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eekfuh··on Poll: What database does your company use?
Postgres and Redis for one thing and mysql for the other.
eekfuh··on Buy Newegg gear using Bitcoin
Good to know there are other Utahns using bitcoin than just me :D
eekfuh··on Technical Co-founders Are Overrated
As a technical co-founder myself, I first read the title and thought "Oh, cute... look at them trying so hard!" but then I read the article and it has some good valuable information,.

Sidenote: I should share this to everyone who tries to get me to join their "$1b idea" companies and the ones willing enough to follow that article might actually get somewhere.

eekfuh··on [dead]
To me, it sounds like while its sending the BTC to you and the blockchain is being built/verified, the client somehow puts your wallet.dat in a limbo state where it doesn't have the correct data in it.

(I am not 100% how bitcoin works, but that's how I read it)

eekfuh··on A tale of two apps by the same name in Mac App Store
I agree. Using a common dictionary word as the name of your app is going to have this problem. Look at the mobile App Store and you'll see many apps with the same name (with different punctuation at the end).

These guys didn't stumble upon to something new, it's been there since the early days of the iOS App Store.

eekfuh··on Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS
Defending myself against the down voters:

The fact is, I am a webos developer and have been asking for this feature since 2009. It's been in webkit for the longest time and Palm have said they'll add it in, many times and never have. Major let down.

eekfuh··on Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS
#7: You can try cutting edge stuff.

Yet you can't even do css background gradients. Real cutting edge.

eekfuh··on How Dead is WebOS?
Ben, we love you guys, but we feel that you spend too much time with EA, GameLoft and probably Rovio, and not enough with us little guys. Maybe thats whats caused some me to get so distant, worsening the effect.

In all reality, thats business. A company that was driving only a few thousand dollars of revenue a month isn't all the important compared to the ones probably doing 10-100x that. :|

eekfuh··on How Dead is WebOS?
I actually haven't. Once my revenue dropped below $1k a month from WebOS, I basically stopped adding new features and moved over to my iphone stuffs. I make over $1k on iPhone and growing quickly, gotta love the power of 100m users (vs 1.5m shrinking set of users).
eekfuh··on How Dead is WebOS?
Node.js is only available for WebOS 2.0 (~90% of people are on older versions of WebOS).
eekfuh··on How Dead is WebOS?
It's not really about the language, it was more about the API's available. I write iPhone apps also and the frameworks that Apple has developed are far superior and far more reaching than anything Palm/HP has done.

Their API's available to the browser extensions are basically just opengl related.

eekfuh··on How Dead is WebOS?
I've developed a fairly well known (to the webos community) application. I had a top 10 app in Palm's million dollar contest. I've been on their print and web promotional tools and featured several times in their app catalog... yet I feel and felt that HP and Palm both have dropped the ball when it has come to developing for WebOS. They have terrible, poorly documented API's.

I think its all fine and dandy that they have semi-rewarded me with some free advertising, but as a developer, I really only care about writing a killer app and if there is no way to do certain things, or making me write a C++ browser extension just to properly cURL data, well its just not worth my time.

Being able to phonegap applications will help their count, but most developers know, those apps never feel purely native and the apps typically are extremely low powered, unintelligent apps.

I think that accounting for all that might be more of a recipe for disaster. Poor usability and a lack of strong apps, except for the occasional game (written in C++ as a browser plugin so they can opengl).

eekfuh··on New iPhone app identifies trees from photos of their leaves
Does this use any type of location lookup? I wonder how beneficial that would be, either look at the persons location if they use the cam or grab it out of the exif data, so that you can better determine the tree by where it of could be grown.
eekfuh··on Track Amazon.com price drops with Firefox and Chrome addon
Been using camelcamelcamel.com for this. They have great FF and Chrome plugins that can display graphs of the price over time of products on amazon pages. Also can email alert you when price drops.
eekfuh··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011)
You bought a domain from me! (thisorth.at)

Good luck in your endeavors!

eekfuh··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011)
Wow that is a big stack spread.
eekfuh··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011)
South Jordan, Utah

Looking for Kernel Developers, Linux Systems Developers, PHP/UX Developers and a GD/UX Lead.

www.soleranetworks.com

eekfuh··on Vico Editor (Mac text editor)
Ctrl-D and Ctrl-U are probably one of the most used commands I use as well. This is a must.
eekfuh··on If You’re Going To Kill It, Open Source It
I did that late last year with one of my WebOS apps. I don't have the time to keep it updated and the rev went from ~$700 a month to ~$200 so I MIT'd it on GitHub then announced it on twitter. So far a few forks, but no one has really taken and ran with it.
eekfuh··on Actual JavaScript Engine Performance
Now who is going to mix this with DOM manipulation, so we can actually see how the end-user is effected.

If the JS engine is crazy fast and the DOM renderer blows, it won't make a bit of difference, unless it's purpose is as a server technology.

eekfuh··on Lorempixum: Generate placeholder images (not just gray boxes)
Gotta say, I love the domain.
eekfuh··on Plain Text Offenders - Did you just email me back my own password?
Toms.com sends you your password after you signup, which is retarded since YOU JUST entered it into their system.
eekfuh··on The Unpaid Intern, Legal or Not
I thought this article would be beneficial to the many who are pursuing an internship. Interns should know their rights and that most of the time, if working for for-profit company, they should be paid.
eekfuh··on Poll: How much do you average per freelancing gig?
Yes that is me. Its mobile and user interface web stuff.
eekfuh··on Poll: How much do you average per freelancing gig?
It would be even more interesting if we could factor in location as well. I live in Utah and $125 hourly is decent, but in SV it is probably rock bottom.
eekfuh··on Poll: How much do you average per freelancing gig?
I rarely do anything below $5k (at $125 per hour with discounts on bigger projects or past clients that treated me well).

Since this all side stuff, after my 9-5 job, I'm very picky on what I take in, since I like to work on products that I have 'real' input in.

eekfuh··on Hotz fires a powerful blast back at Sony's California jurisdictional claims
Well if you love music or movies, you can easily avoid PAYING for their products.
eekfuh··on AT&T trying to crackdown on unauth. tethering
There are 3rd party web browsers on the appstore and though would trigger false-positives, so they probably would't use UA.
eekfuh··on On the 100x Price Rise of a Formerly Generic Drug
This reminds me of albuterol for asthema. I used to get it generic for $4. Now its $45+ with my insurance, since its no longer available as a generic.

I now have to purchase Ventolin, which is no different medication wise, just the inhaler is different.

eekfuh··on 8.9 earthquake hits Japan
Zynga in japan: http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/199150_899666...

and they are still working apparently

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