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jedediahon ITerm2 2.0

iTerm's ability to make "non-lion" fullscreen windows is worth a tremendous amount to me.

jedediahon Apple's domains

For a far more extensive list, see http://www.aboutus.org/Apple.com#redirectory-

jedediahon Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

Portland, OR

Looking for a Ruby on Rails developer at AboutUs.org

http://www.aboutus.org/AboutUs.org/Jobs

jedediahon Ask HN: Who Plays Go?

I'm jedediah on KGS, and would welcome any game, though I'm a meager ~20k, as I've just started playing.

jedediahon Hacker Monthly #2 is out

I love this, thanks! I do miss the epub version that was available with issue #1. I'm happy to even pay for it.

jedediahon Ask HN: How do you begin the process of developing a web application?

Draw a mockup on paper and figure out how you want your app to work. Once it's done, get the simplest case working in real software.

I find that by getting something simple working helps me keep motivation whilst going forward, even if the code is crappy. Conversely, I've started a non-trivial number of webapps by designing a DB schema and an application architecture, each of which left me burnt out before anything of value was even written.

jedediahon Steak: because Cucumber is for vegetarians

What advantage does this give over the built in integration tests?

jedediahon Torvalds: git vs CVS

Terrible submodule support.

jedediahon Try our app (Flowdock, the team messenger)

Loved it when I tried it this morning, but the [apparent] overload of the servers led to my team dismissing it without a second thought.

jedediahon PHP Bug: #50696: number_format when passed a 0, returns null

Interesting how the reason that this bug is affecting the original poster is that a new version of the language is being used. The code can't be changed because "We have number_format in literally thousands of places across 50 or 60 separate products. Each of those changes will have to be coded, tested, written-off, released, tested by the clients since this is tax data and has to be precise for tax planning and retirement planning."

It seems to me that the entire process of testing and writing off is just as important when changing the target platform as it is when changing some of the API calls.

jedediahon Celebrate The New Year With A New Job

My company, ProjectDX (http://www.projectdx.com/), is looking for developers in Portland: http://projectdx.com/webappdev_job.pdf

Contact me at jd at projectdx dot com.

jedediahon In Silicon Valley, Settlers is the New Golf

Settlers is last /decade/. Dominion is just last year.

jedediahon Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own

No, as the article shows, the internet really needs to become a commodity that's easily delivered by many parties.

jedediahon Advanced JavaScript Techniques

Sadly, most of us have to code for IE, just as we have to code for the "good browsers".

jedediahon Typewar (By Eldarion)

Given that I know almost nothing about fonts and didn't miss a question in the first 5 levels, I think it's far too easy.

jedediahon Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?

Photography and boardgames.

jedediahon Google wave starts rolling, picks up over 100,000 new riders

I'd be interested in joining such a circle.

I'm jdhuntington at google's mail service.

jedediahon Anyone want to help test my Ajax chat (Erlang)?

Very nice! Look forward to hearing more about it.

I did have an issue where the server would fulfill my connection with no response data, and the client wouldn't re-open the connection to the server. This happened a few times, and it was right around the time someone was mentioning unicode, so I figure you might already be on this one.

jedediahon Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User's Gmail Account and Disclose Identity

It could be that the bank was hashing the passwords all along, but just truncating the user's input before hashing it and comparing it to the saved value. Not that I think this is what happened, but I'm just saying it could be.

jedediahon Obama mandates FCC to support Network Neutrality

And given how few ISPs there are in this country, and how many businesses they're in, that's a pretty big danger already.

The solution to this should not be to limit those companies that do exist, but to foster the establishment of competitors.

(Edit: markup)

jedediahon Ask HN: how do you regression test your web apps?

I don't know about all of the browsers you mentioned, but my team regression tests on a handful of those browsers using Selenium. [http://seleniumhq.org/] We use a ruby library to drive the Selenium engine and it seems to work pretty well.

Edit: Btw, nice job on skulpt, it looks really nice.

jedediahon Free e-copy of Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice

Have a look at the links they provide... One can get the book in a variety of formats through different stores. For instance, I got a few of these books for free via the Sony Store today.

jedediahon Why Portland is a great place for startups

The drive is fine, but it's not like anyone actually gets in the water once they get there. It's far too cold.

jedediahon Rate HN: Our site - Looklookbuy

Very cool!

To increase the signal/noise ratio, I'd love to specify that I'm looking for a product, and not accessories for a product. For example, I just searched for a camera I'm looking to buy. The first large set of results were accessories for that camera, and since they're cheaper than the camera itself, they showed up first.

Great start!

jedediahon Ask HN: Why not use technology to find people to talk to at a conference?

When I'm at a conference, I prefer finding people with entirely different sets of interests. This gives me the opportunity to potentially learn something new and maybe even find out about a field I didn't previously know about.

This idea sounds interesting. I'd like to see where it could go if you built it online and let people use it while not at conferences; keep a virtual "hallway track" online at all times.

jedediahon Ask HN: how to unit/integration test app that sends email?

Since you're writing a web app, there are very likely many well-tested libraries for sending mail. I suggest using one of these, then stub the interface to the librart and make sure your code is using the correct API when talking to the library.

jedediahon Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?

Carbon Emacs

jedediahon Used Video Games Are Good For The Industry (It's Just GameStop That's Bad)

So in the original image, a gamer would buy a used game from GameStop instead of a new game from Best Buy.

If a used game will suffice, why would the same gamer not just buy a $40 game from Dawdle instead of the $60 game from Best Buy?

jedediahon Homemade relay computer (6 Hz)

Got to see a demo of this system in person, and it was truly spectacular. I learned more in 10 minutes watching this thing than I did reading multiple books. (I took 'Compilers' from this guy, HIGHLY recommended to anyone who happens to be at portland state.)