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hswolffon Why Instagram is so fast at uploading photos

Why is Speakerdeck polluting my back history? :(

hswolffon Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

New York, NY - Fulltime

GetGlue is the leading social network for entertainment. Users check-in and share what they are watching, listening to and reading with friends; get fresh recommendations, exclusive stickers, discounts and other rewards from their favorite shows and movies.

Looking for:

Python Engineer http://getglue.com/jobs/python_engineer

Mobile Engineer http://getglue.com/jobs/mobile_engineer

hswolffon WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)

It does look like Apple TVs.

It also looks like multi-colored and multi-sized iPhone home buttons.

But that might just be me projecting my own desires. ;)

hswolffon Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

>“We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input,” the three employees wrote. “Please follow along as we share some of our ideas and stories. We’d love to hear yours, too. What would you like to see from Project Glass?”

Why would you ask that? This type of product is so different from what's available on the market that I doubt the Project Glass team would receive any type of suggestions they'd find useful.

That would be like Apple asking people "What do you want the iPhone to do?" before it was first released in 2007.

If you're creating the product, create it. Find the features you want it to have and research the features it needs to have. Asking the public "what do you want it to have" will not do anyone any favors. Decision by committee can be truly atrocious.

hswolffon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012)

New York, NY - Fulltime - GetGlue - http://getglue.com/

GetGlue is a social network for entertainment. Users check-in and share what they are watching, listening to and reading with friends; get fresh recommendations, exclusive stickers, discounts and other rewards from their favorite shows and movies.

Looking for:

Web Developer http://getglue.com/jobs/web_developer

Java Engineer http://getglue.com/jobs/java_engineer

iPhone / JavaScript Developer http://getglue.com/jobs/javascript_developer

hswolffon Why I Left Google

Looks like you have your Whittaker's straight: http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2009/06/james-whittaker-jo...

hswolffon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)

New York City, New York - GetGlue - http://getglue.com/ - Fulltime

Positions and how to apply (directions in footer):

Web Developer http://getglue.com/jobs/web_developer

Java Engineer http://getglue.com/jobs/java_engineer

iPhone / JavaScript Developer http://getglue.com/jobs/javascript_developer

About us:

GetGlue is a recognized leader in social television and second screen applications. GetGlue has 2M users that checked-in over 100M times in 2011. 75 major networks and 10 movie studios use GetGlue to promote their shows and movies to fans.

Based in NYC, GetGlue has received funding from Union Square Ventures, RRE Ventures, Time Warner, Rho Ventures, and a number of prominent angel investors.

hswolffon Show HN: Facebook response to Lovestagram. Our Valentine's weekend project.

Just showed it to my gf who found it very cute. Thanks for this, well done. =)

hswolffon Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap

That's a nice sample app. My only (small) complaint is that I feel using MySQL is a bit of overkill for a sample application.

To throw my hat in the ring as well I've been working on a Backbone project that could help newcomers to Backbone. I'm in the midst of refactoring it a little bit to use lesscss as well as RequireJS and its module system.

Please feel free to fork or contribute! I love Backbone and JavaScript :D.

https://github.com/hswolff/forgetmenot/tree/dev

hswolffon My Recent Development Stack: OS X Tools

I recently wrote a pretty detailed list and review of Git GUIs for Mac.

It includes 3 forks of GitX, Tower, SourceTree, and Gitbox.

Hopefully people find it of use.

http://harrywolff.com/2012/01/the-best-mac-git-gui/

hswolffon Seriously.js: A Realtime, Node-Based Video Compositor for the Web

Ditto. And that demo was mighty pretty even then. Kudos guys. =)

hswolffon Making Love to Webkit

What channel are you on? I'm on Stable and the site moves very slow for me. On the other hand it runs smooth as silk on Safari. (OS X 10.7.2)

hswolffon HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source

This is a masterful move after the previous mis-steps. Bravo HP!

If only I could be a fly on the wall for those discussions of what to do with webOS...

hswolffon Instant CSS, JS, HTML or DOM documentation

Awesome job! I wanted to do something similar and I'm glad I was beaten to the punch. Keep iterating on the project, the idea itself and the execution has a lot of room for growth and 'betterness'. Kudos.

hswolffon EBay acquires Hunch for $80m

I think it's just in his blood at this point to blog about tech news. Good for him I say. If you love what you do then do it.

hswolffon Apple's Supply Chain Secret

What's Walmart's supply chain like?

hswolffon The Increasingly Prevalent Auto-Follow Trick

I thought I saw on Oink's signup a toggle that let you opt-in to auto-following other users. I was surprised to see that as usually it's opt-out (if at all). What this seems like to me is a glitch on Oink's end - not following their own preference options they expose to their users.

edit: I definitely didn't mark down to auto follow my friends. I just got the pig sound notification and it scared me half to death. Oooh boy my heart is racing.

hswolffon Here’s To The Crazy One

I might argue that Jobs is the first truly transformative figure to die in an age of transformative technology. He’s someone that will be talked about a thousand years from now. And the fact that he was transformative in technology just compounds the reactions to his death right now.

This. A thousands times this.

MG touches on many true points as to why most people feel so sad about Steve's passing.

However I feel like there's a deeper reason that hasn't been properly elucidated.

Or perhaps I'm just far too emotionally confused at the moment to understand why I feel the way I do.

Yes Steve died too soon.

Yes his products affected everyone they touched.

And yes it's scary to think of a future that won't have Steve's direct influence.

Ultimately the passing of this powerful man elicits an emotional response equal to the one he had on you. This varies for everyone, but it exists for many.

RIP Steve. :(

hswolffon Spine Mobile 1.0 release - native feeling mobile web apps

This is pretty cool however the demos are not rendering correctly on my iPhone 4.2 Safari Browser.

Also huge +1 for awesome doc layout. Ability to switch from CS to JS? Nice.

hswolffon JQuery 1.7 beta 1 released

I think it may increase initial confusion when first learning jQuery however a thorough tutorial explaining the differences/similarities and reasoning behind the event names would ideally clear up any confusion. Although the easiest path to understanding how to use the calls for daily use would be to have the user forgo all old event methods and just focus on using .on and .off (assuming they'll never have to use a jQuery version less than 1.7 which is unlikely).

hswolffon How Github uses Github to build Github

Any chance of video becoming available? The slides were awesome and colorful and I'd love to hear the words that went along with them.

Great stuff! =)

hswolffon [dead]

Felt it in CT. That thing was scary.

hswolffon How to Never Miss Writing a Blog Post

Agreed: regular blogging is vastly tricker than usually imagined.

I've been blogging at least once a week for over a year now and the trick I've found to keep me at that pace is unbridled dedication. I firmly resolved to hit my target of 1 post per week and did everything I could to make that a reality.

I've now pushed it up to 2 posts a week as of last month. It's going well so far. (if you're curious: http://harrywolff.com/ )

The trick for me is starting with something tangible and doable. I don't over-reach and I stay within my ability. As I became comfortable with 1 post I decided to push myself to 2 posts a week.

There is no self-imposed threat if I don't complete my goal. That just isn't an option. And in my mind that's enough.

hswolffon What the NYC startup world needs (and doesn’t need)

I'd like to know as well but I can attest (from working in NYC) that internet instability is an issue that must be solved.

hswolffon Bookstore Chain Borders is Dead

The local Borders store had a big going out of business sale here about a month ago. It was really sad walking inside and seeing all the shelves empty. It was even more depressing walking out having seen nothing that looked interesting to buy.

hswolffon Ask HN: Where is the Django community?

Web2py is great for those brand-spankin-new to Python MVC web development. That said past that stage I found it to be constricting in the amount of hand-holding it required, seeing myself begin to pour into the source code when I realized I was fighting with the framework and not enjoying it.

But truly, for beginners, it's top notch. Great teaching tool.

hswolffon Google Calendar has a new look

I'm never one to shy away from change but all of Google's recent changes are causing me to become quite flummoxed. Not because they're bad changes but because Google has in the past been so change-adverse and to now be met with multiple design refreshes within 72 hours is just causing my head to spin.

I know I'll get used to all the changes sooner rather than later but right now I can't help but sit on some nostalgia for the old and plain Google of just >72 hours ago.

Kudos Google, but please, be kind to my slowing brain. =)

hswolffon Hello Backbone.js - A step-by-step tutorial

Very cool work. Would have been great to read when I was starting out with Backbone.

One question: there's only 5 steps created thus far, correct?

hswolffon Museum of me - A museum made from your own facebook data

My gut reaction to this is: "But I'm not dead yet." Really? I need a museum of me?