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wib

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wib··on Show HN: Revisions – version control for dropbox (mac app)
Cool app. I was looking for something exactly like this yesterday and I was surprised no one had made it yet. Your UI is nice, but the icons are a little crowded on the view activity panel. Also it took me a minute to figure out what "group threshold" does (actually I'm still not sure how grouping works).

Suggestions:

- A filter to ignore certain files within a subfolder (regex or strict selection would be fine)

- Express time in relative as well as absolute terms (ie, "five minutes ago," "two days ago," etc.)

- For premium: A built-in diff viewer for those of us who haven't paid for Kalidescope, etc. Maybe you could integrate Mergely (mergely.com)?

The only other thing: I hate the App Store and I'm not alone. It'd be great if you integrated the premium payment option with the direct-download version and added it to the (Home)brew cask repos.

Good work.

wib··on Show HN: Chromebrew – the package manager for Chrome OS
Cool. So what happens when Chrome updates or I accidentally turn off Dev mode? Does Chromebrew get wiped?
wib··on Show HN: Lump.co – instant photo galleries via web search
Where are the photographer credits? Where is the licensing information for each photo? What is your mechanism for compensating the creators of the original works you are republishing?
wib··on Saying goodbye to Octopart-powered HNSearch
I use the !hn bang syntax on DuckDuckGo daily… Here's hoping it stays available.
wib··on Show HN: Real-time Collaboration Made Easy
Pretty cool. But why would I use this over Etherpad?
wib··on What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly
Which is why this acquisition was more about PR than talent or technology. It says (or tries to say), "You might think we're just dusty old Yahoo!, but we're hiring 17-year-old wunderkind too! We're hip to the next big thing! And remember we have a new CEO..."
wib··on Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web
Haven't tested in Firefox. I assume the webapp works just fine, but there's a dedicated Chrome extension.
wib··on Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web
Thanks but also sorry, because I should clarify—it's not my app, I just found it last night while looking for just this for a new Chromebook. I'm a heavy NValt user and there's sadly no Dropbox support on ARM as yet. Also saw that no one had posted to HN yet so thought I'd share.

Dev is a Japanese fellow on Twitter @kazuhiroshibuya, I'm sure he'll appreciate new users and any kudos. It's really well-designed and like others who commented here, I'm very glad for the prominent privacy disclosures on the homepage.

wib··on Chart.js - open source HTML5 charting library
Really cool, looking forward to giving this a try.
wib··on Automattic Buys Simperium (YC S10), Maker of Simplenote
Agreed, lots of glitches that kept me from shelling out for the paid service. I gave it up and went back to Dropbox for OSX <-> Android syncing.

At least the buyer isn't talking about shutting it down.

wib··on This mom gave her son an 18-point contract with his iPhone
"No porn."

Thanks mom!

I'm mortified for the kid.

wib··on Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos
I'm having a real hard time deleting my account, because I used plus addressing in the email when I signed up for Instagram. This is making it impossible for me to log in to the web version of Instagram which is as far as I can tell the only way to delete an account… Suppose I'll have to write support, if there is such a thing.
wib··on Tips for THE WIFE: Investing in Art
For a second I thought satire. Nope.
wib··on A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best
Yes. I've never given to a Kickstarter campaign but would totally contribute to this. Proprietary chargers feel like such a ripoff at ~$30-$50, but clearly the $5 generics are a bad buy, so what you're suggesting is a real opportunity.
wib··on Automatic Generation of Regular Expressions from Examples
Cool & handy
wib··on Show HN: Conjure - A launcher for Android
That's cool. I'll definitely buy your app in the future if you incorporate a Tasker plugin. http://tasker.dinglisch.net/developers.html
wib··on Show HN: Conjure - A launcher for Android
How does this improve on Quickdroid? Can I run scripts with it? tasker integration?
wib··on F.D.A. Surveillance of Scientists Spread to Outside Critics
Headlines were bait before there were hyperlinks. Nothing new there—you're just seeing the process for the first time. Also, this doesn't take away from the substance of a very well-reported article.
wib··on Facebook’s Latest Acqui-Hire: Spool, The “Instapaper On Steroids”
Meh. Added spam to shared links. Buggy app that got worse and more bloated with every update. Finally stopped using the beta when they started crippling features like plain text selection. Now I suppose they'll sell my data to FB. Many of the worst aspects of the startup bubble reflected in one short-lived company.
wib··on Recent [Pinboard] Bounciness And When It Will Stop
Really appreciate this developer's frank style combined with non-dickishness (offering refunds etc.). An example for others.
wib··on [dead]
Not until you can spell "drop out" correctly.
wib··on Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe.
Same experience here, although I'm a newer user who just switched from Gmail a few months ago. Spent a couple of weeks researching alternatives before settling on Fastmail and would not be happy to repeat the process.
wib··on Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe.
No way I'd renew my paid Fastmail.fm account if Facebook buys the company.
wib··on [dead]
The post itself is a bit looney but the question is fair. I once noticed in my GV history a transcript of an outgoing message I'd left on another machine. Which is weird, because I thought GV was only supposed to transcribe incoming messages. Unfortunately I didn't save a copy or take a screenshot so I have no way of proving I didn't hallucinate the whole thing.
wib··on Skype IP Lookup
So if you keep several clients open in different places, it's at least harder to determine which IP reflects your current location, right?