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alecsmart1

261 karma · joined April 10, 2013

Want to get in touch? Email me at alecsmart@bigfoot.com
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alecsmart1··on JotForm Integration Apps: Promote your app to 1 million JotForm users
What kind of apps will be suitable for JotForm? Any suggestions on what I should create? Do you have a payment option like Wix?
alecsmart1··on HN Notify
Maybe that's the case. But as a new user, I find it very difficult to keep track of comments. Let alone any other standard social features that you expect from a community based site. Have a look at SO and see how friendly it is in comparison. HN even throttles link posts for new users; it's quite frustrating. When I post links from certain IPs (presumably because of my country), they don't get posted at all. The same links posted using a US based IP go through.
alecsmart1··on Show HN: Bucky – Monitoring Client-side Performance
Would this add to load times on client end? Anyone know what kinda of delay do tools like these, NewRelic etc. add on the users browsing experience?
alecsmart1··on Lessons Learned While Crawling the Web
The title is misleading. It should be "Lessons learned about web crawlers while crawling the web"
alecsmart1··on LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service
Can you please elaborate on the money back guarantee?
alecsmart1··on GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala
Am truly impressed with this project. For those who are looking for screenshots-

http://takezoe.blogspot.jp/2013/09/gitbucket-15-released.htm...

It's a near clone of GH.

alecsmart1··on LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service
You would probably want to know that when you Google "leadgenius" or "lead genius", your site does not show in the first 20 results (atleast). You may want to improve your SEO, if you want to be found. It took me a good ten minutes but not before reaching another similar site- leadsgenie.us
alecsmart1··on The Bonehead Mistake That Brought Down an Online Drug-Dealing Empire
This is just horrible journalism. Exactly what I'd expect from a motion picture movie for a dumbed down audience. Definitely not HN top worthy.
alecsmart1··on The hacker's guide to acquiring the first 1,000 users: Twitter
Any cached links? The site's down due to HN effect.
alecsmart1··on Instagram Stabbing Itself By Leaving Twitter Cards Off
I agree. The new iOS7 has built in filters when using the default camera app. It was only a matter of time before others caught up with it. Not that Instragram offers any mind shattering feature.
alecsmart1··on Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free
Since you mentioned crappy provider, I would like to add that there is an illusion of choice when it comes to SSL certificates. When I was purchasing an SSL certificate, I researched many and after speaking to the same sales rep on multiple sites, I realized they are all the same company. To quote-

Symantec’s family of dominant SSL brands includes VeriSign, GeoTrust, Thawte, RapidSSL and TC Trust Center.

They own about 70% of the certificates, all priced differently to give you an illusion of choice. So if one provider is crappy, their support is the same; and thus they are all crappy.

alecsmart1··on Funniest Reviews
Any links for this study?
alecsmart1··on IOS7 throws an error for fake power cables
Am curious how they find this out? Am happy they don't disable charging altogether and instead only display a warning.
alecsmart1··on Gmail Favicon Issues
I noticed this about a week back in our business account. If you view the page source, the favicon actually points to a favicon in a your company's folder (for Google Apps). I have a feeling they will allow us to customize the icon shortly from their admin panel.
alecsmart1··on Funniest Reviews
I am curious as to what effect do these reviews have on sales. Some of them rate the product 1 star as part of the joke bringing down the overall rating of the product. Anyone know if that reduces their sales?
alecsmart1··on Apple’s iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend
Fair enough.
alecsmart1··on Apple’s iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend
Check this also. It's old but personally knowing fan boys, I know they would act exactly like this- http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIWKytq_q4
alecsmart1··on Apple’s iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend
This video sums it all up: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oprUI6nupfc
alecsmart1··on Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID
Agreed. But they always blow it out of proportion. As if the existing fingerprint systems are extremely insecure and theirs is not. The truth is they are all the same- insecure.
alecsmart1··on Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs
I don't understand how changing the design adds to functionality. Instead of giving a new half baked look, Apple could have concentrated on adding features to its existing look. Flat design is good but like most things its just a phase. Why not add background downloading etc. to the current design. From design point if view iOS 6 is fairly good and very consistent.
alecsmart1··on IE11 Release Preview for Windows 7: 30% Faster than Other Browsers
Yes, IE6/7/8 really need to go. I don't know why they can't force update everyone similar to Chrome.
alecsmart1··on GitHub announces 3D File Diffs
Wow. I din't know it actually existed.
alecsmart1··on Dploy.io - Ship code from GitHub, Bitbucket or SVN/Git repo
Am really confused. Why is a service like this needed? For example, I can use git-ftp to sync between Git and FTP. I can use Amazon's SDK to sync between Git and their services. I've been actively using both and they work brilliantly. Am sure the same can be done for other services as well. So why would I want something like this for $29/mo?
alecsmart1··on GitHub announces 3D File Diffs
Reminds me of a scene from Jurassic Park.
alecsmart1··on Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched
Just put ?share=1 at the end of any Quora link to view the full page without any login.
alecsmart1··on Ask HN: A decent bug tracker service to incorporate in website
You can have a look at ZenOpinion. Its paid but I used it on my site and its opensource so I could hack it to my needs.
alecsmart1··on Made for iOS 7 - A directory of app designs and icons updated for iOS 7
Oh a fanboy...
alecsmart1··on Ask HN: Best laptop/computer, OS, IDE/text editor for development?
Maybe I don't follow the trends exactly, but I use-

Windows 8 EditPlus

alecsmart1··on How I sent 300k emails through Github's API in a matter of minutes
The author has posted the article in the comments. Read the third or fourth comment.
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