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aj

1,710 karma · joined March 12, 2008

News junkie, web developer, aspiring entrepreneur

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aj··on Design Books Every Hacker Should Read
Oh and is not mobile optimized so not readable there!
aj··on Ask HN: In 4 years, is iOS going to be called iOS 10?
Probably iOS X...

I'm curious, why this question? How does the project name matter?

aj··on One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks
Agreed on that. HTML e-mails are a pain to view!
aj··on One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks
Because it is Gmail?
aj··on No RAM upgrades for new iMacs? Is Apple crazy?
Don't worry. The fanboys will still be fawning over it like it's the greatest "invention" since sliced bread
aj··on Stream of crawled sites from the Internet Archive (somewhat NSFW)
The speed at which the crawling is taking place, the tile source (the site being crawled) changes before my internet connection can even download the tile. So after a few seconds, all I see are black blinking tiles
aj··on One-Day Apple Shopping Event 2012
What is mysterious about it? It's the annual thanksgiving day sale... Pretty much non-mysterious as it can get
aj··on Glitch Is Closing
Also Battlemaster (http://battlemaster.org) (Text based MMORPG)
aj··on Ghost — rethinking WordPress
The images and the proposal part was what I noted first as well. I left the site as soon as I noticed that all content was in images. I wonder what the reasoning behind such a poor choice of displaying content was? Prevent Search Engine crawling? Prevent easy copying of the text?
aj··on Ask: What programming language is the most kickass?
Try assembly. It'll kick your ass real bad. Or better yet, try programming in binary!

On a more serious note, what do you mean by kickass? What features are you looking for in the language? What is your target usage/application? What is the environment you are going to be working in?

There is no straight answer to what programming language is most kickass. Different languages are suitable for different purposes and kick asses of other languages given the appropriate application development goal

aj··on Show HN: Published my personal CV creator to GitHub
More documentation, additional details in the Readme, usage/installation instructions etc would be really useful. Right now, I have no clue what I'll be doing with this or how.
aj··on Craigslist wants people who can develop APIs
I assume the APIs are for internal use only as Craiglist is making a habit of suing external parties who use data from them ;)
aj··on Download any ebook free from Packt Publishing (through the end of the month)
To clarify the title, the site says you can download one free ebook. So a more accurate title would be "Download any one ebook free from Packt Publishing (through the end of the month)"
aj··on Apache man disables Internet Explorer 10 privacy setting
Meh...

Tries to portray MS as being heavy handed while being heavy handed himself by forcing such a brazen opposition. Where is HE giving the users the choice? At least on the browser, users can turn off/toggle the value. But on the Apache server, the users have no such control and hence are at the loss..

Hypocricy much...

aj··on Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Have you considered putting in a donation button as well?

I've not tried it yet but hopefully this also works on mobile phones (I have a Blackberry specifically)

Have you considered releasing the source code?

aj··on Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com
The Next Web

This is very useful. Thank you for sharing this.

What are your plans for this?

aj··on Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web
How is the different from identi.ca? Isn't this pretty much what their premise is/was? (ignoring implementation differences)
aj··on Ask HN: Is this a solid idea for a Startup?
Isn't this the same as Plaxo?
aj··on Reducing Your Website's Bandwidth Usage
That's a 5 year old article. A lot of can be improved upon
aj··on Microsoft is incapable of innovating
Really? And what was Kinect? If not an innovation and a game changing product?
aj··on Launching a mobile/web service
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aj··on Launching a mobile/web service
Great way to ask for tips. Tip #1: Use market friend language and tone
aj··on Mortal Kombat II warriors: Where are they now?
Is that supposed to be funny? Blegh
aj··on Ask HN: What is the karma threshold for being able to downvote a post?
You mean comments right? You cannot downvote posts
aj··on Is Heroku down?
Down for me as well. Perhaps log a service ticket?
aj··on Youhavedownloaded.com tracks your torrent downloads...and makes them public.
It shows wrong data. Shows files that have been downloaded from my ip when it's not possible to since Torrents are controlled by my firewall very strictly.
aj··on Is this the perfect agile hacking chair?
Can you post links on where to get each of those?
aj··on Ask HN: Is this for real? I can't tell if I'm being trolled at
It's true yes. But does seem trollish. Weird world out there
aj··on Make HTTP requests from your browser
Have you tried Firefox's Poster Addon? It's absolutely brilliant for simulating HTTP requests
aj··on Show HN: Pulse — A simple pulsating indicator.
I can't but I'd downvote this simply for not being cross browser compatible in some form
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