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micmcg··on Git Large File Storage 1.0
No, they will just get the small, metadata containing files
micmcg··on Is Slack Really Worth $2.8B? A Conversation with Stewart Butterfield
"A quick look at HipChat indicates this still isn't possible"

Not currently possible, but officially confirmed as being worked on.

"It’s official: Development is underway for multiple account support in the HipChat clients. Stay tuned because updates are just around the corner."

micmcg··on The MakeGamesWithUs Online Academy
micmcg at gmail if you are still selling it
micmcg··on Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
micmcg··on 3 In 10 Americans Will Not Knowingly Buy Chinese-Owned Brands
Prices are never going to be matched, and why should they? Things made in China are cheap simply because they have a huge population of people desperate to work, so they can exploit this and pay them a fraction of an American salary and have them work under much worse conditions. Until you are prepared to work for the same money in the same conditions, don't expect the cost of something made domestically to ever be the same as if it were made in China.
micmcg··on 3 In 10 Americans Will Not Knowingly Buy Chinese-Owned Brands
People pay lip service to wanting to buy locally made, but they don't vote with the only thing that matters, the willingness to pay more. As long as consumers demand the absolute lowest price, regardless of the exploitation required to achieve it, things will be made in poorer countries with an impoverished workforce.
micmcg··on Easy Video Embeds
Can you explain why you think people wouldn't just use Youtube/Vimeo/etc?
micmcg··on Easy Video Embeds
^ This.

I don't really understand the model. All you are doing is allowing people to host a video file with you and doing some trivial code snippet generation. How do you make money to pay for the hosting?

micmcg··on Announcing Kiln Harmony: the Future of DVCS
The "self-hosted" variant of BitBucket is Stash - http://atlassian.com/software/stash/overview

Disclaimer: I work for Atlassian on Stash

micmcg··on No bullshit guide to math and physics
Please please please do an ePub version. PDF is great for reading on a computer, but an ePub is miles better on an iPad. I'll buy a digital copy if it comes in ePub, but not if it's only PDF.
micmcg··on The lightbulb reinvented
You do understand that you aren't buying a bulb for $70 right? You are funding a startup and in return you get a reward of one of the bulbs. Kickstarter isn't a retail store, so many people miss the point of it. It's the same as when people complain about delays and say they wouldn't have "bought" the product if they'd known it would take so long.
micmcg··on Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo
Bitbucket and Stash are different products with different codebases. Bitbucket is written in Python and Stash is written in Java.
micmcg··on Yahoo Axis
Cause he is MAXXXTREME!
micmcg··on Yahoo Axis
It completely tweaks the way you search the web.
micmcg··on Yahoo Axis
I guarantee this is the case. If their desktop effort at a "new browser" is a chrome extension, no way is the IOS version anything more than a wrapper around UIWebView.
micmcg··on How would you change your favorite programming language to make it better?
Intellisense isn't a feature of the language, its a feature of the IDE you are using.
micmcg··on The Long-Tail Is Dead
Yeah this is a misuse of the term "long tail" or at least the assumption that it only applies to "using long tail keywords to grey hat SEO my site". Offering genuine long tail content is not going anywhere, maybe spammy sites will tho, which benefits everyone.
micmcg··on One Little Customization to One Mans Bash Prompt...
Thanks for that, nice inspiration for my terminal.
micmcg··on Michael Arrington: Editorial Independence
FYI, there's no such thing as "over-arrogant", there's no amount arrogance that is considered a positive, you would just say someone is arrogant. Though given your use of air quotes about the "big guys", I may be wasting my time here.
micmcg··on Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey
Agreed. Every advertising agency that works with Facebook would happily pay a subscription fee like that for the number of head hours it would save them.
micmcg··on Secure your browsing using a home VPN
So even after reading the article, I'm unsure if its an appropriate set up for me. I just want a way to access my NAS at home from my iphone (mainly just web traffic). I'm not worried about securing my traffic from a public hotspot because I almost never use them. I just want to be able to connect over 3G or from my work wifi. Is PPTP still a high risk with a long passphrase? Or is the risk related to connecting to the VPN from an unsecured network? Also I should mention that I have a DD-WRT capable router, and I don't want to have another machine running just for VPN purposes. Thanks
micmcg··on A Node.js hacker asks what Haskell can do to stay relevant.
CSS3 + HTML isn't Turing complete
micmcg··on WebKit and Chrome prerendering
Yes, heaven forbid Google sends traffic to your site from people who might find it relevant.
micmcg··on Why I Didn't Get A Real Job
So what does "The New Student Union" do beyond be "an online magazine run by and for college students covering the issues that they care about."?

The term "startup" is thrown around WAY too much these days, you aren't a start up, you have no business model, you are basically just a multi contributor blog. What are you doing that other student publications aren't?

When you say "If you have a game-changing idea" do you honestly thing NSU is "game-changing"? What game are you changing?

You come across as incredibly entitled and arrogant in your post, I hope for the sake of the success of any future "start ups" you participate in, it's not the case.

"I have no deference to authority figures and have never been shy to voice my opinions, oftentimes to my detriment." This doesn't make you a good entrepreneur, it makes you an asshole.

micmcg··on Show HN: improved HN bookmarklet
Nice. I've got a bookmarklet I wrote exactly like this, which has morphed into chrome extension to automatically notify you when their is a HN discussion for the page you are on. Should polish it up and release it. Good work
micmcg··on IOS 5 predictions
IOS doesn't have virtual memory...

Actually a quick google says that might not be true, but it definitely has no swap file.

micmcg··on Alternative jQuery Documentation
Thats not irony
micmcg··on Advanced Google Analytics for Startups
Yes but why is it "Advanced Google Analytics for Startups" and not "Advanced Google Analytics" or "Advanced Google Analytics for Websites"?
micmcg··on Advanced Google Analytics for Startups
A well written guide, but I'm not sure what it has to do with startups specifically, except for link bait
micmcg··on Show HN: Keep unwanted photos off any site with javascript one-liner
I have the same question. I'd be interested in using this, but I need to have at least a rough idea of how the technology works in order to determine if it would be effective
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