jcitme

I can't tell if this is a parody of spam or not...

A quick analysis of my own experience here: For windows and mac, the best software I've found so far is puush.com. I made a quick analysis a while back, and realized that obce you get used to such software, you end up pressing the hotkey and immediately expect to be able to paste a link. Puush excels in that regard; they have a good screencap engine which allows fash shots, and a good webserver which uploads pics rapidly and return a link asap.

Unfortunately, they lack a Linux option. As i use debian, i had to find an alternative, or more in the spirit, make my own. I tested a few others with linux versions, namely lookit and shutter, but being fully open source they had their own flaws: uploading to imgur is damn slow, and after using puush for a while it was frustrating.

I tried writing my own using pykeybinder, since it seemed more nautral than using autohotkey, which imho seemed like a port from the windows version and overkill. I then took code from pygtk in order to take fast screenshots in python. It has the added ability of being able to take just the current selected window as well. In the end, however, the ability for the -s option in scrot to take a shot of a selected area was too tempting so i added a wrapper in my script for that.

For uploading this is where writing something that copies to the dropbox public folder shines: it allows you to generate a name and link for the file BEFORE it uploads, which is an insane speedup. The file can then upload as you're sending the email with the link, for example.

If anyone wants to look at my crappy code, it's at

https://github.com/jcitme/pyscreenshare/blob/master/pyscreen...

uTorrent allows streams in torrents. Interesting that they haven't made it a bigger feature, this has a large potential if it becomes a bigger part of the torrenting user interface. People complain that this stream download is bad for the peer cloud, but it could work very well if there's a single big server or two backing everything up- at the same time, taking a lot of bandwidth pressure off those servers.

I'll disagree on this point. I've used my 3GS for two years, and it served well as a quick and dirty way to develop in... unusual places. I'm not even talking about SSHing into another computer; just to localhost, quickly using vi to change a file, then running a git commit is ridiculously convenient for someone who doesn't own an Air and doesn't want to lug his laptop around. The only problem, really, is the speed, which I agree isn't the fastest, but the iPhone 4 is really usable. When I upgrade to the 4S in a year or so, it'll probably be ready for most stuff I want to do in a pinch.

I agree with the Linux running on a MBP part... indeed, I'm planning to do so when I buy my MBP in a few months. However, I do recognize that I'm not the typical use case for a person using this device, spending most of my time in the command line, etc. For actually developing something, there's a much better ecosystem running linux.

On the other hand, I'd take iOS running on, say, the Galaxy Nexus. If I jailbreak iOS, I can easily run iSSH, install inetutils, vim, etc, and come halfway to an amazing development device with access to the whole app ecosystem. For me, that's the dealbreaker (or maker, depending on the perspective.)

I'm pretty sure the people on HN know how to reset a password, or at least google how to do so without this blogspam. Keep this stuff somewhere else.

To be fair the followed it right up with a critical quote, but I agree.

>Since I'm not aware of a single Android phone that sells for more after two years than the full price two years prior

Pretty sure absolutely no phone sells for more than the full initial price, iPhone included. Remember, the price you see in ads are carrier subsidized, an actual new iPhone is approximately $650 without a contract.

On that note, I just bought an AT&T iPhone 4 for $250 a month ago. Not bad of a deal for 18 months later.

sudo aptitude install kde-full shouldn't be "a bunch of footwork" by any standard by someone who passed high school.

>In fact, on (January 12, 2012) December 20, 2012 (*see update below), that number has already been reached.

Did you mean December 20, 2011? Or, more likely given the update, "that number has ALMOST been reached."?

Is there a git version?

Even better: the key word is "give"

All google has to do is 'give' x ad views before some videos on youtube, for each candidate. If someone tries to get Google to do otherwise, they're limiting GOOGLE'S freedom of speech.

It doesn't seem retina optimized. The font is horrendous on my iPhone 4.

There is, though. I don't understand... personally I've been using a combo of iSSH into my own iphone. ~/ is located at /private/var/mobile and there's no latency (you ARE connecting to localhost). Git and vim installed means that basically, you can be self sufficient from your iPad/iPhone, without even needing an additional workstation to SSH into. Hell, even Python and Ruby can be installed on the jailbroken iphone. It's basically a portable POSIX-compatible system, after you install all the necessary packages (network-cmds for ping, for example) you're all set.

>Show only messages without any tag?

Can you search "-tag1 -tag2 ..." ? I only have 10 tags, so if I really needed to do this, it's fairly acceptable. Not sure if you have a gazillion or something.

This brings up several questions. How much tech industry lobbying dollars are there, and how does it stack compared to the Entertainment industry? More importantly, how much non-monetary sway do they have on Washington?

Youtube and Google+ are owned by google, so I'm not sure if they count. Definitely they should post a notice or two, but...

Which IRC channel would that happen to be? I would love to see the logs of the last few days.

This is a problem inherent in any form of social media. Unfortunately, it's not easily fixed. You need to find a way to strike a balance between rewarding content creation and punishing spam, and the line in thin.

Let's start making it more complicated again!

Wind meter on the other side of the conveyer belt and an air horn whenever it drops below a certain level...

HN, you dropped the ball here. Even Reddit would spot a comment like "Nailed it" and see that it doesn't contribute in any way.

This community should try to stop a decline in quality...

I find this rather amusing, that kn0thing would make a post that's essentially the scourge of reddit. Are the reddit admins trying their hand at being a hipster, and /ironically/ posting this? :)

It's overloaded, try another mirror. Megaupload, mediafire, etc that is designed to share docs

if Firefox 17 came out 3 months ago and we are currently on Firefox 20, I don't think that's any less secure than running 3.6.5 when 3.6.7 came out...

liberal office, the hated enemy of every single self respecting conservative /s

you HAD to make me write new laws of physics? you %@#$

bring him to criminal courts. close enough.

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Does anyone have a larger version of the last picture?

uneditable html, probably.