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jevin

102 karma · joined December 6, 2011

I have a life on Twitter too: @jevinsew.
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jevin··on Invoice Ninja
Invoiceable is nice too. Pity it doesn't get regular updates.
jevin··on Show HN: Pix.pe – Easily sharable pixel art
I have just one suggestion: Make it possible to erase pixels by right clicking.

Other than that, great work!

jevin··on How a law to fight the Mafia could stop patent trolls
Great article!

Is there any website that lists these patent trolls and their sister companies? I think this would be a great way to create awareness and potentially make people think twice before dealing with such companies.

jevin··on Smoothies and fruit juices are a new risk to health
There's quite a good amount of fibre waste when you pass a fruit through a juicer. Maybe that explains the 32oz.
jevin··on Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
I've met A LOT of incompetent leaders. So, I asked myself this question a million times. And I think I have found a logic answer...

The secret here is "incompetent". Being incompetent means these people have a hard time holding on to a job. Because they get no raise, no promotion and no special treatment. Heck, they don't even feel part of the team. Cause they're just the guy who does an OK job. Naturally, these people are often out of a job. And since every job quickly gets complicated for them, they tend to start their own little startup.

Contrast that to competent people. Chances are, they'll get hired to do something they love and be offered a comfortable salary. Therefore mitigating (in most cases) the need to create a startup.

Now the fun part, here are some examples of incompetent leaders I've known: - A web agency owner, who was the initial web developer for years, but writes HORRIBLE, INCREDIBLY VULNERABLE code. - A head sales representative who can't write properly in his maternal language. - A web agency owned and run by someone who doesn't know anything about technology. He calls jQuery "iPhone compatible technology". - The best, a boss who couldn't even speak in front of his mere dozen employees. I wonder how he negotiates his contracts.

jevin··on Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet
2. Skip the drawings

Except if they are flowcharts !

jevin··on Storage Space Doubled For All Linode VPS plans
I was in the same situation a few months back and I remember reading about mounting an Amazon S3 Bucket on a VPS. Did you consider that?

I never actually went through with the idea, but it's definitely on my things-to-do-when-bored list!

jevin··on Using iTerm2 with Growl for Notifications
This post makes Gowl look like a very good investment.

For now, I use "say boom" to get notified of command completions. The boom sound is funny when coupled with errors. ;-)

jevin··on How to properly plagiarize a website
Same experience here. The guy even hotlinked our Javascript files. Little did he know that we could have controlled his website from where we were.
jevin··on How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”
That's why the Blowfish algorithm is the best choice for password hashing.

The algorithm uses CPU cycles to generate the hash. So there is no way to speed it up, just by using a faster computer.

jevin··on Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM
I don't understand why people still use Path. Why do they have good ratings and how come they are still on the Appstore?
jevin··on Show HN: Delete with your Macbook Pro's power key
I have to ask, do you mean the hash key ? Or the British currency ?
jevin··on Python.org Redesign Preview
This website looks way too good for a programming language! Stunning!
jevin··on TLDR: Submerged continent found in the Indian ocean
Hello from Mauritius ! Any questions welcome.
jevin··on Why don't websites immediately display their text these days?
There is actually a very simple solution for this : use the Javascript include method and place the code at the end of the body tag.

This is what happens technically : The CSS will get loaded, and the custom font will not be found. The browser will then use the fallback font. As the rest of the page gets loaded, so will the Javascript function. This will download and include the custom font, therefore changing the fallback font to the custom font.

The change of font may be quite disturbing, but hey at least people with slower connections can read meanwhile.

jevin··on How I Made my Blog 2.3x Faster
I guess the price difference between the two setups is huge. I'd love to hear more about that.
jevin··on Solve your first world problems
Hey, I think you forgot to remove Techcrunch's favicon.

Otherwise, I really love the concept. Good going!

jevin··on Rails is omakase
Granted, everyone should be able to choose their own tools. But different tools can sometimes (in extreme cases) create inconsistent behavior. And you don't want to see the consequences of that roll into production.

That's the one reason I wouldn't recommend each dev using a different package manager.

However, if we follow that logic, only experienced devs will venture to choose a different package manager. Which implies that he/she would be knowledgeable enough to edit his own .gitignore and whatnot.

jevin··on Full list of new gTLDs
I think TLDs should represent something broad. I can see anyone getting .volkswagen except the car manufacturer.
jevin··on Mutex vs. Semaphore, what is the difference?
Can somebody explain why is this statement is not accurate :

"A mutex is really a semaphore with value 1."

jevin··on Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)
Personally, I think Adobe has a bad reputation for making software. Flash, Dreamweaver and Acrobat comes to mind.

Flash - Difficult to work with (I know most beginners struggle with it). Dreamweaver - Bloated software that generates weird HTML code. Acrobat - Slow and bloated software. Can't a PDF reader be simpler ?

But as adrocknaphobia pointed out 'this isn't "Adobe Brackets", it's just "Brackets"'. Turns out there's no hiding after-all.

jevin··on Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)
Is it me, or are they trying to hide the Brackets / Adobe relation ?
jevin··on How to install Sublime Text 2 on Ubuntu 12.04 (Unity)
As far as I know, Sublime Text is made by one person. And it's totally understandable that he's putting all his time into Sublime Text's features.

With all the distros out there, having an installer for each would be quite intense.

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