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jonursenbach··on Anyone Have the Gdgt Podcast?
Hi, I used to work at gdgt and unfortunately when we were acquired by AOL in 2014 it, and the podcast MP3s got lost in the fray. Unless they're on Archive.org somewhere they're likely lost to time.
jonursenbach··on Oat Milk Could Change the Way You Drink Coffee (2018)
Same way you make almond milk. Soak it in water, and after an amount of time compress it to "milk" it.
jonursenbach··on YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon
> Google: make 1 big, single, integrated service and when a startup supplants you in your selected market, just buy them for $15 billion.

They tried that with Google Plus. It didn't work so they tried to buy Twitter. That also didn't work, so we have the Google we have now.

jonursenbach··on Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
Did Slack ever really embrace and extend IRC and XMPP though? It always seemed to be some kind of hack to get your messages there to begin with.
jonursenbach··on Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bayshore project (2017)
The peninsula isn't really walkable.
jonursenbach··on Google’s Project Fi now caps data bills at $60
If you're using Google Maps every day, you offline your area within the app. Drastically reduces data usage.
jonursenbach··on PlainJS – Vanilla JavaScript Repository
Problem now is that you get to write, test and maintain all this instead of using something that has a whole community backing it.
jonursenbach··on Apple Watch Series 3
I was being sarcastic. Should have put a `/s` on there I guess.
jonursenbach··on Apple Watch Series 3
How am I supposed to enjoy something if I can't share it with someone else!?
jonursenbach··on iPhone 8
Remains to be seen if this Airpower thing will be that.
jonursenbach··on New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button
> No, it won’t be a 3.5mm headphone jack and you’ll still need an adapter if you want to connect 3.5mm headphones to your iPhone.
jonursenbach··on New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button
Why would you ever think that they'd go back and bring back a headphone jack?
jonursenbach··on NBC News launches a twice-daily Snapchat news broadcast
It might not be your kind of thing, but a lot of people get value out of Snapchat. There's no reason to shove your nose at it like you are doing here.
jonursenbach··on Automattic is closing its San Francisco office as most employees work remotely
Their office is/was 4 blocks from Montgomery BART. Not hard to get to at all.
jonursenbach··on Facebook signs BuzzFeed, Vox, others for original video shows
You are not their target market.
jonursenbach··on WannaCry – The largest ransom-ware infection in history
Some numbers I saw going around yesterday that were looking at the discovered Bitcoin addresses totaled around $18,000.
jonursenbach··on Mystery Science Theater 3000: Oral History (2014)
You know you don't have to binge it, right?
jonursenbach··on Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
Ah, neat.
jonursenbach··on Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
I don't understand the React Native comparison. AFAIK, you can't build desktop applications with that, nor can you build mobile applications with Electron like you can with React Native.
jonursenbach··on AWS for Kids
At least with open source projects you can dig into the code for yourself and see WTF you need to do.
jonursenbach··on AWS for Kids
Their documentation is always so up-to-date, and easy to discover too! I've never once searched for something, only to stumble onto a page of docs that's 3 years old and no longer relevant. Nope!
jonursenbach··on Plex Media Server on Cloud
ACD no longer works with Plex Cloud.
jonursenbach··on Uber Taps Eric Holder to Investigate Discrimination Claims
Not sure why anybody is surprised. This is how the company has always been.
jonursenbach··on YouTube views down for channels with more than 10M subscribers, analysis says
> They are on their mothers devices.

What?

jonursenbach··on Show HN: Ndm – Npm Desktop Manager
I thought it was pretty clear what it was by the screenshot on the page...
jonursenbach··on Final – A credit card built for the 21st century
> So of Krebs' top nine sources of leaks, Final addresses at most three. No thanks!

I mean, sure, but three is still better the status quo.

jonursenbach··on PHP 7 deployment at Dailymotion
You can make low-quality software in any language, PHP just happens to be easier to pick up.
jonursenbach··on CouchDB 2.0
There's an "About" link on the blog that literally explains what it is.
jonursenbach··on If TypeScript is so great, how come all notable ReactJS projects use Babel?
Curious, but why do you guys have a custom IDE?
jonursenbach··on Ask HN: What PHP framework would you choose if you could start over?
Laravel isn't developed by a company.
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