juan_juarez's comments

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: What keeps Light Table from being your primary editor?

A) It's still in alpha.

B) It's not Vim.

C) The questionnaire asks "which other editors do you use" and uses radio buttons.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: Visualizing the relationship between hipsters and PBR

Things in parts of NYC are extremely expensive. Doubly so if you're in an upscale club.

It's not that the beer is more expensive, it's that the cost of the labor involved in serving it to you and the real estate you're consuming it in cost more.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: Terminology – a new terminal emulator

Transparency and background images are great for making screenshots to show off your customized desktop. For actual daily use, they're absurd.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: Stop the (Boring) Fighting

Expressions of our tribal nature through consumer goods. XBox/Playstation. Mac/PC. Coke/Pepsi. Ford/Chevy.

People like picking sides & hate being wrong.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: A gentlemen's agreement

If you actually have the infrastructure and ops to withstand a freak DDOS, you've got a leg to stand on. Taking advantage of a freak shitstorm to steal clients is dishonest because you have just been lucky enough to avoid a shitstorm. In all reality, the people that just went through the DDOS will be better prepared to stand up to one in the future than a system/team that hasn't recovered from one.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: Diamonds Are Bullshit

If they were cheap, people would still buy them because they are incredibly pretty stones. The social aspect of diamond engagement rings would fall apart but they wouldn't go away.

Come on - even if you're against the industry and everything they stand for, a large, well cut, diamond under the extreme lighting of a jewelry store counter is a beautiful thing.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: Thai character ก็็็็็ (ก) gets rendered in a strange way

Chrome Windows 7 ends up rendering them all as boxes. The lack of whitespace prevents line breaking. The problem is that it forces the container out to 1400px wide, rather than responding to browser width.

I really don't like trying to read 1400px long lines of text.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: Thai character ก็็็็็ (ก) gets rendered in a strange way

Thank you for ruining my page rendering.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: The “Steam Box” era begins with the Piston, a $1,000 PC-in-a-console

Currently, Steam is only distributed for Ubuntu.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Leaving VC, what now?

Working for free is almost always a bad idea. If you don't value your time & skills, nobody else is going to.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: JCPenney's Grading System For Employees

Looks like a simple triage to me. I don't see an issue unless they're making it publicly visible to your coworkers.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: The Raspberry Pi: One year since launch, one million sold

That Intel thing is nothing new - IBM was doing that on mainframes 30 years ago.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: Run sudo -k, set your clock to 01.01.1970, run sudo su and boom you're root

You're building up a great big chain of complicated requirements. You're quickly approaching the point where it's easier to steal the machine.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: Andrew Mason's statement about being fired as Groupon CEO

Staring at an empty bank account, a pile of bills & wondering how you're paying rent next month does a remarkable job at distracting you from the emotional aspect of getting fired as well.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: PHP has reached its limit

A limited templating language forces you to behave. More importantly, it also forces other people to behave. It stops people from creating ugly hacks in the middle of templates that become impossible to track bugs. It stops Joe Random Designer from being able to break your database when he works on a new header design.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: PHP has reached its limit

All this article demonstrates is that PHP is more verbose than than Ruby with a good DSL. This exact same logic could be used to argue against Java.

There's plenty wrong with PHP. Verbosity is the least of its sins.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: PHP has reached its limit

Presumably by the word.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: It’s the Sugar, Folks

Important to note that this is the opinion section, not news. I wonder how many people are going to miss that detail?

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: How I Fired Myself

Hell - this could have been avoided if they weren't using graphical tools or had a database that used transactions.

juan_juarez | 13 years ago | on: As of today, App.net is a freemium service

It's not always a bad sign, as both WoW & EVE Online have trials and are both running quite strong. In most cases, however, unless the game was launched with free trials/F2P in their business model, it's a sign that they're struggling to get/retain users.