity, but from my own experience, some stress seems to make me more productive. At times, a little deadline pressure is a good motivating force, and I find it easier for me to
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by willwagner 18y ago
FWIW, I really love my Acer Aspire One which I've been using for 6 months or so. I'm not an active Hulu user but I did just give it a try and watched about 5 minutes of Family Guy without incident; your mileage may vary. Originally, I pic
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by willwagner 18y ago
While we're talking about the command line and bash, can someone recommend a decent book on the topic? I've been spending a lot of time these days on the command line grepping and chopping up our log files looking for trends and bugs, and
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by willwagner 18y ago
I agree that it's a terrible way to introduce someone to a new language, but I have to admit, when I have to help out on some Win32 C++ project, it sure is handy for helping to shake the rust off and save time. For me, it's not the languag
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by willwagner 18y ago
I loved that book for so many reasons, but one in particular is the appendices which cover the bad parts of JavaScript. Coming from a C++ background, I had a few WTF moments early on coming up to speed with JavaScript and it was a catharti
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by willwagner 18y ago
The odds can vary a bit on where the hole is located and what kind of grass is next to the hole. When you are looking at these averages they are hitting a golf ball on to a green, which typically is rather soft and allows the ball to stop
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by willwagner 18y ago
I've worked at places that have done this sort of thing too. We basically dropped css and js files in new directory with the svn rev number which made it very easy to deploy and break through the client side cache. The urls would be someth
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by willwagner 18y ago
I'm not a CSS purist by any means but I think heavy use of nested tables can be a real hassle for the visually impaired. I think if you find yourself putting a table within a table strictly for layout, you should at least consider other alt
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by willwagner 18y ago
They work with the Sales team to give technical support and advice to potential customers before they buy a product. It's not a fun job IMHO unless you are technical and like to travel a lot.