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jessor

411 karma · joined August 3, 2009

mac user, linux admin, hacker, web enthusiast, human rights activist, social worker.

mail/xmpp: daniel@enthusiasm.cc

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jessor··on Google DoubleClick Caught Serving Malicious Ad
Also note that it may break the functionality of some sites, e.g. paypal, since they route login/logout functionality through mediaplex (which I'm still shocked about).
jessor··on What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.
I no longer had the arrogance of being frustrated with slow people [...] I got on with people much better. I developed much more respect for one of my friends in particular who I always considered slow - it turned out he is much deeper than I thought, I just never had the patience to notice before. You could say I had more time to look around.

Reads like the way to cure narcissism.

jessor··on PayPal Suspends WikiLeaks Account
They did: http://slashdot.org/story/10/01/23/2138204/PayPal-Freezes-th...
jessor··on PayPal Suspends WikiLeaks Account
Paypal also took the account of the Wau Holland Stiftung because they collect money for wikileaks.

PayPal told us we are "in violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy regarding (...) financial support to Wikileaks" and took our account. http://twitter.com/#!/wauland/status/10987193778569216

jessor··on Ask HN: contribute to an idea: teams of unemployed programmers into startups
I thought about something like this, but not tied to programmers.

Unemployed people have talents like everybode else and someone should come up with an idea or program to collect, develop and channel those. I can't speak for other countries, but here in germany I see a lot of stuff that could be done if one could mobilize them.

jessor··on Ask HN: Open source web app html/css templates?
http://opensourcetemplates.org/
jessor··on Sir Ken Robinson: Why Should You Care About Creativity?
I love this man.

Highly recommended:

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_crea... (2006)

http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revol... (2010)

jessor··on My First Open Source Project: A Two Week Chrome Extension
Very nice, this is quite helpful. Thank you!

I just noticed this on last.fm, you may want to add z-index: 9999; to your "popOver" styles to fix problems where sites give their logos a z-index. Also, I'm missing a close/cancel button. Lastly, adding support for last.fm's format ("Saturday 22 January 2011") would be sweet.

jessor··on How I built 7books in under 4 weeks
Awesome! Thanks.
jessor··on How I built 7books in under 4 weeks
> I'd strongly recommend anyone starting out developing something to find some kind of mentor. I wish I'd had someone I could have asked for help but in my case...

So is there already a hn spreadsheet up somewhere where one could find a, say, rails mentor? :)

jessor··on Google to give staff 10% raise
This does make the battle for talent look pretty dramatic, doesn't it?
jessor··on Git User's Survey 2010 Results
77% Github, 44% self hosted, 12% Gitorious. Wow. Github deserves it.
jessor··on Remind HN: November is Launch an App Month
We'll launch http://printify.de, a startup around social media printing.
jessor··on Reddit, what are your favourite TEDTalks?
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=442022 - Ask HN: What is your favorite TED talk? (644 days ago) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447418 - Ask HN: What's your favorite TED Talk? (128 days)
jessor··on Icon search engine
Switched from iconlet. I really like it. The commercial usage filter is a killer feature. Great job!
jessor··on Here's how you can opt out from 100 different online ad networks in one go
Yea, i use these entries, too. Sadly, it breaks some pages functionality.

I was shocked to see that, when you are on paypal.com and click to register a new account, it routes you through some dubious ad network. Scary shit.

Saw this behaviour on another rather large site the other day, can't recall the URL though.

jessor··on A brief guide to the IRC protocol
BitlBee (http://www.bitlbee.org/) is the answer. Use IRC, ICQ, MSN, XMPP and Twitter from within irssi.
jessor··on Publish your computer code: it is good enough
Why don't you put your blog url in your profile?
jessor··on How many users have JavaScript disabled?
NoScript has 74,459,688 downloads so far (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722/). You'd have to do some calculations with this to get closer to a real user number, though ;)

I'd wager that the average NoScript user has at least two machines, so the total number of NoScript users is probably less than 2.7 million. (http://blog.brandonbloom.name/2010/06/noscript-add-on-instal...)

jessor··on Ask HN: my startup addresses a small market. How much of a problem is that?
Startups For the Rest of Us Episode #5 might be helpful (personally I like the whole podcast): http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-5-how...

If there is no competition, it is probably not a big enough market.

And it goes on. It's aimed at micropreneural business models but perhaps you can take some valuable insight from it.

jessor··on The Djen of Django - Our in progress book about Django.
Woah there, thanks for the hint :) Will be quite useful for me.
jessor··on Ubuntu.StackExchange.com is now AskUbuntu.com
Nice. I hope it gets the google love it deserves. Googling for ubuntu-specific problems can become quite painful since forum threads are often full of outdated or useless statements.

Q&A Sites seem to be the answer of the problems that forums and wikis suffer from.

jessor··on The magical (and not harmful) rebase
superceided by http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1779481
jessor··on ALWAYS LAUNCH ON FRIDAY recounting my launch last week
Love the idea! Congratulations on the launch :)
jessor··on Tell HN: You can spam every user of the frid.ge(YC S10)
Did you talk to the owners first? Just seems weird to post it here instead of just talking to them (first). Not everyone is as bad as facebook ;-)
jessor··on The Unofficial HN FAQ
Ah. Thanks for pointing that out.
jessor··on The Unofficial HN FAQ
Yes, you need a karma of 200+ to be able to downvote. Reached that just a few weeks ago. You can only downvote comments which were made after you reached the treshhold.
jessor··on Ask HN: Why doesn't someone provide JS encrypted webmail
I rememember there was someone on HN working on that a few years back. There was a nice discussion around it. I can't find the thread, perhaps someone else has better luck?
jessor··on Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative?
Make a serious attempt in switching to vim for everything. Print out some cheatsheets and have them on the wall next to your monitor. There are also quite a few vim threads on HN which might be of interest to you.

It took me about a week to feel really comfortable with it, but now I'm really glad I didn't give up. I still learn new shortcuts every other week.

jessor··on Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?
ratpoison was my first tiling wm. i remember how it made me feeling like a total newbie =) its lack of a floating mode (needed for gimp and others) made me switch to more advanced wms though.
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