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JereCoh

485 karma · joined February 17, 2009

http://jeremiahlee.com
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JereCoh··on The Minecraft Creator Markus Persson Faces Life After Fame
29. Started playing with JavaScript in 7th grade. Took C++ in 10th grade. Studied visual effects in college. Moved to web after college.
JereCoh··on Zuckerberg: “I Really Do Use Facebook All Day Long”
Correct. I am friends with Kelly, who works at Facebook and is friends with Mark. She replied. Her activity on my status update would have made it appear in his newsfeed.
JereCoh··on Why I really, really hate Instagram
Instagram is the page curl of 1997.
JereCoh··on Ask HN: Is USA that bad when it comes to health insurance, etc?
My family nearly went bankrupt from my mom's cancer treatment even though we had health insurance. Until the recent healthcare reform, yearly and lifetime limits and the ability to deny coverage due to pre-existing conditions after enrollment were allowed. My cousin who is healthy but has severe asthma has been unable to attain health insurance on his own since graduating college. He works two part time jobs, but does not have employer sponsored health insurance. The American system is broken and the people who'd benefit the most from fixing it are more concerned about "death panels" that don't exist than looking out for one another.
JereCoh··on Poll: Do you like your current job?
I started two months ago at Awe.sm, my first full time startup position. I've never worked harder, learned more, or been happier in a job. It's the best team that I've ever been on. Also, we're hiring: http://awe.sm/56okP
JereCoh··on Twitter launches own shortener t.co
It will also be expanding the size of the tweet to 140 not including the URI and providing expanded URIs in addition to the shortened link. More information at http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/brow...
JereCoh··on Android 2.2 (Froyo) features
Until Google seeks the professional services of a graphic designer and a user experience designer to improve the core UI metaphors (like navigation based, tab bar apps, split view based concepts on the iPhone), I won't consider it a serious alternative to the iPhone. This isn't about skin deep beauty. The user experience on the iPhone is better in nearly every way and it deserves just as much attention as technical improvements.
JereCoh··on Media Temple Raises $15 Million, Hungry For New Acquisitions
I had several sites on Media Temple's "grid" service before cloud options were in vogue. The reliability and performance were terrible. Media Temple blamed Expression Engine CMS and Mint tracking scripts, which seemed odd given that they are quite popular and well written. I moved those same sites to Joyent and have never been disappointed.
JereCoh··on Is Twitter pulling a Facebook?
Facebook stated at previous F8s that it wasn't interested in expanding beyond its current feature sets and that it had invested in APIs so that developers would build the features they couldn't/wouldn't for whatever reason. Twitter needs to make some statement on this or these rumors will have a chilling effect.
JereCoh··on Dear HN: I wrote a cross-platform GUI image compressor
ptipng and advpng are great, but pngout still produces smaller files. Without it, I'll be sticking with imageoptim. I would love for someone to figure out what pngout does and start an open source implementation.
JereCoh··on “Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story
This happened to my company earlier this month. The categorization, not any particular activity, of my business tripped one of PayPal's safety triggers. PayPal was unapologetic and wildly unhelpful in resolving the issue (that didn't exist!) quickly.
JereCoh··on Poll: Do you have an OpenID?
I use Google Apps for my domain and have OpenID running on my domain using it. Here's how: http://jeremiahlee.com/blog/2009/09/28/how-to-setup-openid-w...
JereCoh··on A Chink In Android’s Armor
Typical poor TechCrunch reporting...

"We’ve spoken with a number of high profile Android application developers. All of them, without exception, have told me they are extremely frustrated with Android right now. For the iPhone, they build once and maintain the code base. On Android, they built once for v.1.5, but are getting far less installs than the iPhone."

Is he suggesting getting far less installs is related to maintaining a single code base? Really?

"They say they’re going to have to build and maintain separate code for various Android devices. Some devices seem to have left out key libraries that are forcing significant recoding efforts, for example."

I have experienced broken APIs in Android OS updates, but I've never experienced a missing library between devices running the same Android OS version. If he's going to make such a claim, he should back it up.

JereCoh··on Adobe CS3 not officially supported on Snow Leopard
I look forward to the day when I don't need Adobe products. (Yeah, I know there are alternatives, but they aren't competitive alternatives.)
JereCoh··on Will the Java Platform Create The World's Largest App Store?
No. because all Java desktop apps run like crap.
JereCoh··on [dead]
Snore. I can aggregate my own Atom feeds, thanks.
JereCoh··on Ask HN: What Web frameworks exist around Python?
Pylons is awesome.
JereCoh··on Being a new CS grad in this economy sucks
Not really. Tons of web dev jobs in Los Angeles. Sure, I just got laid off, but I found another job paying even more than my last job in less than two weeks.
JereCoh··on What Larry Lessig Didn't Get
Sounds like someone is upset that Lessig is still smarter than him.
JereCoh··on Poll: Do you smoke?
No, and as I say to hot guys who do smoke, "There's only one fag you should be putting into your mouth and I don't contain nicotine."
JereCoh··on Poll: Which cloud host do you use?
I use Joyent. I would argue that Media Temple is not cloud hosting (and it's "grid" is always down). If Mosso gave OpenSolaris as an option, I would switch to it.
JereCoh··on Why We Need Audiophiles
This is the best argument I've ever read regarding the BS of analog sound recording.
JereCoh··on Daring Fireball: Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground
Wow, lots of words and nothing insightful to say. Gasp! Apps that use APIs don't have settings to export and enable developers to be creative!
JereCoh··on Why We Need Audiophiles
Arguments without much substance. I'm still not convinced and I'm young with great hearing. I wish I could vote down this story.
JereCoh··on Is Twitter overhyped?
Yes.
JereCoh··on Poll: Pythonic startups: what web framework do you use?
Pylons rocks my world!