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swiil

70 karma · joined March 11, 2011

just a dude, playing a dude... disguised as another dude.
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swiil··on Show HN: OSBal – An Open Source, Ultra Lightweight GUI for HAProxy and Stunnel
Would love some thoughts or suggestions.
swiil··on Show HN: Padmation – iOS and Android Garage door opener
Payment is through stripe and we'll email to get shipping etc.

Instructions are pretty simple - there's a contact switch that puts the os in setup mode and creates an ad hoc network for the app to configure the wifi with your network. It gets linked up with your account and then you wire it up to your garage door button wires (usually 2 thumb screws on the door unit). After that mount the magnetic sensor.

swiil··on Show HN: Padmation – iOS and Android Garage door opener
Thanks for the feedback! We're looking for a few people to purchase for $150 (to cover our costs) and help make sure the product features and fit are right!!
swiil··on Scryptmail, an encrypted email service. Now we open our doors for users
I've been pondering doing one of these as a startup weekend suggestion for next year. I like where you're headed so far!
swiil··on iOS 8 tracks your physical activity by default
Bottom line for me - this feature is on by default. This should be an option. Deleting the data from the device should be available and it's not. Regardless of if the data was encrypted or not it's existence creates the potential for privacy violations. It's not far fetched to assume that your insurance company will inevitably ask you to share this info before issuing a policy. Isn't this blatant lack of concern for privacy why we're all here? I'm scared about the lack of our concern.
swiil··on iOS 8 tracks your physical activity by default
On by default? I'm not cool with that - are you?
swiil··on iOS 8 tracks your physical activity by default
I should say this is an iPhone 5s - I doubt the iPhone 5 has the features required to track steps.
swiil··on Show HN: A Google chrome extension to add a little bro in your browsing.
I whipped this up in a couple of hours as a fun project.
swiil··on Linkedin down
White screen.
swiil··on Cubrid: Sharded, Highly available, Open Source, Free RDBMS
Scaling is everyone's responsibility.

The question is can middleware really solve the problem of having to re-engineer when you reach the limits of your current stack?

swiil··on Flock - A fun and casual way to make plans
As a way of getting search traffic up I might do that - I think your time is best spent allowing people to do public flocks. It'd be cool if I could just tell my network and other flockers - Hey I'm going to be here doing stuff - feel free to join me. Others could come hang out - I might meet some cool new people. People on facebook could see (and it would advertise the app for you organically)...

A web presence of these public events could rank you up in google - say I tell flockers I'm going to be at the MongoDB group - and anyone who wants to come can join. If some one googled mongodb group in a city - Flock could be high on the ranking.

Just my random thoughts / ideas.

swiil··on Flock - A fun and casual way to make plans
Just downloaded it. I like the UI and the concept. Difficulty is with no friends on it I'm not able to get the full effect. I don't want to spam my friends so... how about having some public flocks?
swiil··on Callbacks as our Generation's Goto Statement
I actually believe that code should be synchronous unless instructed to operate asynchronously - just my .02

Await should not be required - it should be more like...

--

regularWork(); //im waiting till this thing is done

driveHome();// not executed till thing one is done

background orderStatus = orderPizza();

turnOnXbox();

while(orderStatus == 'not ready') {

playXbox();

}

turnOffXbox();

eat();

--

Like I said - just my humble opinion that the code written would become more expressive.

swiil··on [dead]
Level 3 had service disruption yesterday too. So did AWS - what's going on this week - git hub too....
swiil··on The New York Times Website is Down
Weird didn't seem like a DNS problem.
swiil··on The New York Times Website is Down
Anyone know on what's going on?
swiil··on Ask HN: Does anyone really use Facebook graph search?
Just to stalk people...
swiil··on Show HN: A Javascript SVG and Image composition engine - FrameEvent v2
A ton of JS - with a mirror of everything in Imagemagick
swiil··on Ask HN: What's Your MacBook* Desk Setup
2x23 inch AOC's a logitech mouse and a split M$ keyboard.
swiil··on Google Hangouts - Just say no.
Thats tough viewpoint - I figured it was worth the post at least.
swiil··on SQLite improves performance with memory-mapped I/O
Congrats Richard on a great new release.
swiil··on Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging
I switched back.
swiil··on Infographic: $5,000,000 Proves Social Sharing Drives Sales
Check out Google +
swiil··on Everpix
Why not offer an export to S3 or Drop Box or Etc... feature so to avoid this fear? I agree - not going to pay unless some back up (locally or otherwise) option is offered to mitigate this risk.
swiil··on AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-Contract "Smart" Phone
+1 ... this happened to some of the users on my plan as well. Was finally able to turn it off but it took a lot of drama.
swiil··on Pingdom is down
Seems to be back to semi functional.
swiil··on Pingdom is down
Eat your own dog food right :-)
swiil··on Pingdom is down
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swiil··on Ask HN: Is iMessage down for you?
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/11/18/apples-imessage-an...
swiil··on Ask HN: Is iMessage down for you?
Yes. since 3pm EST.
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