ihartley
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16 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Any Headphone Recommendations For Around $100 US?
I have a pair of Grado SR225s that are fantastic, but they're only good when I'm at my desk. For travelling I used to have a pair of Bose QC2s that I got as a gift. Due to the terrible head strap design they broke after 2 years of moderate use. I now have a pair of Audio Technica ANC7Bs that are exactly the same as the Bose, and have a better strap, that I picked up for $140, and they're down to $120 now on Amazon. Apparently the first version of the headphones was so similar to the Bose QCs that they got sued and had to change them slightly.
ihartley
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16 years ago
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on: Addressing The Outmoded Swapping And Paging Strategy in OSX
I have the same drive. I currently have 6GB of VM, but I've had it up as far as 14GB with no issues.
ihartley
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16 years ago
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on: The New Data Center Rack From ... IKEA?
I put a 50" plasma tv on one for a few days before I could get around to getting a better stand. Now it serves as a cheap coffee table and has been loaded to capacity with beer bottles several times.
I think they're surprisingly robust for an $8 piece of new furniture.
ihartley
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16 years ago
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on: From Rejection to Acquisition in One Year: One Startup's Story
Demo Day is where all the startups in a round demo what they've been working on. Thus, applying then would be a bit late for that round and a bit early for the next.
ihartley
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16 years ago
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on: In defense of ebook readers
The Kindle DX has rendered all of my PDFs exceptionally well, including graphics. The only issues are that it is only 16 shades of grey-ish and you can't really change the zoom on PDFs (you can rotate the screen to geta little bit of zoom from landscape mode, but that's it)
ihartley
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16 years ago
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on: Why Do Cars Have Fuel Doors on Different Sides?
Most manufacturers put the fuel door on the opposite side from the exhaust pipes. Also, even though it may not seem like a specific side would make any difference in the performance of the car, but when the tank/door are on the opposite side from the driver it keeps the suspension more balanced than if it's on the same side. As such, many performance cars have the gas cap on the right
ihartley
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16 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Where do you live?
I'm in Clairemont right off the 5. It's about 15-20 to Solana Beach from here if you don't go at peak hours. Pretty much everything north of here until Oceanside is fairly expensive, unless you want to go way east. Just try to find somewhere near the freeway as that will save you the most time.
ihartley
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16 years ago
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on: Something's pretty broken with Firebug...
Have you tried opening Firebug in a new window from the window you want to monitor. This will leave the Firebug area closed on the window you're using and the net requests will collect in the Firebug window.
ihartley
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17 years ago
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on: Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
animedubzone.com
bitsboltsandvolts.com
bitsboltsnvolts.com
bitsboltsvolts.com
cashnik.com
deletetheinternet.com
dunbarsdungeon.com
finihd.com
graphle.net
graphle.org
hotelfreehd.com
maperate.com
phinihd.com
proclamate.com
pussyandguns.com
sandiegomarquee.com
schrodingershotbox.com
sdmarquee.com
seekaview.com
streamwhat.com
ihartley
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17 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Your Hacker Workspace
I had that case on the first computer I built
ihartley
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17 years ago
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on: Poll: What kind of cell phone do you have?
Mine has lived in the same pocket as my keys for well over a year and has no scratches. Do you have unusually sharp keys or something?
ihartley
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17 years ago
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on: The Paradox of Self-Education
I'm about to start doing this very thing. I've got enough money in the bank to last me for quite some time at my current burn rate. I'm planning a 6 month break to start learning guiter and piano, as well as surfing and working on a couple of my startup ideas and I guess I'll see how it goes from there. I haven't had a prolonged period of time where I have had no obligations in years and I'm not sure how long I can sustain such a break.
Anyway, I wish you luck in your own endeavor. It seems rare to find people that really want to have some quality in their life rather than just doing what they think is expected of them by society... well, maybe not here on HN, anyway.
ihartley
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17 years ago
Nice use of the Silk icon set.
ihartley
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17 years ago
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on: Tell HN: One URL Per Day
Yeah, of course all of this is opinion. We can't know anything without data, unfortunately. I just think the community would be best served if people had something interesting to say about what they were submitting rather than just trying to submit something that appeals to the general audience here. I think that just has too mcuh potential to lead to gaming the system without giving anything back other than a link.
ihartley
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17 years ago
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on: Tell HN: One URL Per Day
I don't think giving out karma for submitting articles is even the best idea, anyway. The only way you should get karma in my mind is by furthering the discussion of an article. Why should you be rewarded in some fashion just because you found something interesting on the internet? It isn't that hard to do compared to actually discussing it.
ihartley
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17 years ago
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on: Tell HN: One URL Per Day
As to the potentially missed content, perhaps you could submit multiple stories, but they'd go in a queue and only one story from your queue would be pushed public per day.
ihartley
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17 years ago
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on: Laptop of choice for a Programmer, Need Help
I highly recommend the last gen macbooks. I have a second to last gen one and it's a great computer besides the fact that it can only address 3gb of ram. I've recently upgraded to the new unibody macbook which is an amazing machine, but a little beyond your price point of $1000
ihartley
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17 years ago
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on: Users pour forth MacBook trackpad woes
I haven't seen any of the issues people are talking about on the new MacBooks, though I have seen an issue where if I'm resting my thumb on the bottom of the pad like I used to when there was a discrete button I can't do two finger scrolling.
ihartley
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17 years ago
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on: Ask YC: Why is emacs a great editor?
or if you're on a mac you can just use your .emacs file:
(custom-set-variables
'(mac-command-modifier (quote control))
'(mac-option-modifier (quote meta))
)
And now your command key is a control and your option key is a meta.
ihartley
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17 years ago
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on: Hackers' Screenshots
http://megadeth.myrok.com/screen.jpgObviously rearranged little. Firefox tends to be on the smaller screen opened up to whatever documentation I might need. Terminal lives over there, too. Textmate is fullscreen on the big screen most of the time with various other utilities (CocoaMySQL, Transmit, iTunes) living somewhere behind it.
