JGM564's comments

JGM564 | 12 years ago | on: Gmail was down

If it's actually a widespread outage, is this a configuration problem for some anti-snooping changes that Google is making?

I don't think they've ever had a worldwide outage like this.

JGM564 | 13 years ago | on: Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM

Classmates.com was sued in 2008 for sending emails claiming former classmates were searching for you. Similar, but Classmates.com was actually requiring a paid subscription before telling you there wasn't actually anyone on the other end.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/03/classmatescom-set...

JGM564 | 13 years ago | on: Crockford Keyboard

The "Done" button is a toggle? Is that a side effect of this being a proof of concept, or was there some extra functionality in mind?

Edit: Answering my own question, since it looks like this was designed for touch/pen based input, it would probably hide the keyboard: http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/keyboard.html

JGM564 | 13 years ago | on: Automating xkcd Diagrams: Transforming Serious to Funny

This also links to an interesting article describing how to create an xkcd self referential chart.

http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/09/07/self-description/

JGM564 | 13 years ago | on: An Update from Elon Musk

Exciting quote emphasized in post: "we expect Tesla to become cash flow positive at the end of next month."

JGM564 | 14 years ago | on: GitHub Secrets

So glad to see ignoring whitespace supported, I found myself needing this a lot.

JGM564 | 16 years ago | on: Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event

Honestly, I'm just disappointed that something bridging the gap between iPhones and laptops doesn't have Flash or app backgrounding.