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highriseo | 14 years ago | on: Gitdocs: Open-source Dropbox using Ruby + Git

Lack of windows support and the difficulty to install the server side components are the two ones that I've heard a lot of complaints about.

highriseo | 14 years ago | on: Gitdocs: Open-source Dropbox using Ruby + Git

Does this address any of the issues people have with SparkleShare? (Another dropbox clone based on git - http://www.sparkleshare.org/)

highriseo | 14 years ago | on: For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser

Remember that this article is advising that you upgrade to the most recent version. That means if your parents are running IE 6, let it update itself. Although I agree with you're point about not contract work, I think that upgrading to a newer version of the same software holds low enough liability (esp when compared with changing to Firefox/Opera/Chrome)

highriseo | 14 years ago | on: HTML5: The Technology Changing the Web

I'm surprised that wsj is portraying that Apple is the driving force between HTML5. It seems to me to be a much more "grassroots" level idea than one coming from the top down.

highriseo | 14 years ago | on: Global average response times from EC2 regions

Why is it that Canada is consistently getting better or equal performance than the US? I would think that most traffic requests from Canada are routed through the US.

highriseo | 14 years ago | on: Facebook gets redesigned

The thing that scares me most about this redesign is that Facebook is spending resources making half baked UX changes instead of focusing energy into doing something new an innovative.

Lists might have their place in the future, and somehow users might get used to a more cluttered design. Ultimately, these types of features are tweaks on a product and not a game changer.

highriseo | 14 years ago | on: British Discuss Limiting Social Media to Fight Crime

If legislation like this passed, I wonder how it would effect relations with the US and the US tech industry. Its all fine and good to try and subvert the Egyptian government during a revolution, but what happens if the tech companies try to subvert another first world country?

highriseo | 14 years ago | on: Deck.js: A JavaScript library for building modern HTML presentations.

What goals are being accomplished here that are not adressed with other HTML/JS/CSS presentation frameworks?

I'm thinking specifically of DZSlides (http://paulrouget.com/dzslides/)

highriseo | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser

A lot of these features remind me of what mozilla is trying to do with browserID (https://browserid.org/)

highriseo | 14 years ago | on: Firefox 6 for web developers

Mozilla is supporting a new version of websockets (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640003) that as of a week ago did not work with a lot of popular libraries yet (socket.io). Its awesome to see better security features in place and I hope that library distributors are fast to follow up with changes in their library.

highriseo | 14 years ago | on: Edit like an Ace

I wonder if joint support with somebody like heroku is coming. Being able to develop and deploy all from your web browser would be a very cool feature.

highriseo | 14 years ago | on: A new use for the scroll bar

It seems that the API that this is using has been rate limited.

highriseo | 14 years ago | on: The Results: #AskObama Town Hall analyzed

This is awesome. I wish more companies would take the time to show data in meaningful ways.