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jessoron Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?

Used it before I switched to awesome. Suckless stuff is always neat.

jessoron Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?

The problem I have with awesome is that it likes to make you write new configs every other release. That's why I'm still stuck with a fairly old version.

Now that they kicked xcb out of cairo (which awesome needs) which resulted in awesome getting kicked out of the arch linux community repository I think I'll just switch to i3 like all of my buddies.

jessoron Ask HN: What would you like to see from an IRC network?

Perhaps an inspiring idea: http://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-at...

jessoron Ask HN: What would you like to see from an IRC network?

i believe you just described https://irccloud.com/

jessoron Unofficial alternative UI of hackernews

Awesome! You fixed the HN frontpage for me. This has exactly what I was missing.

jessoron 960 Grid System is Getting Old

You may also take a look at http://www.tinyfluidgrid.com/

jessoron Tabs are great, but why clutter your browser w all those flight searches?

They really do have something going there. Works very well.

jessoron Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?

Just the important ones:

BetterPrivacy (LSO Cookie Remover)

Firebug (+ Firecookie)

Hackbar

NoScript

Tree Style Tab

Web Developer Toolbar

All of which have no (satisfactory) Chrome equivalent and thus prevent me from switching ;)

jessoron I’m Giving Cable 6 Months To Live

No TV here, threw it away about 5 years ago, never looked back. You can waste enough time on the internet if you want to do so.

jessoron Wordpress Themes for Launching your Minimum Viable Product

I agree. But a "couple thousand" are probably not an option if you're bootstrapping. Such templates might just work until you can invest in a custom one.

jessoron [dead]

Yawn, just the usual Microsoft FUD. I don't even bother to read it anymore.

Take it as a lesson to learn to smile about it ;-)

jessoron Ask HN: Today diaspora is set to release their software

To clarify, September 15 will be our open-source developer release. At that time, we will open up our github repository, publish our roadmap, and shift our development style to be more community oriented. We intend on launching a consumer facing alpha in October.

http://www.joindiaspora.com/2010/08/26/overdue-update.html

It'll happen: http://twitter.com/joindiaspora/status/24509854745

jessoron Why We're Teaching 'The Wire' at Harvard

Yes. I actually bought and read the book because her character was so moving. Turns out it's just her whole person.

jessoron Why We're Teaching 'The Wire' at Harvard

The Wire was an awesome show, probably one of the best I've ever seen.

Some characters, like Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, were casted right from the streets.

Highly recommended to get a less romanticized view of the streets.

jessoron How I boosted my Vim

or just do:

set backupdir=./.backup,.,/tmp

set directory=.,./.backup,/tmp

This way, if you want your backups to be neatly grouped, just create a directory called '.backup' in your working directory. Vim will stash backups there. The 'directory' option controls where swap files go. If your working directory is not writable, Vim will put the swap file in one of the specified places.

(http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Remove_swap_and_backup_files_from_...)

jessoron Ask HN: Would you build a startup with "LOL" in its name?

You're probably right. I'm not protecting the idea itself, but with more information on the subject one could quickly squat the domains which we're not able to reserve just for fun right now.

All other domains with names we've come up with have been taken.

jessoron Ask HN: Advantages of using dropbox over google apps?

I guess dropbox works for most people because it's so easy to use and just fixes their specific problems (of keeping files in sync, quickly sharing them via url, etc).

Me, personally, I use Google Apps for emails and documents and so, naturally, I try to do as much as I can with it. Today i collaboratively worked on wireframes through it even though mockflow or mockingbird are much better at that. But they cost a bit more than I can affort right now. Also, it's nice to have everything in one place.

jessoron Ask HN: Would you build a startup with "LOL" in its name?

It's primarily b2c, but website/webapp owners will have the possibility to embed our service to add value for their users.

jessoron Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer

The next two weeks will tell if it's real, but this article might have kicked me into doing a nice little niche webapp :)

jessoron Agile Development: A quickstart guide to doing it right

I actually know a startup with a team of about 9 people who are doing just fine with agile (since the beginning).

Could you elaborate with some more substantial criticism?

jessoron Rate my nodeknockout project: tweetirc

Windows should automatically scroll with the content (just like a real irc client would).

jessoron Rate my nodeknockout project: tweetirc

Nice idea, i thought about something like this myself. I'll check it out.

You should keep the notices window on top/in focus when someone opens the page, though, so they know what they're looking at.

jessoron Please fill this out to help us learn more about our customers.

Please create a mailinglist and put me in it :) I have no time to test it but would like a notice when it's publicly released. I know people who would glady pay for this.

jessoron Homeless Experiment

Unfortunately, no one can be told what homelessness is. You have to feel it for yourself.

It's like putting on heavy weights and thick glasses because you want to know how it is to be old.

The worst part is the psychological one, imho. He can go home. All bills paid, cosy warm room, roof over his head. But to know that you "failed in life", can't provide for yourself like so many others, have nowhere to go... I guess that's the real homelessness.

I recently experienced not getting paid for several months. It's quite interesting what this does to your head.

jessoron Are We Taking CSS Too Far?

short answer: base64. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1124149/embedding-backgro...

jessoron Ask HN: Okay okay, I'll learn to program...now what?

I found "JQuery For Absolute Beginners" to be quite helpful for getting familiar with JQuery: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/jquery-for-abs...

jessoron Ask HN: Okay okay, I'll learn to program...now what?

I began with "Dive into Python" and switched over to Zed Shaw's "Learn Python The Hard Way" after 20 pages. His concept works great for me, somehow I manage to come up with enough discipline to actually do every exercise and the extra credits.

jessoron Tell HN: Have a look at Varnish

Agreed, nginx+varnish (optionally on top of an existing apache setup) seems to be best practice right now for heavy traffic sites.