jcitme's comments

Because LinkedIn can monetize a lot easier than facebook can.

Yes you can, provided the belt loop is big enough.

This is fallicious. Anyone can register for an account. Knowing someone is on HN only gives enough information, that said person is in the 'HN demographic'. Just because he happened to register for an account, vs someone similar who didn't, does not give us the amount of entropy removal you implied.

I agree with this statement. If someone invested in my service and something else who competed with mines, this doesn't represent an ethical problem, but just that the investor is interested in the field in general.

This is hard if the developers on question are unwilling to do so. A somewhat parallel in the whole VLC iphone app not meeting the GPL fiasco comes to mind... They pulled the app because some dev complained. Then again, a corporation with deep enough pockets might be able to cough up enough money to change minds. I'll defer to Raldi on this...

>However, it could be that in America and the UK today, smarter people tend to end up in the kind of social circles where being gay is (for whatever reason) more acceptable.

I'm pretty sure this is the biggest confounding issue. It's mentioned in the article, but I would like to see it addressed more.

You're thinking in the wrong terms. Is the Instagram brand worth less than 1% of Facebook? Also, I see hordes of high school and college females- especially the 'popular' ones with iphones- using instagram. When you have possibly the best target market, and a tiny valuation for what basically is facebook's other lifeblood (photos are second only to the social graph), Instagram was positively cheap.

Honestly, in the tech industry, a 25 P/E ratio is yawned at.

That might be possible to implement, actually. Just like how clicking on facebook spotify 'listen with' links now plays the song in the _spotify_ app, there may be a way on the server to control what the client does...

Same experience here. I use SSH over a wide variety of ports, and never had it blocked by 3G before...

I can't tell if this is a parody of spam or not...

A quick analysis of my own experience here: For windows and mac, the best software I've found so far is puush.com. I made a quick analysis a while back, and realized that obce you get used to such software, you end up pressing the hotkey and immediately expect to be able to paste a link. Puush excels in that regard; they have a good screencap engine which allows fash shots, and a good webserver which uploads pics rapidly and return a link asap.

Unfortunately, they lack a Linux option. As i use debian, i had to find an alternative, or more in the spirit, make my own. I tested a few others with linux versions, namely lookit and shutter, but being fully open source they had their own flaws: uploading to imgur is damn slow, and after using puush for a while it was frustrating.

I tried writing my own using pykeybinder, since it seemed more nautral than using autohotkey, which imho seemed like a port from the windows version and overkill. I then took code from pygtk in order to take fast screenshots in python. It has the added ability of being able to take just the current selected window as well. In the end, however, the ability for the -s option in scrot to take a shot of a selected area was too tempting so i added a wrapper in my script for that.

For uploading this is where writing something that copies to the dropbox public folder shines: it allows you to generate a name and link for the file BEFORE it uploads, which is an insane speedup. The file can then upload as you're sending the email with the link, for example.

If anyone wants to look at my crappy code, it's at

https://github.com/jcitme/pyscreenshare/blob/master/pyscreen...

uTorrent allows streams in torrents. Interesting that they haven't made it a bigger feature, this has a large potential if it becomes a bigger part of the torrenting user interface. People complain that this stream download is bad for the peer cloud, but it could work very well if there's a single big server or two backing everything up- at the same time, taking a lot of bandwidth pressure off those servers.

I'll disagree on this point. I've used my 3GS for two years, and it served well as a quick and dirty way to develop in... unusual places. I'm not even talking about SSHing into another computer; just to localhost, quickly using vi to change a file, then running a git commit is ridiculously convenient for someone who doesn't own an Air and doesn't want to lug his laptop around. The only problem, really, is the speed, which I agree isn't the fastest, but the iPhone 4 is really usable. When I upgrade to the 4S in a year or so, it'll probably be ready for most stuff I want to do in a pinch.

I agree with the Linux running on a MBP part... indeed, I'm planning to do so when I buy my MBP in a few months. However, I do recognize that I'm not the typical use case for a person using this device, spending most of my time in the command line, etc. For actually developing something, there's a much better ecosystem running linux.

On the other hand, I'd take iOS running on, say, the Galaxy Nexus. If I jailbreak iOS, I can easily run iSSH, install inetutils, vim, etc, and come halfway to an amazing development device with access to the whole app ecosystem. For me, that's the dealbreaker (or maker, depending on the perspective.)

I'm pretty sure the people on HN know how to reset a password, or at least google how to do so without this blogspam. Keep this stuff somewhere else.

To be fair the followed it right up with a critical quote, but I agree.

>Since I'm not aware of a single Android phone that sells for more after two years than the full price two years prior

Pretty sure absolutely no phone sells for more than the full initial price, iPhone included. Remember, the price you see in ads are carrier subsidized, an actual new iPhone is approximately $650 without a contract.

On that note, I just bought an AT&T iPhone 4 for $250 a month ago. Not bad of a deal for 18 months later.

sudo aptitude install kde-full shouldn't be "a bunch of footwork" by any standard by someone who passed high school.

>In fact, on (January 12, 2012) December 20, 2012 (*see update below), that number has already been reached.

Did you mean December 20, 2011? Or, more likely given the update, "that number has ALMOST been reached."?