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mitjakon Sequoia gives photo-sharing startup more money than they gave Google

The thing that always gets me is that my local movie theatre is playing terrible unoriginal flicks shot for a budget higher than that.

mitjakon Apple hardware design coincidence?

But, the unibody MacBook design came well before iPhone 4?

mitjakon Ask HN: So, how is Apple's Ping doing?

Beatles*

shudder

mitjakon Ask HN: So, how is Apple's Ping doing?

What?

mitjakon Ask HN: Please review my "single-use bookmarking" app

I like WhileDile later more, or at least the way the "see ya later alligator" idea was heading more. People are bear biased.

mitjakon Frenzy - The Dropbox powered social network

To add to the bug report thread, there is no way to get out of the very first dialogue the app presents (choose shared folder to use). If I don't select anything, I can't close the app in any way except for using Activity Monitor.

mitjakon A musician tells his story of switching from Mac to Ubuntu

Garage Band, which is a stripped-down version of Logic designed for 12-year-olds

Hey there, speak for yourself. I like to think of GarageBand as Notepad for music. Perfect balance of features just enough to jot down an idea or throw together a loop. Logic Express and Pro then allow importing of GB projects so the analogy tends to hold well.

mitjakon A musician tells his story of switching from Mac to Ubuntu

Also, how come he really needed a, judging by the $3000 pricetag, 17" or a fully upgraded 15" MacBook Pro but was able to do just fine with a refurbished lower-end Dell?

mitjakon A musician tells his story of switching from Mac to Ubuntu

I'm pointing out recording and playing back tracka because the author of the article emphasizes it as one of the main use cases.

mitjakon A musician tells his story of switching from Mac to Ubuntu

A musician and, more importantly, a computer geek tells his story of switching from Mac to Ubuntu

His story, while informative, is nowhere near close to that of a typical musician or even audio geek. It's not the platform but the software running on it that counts. The first thing Apple did when they bought Emagic and, as a result, Logic Pro was to kill the product on Windows knowing well users would switch to OS X just to use their favourite tool (why wouldn't they given the $1200->$499 price drop and a major feature boost in Logic Studio).

Most musicians nowadays want more than the ability to record and play back audio tracks. What about the digital audio workstation (DAW) choice on Linux; the virtual instruments and FX plugins; MIDI editing and automation; a UI intuitive and simple enough to use at a live show etc. Good software in the creative market seems to take years to build but the user base is so loyal it takes massive effort to get users to switch. There is a reason most software used in the studio is decades old (see Cubase or Logic, for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Pro#History). There is also a reason why GarageBand had significant time dedicated to it at the iPad keynote. Musicians with computers tend to be geeks to a degree, but at the end of the day they have music to compose and perform, and the less time they have to spend on software and setting it up the better.

Basically, Linux not being embraced among the musicians is the same story of why you don't see very many people jump ship from Adobe Photoshop in favour of GIMP.

mitjakon “We don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 per day.”

You could filter the light down perhaps? Or change your seat placing you in a perfect position to both work and sunbathe.

mitjakon Google: Hide sites to find more of what you want

That'll just block Facebook from showing up in Google results which they never did in the first place unless you searched for someone's name.

mitjakon Salary negotiations for techies

I'm in a similar situation as analyst74. I used to be rather introverted, but in the recent years I started thinking of interaction with people I don't know that well a game of sorts.

Oftentimes, people are far more relaxed and natural with their friends than they are with co-workers or strangers. Subconsciously, we assign these 'roles' for ourselves (you with friends, you online, you on the bus, you at the doctor's office etc) and stick to them. Breaking the boundaries of the roles a bit and being the same across the board is what I found to be quite helpful in being more social and just feeling better about life overall. For example, I'll randomly chat up a stranger waiting for a delayed bus; make eye contact and smile at a person random person on the subway (especially if attractive ;P); or talk to or play with someone's kid while on a train (kids are usually very approachable and love playing on a boring subway ride; your mileage may vary though as North American parents seem to think everyone around them is a potential child rapist).

It might feel strange at first, but the more you behave like a friendly approachable being the more people respond with the same. After all, most people, unless they are rather extroverted, are just like you, and are basically waiting for someone else to initiate contact with them.

mitjakon “We don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 per day.”

I like how you emphasize huge windows. A lot of people I've worked and am studying with don't seem to value natural light much. In fact, many hurry to close the blinds only to turn on artificial lighting on. Why???! I personally find large open windows very inspiring and conducive to work, and generally feel lethargic and depressed if the sky is overcast (this is partly to blame for moving out of Vancouver).

mitjakon Google: Hide sites to find more of what you want

My problem usually, contrasting other comments here, is that I don't look at the URL of the link I'm clicking on but primarily at the title. Since a lot of questions on EE are very specific, I often click by accident since the question sounds a lot like what I'm looking to find an answer for, only to grunt at having to scroll all the down ("Ok, I'll give them one more try..") where no answer usually is found.

mitjakon Google: Hide sites to find more of what you want

Quick, block expertsexchange!

mitjakon “We don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 per day.”

What is your current job and motivation for preferring it, if you don't mind sharing?

mitjakon R.I.P. Tweetie

In light of the Mac App store they probably will :/

mitjakon Create a website using Dropbox and a text editor

You don't need to regenerate any HTML and changes are instant. Also, I honestly don't think one can burn through too much CPU with occasional JavaScript. This is some hardcore environmentalism.

mitjakon Developer only event at SXSW (code puzzle gets harder with more tweets)

Or the recursive version, upon sorting:

  function find_dupe(a){ if(a.length==0) return -1; 
  if (a[0]==a[1]) return a[0]; else return find_dupe(a.slice(1,a.length)); }

BTW, are loops more efficient than recursion in JS? It sure seems like a lot of JS libraries out there including jQuery avoid recursion like plague.

mitjakon Microsoft made their own IE6-countdown site.

Nobody seems to have asked this yet: where is the data coming from? I find it hard to believe U.S. is at 2.9% IE6 usage, for instance.

mitjakon Gmail back soon for everyone

The original commenter pointed out that 0.02% is a more significant figure than the Gmail team makes it out to be, and that 150,000 is very significant. I'm saying the 150,000 figure isn't as significant as it looks, either.

mitjakon Gmail back soon for everyone

And how many of those are likely to be active and be expecting serious email instead of newsletters and spam?

mitjakon Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open source projects?

This brings up the same recurring theme: lack of understanding or correct communication between the "art" and "science" departments. I am not an expert on the matter but two things I've noticed about a working designer-programmer workflow are:

* "Glue" team members. The company I've worked for always had at least two staff members who were a bit of both, and could basically plan out and convey ideas from one team to the other. * Assumption of expertise. Each group would trust the other when it comes to both design and programming and no doubting would take place. In case of a conflict, a programmer could tell the designer why a certain design would not work out well citing particular technological reasons; similarly, given a question by the programmer, a designer would explain why a particular design is laid out the way it is, why the buttons are blue etc. Given the conflict resolution scheme, a product builds up based on mutual trust and communication of ideas between the two parties.

mitjakon HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones)

Or for a $100, you can buy a pair of studio grade Sony MDR-7505's or a similar monitor type of headphones that will more or less faithfully reproduce a recording and not over-accentuate the lower and high end sacrificing the crucial midrange (if you listen to anything with electric guitars, that is).

http://www.zzounds.com/item--SNYMDR7506

mitjakon Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store

Or any other reader, really, like the Sony's or the Nook. The Kobo is sold at about the same price as a Nook but is limited in a number of very annoying ways (no book wide search, no way to jump to a particular page etc.)

mitjakon ITerm 2

On the off chance someone clicks the More button and reads this, how do you actually do mouseless selection and copy and pasting? The closest I got was the Cmd+F search feature but it doesn't support regex so I can't exactly search for something like "/opt/local.*$" to select an entire path produced by pwd, for instance.

mitjakon ITerm 2

Out of curiosity: what do you mean by a "beautiful UI"? It looks like just every other terminal I've used.

mitjakon Google's dropping H.264 in Chrome is not a step backward for openness.

So, because of your questionable personal knowledge of Jobs and the influence he holds over Apple, a video codec will fail? Last time I checked the world didn't run entirely on Apple hardware and software alone.

mitjakon How Pixar Bosses Saved Their Employees from Layoffs

>Pixar doesn't do the straight-to-DVD sequel gig.

As much as I love Pixar, that is incorrect. Toy Story 2 was going to be straight-to-video: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-122205888/sequels...