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smcguinness··on I Wish Nest Did More Than Thermostats
Any more info you can share? I'm very interested in something like this.
smcguinness··on AT&T Announces Intent to Build 1 Gigabit Fiber Network in Austin
What I want is competition. I have U-verse, but why can't I have FIOS. Here in Frisco, TX it seems there are agreements between the providers to focus on certain neighborhoods have one or the other, but never both.

I want to choose who I connect to the internet through, just like I choose grocery stores, cell phone providers and just about anything else.

smcguinness··on What happens when there is a lack of culture?
Step one of our interview process is a culture fit. For small businesses I think that it is paramount.
smcguinness··on Would push notifications for HTML5 apps kill native apps?
The notification API covers this already right? It just isn't supported by iOS.
smcguinness··on How did you first learn HTML, CSS, and/or JS?
Sam's Teach Yourself HTML in 24 hours
smcguinness··on Two year old bug in Android
Here is another 2 yr old bug that I just ran into this week. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14924
smcguinness··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012)
Frisco, TX (North Texas) Front-End Web Application Developer

JavaScript/jQuery/Backbone, Asp.NET / C#, Entity Framework / SQL

You’ll be an integral part of a small engineering team with many years of experience. We’ll expect you to learn quickly and make critical and significant contributions. Currently, we’re working on some tools for our customer service team and will soon start on developing a more mobile friendly version of our website.

We currently develop in JavaScript/jQuery/Backbone, but you’ll need to also be comfortable with Asp.NET / C# to support our existing website. Strong CSS/HTML skills a must and you should have a keen eye for design and usability. Participate in a 24/7 on-call support rotation and provide technical support to our customer service team.

If you’re interested, we’d love to see your work. It could be anything from a side project or your github profile.

smcguinness··on Broken iPhone? Call iCracked (YC W12), the aspiring AAA of smartphones
What about iPhone 5s? Referred someone to you guys the other day and they came back that you couldn't fix it.

https://twitter.com/amuse/status/273143021653069824

smcguinness··on FTC files suit against "Rachel from Cardholder Services"
We haven't proposed any solutions at this time, but we feel that a method in which we can utilize certificates or authentication is potentially the way in which is the least disruptive to the current infrastructure.

But the infrastructure is the real problem. So many switches around the country are so old that hops through the network are very difficult to track and make any innovative technology solution hard to implement fully.

smcguinness··on FTC files suit against "Rachel from Cardholder Services"
I work at the lone automated calling company that represented the "industry " at FTC Robocall Summit(http://www.call-em-all.com) and we are interested to see what solutions to this problem might come from this.

We definitely would love to have a solution to where we could guarantee that no illegal calls are being made (Recent Blog Post: http://blog.call-em-all.com/3-reasons-we-are-excited-about-f...). We have our own internal checks but something which can be implemented on a higher level would be great for us.

The reality is that with the mix of old tech and new tech (read VOIP), tracking who is really making the call is very hard right now (timely and costly). Scammers knowingly break the law and unfortunately, a list of people saying don't call isn't going to stop them from scamming.

smcguinness··on Gmail was down
Back up for me!
smcguinness··on Happy 20th Birthday, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad
I like it. I splurged the $5 more for the backlit keyboard. The only thing with keyboards is how loud the keys are when they type. I find that it is pretty quiet.

Only thing I'm not used to is the left Ctrl key position. Ultimately I'm pleased with the choice, having been a long time dell laptop user and never having a thinkpad, I'd definitely buy again (as long as startup gets a little faster)

smcguinness··on Happy 20th Birthday, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad
I just got the T530 about a month ago. It was a rough order process as it was delayed numerous times. (This will be fixed by moving onshore now). It has been a great machine.

The only complaint I have about it is the slow wake time. For whatever reason (even after following some optimization tips), when it wakes from closed cover or timeout it takes forever.

smcguinness··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)
Dev Ops

http://www.call-em-all.com/About/jobs.aspx

Call-Em-All - Frisco, TX Network Monitoring / CI / SQL / Cloud Services

You’ll be an integral part of a small engineering team with many years of experience. We’ll expect you to learn quickly and make critical and significant contributions. Currently, we’re working to develop a mobile-friendly site, build native mobile apps, increase our calling capacity, and improve our monitoring and redundancy. You’ll be a key player in maintaining operational readiness and efficiency as well as providing infrastructure strategy.

smcguinness··on Crowd Sourcing Sucked, So I Put Instagram API to Work Instead
Very cool usage. What is your next step? As you said, most but not all pictures have pictures of the water. Have you thought about using CV to detect water in the background as the next possible iteration to remove pictures that do not show conditions.
smcguinness··on UT-Austin completely evacuated because of bomb threat
We had a discussion about this about how often bomb threats get made to universities. I felt as if this was a rare thing, which is why, IMO, when it does happen the news picks it up.

However, my coworker thought that it does happen often, but is curious as to how they then distinguish between what might be legitimate and what they immediately think is a hoax.

Then we both thought, if you do want to make a bomb threat, how do you decide who to call? Deans office? Football Coach? Ombudsman?

smcguinness··on I Just Paid For a Promotional Video And Twitter Effectively Killed My Service
The video is good. Tried to find a site of who did it, but could only get a Vemeo page. Maybe you can get some supplemental income on creating them a site to sell their videos.
smcguinness··on Tomorrow Theme
Just upgraded to 2012RC, don't see any styles which work with that yet.
smcguinness··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)
Frisco, TX: DevOps

20% Ops 80% Dev. .NET shop, but also have potential to work on SIP platform, C, C++. Come join a great engineering team and a fantastic team overall.

Perks: Flexible work hours (no full time remote, sorry). Full benefits, team lunches twice a week, development freedom.

http://www.call-em-all.com/About

smcguinness··on Education data startup Clever (S12) hits big milestone, makes new hire
Is the sample data the only data about the student that Clever handles? Or does Clever allow for more more data for schools to be added. Specifically, I'm curious about phone numbers for students and teachers.
smcguinness··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (July 2012)
Dallas / Ft Worth, TX (Frisco)

Call-Em-All (http://www.call-em-all.com/about/jobs.aspx)

We are 12 strong looking to become 15. We are looking for a front-end developer, sys admin (devops) and relationship manager.

We are a .NET shop with some linux boxes running some services. We are open to all candidates. We have a great culture and are growing YoY. We just turned 7 too. This is a great environment to be innovative and to work how and on what you want.

Looking for local candidates only for now.

smcguinness··on Wunderground.com sold to The Weather Channel Companies
http://www.intellicast.com/ is my go to weather app.
smcguinness··on Mandrill - Transactional Email from MailChimp
It seems as if there are two sides of the fence with supporting unsubscribes from transaction emails.

Do you have any input regarding this?

smcguinness··on Mandrill - Transactional Email from MailChimp
How are unsubscribes handled? I see in the activity there is a filter for unsubscribes but do not see any reference in the docs of how to handle.
smcguinness··on Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterday's self.
http://www.datejs.com/ has been my goto js lib for handling frontend date/time.
smcguinness··on Make Better Select Boxes with Chosen
Is the element you are binding chosen to visible from the start? I'm finding that chosen does not like to be bound to an element until it is visible.

I tend to do a lot of setup on render of fields that are hidden and displayed later in the same view, but chosen throws an error on 'searchfield[0]'.

smcguinness··on Font Awesome 2.0 - 70 new icons, desktop font, vectors, IE7 support
I noticed the update does not have a svgz font file, however the css references that file. Last version I had did have the svgz font file.
smcguinness··on Font Awesome 2.0 - 70 new icons, desktop font, vectors, IE7 support
I just upgraded. Is anyone else seeing the icons squished and less sharp than the previous version?
smcguinness··on Hedge Funder Who Bet $100 Million On Facebook IPO Is Furious
Not a pro investor, but can one infer that possibly FB is at an artificial discount?
smcguinness··on Ask HN: Bootstrap for HTML emails?
Mailchimp gives away templates that are tested for the most part. You don't even have to be a customer, but I'm sure they'd love it if you were.

http://mailchimp.com/resources/html-email-templates/

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