johnbatch

371 karma · joined August 12, 2011

johnbatchon Nginx, Inc. announces its Series A funding

With a service company, you have an incentive to make your product confusing and your documentation poor.

johnbatchon Dalai Lama hangs out on Google+ after visa is denied

The Video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_HqVFEzY2U

johnbatchon Siri is Awesome, But Not for Apple

I love the Apple shows their commitment to the blind at the end of the Siri Video[1], with some Ray Charles playing in the background. [1]http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html#video-siri

johnbatchon The Great Cul-De-Sac Problem And How To Alleviate It.

Google Cache at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=safari&#...

johnbatchon Steve Jobs contacted Samsung in 2010 to resolve Apple patent dispute

The do have a patent for putting products into boxes. http://www.google.com/patents?id=tUzIAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&...

johnbatchon Hey Google, I want my cache links back

Strange messing with user agents. The only one it shows an ad on is the "iPad" user agent.

johnbatchon Break Google

Pretty low bounty.

The base reward for qualifying bugs is $500. If the rewards panel finds a particular bug to be severe or unusually clever, rewards of up to $3,133.7 may be issued.

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/11/rewarding-w...

johnbatchon Show HN: Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile HN website

  Rats! There has been an Error. This application depends on a number of external APIs,  sometimes they don't always work. When this happens, your best bet is to reload.

Happens on a few of the comment links

EDIT: looks like the same thing happens on ihackernews - http://ihackernews.com/comments/3001808 - http://hn.gethifi.com/#/comments/3001808

johnbatchon Apple ProRes codec reverse engineered

Haven't they had this for a while (Post Date: August 28, 2008). http://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_De...

However, it's nice that they have it built into ffmpeg now.

johnbatchon Anti-iPhone iPhone game makes it past Apple's review process

I thought Apple's policy was to reject all apps that claim to donate proceeds to charity.

"You cannot say anywhere in the application description, support materials, or the application itself that some or all of the proceeds will go to any given charity" http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/01/app-store-lessons-...

johnbatchon Google Docs: What Happened Wednesday

Detailed Incident Report at http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...

johnbatchon Groupon Sales Team Files Class-Action Suit

They should have taken that google offer.

johnbatchon Warren Buffett Discusses The Op-Ed on Charlie Rose

Probably should link to http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11845 instead of the home page.

johnbatchon Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)

Have you looked at the Vast API. http://www.vast.com/info/customapi