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thatjoshguyon Show HN: Final Touch

I wish I had a need for the app because it looks just so beautiful, and the website is stunning and does an amazing job of describing it as well.

thatjoshguyon 'We won and we didn't notice' - a conversation with Jeremy Allison of Samba

But I think you would be surprised by the amount of consumer electronic devices that run linux. My Toshiba TV runs linux, and it doesn't have a DVR or anything like that. None of those fancy widgets and internet connectivity. Just a plain up TV running linux.

thatjoshguyon Chrome's Most Important Feature

From my experience Chrome installs itself into %appdata% to avoid requiring admin permissions. And not once has Chrome asked for my admin password on OS X.

thatjoshguyon Chrome's Most Important Feature

Can't they just stop making changes that cause plugins and extensions to break?

I know that would be easier said than done, but Chrome seems to do a good job of it.

thatjoshguyon Some Clarification and Musings

I've been using Chrome for Mac ever since it was in early, buggy developer builds. I was using Safari before that, but only because Firefox on OS X sucks.

For Windows, on the otherhand, I love Firefox so much. I do fine it's performance and UI so much better. Chrome sucks with lots of tabs open and the UI just bores me.

thatjoshguyon Facebook shuts down Deals

Well, not even. Facebook Check-in deals launched in Australia, with KFC being a big partner. It was expected that the average store would see 150 people redeem the deal a week when in reality each store would be lucky to get 1 a day, most being from KFC staff.

thatjoshguyon Windows 8: Improving our file management basics: copy, move, rename, and delete

That's what I thought, but I took that screenshot from lion.

thatjoshguyon Windows 8: Improving our file management basics: copy, move, rename, and delete

For what it's worth, OS X does this http://cl.ly/9ZeF

thatjoshguyon Windows 8: Improving our file management basics: copy, move, rename, and delete

But OS X did have the consolidation of file transfer dialog boxes for a long time.

(Although it still has woeful conflict resolution http://cl.ly/9Zqg)

thatjoshguyon Google Fiber: 151Mbps down / 92Mbps up

I'm not sure what my uni's stance on torrenting is, but it definitely has not stopped me from downloading over 1TB of... "legitimately vague" content http://i.imgur.com/oQE4J.png

thatjoshguyon Google Fiber: 151Mbps down / 92Mbps up

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1447236364.png

5 ms? Apparently I have the fastest internet in Australia

thatjoshguyon Google Fiber: 151Mbps down / 92Mbps up

What I would like to know is how much of that speed is due to being 'on-net'. I know that speed is what the connection is capable, but if the server is onnet, then it is nowhere near realistic.

Speedtest tells me I get 75mbps up/80mbps down and a ping of 5ms, but that's with the server it automatically gives me... This is using my uni's on-campus internet, which is connected to AARNET, a massive network. How much of that speed is due to me never actually 'entering' the 'internet'?

Is there some sort of way to test all of them automatically and get the average?

Edit: My speed test results over 15 test and multiple servers http://cl.ly/9aNO

thatjoshguyon New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms

If you mistype your email address in Facebook, it will suggest your correct account on login fail. I'm not sure if it just does this blindly, or if it tracks where you are logging in from.

thatjoshguyon The Shapes of CSS

The infinity sign caught me as the most interesting and apparently complex, but I love how simple the solution is

thatjoshguyon Defcon Lockpickers Open Card-And-Code Government Locks In Seconds

Well, it's not 'lockpicking' in the traditional sense, but they still demonstrated that you can open it just by stabbing a bit of wire into the light. It's absurd in the sense that it actually works.

thatjoshguyon The future Firefox UI

Possibly the UI of iCal and Address Book might have the inconsistant UI, but they still have the exact same UX as every other OS X app, thanks to all (with the exception of iTunes?) being built in Cocoa so they all use the same text controls and menu items etc.

You can create a Cocoa app in XCode and just add a text field, and you will automatically get spell check, dictionary look-up and font controls. All your shortcuts will work exactly how you would expect them to (ctrl+a, I'm looking at you). You get a help menu with built in search of the menu bar (http://cl.ly/8yKI). All with no effort from the dev at all.

The only exception to this would be Adobe apps, but at least they have their own UI/UX that they seems to follow most of the time (but they actually hate Apple/OS X, so they probably just do it out of spite)

thatjoshguyon A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency

I think a lot of people have been saying they are responsible.

thatjoshguyon John Resig uses this

OH dear god. Split thumb-keyboard is horrible. Why would I want to make the keyboard any smaller? I used it once on the iPad and that was enough. Ever again.

thatjoshguyon Humble Bundle #3 is Live

I Believe it's Balsamic Mockups http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups