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itsmequinn | 12 years ago | on: Interactive Resume

Are you all kidding me? This resume is amazing and if he isn't being super humble in describing most of his skills I don't know how he created this.

itsmequinn | 12 years ago | on: Apple Ran Out Of Gold iPhones Because It Underestimated How Much Asia Likes Gold

To be fair, the 5th avenue New York store consistently "over-indexes" (as the article puts it) with shoppers of Asian heritage. Until recently at least, it was not very easy to buy an iPhone of any type in many Asian countries, and as a result, many tourists on vacation to the US would buy multiple devices to take home. Even now many Asian countries are among the last to have new Apple products roll out to them. Certainly don't have data to back this up, but I lived in New York for 6 years and took more than the occasional trip to the Apple store and witnessed these types of bulk purchases. Point is, even the "data" this article introduces doesn't necessarily have anything to do with gold.

itsmequinn | 12 years ago | on: IPhone 5S: How safe is your fingerprint with Touch ID?

I feel like the mention of the NSA and PRISM in this article is so tangential to the issue as to be misplaced. Why mention the NSA here when there's no evidence or reason to suppose that they'd want to mass-collect our fingerprint data specifically? I mean, I suppose anything that is sent over the internet might be intercepted and stored/analyzed by the government but it's getting to the point where NSA and PRISM are just popular buzz words adopted by anyone and everyone trying to make a name for themselves in the tech community ("check out my app that pokes fun at the NSA and PRISM issue", "5 reasons I will be protecting my data from NSA/PRISM").

I'm not saying there's no threat to privacy here just that there are a lot of reasons other than the NSA and PRISM that make data privacy important and that we should be focused on the larger issues.

itsmequinn | 12 years ago | on: Why “open always wins” isn’t the point

The first assumption the author makes, that "1. Everything Google does is open (either because Gruber believes this a priori, or because Google says so or someone somewhere believes this or something)" is missing the point. The point, to me, is that Google is not entirely open and no one should expect them to be as they are a for profit company. The problem is that Google tries to create the perception in the public eye that they are open and create products that are open and free when the reality is that they are an advertising company, not a non-profit aid society.

itsmequinn | 12 years ago | on: State of Web Inspector

Thank God! The current inspector is horrendous. I don't know how to find anything, and I use Xcode regularly.

itsmequinn | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: My pinboard-backed link blog

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

I absolutely agree with your point. I actually didn't realize pinboard was a sharing service at all for the first few months that I had it. I wound up following one or two tech writers that I follow elsewhere but I've since forgotten about it and haven't really even looked to see what they're saving to pinboard.

itsmequinn | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: My pinboard-backed link blog

I'm not, but I'll definitely check it out. Since this application is so simple, it only requires one curl request and I just use the http authentication method. Working on this small project (and the comments here on HN) have definitely opened my eyes to greater possibilities though, so I'm sure I'll have need for a php client in the future.

itsmequinn | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: My pinboard-backed link blog

That's cool. I hadn't thought of using a tag for this. As I said below in another reply, I just don't fill in the extended text or I mark an article as private in order to keep it out of the feed. A tag seems like it might be better though. Thanks for the comment.

itsmequinn | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: My pinboard-backed link blog

Yes, I should have mentioned that only articles that are shared (public) and that have extended description text are processed by my script. That way I don't wind up with any articles that have no body content and just a title and tags.

itsmequinn | 13 years ago | on: Build and Analyze podcast ending December 17

I definitely understand the feeling that the podcast has become stale. I still enjoy it very much, but topics have had to become more and more specific lately and as such I feel the show runs the risk of losing its "timeless" quality. However, I do hope that Marco considers staying with 5by5 when he does decide what he wants to do next. Mule Radio is great too but I really love the dynamic that Dan brings to all of his podcasts.

itsmequinn | 13 years ago | on: What have you tried

Does anyone ales feel as though the majority of questions like the example in the article are asked by children? I almost always assume it is a young child asking a question like that and one who is still in the process of "learning how to learn".

itsmequinn | 13 years ago | on: Simple Bank and Why You Shouldn't Bank in Beta

Eh, don't bank with them yet if that's what you think. This industry needs pioneers and anything with the scale and complexity of a bank is going to have some bugs no matter how much testing is done in a private beta.

Yeah, it's scary to think that your money is being managed by beta software, but it was also scary for Chuck Yeager to break the sound barrier.

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