sgrytoyr's comments

My entire office is in the same boat, so I tried to figure out whether it’ll be possible to convert back to a personal account before being re-added to a business account (of the new kind), but I couldn’t find anything.

Do you know for a fact that this won’t be possible?

I expected http://www.3quarksdaily.com/ to be somewhere near the top of that list, but it’s nowhere to be found, which really surprised me. It’s one of the most consistently interesting sites on the Internet, if you ask me.

We’ve been testing Filepicker.io at Bugly almost from day one, and using it officially for a couple of weeks now, and it’s been very solid. It’s always a little frightening to rely on an external service for important functionality, but this is a pretty big deal for our users, so in this case we decided to take a chance and become early adopters. No regrets so far.

Yes, it’s very strange (and annoying) that it doesn’t disappear. With the swipe-to-switch-tabs gesture, there’s even less reason to show it permanently than in Mobile Safari.

Looks great! Any chance that this will become available to accounts without Premium support in the future?

Goto Anything, multiple cursors, practically no lag when working on remote files, no hangups on files with long lines, set-mark functionality etc. In general, ST2 feels way faster and much more solid.

ST2 is fantastic. One of the many benefits compared to TextMate is that it supports Emacs-style marks, which enables commands like kill-region and yank.

I have created an "Emacsify" package with some important keyboard shortcuts and additional commands. You can find it here: https://github.com/stiang/EmacsifySublimeText

I just ran a simple test on every version of ActiveRecord that I could get running (standalone), using both Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2, and graphed the numbers.

Here is the result:

http://jsfiddle.net/2bUb5/

That commit made certain pages of my app about 10 times slower. This was such an appalling performance degradation that I had to do some digging:

https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/...

https://gist.github.com/919428

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/a3639be4ed5e89b59c4ad0...

The commit mostly fixes that particular issue (and is included in 3.0.7), but as the article point out Rails 3 AR performance still needs quite a bit of work.

You should be able to avoid this by setting up Gmail to use a different SMTP server:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=m...

(Click "I'm a Gmail or Google Apps user sending from an external address", then search for "on behalf of".)

Interesting. I recently spent a few months implementing almost exactly the same idea. It’s at http://gotosale.net/

It’s been dormant for a few months now, after I realized people wouldn’t just magically start posting sales for the benefit of random strangers, especially when practically no one knows the site exists :) Marketing isn’t my strength, I sort of lose interest after the build phase. You guys have taken it further than me, with a much more polished iPhone app and the whole karma thing - kudos.

I am pretty certain that the idea has merit - everyone I’ve talked to about it were excited and said that they would use such a site, and probably pay for an iPhone app, but getting content has proven to be difficult. I haven’t given up on it yet, and I intend to give it a fresh go very soon, with a slightly different approach. I’m sure there’s room for both of us.

Wow, that is really, really good. Excellent vocals and interesting tunes.

Using BeOS was extremely pleasant due to its multitasking prowess, which really had to be experienced to understand how much better it was than other operating systems at the time.

Sure, most apps were lightweight and, like allenbrunson said, the pervasive multi-threading model made it harder to develop sophisticated applications, but they must have been on to something because the responsiveness was so good that it felt like you all of a sudden had a computer from the future, where _real_ multitasking was finally solved. It really was something else.

The quality of the file system and the way its advanced capabilities were fully utilized throughout the OS was also novel. Here is part of an old article written by Scot Hacker, who also wrote the BeOS Bible, which explain some of the advantages: http://www.osnews.com/story/421/_I_MacOSX_Week_I_Tales_of_a_...

Much of what the BeOS had going for it is now available in other OSes, in various shapes or forms, but what made the BeOS such a joy to use was how it all came together in a unified way. The Tracker, for example, which is the equivalent to Finder on Mac OS X, treated attributes as first-class citizens, making it very natural to set up views like the example in the article above, focusing on Category, Title etc.

Another thing that really stood out was the quality of the icons and the look of the window manager. The icons are everywhere on the web today, and while the UI might not be considered sexy by today’s standards, the yellow tabs that could be dragged along the top of windows were cute as hell. Other little touches, like the built-in desktop switcher that allowed different resolutions and color depths for each desktop (excellent for web development), are not commonly found today, afaik.

It will be interesting to see what the experience is like now, after so many years with Mac OS X. Will definitely install.

They should fix their frontpage if they want to impress international users. I was thoroughly unimpressed when I searched for my last name ('grytøyr') and saw that it became 'gryt?yr' and included search results for 'gryt'.

However, searching for the same from the result page works, so it appears to be just a charset bug with the frontpage (which I’ve notified them about).

I created something very similar to this about three years ago. As usual, the project went nowhere because I sucked at attracting users and moved on to other things, but I still think the project has merit. So, on the off chance that it will work this time I’ve revived it from the repository and set it up again:

http://projectank.grytoyr.net/

Let me know what you think. Note that everything is three years old and it was hacked together in my spare time, so there are bound to be bugs.

(It used to have its own domain, but I let it expire.)