jack57's comments

jack57 | 12 years ago | on: Linux gets frozen, what do you do?

Sorry for the double posts. An app I was using caused it.

jack57 | 12 years ago | on: Linux gets frozen, what do you do?

This complexity, my technically oriented friends, is part of the reason normal people do not use Linux.

jack57 | 12 years ago | on: Facebook's Lookback

I found the handwritten Mark Zuckerberg signature a little pretentious. Maybe that's because of The Social Network, but I don't feel like other CEO's are using their own brand like that. It's like a fashion designer or even an artist signing their work... My video was not THAT good.

jack57 | 12 years ago | on: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK

I think a lot of people would find this very useful. Could you post the link on this thread along with submitting it on HN?

jack57 | 12 years ago | on: Moz Dumps Amazon Web Services, Citing Expense and 'Lacking' Service

Thanks for the additional information. It was difficult to decipher your problems from the original article. I'm guessing the "no variability in load" processes are where AWS was the most unnecessary.

jack57 | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Unregistered word.tld domain names for your project

This is an awesome, simple idea. There's something to be said about simplicity. I wish I had an idea like that!

jack57 | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Unregistered word.tld domain names for your project

Wouldn't it be nicer if the domain names were divided alphabetically into 26 labelled pages? Right now it's 29 and difficult to browse.

jack57 | 12 years ago | on: Mozilla, OTOY, Autodesk Work to Deliver High Performance Games and Apps on Web

http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=70 I started a thread when I could not find the AMI (honestly confusing that you must launch it through the AWS marketplace outside of the console), but now I've updated it with my current problem. Perhaps we should start a new thread for this issue.

jack57 | 12 years ago | on: Mozilla, OTOY, Autodesk Work to Deliver High Performance Games and Apps on Web

I'm in the same boat. This is pretty frustrating considering I'm paying for this special GPU instance by the hour.

jack57 | 12 years ago | on: Mozilla, OTOY, Autodesk Work to Deliver High Performance Games and Apps on Web

Has anyone had any luck? I've set everything up and followed their instructions, but the URL they give you to access the web interface keeps timing out for me.

jack57 | 13 years ago | on: Apple, wtf is wrong with you?

"This guy is a hardcore Linux geek converted into hardcore Mac-fanboy (polar opposite)"

I disagree that these are polar opposites. I have been a Windows guy most of my life, but after switching to Linux, I have learned to appreciate the merits of the UNIX basis of OSX.

jack57 | 13 years ago | on: Why HN was down

Apologies for the trivial comment

jack57 | 13 years ago | on: Why HN was down

Are you sure that comment's name wasn't Phillip J Fry?

jack57 | 13 years ago | on: Free Software Documentary “Software Wars” in Need of Support

The sensationalist "* Wars" name certainly is not helping it within the technical community.

jack57 | 13 years ago | on: Ubuntu for phones

Looks like a lot of people are interested in developing apps for Ubuntu Mobile. So much so that the website is already down: http://developer.ubuntu.com/gomobile

jack57 | 13 years ago | on: Steve Ballmer's Nightmare is Coming True

This is incredibly sensationalist. iPads are great for the run of the mill soccer mom, but anyone who wants to get any real work done needs a personal computer(Mac or Windows, trying to be unbiased in this regard). Microsoft Office isn't going anywhere, and I don't think anyone expected the 1st generation of Surface to succeed. Windows 8 is a fine operating system primarily criticized by people who used it for a very short amount of time. The Surface Pro has not even been released yet, and Apple is slowly losing their knack for innovation. Let's not throw our stocks in the air and beg Apple to take our money yet. This article draws ridiculous conclusions on shaky data and successfully draws the attention of those looking for Microsoft's downfall.

jack57 | 13 years ago | on: Notch: "I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along."

DISCLAIMER: I use Windows 8 as my main operating system.

The notion that normal desktop applications will not run on Windows 8 is incredible. I could download Minecraft right now, and it would run without a hitch. People need to use Windows 8 and realize that it is an iteration of Windows 7. It feels like Windows 7 with an interesting tablet overlay that I never use.

P.S. Every single game I own on Steam works

jack57 | 13 years ago | on: My first year as employee #1 of a YC company

Yeah ideally we all work for understanding, cool tech companies, but unfortunately that's not the truth. I recommend you buy another similar, safer domain and have this one forward to it.

jack57 | 13 years ago | on: My first year as employee #1 of a YC company

I'm in the same boat. I'm not sure it's the best choice for a technical blog, especially when many people visit them at work.