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Why not set a forward filter based on the subject on your end?

Been doing that for years...

_pdeschenon Ask HN: Best payment processor?

Interesting overview. What about Stripe?

_pdeschenon Ask HN: PC I can buy today to add/make Hackintosh?

Have you considered virtualization? Before adopting OSX, I went the virtualization route myself 4 years ago. I know it works on vmware (at least for me back then with vmw player running on Dell Linux laptop).

It probably depends on your requirements. YMMV

If you're going through this to save a few hundreds, get a mba refurbished.

_pdeschenon How I designed a doc-based collaboration interface

Thanks!

_pdeschenon How I designed a doc-based collaboration interface

Wondering what is the wireframe tool used?

_pdeschenon Pricing Principles

But then you dont get data about how much someone is willing to pay. Why not at least have your pricing table and underneath each pricing package, a signup for free call to action button with their own href anchor ( /signup#gold ) to track within google anyltics or something? This way even though people so sign up for free you'll gain a bit of knowledge about which package they clicked on and as a side effect the potential intend. Not perfect but better then no metrics.

_pdeschenon Why I don’t like Maven

Gradle does generates pom.

_pdeschenon Boostrap retro theme Geo

Nice execution.

I'm sure some folks in here are too young to remember those days...

_pdeschenon Why Everyone Eventually Hates or Leaves Maven

Hum? Groovy?

_pdeschenon Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS

Try landscape mode.

_pdeschenon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2012)

You don't have any contact in your profile.

_pdeschenon The Future of Markdown

https://raw.github.com/gist/3956665/d549ea53817335c868e750ca...

How can this be harder than creating table with Word? Word always gets in the way. Word appears to be easier but down the road, it always end up as a painful process.

For me just the benefit of being mergable and delegating styling at the end of the tool chain is just plain great.

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables

Edit: rendering issues!

_pdeschenon The Future of Markdown

A BNF grammar would be nice to start with.

IMHO, pandoc markdown support is the mother of all implement featuring lots of goodies (table and footnote to name 2)

_pdeschenon Extend Twitter Bootstrap with these Bootstrap Form Helpers

Btw if you're interested in a complementing piece of code, I have a small library [1] would give you the country for a given phone number (e164), so it could be used to prefill a default country value. It's not returning ISO code but I was planning on adding such feature.

[1]: https://github.com/pdeschen/e164.js

_pdeschenon Stripe's New Recurring Billing Features

Thanks for the info. I just went on their support chat room to let them know and a few milliseconds (literally) I received an invite! Sweet

_pdeschenon Stripe's New Recurring Billing Features

Really? You actually register for a Canadian account?

_pdeschenon Introducing human.io

Unartificial intelligence automation for the masses

_pdeschenon New High I/O EC2 Instance Type - hi1.4xlarge - 2 TB of SSD-Backed Storage

We use ec2 within our telecom infrastructure which manages peaks of several thousands of calls with full duplex call recording on (think IO here) We are using the elasticity of ec2 to scale on demand.

This kind of instance is a nice addition for us as far as our auto scaling is concerned.

_pdeschenon Using Spotlight from the OS X Commandline

Indeed. Moreover, I only want to update my jdk when Im ready and have some free time to repair my jdk 1.5 symlinks once the update completes.

_pdeschenon Using Spotlight from the OS X Commandline

It's nice to have access to such UI components from the command line.

One of my favorite is pbpaste/pbcopy.

What's yours?

_pdeschenon Preview for GitHub Markup - need some feedback

Github own Gollum [1] maybe?

[1]:https://github.com/github/gollum/

_pdeschenon Backbone UI

Good to hear folks are interested in such combination. Currently working on such implementation currently dubbed backstrap. Might release it sometimes soon.

_pdeschenon Why are Apple laptops becoming harder to take apart?

To put the car analogy straigth I would compare changing the tires with replacing the power adapter. I'm not interested in adding a turbo in my outback like I'm not interested in adding more ram in my laptop.

Happy MBA convert after 15 years of Linux/pc.

_pdeschenon Using git and github to manage your dotfiles

.ssh or .ec2 or any other api keys set as env within .bashrc comes to mind.

_pdeschenon Why my company doesn't send automated email from a 'noreply' address

noreply@ adds friction because it doesn't invite to communicate. I don't know about you but I, for myself, want to communicate with my customer to get feedback as fast as possible. 2 real life example:

* I once sent a email to my customers about an upcoming maintenance window informing them that our platform would not be available for a certain time period. I got one customer quickly replying "next time, please let us know 1 week ahead" Point noted. Now I send my maintenance notice 1 week ahead. Happy customer.

* We have this automatic billing system which sends an invoice through email following payment. I had a customer once replying saying "Hey. That amount should be x+y instead of just x". Point noted. Shit happens and I wanna know.

Yes those customers could have reached us through our website or something but my point is, why not offer them the chance to hit reply? It's so close!

Also, If you don't have a good ticket system to skim through those incoming replies quickly, maybe you should get one. It pays back rapidly.

Your milage may vary.

[edit: formatting]

_pdeschenon Why my company doesn't send automated email from a 'noreply' address

Because you want frictionless feedback with your customer. The less friction the more feedback.

Have this address forwarded to your ticket system.

That's a no brainer.

_pdeschenon Startups, Fix Your "From" Field

I had a short blog post on the subject [1] a while back which got up to the HN front page. I think content is still relevant if you care to read.

[1]: http://blog.rassemblr.com/2011/01/user-registration-follow-u...

_pdeschenon If programming languages were vehicles, what would they look like?

I think a ghostbusters kindof ambulance would suit better. It can go really fast in urgent situations but it looks weird and not everyone can drive it.

http://images2.makefive.com/images/entertainment/other/top-5...

_pdeschenon Backend-as-a-service for web apps?

More specifically CouchApps [1] which can handle not only the DB part but also side things like serving ressources, authentication, validation, replication,... No silver bullet but interesting nevertheless.

1: http://couchapp.org/page/index

_pdeschenon WebSockets RFC is now official

gps service? checked!

Well kind of. Last summer I did a road trip to newfoundland (canada) with a laptop, a gps and a webcam onboard [1]. The idea was to have people (friends and family) to follow our trip through a website to which I pushed webcam frames and gps coordinate in real time using websocket (socket.io) over my smarthphone. It was fun!

[1]: http://blog.rassemblr.com/2011/07/how-to-hack-a-road-trip-wi...