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rrrhys

279 karma · joined October 28, 2010

React Native & Laravel dev.
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rrrhys··on Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
Cool idea!
rrrhys··on Amazon WorkSpaces
And licenses?
rrrhys··on Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt
I believe this is how bankruptcy works in Australia, and to take your last sentence as a metaphor, is exactly what happens (assuming the stigma of bankrupty isn't a big enough deterrent for you).
rrrhys··on Fog Creek’s Remote Work Policy
As an IT worker with no possibility for remote work currently I would happily agree to this policy which other posters (who presumably do some remote work) seem so unhappy about.
rrrhys··on The New AWS Command-Line Interface
"start off as command line accessible and add the gui after"

As much as I'd love this to be true, it is so wrong unless you are targeting other very technical users.

Most people I know (ie, potential customers) think anything in the command line is old/impossible to use/nerdy.

rrrhys··on How Gmail’s New Inbox Is Affecting Open Rates
For what it's worth, your newsletter is one of a couple I've manually moved to my Primary tab.
rrrhys··on Men’s Wearhouse’s Ouster of Founder Seen Hurting Brand
The capitalisation of every letter in the title makes it completely unreadable.
rrrhys··on Bitbucket passes one million users
I don't particularly see the difference and switch between both pretty much daily - granted I don't take advantage of Github social features really.
rrrhys··on Wikileaks release "PlusD": Database of 1.7 million diplomatic cables
No.
rrrhys··on The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 (beta)
I'm working through it now - have left the tutorial for a while (finished chapter 8, sign in) to do a few demo projects and make sure all the concepts are sticking.

I'm also finding that reading open source code is giving me some much needed 'real-world' exposure - currently studying Lobsters (https://github.com/jcs/lobsters)

rrrhys··on Ask HN: Why aren't usernames encrypted?
I consider username/email to be pretty synonymous, don't you think?
rrrhys··on Ask HN: if you would want to move on from IT, what would you pick today?
Mechanical Engineering. I suspect it'd press many of the same buttons as web development (tinkering, 'making something', etc)
rrrhys··on Ask HN: Is 25 too late to become a proficient developer?
Your age is only one factor among many other factors. Especially on the internet - how would anybody even know how old you are.
rrrhys··on Ask HN: Why aren't usernames encrypted?
The support overhead of users not seeing 'who' they are may not be worth the extra security.
rrrhys··on James while John had had had ... had had had a better effect on the teacher
"John wrote 'had'. James wrote 'had had'. James' answer had a better effect on the teacher."
rrrhys··on Why don't MacBooks come with cellular networking?
For those with a few hours of commute daily, it's a no-brainer.
rrrhys··on The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments
I suppose I was more surprised to find it so easily, rather than surprised it exists.
rrrhys··on The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments
Clicking on the usernames of the pro-scientology comments surprisingly yields other generic positive comments on pro-scientology articles:

adamcroft croft posted a comment in David Miscavige Leads Scientology to Milestone Year · 5 hours ago Nice pictures. So festive and grand. Scientology does so much good in the realm of drug and human rights education and it is only right that more places be reached and more people be helped. People need to know that illegal drugs are not worth it and that we should fight for each and every individual's human rights.

adamcroft croft posted a comment in Is Scientology Trying to Take Over Self-Publishing? · a year ago I've read about this facility, and it's quite impressive. Technology in the 21st century progresses so rapidly that it's mind boggling. Not only do we have the power to virtually publish infinitely, even print publishing has gone to a whole new different level. Having worked in the publishing industry, I certainly realize what a big deal this is.

adamcroft croft posted a comment in Facing Difficulties in Life? Scientology Has an iPad App For That · a year ago Thanks Portia for providing the information.

adamcroft croft posted a comment in Facing Difficulties in Life? Scientology Has an iPad App For That · a year ago The app actually looks pretty promising. It's free, and seems to be more useful than the books I find on the self-help section in the bookstore. I've always been curious about Scientology, and this is an easy way to find out more about it.

rrrhys··on Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing
I agree - I worked on the other side of the fence doing some back-end dev for Ross and would happily do it again.

Hopefully this all blows over and his fingers get burnt and everyone can get on with it.

rrrhys··on Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing
I did some work for BetaPunch last year.

It's sad to see such an error of judgement (a big one, but nonetheless) which will really hurt after slowly gaining steam.

rrrhys··on Slowpal - 5 days in. 150 users. 1 million transactions indexed.
I like the nice clean design, bootstrap done well. I think you might get an angry email about the cool logo though.
rrrhys··on Do you actually get projects from the Hacker News Contractors spreadsheet?
I had no idea there was one.
rrrhys··on Show HN: Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site
This is fantastic, you should make a submission so it gets the credit it deserves.

I'm terrible at creating nice colour-sets and looking forward to making my bootstrap based projects less 'out of the box' looking.

rrrhys··on I open-sourced my EV Li-on Battery Management System
Thanks for explaining! Sounds like something that could really benefit from more eyeballs.
rrrhys··on I open-sourced my EV Li-on Battery Management System
Can you explain what this does, as if to a 10 year old?
rrrhys··on http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to
Do you have a realistic way to go about this? Especially in what is more than likely a 50 line project.

I really disagree with the approach of blowing apart a fun project and insisting bloat like a text parsing engine be added to make you happy.

http://keyword.jpg.to/source or http://keyword.jpg.to/s would do just fine IMO.

rrrhys··on The average color of the New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes.
I like it because it is different (Inspiring maybe?), and it is someone's hacky project. Maybe a bit simple, but fits in IMO.
rrrhys··on Gmail Motion - now you can control Gmail with your body.
Imagine all the uses!
rrrhys··on MySQL.com compromised via (guess what?) SQL injection
Thanks, great read (and interesting eye opener!)
rrrhys··on Show HN: Keyword Tool to Find Available Domain Names
Both now bookmarked - a while ago I went hunting for a good domain name helper and came up very short.
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