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ctideon Show HN: Record all your web browsing with fully searchable screenshots

I wrote a really basic ruby library to take full page screenshots: https://github.com/ctide/screenshotter/blob/master/lib/scree... using selenium & webdriver. Not great for a chrome extension, but useful nonetheless. :)

ctideon Swift is not

It'd be interesting to see how Objective-C would compare to Swift with ARC enabled. For the majority of us, who use ARC in our projects, these benchmarks don't mean a whole lot.

ctideon OS X 10.9.3 Is Toxic

I've seen that happen with Macbooks for years (the rainbow static), with both my mid 2012 retina MBP and the pre-retina one it replaced. Happens occasionally with my Dell monitor at home, and would happen with one of those knockoff IPS' that I used at my previous job pretty frequently. Unplugging and replugging the monitor will eventually fix it, but yeah, it's obnoxious.

ctideon Wanelo: The First Million Users

Because the title was: 'Single, female, non-tech founder with no team...and her first 1 million users' and HN thrives on drama and pointing out things that are inaccurate.

ctideon BitPay introduces Bitcore

What's the plan for supporting altcoins, or is there one?

ctideon How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

No, I don't think it's uncommon that incompetent assholes end up in positions of power and aren't pushed out.

ctideon How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

Never worked in an office before?

ctideon You never did math in high school

This is what my exact thoughts were. That's why I struggled with Calculus, while I blew through Physics and high school 'math' with no real problems. I didn't need to care about the pedantry because it all just made sense to me. Once it stopped making sense, and it veered off into the abstract, I had to actually study to do well.

It's funny because when that article started I was totally on board with him, then we got there and I just laughed.

ctideon Show HN: Abacus – Killing The Expense Report

Have you ever used Expensify? They don't live up to their slogan.

ctideon Heroku XL

Doing it any other way involves different tradeoffs of time, money, skill, and maybe lock-in risk.

This is what you're paying for. The cost of that is the difference between hosting yourself on Amazon and what Heroku charges. That's the cost to your business of using Heroku. This cost has steadily increased. This isn't rocket science, and it certainly isn't burgers at a restaurant. I get that for some people that cost is a worthwhile expenditure, but as that divide widens, the number of people it makes sense for will decrease.

To try and equate this to your burger analogy, if raw beef kept dropping in price, but restaurants all charged the same, more people would cook at home, no? Now, imagine you're feeding 100 people a day. At some point the cost savings of cooking the beef far outweighs the luxury of sending 100 people to a restaurant.

ctideon Heroku XL

The price they're charging is their price minus the Amazon price. You are paying for a set of tools that sit on top of Amazon. You choose to either invest in those tools yourself (and save the the difference between Heroku and Amazon) or you don't. Every time Amazon reduces prices, this means the cost of those tools increases. Since Heroku has launched, the price of those tools has steadily increased by virtue of not staying in line with Amazon's price reductions.

ctideon Heroku XL

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2009/4/24/commercial_launch

It was .055 / hour when it launched in 2009. Back then, EC2 small instances cost .10 / hour (http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/10/27/announc...).

Now? Heroku is .05 / hour, and small EC2 instances are .06 / hour. This is why I stopped using Heroku a year or so ago for anything I plan on paying for. They just let Amazon keep driving down their bottom line without passing any of those savings onto their customers.

ctideon Have I tattooed a syntax error on my arm?

I have my username tattooed in binary on my arm:

http://imageshar.es/52deec31f629007c14000e24

ctideon Kanye West, Startup Idol

Do you think he was born with a few hundred million in the bank? He eschewed all the standard hip hop trappings and didn't go all 'gangsta' when that's how people made money. When he produced The Blueprint (one of the greatest hip hop albums ever made) it was backed by soul beats which just weren't a thing in ~2000. He's always done his own thing, his latest album is a prime example of that. He's still just putting out shit he wants to listen to, not necessarily putting out what's successful at any given time in the industry.

It's easy to look back and say, you're filthy rich now so you aren't actually taking risks, but taking risks is how he got there.

ctideon OUYA Founding Team Member And VP Of Product Development Departs

It's cool, most of the time you can't see a Linkedin profile with an account also.

ctideon RESTful Realtime

Your code samples are incredibly hard to read, you should use a different library to generate those. I don't know if it's just a Chrome thing, but they look like this to me:

http://imageshar.es/52cf03f8f629007c1400043e

ctideon The Black Car Company That People Love to Hate

Uber exists, primarily, because the slick apps didn't work. Taxi Magic, for example, was out years before Uber. It failed because taxi drivers, frankly, don't give a shit about dispatch. They just pick someone else up on the way.

If Taxi drivers had simply been willing to pick people up who call into dispatch (or book via Taxi Magic), Uber probably wouldn't exist.

ctideon How to set priorities, create budgets and do PM in a no-manager company

You're conflating leadership with management. While leaders will usually end up managing, and vice versa, these are all too often treated as one and the same role. Management is more about driving day to day goals and ensuring everyone is 'productive' and working towards a specific set of objectives set down by the leadership. In this case, it sounds to me like everyone is more or less self-managing and leadership is painting broad strokes about where the company is headed.

ctideon Show HN: A gem to stop progressively building ActiveRecord queries

I don't think anyone was implying that you would expose this for every combination of columns, only the ones you were allowing people to query on. Presumably, you've indexed the fields you want people to be able to scope results to.

ctideon Happy Hour Virus

Is this new or just a reposting? Seems odd that it's driving people to a jobs page that lists no jobs.

ctideon Never Heard of It

'I don't know' is never a good answer. If someone asks you about some specific javascript testing framework, for example, and your answer is simply 'I don't know', that implies that you know nothing about javascript testing. Replying 'I don't know about X, but I've worked with Y in the past, and heard about Z' is an answer that shows that you are familiar with the problem space, which is vastly more important than knowing some random piece of tech.

ctideon Show HN: Web site I built last night that takes screenshots of web sites

I wrote a super simple Ruby app to do this: https://github.com/ctide/screenshotter

ctideon LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity

I mean, Mailbox literally does the same thing (editing your messages on their backend -- http://www.mailboxapp.com/blog/?p=1#javascript-now-filtered-...) and no one cares. LinkedIn does it and the Internet goes shit crazy.

ctideon LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity

What's the difference between this and using an app such as Mailbox?

ctideon Introducing Rubinius X

That COBOL is predominantly used in Big Biz? I think you proved his point.

It'd be selection bias if he made the assumption that most big businesses were using Ruby. That's not the point he was making -- what he said was that lots of people using Ruby work at big businesses.

ctideon How I got hired at a Y Combinator start-up without the necessary credentials

I'm pretty sure the necessary credentials are exactly what he showcased -- the ability to write a legible, coherent email in a timely fashion.

ctideon From Mr Average to Superman: Craig Davidson's account of using steroids (2008)

You mean Adderall?

ctideon My account's Facebook applications have been disabled with no explanation

Yep, all fixed up. Thanks guys!

ctideon My account's Facebook applications have been disabled with no explanation

I'm still missing the majority of my apps.

395120080593788 is one, I believe. That one was just a facebook page tab so I only have links to it. From the looks of it, the only apps that returned were ones with multiple administrators.

144346579010587 is another app id that didn't return.