John Resig uses this • Hacker News Board

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by oneplusone » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 7:47 PM UTC

vvnraman wrote: post #75

jeresig wrote: post #12

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Off the top of my head, three things that've bugged me: I use a ton of tabs in my browser, in Firefox the tabs go off to the side and allow me to scroll through them (while still allowing me to read the title) whereas Chrome squishes the tabs into tiny micro-sized pills that are completely unreadable. Additionally I use App Tabs in both browsers - but only in Firefox does it highlight when I've received an update (su…

Well if you use a ton of tabs in Chrome, you can try Vertical Tabs. You would have to add the following to your Chrome shortcut: -enable-apps -enable-vertical-tabs Open Chrome, Right Click on a Tab and check on Use Side Tabs. It eats up a little of your screen real estate but I guess that should be okay as you have a 27" iMac. And you will be able to see the names of every tabs then !!!

Just navigate to chrome://flags/ and you can enable it there along with many other experimental options.

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by savrajsingh » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 7:59 PM UTC

bronson wrote: post #9

"I wish my car accepted audio input." I just used a Grom adapter to add bluetooth to my 1999 daily driver. It doesn't have whizzy features like voice dialing and A2DP audio quality is not excellent but, for podcasts, pop music, and phone calls, it's great. http://www.gromaudio.com/

From the help chat on the Grom site: "Unfortunately for your year Maxima we don't have a compatible adapter." (2002 SE with 6-cd in-dash).

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by billybob » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 8:23 PM UTC

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #58

jsvaughan wrote: post #38

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certainly the vast majority of people interviewed on UsesThis are not developers

I meant an occupational breakdown among the developers. I'm sensing from browsing the site that it favors consumer-facing application programmers.

Naturally. "Consumer facing" = "more widely known" = "interesting to a wider audience."

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by billybob » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 8:23 PM UTC

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #58

jsvaughan wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

certainly the vast majority of people interviewed on UsesThis are not developers

I meant an occupational breakdown among the developers. I'm sensing from browsing the site that it favors consumer-facing application programmers.

Naturally. "Consumer facing" = "more widely known" = "interesting to a bigger audience."

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by CrazedGeek » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 8:30 PM UTC

jeresig wrote: post #10

bronson wrote: post #9

"I wish my car accepted audio input." I just used a Grom adapter to add bluetooth to my 1999 daily driver. It doesn't have whizzy features like voice dialing and A2DP audio quality is not excellent but, for podcasts, pop music, and phone calls, it's great. http://www.gromaudio.com/

Very interesting, I'll have to check into that! I use a Griffin FM transmitter right now, works OK, but has frequent problems with competing radio stations. http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/Griffin-RoadTrip-iPhone...

I replaced the head unit in my car with this: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-DSXS100-Digital-Media-Receiver/dp...

Works very beautifully.

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by _hnwo » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 8:32 PM UTC

John is one of the most on to it people i've ever met. He arrived in NZ after a delayed, long flight from the US and went from the airport to a presentation (to over 400 people) without fault.

He'd already adjusted his sleep patterns to match NZ time.

Awesome dude.

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by bradendouglass » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 8:42 PM UTC

speckledjim wrote: post #80

cormullion wrote: post #24

"I wish Boxee didn't crash so much." Sadly true. And Plex, the main alternative, crashes as much, but in different ways. No more Front Row in Lion. I think Apple want us to buy Apple Tv...

xbmc is ok enough. It handles 95% of stuff.

XBMC er here as well. Boxee might turn around their issues with their next release but, it loves to crash right now. XBMC, not a one crash

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by 18pfsmt » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 8:46 PM UTC

bvdbijl wrote: post #29

jeresig wrote: post #20

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I was looking at it just recently - it looks promising. Haven't had a chance to try it, yet. http://sickbeard.com/

Seriously try it out, it might require some time to get it setup in the way that you want, but combined with XBMC it is golden

I actually have SABnzbd running on my low-power NAS, while ~XBMC is running on a dedicated machine with dedicated GPU. I find it advantageous to run the lower power NAS 24/7 and only crank up the graphics-heavy front-end when something needs to be displayed.

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by sourc3 » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 9:05 PM UTC

runjake wrote: post #42

usesthis.com is such a guilty pleasure. I pour over every detail of their articles while at the same time reminding myself "it's not about the tools, it's about the person".

This is the programmers' version of the celebrity clothing/bags pages with the latest trends : )

At the end of the day, use what makes you happy not because a programmer rock-star is using it.

Disclaimer: I love apple products developing on the .NET framework, it may be ironic that up until last week I was running win7 on a macbook pro to develop for WP7 :)

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by notatoad » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 9:06 PM UTC

revorad wrote: post #21

dailo10 wrote: post #5

I thought the most interesting part was his wish list at the end. "I wish my MacBook had built-in 3G capabilities, I wish it was easier to type on my iPad, I wish Chrome was a better browser, I wish SABnzbd+ was smart enough to not re-download files, I wish my iPhone was faster, I wish I didn’t need a dongle to do a presentation with my MacBook, I wish Boxee didn’t crash so much, I wish my car accepted audio input, I…

Regarding typing on the iPad, a thumbs layout keyboard as previewed in this Windows 8 video would be great - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13628154 (skip to 00:40). Is there anything like this for iPad now?

i tried swiftkeyx on my android tablet, with its split layout. couldn't stand it and went back to a full-width layout very quickly.