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> They likely didn't have a choice

Probably, but I've read Gruber's piece twice and I couldn't help but feel as if the talk was held by a bunch of young geeks coming from a Kickstarter project.

Maybe that's an Apple's new approach at PR but it sounds like they tried to downplay the impact of bad management that ultimately led to a failure that must have cost them millions.

gabrieleon Redis as a JSON store

This is a welcome addition. I expected JSON to become a first class citizens in REDISland for quite some time. In fact, REDIS has always been my goto store for JSON data. In 2013 I created a microservice[0] for accessing JSON data stored in native REDIS lists[1] via HTTP(S).

[0]https://github.com/boilerplatecode/redis-wsgi

[1]https://redis.io/topics/data-types#lists

gabrieleon HyperDev: deployment, hosting and collaborative editing for web apps

will you allow changing the project urls to custom ones or even allow custom domains?

gabrieleon JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference

according to Spring's documentation[1]:

@Autowired is fundamentally about type-driven injection

If you replace:

    @Autowired
    FooDao fooDao;

with something like:

    @Autowired
    var fooDao;

I'm pretty sure type-driven injection breaks.

[1] https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-...

gabrieleon JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference

I expect this breaking a few things in fields injection (a la Spring @Autowired[1]) if implemented.

[1] https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/spring-...

gabrieleon Draft.js – Rich Text Editor Framework for React

maybe this is a hint that they're going to introduce rich text for posting soon

(disclaimer: I've been out of Facebook for a while so they may have introduced that feature already)

gabrieleon Why Twitter has run into trouble

I think Twitter is in a different position because Yahoo! has never build a bi-directional connection between producers and consumers. Obviously, that's not limited to media and ads companies. Any kind of industry is investing in PR.

I believe Twitter could succeed as a PR company but will probably fail as a tech company.

gabrieleon Why Twitter has run into trouble

To my knowledge, Yahoo! has always been led by some tech geek from the Valley, too.

gabrieleon Why Twitter has run into trouble

They needed to really hire non SF based techno geeks and advisors

Twitter should be led by someone who is strong in PR. PR is where Twitter has excelled most. I believe neither Jack Dorsey nor Dick Costolo are even known outside of the tech industry, how can they manage a PR product if people barely knows them? Even Scooble would be a better fit than Jack Dorsey. If I were Twitter I'd put in charge some well known public figure with connections in the media and movies industries.

gabrieleon Dear GitHub

I have an account that is only for private repos and I don't want that account to appear on search engines for my real name.

I also have a public account that I use for contributing to public projects so it could also help to avoid duplicate accounts in search results.

All accounts should be searchable for username/real name with GitHub's search anyway.

gabrieleon Dear GitHub

GitHub pretty please, give us an option to hide our profile from search engines just like Facebook do.

gabrieleon iOS 9.3 Preview

I can't believe that's [1] the best low-light picture they could find for their flagship mobile OS preview page. It doesn't even add anything to the story:

   Night Shift uses your iOS device’s clock and geolocation to determine when it’s sunset in your location. Then it automatically shifts the colors in your display to the warmer end of the spectrum, making it easier on your eyes.

[1] https://www.apple.com/v/ios/preview/a/images/preview/blr_her...

gabrieleon How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)

I believe the Internet Archive is much less clear in this regard than public search engines. IA doesn't even have a clear takedown policy and no webmaster tools in place to give owners control on the archived content. Their crowler does obey to robots.txt rules but if you want content to be removed permanently you have to ask politely by email and in my experience they simply block the site urls from being searched but they don't make clear at all if content was actually removed from their servers.

gabrieleon Indoor Google Street View of the British Museum

The HDR effect on those images is gross. Also, the white balance looks way off (blueish) to my eyes. I'd say that the overall image quality is not very good with reflections and poor resolution that severely limit the view of details. Such a pity given the value of the assets on display and the incredible opportunity of accessing them with this tool.

gabrieleon Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown

they're from the same dev [1]. dunno how they stack up against each other.

[1] https://twitter.com/benweet

gabrieleon Fukushima

a huge dump site near the ocean [1] doesn't look like the best idea.

[1] http://www.podniesinski.pl/portal/fukushima/#attachment_9454

gabrieleon 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

Cloudfuse [1] allows you to mount remote OpenStack Storage. You'll need to tweak with the ~/.cloudfuse config file. I haven't tested it though.

[1] http://redbo.github.io/cloudfuse/

gabrieleon 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

Seems to be based on OpenStack [1] Storage [2]. That means any client that supports OpenStack (and Rackspace Cloud Files [3], for that matter) like Cyberduck [4] and a lot more should already be compatible with hubiC.

[1] http://www.openstack.org/

[2] https://api.hubic.com/

[3] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/openstack

[4] http://cyberduck.ch

gabrieleon [dead]

This is the first time I have seen this message. I'm on a semi-public Wi-Fi Network (campus).

gabrieleon Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

I double that. It's slow, clunky and unnecessarily heavy. That's why most of my contacts have already switched to other platforms. Talk for Android 4, that added support for multiple accounts, was just good enough.

gabrieleon What you can do with the Gimp

The Gimp finally supporting [1] a 16-bit workflow could make its way to pro photo retouching.

[1] https://plus.google.com/116634837115748851709/posts/hY3orKUQ...

gabrieleon Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire

nice read. It's also worth mentioning that James Hamilton's personal website [1] has been hosted by Godaddy ever since, including the domain's name servers.

[1] http://mvdirona.com

gabrieleon So what happened to the HN server?

original pg's announcement:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229364

gabrieleon The Linux Setup, Noah Lorang, 37signals

you just can use Vim with blowfish encryption [1]. that's easy, secure and portable.

[1] http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Encryption

gabrieleon LiveDrive terminates Backify contract, users don't have access to their backup

how much storage do you get with an inexpensive VPS? Is that enough to backup all the data you care the most?

gabrieleon The Real Reason Italy Sucks at the Startup Game

the banking system of the eurozone (continental europe) is very conservative and not keen on risk. there's nothing that resemble venture capitalism in the old continent (with the notable exception of the UK which is a member of the Commonwealth). I think that the european system is more secure for private wealth (I assumed that having seen what happened to some banks in the US in 2008) but it's showing its weakness these days because it's putting entire countries on their knees.

gabrieleon Lamer News

antirez is not new to this. he created one of the first Digg/Reddit inspired news site in Italy back in 2005 or 2006. I beleive that was originally built in PHP/MySql and recently ported to Redis as the main database. The entire project was aquired by one of the largest italian internet companies around 2006 or 2007 and it's now hosted at http://oknotizie.virgilio.com

As far as I know, that project was never made open source. You can find other early projects from antirez here http://merzia.com/

gabrieleon Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents.

indeed, but I couldn't find a way to make the sliders work without touching the mouse. maybe there are some keyboard shortcuts that I couldn't find. also I believe you should be able to tab over the page to reach any input element, for consistency.

gabrieleon Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents.

have I been missing something or this brakes every accessibility rules? how can I "slide" without a mouse? It seems I can't even tab to the sliding enabled elements.

gabrieleon Why Google Does Not Own Skype

I believe that very little of the MS/Skype deal is about the technology behind Skype. With 8.5 billions Microsoft could have developed the same technology or even a better technology, and it's very likely that they will completely change it in the future to better integrate Skype with their other products. The real value of Skype is in its user base and the significant number of companies that use Skype as a valuable business resource. That is potentially a much more profitable user base than that of Live Messenger and the two products together now represent a large majority in the entire instant messaging marketplace.