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You can always spin up http://owncloud.org/ - it sets up a WebDAV thingy, and there is an android photo sync app.

Boom. Downgraded my account to free. Now I have 8 months to accept OneDrive into my life.

It feels quite empowering to have the ability to protest the Iraq war with my wallet, more so than not voting Labour did.

macca321on Hacker School banning “feigned surprise” is absolutely brilliant

That can still sound patronising - what if you actually know about X already?

macca321on Don't design your own REST back end

Yes, but you shouldn't hardcode the known end point, you should cache it after a walk. At some point in the future, it may 404 or 410 on you, in which case you rewalk the API from the entry point, following the link relations that got you to the thing you are after. Then you cache it again.

macca321on Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here

The theory is good. You'll get plenty of practice later.

macca321on Visual Studio 2013 released to web

I got a free copy of 2010 by attending a launch event, and 2012 from the (now defunct) websitespark program. Anyone know of any freebies for 2013?

macca321on Air Gaps

How about conducting all IO by webcam OCR?

macca321on Tesco enters the tablet fray with Hudl

Think Huddle are going to have something to say about the name...

macca321on The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009)

Jeff Moser's blog is awesome.

macca321on Principles of Reactive Programming

If you're into FRP in .NET, please checkout the OLINQ project on github. It lets you define LINQ queries against reactive sources and have them update themselves as the sources change, letting you do things like realtime aggregation in a couple of lines of code.

I think it's wickles.

https://github.com/wasabii/OLinq

macca321on Ask HN: Discussion on fixing internal enterprise communications

You make it sound like there's no software on earth that can fix internal communications in an appreciable way.

Do you think that with a combination of the right software and sufficient management willpower it could be done? e.g. MEMO: "ALL QUESTIONS TO OTHER STAFF MEMBERS MUST GO THROUGH THE INTERNAL KNOWLEDGE TOOL. THAT IS ALL."

I wonder if a tool unified with email could do it. It would be hard to get Outlook out of everyones' cold, dead hands though...

macca321on Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

Pah. That's nothing. I have an app idea called 'iSkip', where you skim your phone over the water and your phone sends back how many hops it did as it's last act.

macca321on When you have a nail in your eye, everything looks like a nail

Hmm, this touched a bizarre chord for me, particularly "noodling too far down a technological rabbit hole".

Due to obsessing over the fact that the code you write today may get discarded tomorrow (even worse, it may need to be maintained!), I spend my time working on my rapid application development framework, in order to mitigate the cost of making the wrong thing. This obviously creates a distinct lack of making the right thing.

Coincidentally my framework is called Noodles...

macca321on Ask HN: Most effective web launch strategy to gain fast traffic from no budget?

Not what you are asking, but having been through a property search recently, there are some key features I can suggest.

1. Popup the floor plan in the hover window. 2. Add the sq. footage (usually available from the floorplan) 3. Add a 'hide this property forever' button.

2 and 3 were on that Globrix site, but Nestoria have decommissioned it now that they've bought it.

Also, an 'Arrange a viewing' feature that didn't feel like you were endlessly typing your email address and details into a black hole would be nice.

macca321on Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness

I think I'd rather be extinct than be a battery hen.

macca321on So how do we get out of this mess?

Peer-to-peer software, rather than server based software.

macca321on The Destruction of the Web

Eight versions targeting different audiences? Sounds almost like something patio11 might suggest...

macca321on Friction: why we can't build software as fast as we think we can

AKA You Ain't Gonna Need It, sensible advice indeed.

To me though, Friction in software development is something slightly different:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22zero+friction%22+ayende

macca321on Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual salary?

It Jobs Watch scans job postings for London

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/default.aspx?page=1&sortby=...

macca321on Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual salary?

Need more info on this 200k bracket please!

macca321on Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer (2006)

Resubmitting this article when it's so out of date seems like anti-C# FUD spreading.

macca321on Ask HN: How do I obtain part-time development work?

I would suggest going to interviews for contract jobs, wowing them, then dropping the part-time bombshell as if there had been a mis-communication. If you're good enough, and they are a company who are reasonable (which you would need anyway), then it should be fine.

It's worth a try.

BTW I work part time, but I was upfront but had a personal connection who vouched for me before I was interviewed.

macca321on We built our startup out of hatred. Pure fury-fuelled hatred.

I have a wife now, but without one I would probably use this service.

macca321on JavaScript Scope Context Coloring

I forked it with fonts: http://snag.gy/TnNBO.jpg

Maybe not so useful...

macca321on Seriously: what's the "next big thing" in tech?

Robotics or Virtual Reality

macca321on APIUX: URL Design for RESTful Web Services

Would be better titled "URL Design for Web Services"

macca321on Web Framework Benchmarks

Yep, would also be interesting to see Web Api, hosted on Windows and on Mono.

macca321on Performance-Wise, C# Trumps Java

Just to say, you can get a free copy of VS2012 Pro through the WebSiteSpark scheme, which has a tiny-weeny barrier to entry.

I've had legal copies of VS for years through this.