pizzaman's comments

sounds great, but i'm afraid that this is the reality: http://haxe.org/forum/thread/2988

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: 51 hours left to live

which leaves you back to your desk working :-(

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: Threewords.me is up for private auction

The whole "ideas are worth nothing" never made a lot of sense.

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: How I filled two dumpsters and went paperless

crashplan is having a sale until tuesday, after that their regular prices will go up. http://b4.crashplan.com/consumer/store.vtl

i chose crashplan over mozy, after reading some bad mozy reviews (http://wonko.com/post/it_turns_out_mozy_isnt_so_hot_after_al... for instance) . I have the family plan and uploaded 200gb so far, their upload speeds are pretty good.

The only feature I'm still waiting for, is so you can specify different backup sets to archive to your local HD and to their online sevice, but that feature should be realeased with their next update. Other than that I love crashplan, especially the eature that you cannot disable it for longer than 24 hours.

You can also seed your initial backup, that way you don't have long upload times.

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits

Does anybody know how this works for Europe? Going through the list at http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/a_agents.html I see European companies, but isn't the DCMA only a US thingy?

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: He stole my laptop, and sent me this, what would you do?

filevault & crashplan.com

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you encrypt your laptop's hard disk?

i use filevault on osx. just remember that timemachine & filevault don't play along well. you will have to log out of your account to backup your home directory, defeating the whole timemachine purpose. i'd recommend crashplan.com in this case.

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: DragonFly: Chinese Apple-esque Hardware

late 2007 mbp?

If i didn't have the three year warranty i could have thrown mine away:

1. the NVIDIA chip died > screen goes black: known issuse: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377

basically if you have one of those macbooks, it will most likely die sooner or later, if it dies within the first three years you're lucky.

2. the trackpad stops working > known issue: the topcase needs to be replaced.

3. cd drive stopped working... well.

bad quality basically. but i would probably buy one again, because there are no slim pc-notebooks.

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

yeah i saw that, but still. how much is my minimum share? i scanned their site and couldn't find any hardware info, perhaps i'm missing it - maybe it's not really that important since i get to use more than the minimum if the CPU isn't maxed out.

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best Idea you never followed through on?

hehe, yeah i was in the same situation.

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

Linode doesn't say how much CPU you get, where other hosts (like vps.net) tell you. Isn't that an important info?

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you waste too much time on as a developer?

i hope you're getting a good bonus for that!

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best Idea you never followed through on?

didn't buy divx.com when i looked it up and it was still free.

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: HN: Hire me. For free.

i bet you can find some small idea somewhere and create your own project, it will be a lot more fun and that way you'll learn easier too.

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: The iPhone 4 Saga, Recreated As Awesomely As Possible

funny

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Music while coding

same with me, everything with lyrics distracts me.

I listen to soma.fm "drone zone", mellow film scores such as revolutionary road, american beauty, monster. Or tycho "past is prologue" is also played a lot...

a discussion on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14987/audio-while-program...

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you waste too much time on as a developer?

youtube

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: Apple’s Antenna Design and Test Labs

my 3gs stays at full signal strength even when i cover it with two hands as hard as i can.

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: Apple’s Antenna Design and Test Labs

hmm, quicktime plugin to view those videos, really steve?

pizzaman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: anyone ever drop everything and leave software dev behind?

isn't that the case with most jobs. At first it was fun or even just a hobby, but when you have to do it for a living it's not the same anymore.

Hobby > Study > Work > ugh...