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ndespres

1,918 karma · joined March 17, 2008

I.T. consultant by week, small farmer by weekend
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ndespres··on Show HN: an app to help your family be on time
Yes. What are you talking about.
ndespres··on What's so special with minimalweather.com?
Yes. I already have a weather icon on my iPhone that doesn't show the actual weather until I open it. Right now it tells me it's 73 and sunny!
ndespres··on Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC
I'm referring more to the "like wild Indians" comment, which is qualified by a cute remark intended to clarify exactly which culture is supposed to be offended there. I'm not being PC.
ndespres··on Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC
> While making no call on the politeness of the phrase, "feather not dot" is one of the best I've read in days.

Really? It was an inappropriate remark, I was surprised to read it and even more surprised to see it lauded by someone else.

ndespres··on Pretty RFC
When I search for "1483", my only result is 2684, which supersedes it. But when I try to view it, I'm told "The source XML for this RFC isn't available, therefore it can't be reformatted." Did the IETF shut you down?

I don't think the original documents on the IETF datatracker site are that bad- it seems pretty clean and easy to read already.

ndespres··on Instagram For Android Hits 1m Downloads in Under 24 Hours
It's funny that you enjoy the "top pictures" tab, as that's really one of my least-favorite parts of the app! I appreciate the intimate photo sharing with my immediate circle, but to see the stuff that floats to the top really makes me question the network as a whole.
ndespres··on Looks Like Zynga Just Bought OMGPOP For $200 Million
Wow, good for them. I've been with them since they were "I'm In Like With You," a fun but pointless "social flirting" site (at least, that's my memory of what it was) before they turned to social gaming. I didn't think they were going to make it for a while.

Congrats to Charles and the team at OMGPOP!

ndespres··on [dead]
This would help for apple.com as well- I can never tell whether it's a link to an App Store product, or an official Apple page.
ndespres··on Richard Stallman’s rider
Thanks for posting this. The laugh in here for me was watching the person to the right of the podium try to hold in their giggles.
ndespres··on Give this company a child's drawing and they'll make it into a stuffed toy
Brings to mind this classic 60's Mad Magazine article "If kids designed their own Xmas toys." http://thatsmyskull.blogspot.com/2005/12/mad-magazine-if-kid...

This is great!

ndespres··on BioCurious, a hackerspace for bio now open to public
Thanks very much for the helpful links!
ndespres··on BioCurious, a hackerspace for bio now open to public
When you're experimenting with bioinformatics (specifically in R), are there sample data sets you can run queries on? What have you been using?
ndespres··on Host Apple Software Updates on the hardware and OS of your choice.
This is exciting! Thanks for sharing. I wish I'd had this last week when I had 25 new Macbooks unboxed in my office, downloading updates from the web for each one.
ndespres··on Windows 1.0: Still playing Reversi after all these years
Looks more like Network World author submitting all his articles to HN.
ndespres··on Windows 1.0: Still playing Reversi after all these years
"Early versions of Windows also came with "Write," a word processor that had more features than Notepad but was later phased out in favor of Microsoft Word."

Looks to still be there to me, as WordPad. And "write.exe" at the command line still launches it!

"win100.ovl" won't load because it's not an executable program, but part of the Windows startup routine, storing some device drivers for basic hardware (keyboard, mouse, etc).

ndespres··on Ask HN: Please review my app: Scheduling (employee scheduling software)
I think you'd benefit from replacing the screenshot of the "my office scheduling" page on the homepage, with an explanatory graphic. The text there is too small to read, but I found myself squinting to make it out to try to glean the features I could expect from the product. As an example, I cite Highrise's homepage: http://highrisehq.com/, where icons and descriptive text are used to better present what I can do with the application.

I think that having two metrics of plan/pricing levels is confusing. I'd like to purchase by users in my office, but I don't care how many gigabytes of storage space it costs you. It's also not clear exactly what counts towards that storage quota. Will you be tallying the space used by my calendar events in your database? Will there be a feature where I can upload large files to share with appointments? I couldn't find an explanation of why I'd want to pay for storage space anywhere. Once this is defined, maybe an add-on of 'n' gigabytes of addon storage can be purchased for those requiring the additional space- but right now it just appears to be one more thing to confuse someone about to make a purchase.

ndespres··on Tron Legacy: how the special effects were done
Thanks very much! It looks great on my desktop.
ndespres··on [dead]
I guess I fell for it, AND herf'd a link. Oops!
ndespres··on [dead]
No reason for this to be a joke. I saw this product in Popular Science about 8-10 years ago, when I had a subscription. Seems like there's a pretty narrow market for something like this- lots of higher-end 35mm cameras are already compatible with newer digital bodies, and people shooting with new-but-vintage 35mm cameras (like the ones that http://usa.shop.lomography.com/cameras Lomography sells) want film as just one component of the overall aesthetic of shooting those types of cameras.

Still, though, I wouldn't mind playing with one of these. It would cut down significantly on my film processing costs!

ndespres··on Tron Legacy: how the special effects were done
Would you mind sharing that wallpaper?
ndespres··on Ask NYYC: Help us make a gathering plan.
Looks like I've already been RSVP'd, then. See you there!
ndespres··on Maintaining a Sense of Urgency
This has been true for me as well. Moving was completely necessary for me to really get things rolling with Jabbik.
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