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evanw

764 karma · joined September 8, 2010

I'm a software development manager based out of Seattle, WA.
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evanw··on Facebook PathPicker
I believe you can still achieve this with tmux by using Command+Option+Click.
evanw··on Buzz Aldrin: The Dark Side of the Moon
One of my favorite books is Michael Collins's "Carrying the Fire": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_the_Fire:_An_Astronau...
evanw··on Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day
I found a similar issue with the Square Register app for Android. CyanogenMod's PrivacyGuard feature tells me it tried to access my location 22,000+ times in a 2-day period: https://twitter.com/evanw/status/453576355284660224/photo/1/...

I assumed this was a programming issue (perhaps unregulated retries) rather than the app legitimately trying to locate me 10,000 times per day.

evanw··on We are Live From Apple’s iPhone 5S Announcement
Anybody have a raw URL for the official video stream?
evanw··on WWDC 2013 Keynote
I've found a bit of a workaround if VLC is crashing, which seems to fix the problem for me.

1. Open VLC, and open the stream as usual

2. Let the stream load - it'll load in lower quality first

3. Before it automatically transitions to the higher quality stream, go to Video --> Video Track --> Disable. The video will now be disabled.

4. Wait for a bit. Go to Video --> Video Track --> Track 1. The video will now be streamed in its highest quality mode without crashing.

This worked for me, hope it works for others!

evanw··on WWDC 2013 Keynote
Same here - anybody have a fix?
evanw··on BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public
How does it handle scenarios where files were modified offline on two separate devices? Is it able to identify conflicts?
evanw··on Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
SourceTree for Windows appears to be written in C#, but their UI is built with WPF which I believe will be a limiting factor for cross-platform compatibility.
evanw··on Linode Nextgen: The Network
Edit: The post title has been changed, but tldr is that Linode is increasing the monthly transfer limit quota 10x because they're upgrading their network infrastructure.

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It's great that Linode is passing these improvements to their customers free of charge. A while back they increased RAM allocated to all users without increasing prices, which was a great surprise. Things like this make me happy to host my multiple projects with them.

evanw··on Firefox 18
I'm on the stable release, and I just got the v18 release by going to Help --> About and installed the automatic update. Their release notes also indicate that version 18 is now released as well: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/18.0/releasenotes/
evanw··on Should you use Yes/No or Ok/Cancel on your message boxes?
I had this same problem once upon a time, so I created a WPF clone of the standard Windows/.NET MessageBox which allows for custom strings for button text (OK, OK/Cancel, Yes/No, YesNoCancel).

It's on Github: https://github.com/evanwon/WPFCustomMessageBox

There's more to be done, but it's been handy for me so far!

evanw··on IAcquire Banned From Google After Link Buying Allegations
I have received many requests from iAcquire to put paid links on my tech blog. This is a violation of Gooogle's Webmaster guidelines (https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...), and I personally don't want that type of advertising on my site.
evanw··on GitHub for Windows
Yes I've been keeping a close eye on this project. Based off the readme, it sounds exactly like what I'm looking for. You make a good point though, as it was authored by the same user but ClickOnce was chosen instead.
evanw··on GitHub for Windows
Yes and it's actually really easy to do, it's built right into Visual Studio. The downsides are that you can't really do anything with it after you've set them (like at application runtime), the associations don't always work for some reason, and if the associations get changed by other applications you can't reset them unless the user re-runs the installer.
evanw··on GitHub for Windows
The most common questions/complaints I get are:

- Why can't I find the installation directory? (ClickOnce doesn't use the standard C:/Program Files/ location, it stores program files in C:/Users/<your username>/AppData/Local/Apps/2.0 for security reasons.)

- Why does the installer need a network connection? (ClickOnce downloads the required setup files from the internet.)

The lack of a standard Program Files/.exe deployment also makes it difficult to map filetype associations, which is also a frequent complaint.

I'll likely be going with non-ClickOnce deployments for the future. ClickOnce is great for deploying production software at work, but for a consumer audience, it isn't quite perfect.

(Personally, I really like ClickOnce.)

evanw··on GitHub for Windows
I'm interested to see how the community responds to their choice of ClickOnce as the deployment method.

I use ClickOnce for several of my applications, and I'd say the users who dislike it the most have the highest technical aptitude (which, I'd guess, is a large part of GitHub's user base).

evanw··on Show HN: WR173
Works now :)
evanw··on Show HN: WR173
I'm not sure if this is deliberate, but this is what I see when I view the page with NoScript enabled: https://imgur.com/5Ms9T
evanw··on Android Design
Regarding the Design Principles page: http://developer.android.com/design/get-started/principles.h...

I love that they included the ICS home screen's "glass desktop" effect in the "Delight me in surprising ways" section (http://developer.android.com/design/static/content/principle...). It's a completely unimportant feature, but the first time I swiped past the edge of my rightmost homescreen and saw the effect, I appreciated the attention to detail.

Where I disagree is with their "Pictures are faster than words" suggestion. I completely agree that many things are best said with images, but I've had a hard time identifying the function of several features in the icon-driven UI's featured in both ICS and in new Google web redesign. In ICS's Gmail app, I'd understand the words "Mark Unread" much quicker than the "sealed envelope" icon which I had to experimentally discover.

It's also interesting to note that in ICS Gmail, Mark Unread is an icon and Report Spam is text, where in web Gmail, Mark Unread is text and Report Spam is a stop sign.

evanw··on Ask HN: What music do you like to listen to while you program?
Anything instrumental/classical, The Social Network soundtrack, Daft Punk's Tron Legacy soundtrack, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack, and NIN's Ghosts I-IV.

There's quite a bit of Trent Reznor in this list.

evanw··on WordPress To Jekyll And Back Again
There are some solid Markdown graphical text editors too, if you're into that sort of thing. Most of these allow you to preview your documents while writing them, which is a big plus.

I developed MarkdownPad (http://markdownpad.com) for Windows, and there's also Mou for Mac and Retext for Linux.

evanw··on Firefox 8.0 is Released
This is great, thanks for posting it. I manage my passwords with 1Password, and while they're good about pushing updates, I've never seen their Firefox extension marked as compatible when a new version of Firefox is released.
evanw··on Voxel, a 3D pixel editor in HTML
Some great examples: http://apps.blois.us/Voxel#browse=true
evanw··on Finally, a Markdown editor for Windows
It's definitely on the list, thanks for the feedback!
evanw··on Finally, a Markdown editor for Windows
The toolbars and status bar can both be hidden under the View menu.
evanw··on Finally, a Markdown editor for Windows
Thanks for the great feedback! I'm taking notes on everything you mentioned - will work on these for the next release.

Would you mind sending me an email, evan [at] markdownpad.com? I'd love to talk typography some more.

evanw··on Finally, a Markdown editor for Windows
I've had several requests for MultiMarkdown support (http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/features/), is PHP Markdown Extra similar to that? I believe MMD supports tables.

Either way, yes, I plan on adding more rendering options for sure.

evanw··on Finally, a Markdown editor for Windows
Just doing a quick Google search, that appears to be a popular false positive generated by Norton.

Clarification on the false positive and a workaround: http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Nort...

You can report it as a false positive here: https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/

evanw··on Finally, a Markdown editor for Windows
Eventually yes.
evanw··on Finally, a Markdown editor for Windows
Hey I'm the creator of MarkdownPad, it is free for commercial use and has no adware. I'll add that information to the site, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
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