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Comment · 10 years ago
This is chock full of platitudes and obfuscation. Pinboard appears to have participated in good faith, as you admitted yourself. It seems rather like HN/YC had never intended to allow Pinboard to win, even before any votes had been cast.
If your aim with this contest was to pilot something new and unique that might further distinguish YC, I suppose you've done just that, even if in the opposite direction. Sometimes karma is more than just a column in your database.
(Disclaimer: I did not vote.)
Comment · 11 years ago
Parent is most likely referring to the telnet GOAHEAD character and its related SUPPRESS GOAHEAD protocol: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc858
I am the author of a MUD client for iOS[0] that, like most other clients, will capture and silently discard the GOAHEAD character. GOAHEAD is most common on MUSHes but I've seen them in a few MUDs as well.
[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mudrammer-a-modern-mud-clien...
Comment · 12 years ago
A Facebook spokesman says the company “doesn’t have shadow
accounts or profiles – hidden or otherwise – for people
who haven’t signed up for our service,” and a 2011 audit
by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner confirmed this.
Comment · 12 years ago
Sure it could be a cron job, but using Jenkins adds some conveniences: a nice UI to browse projects, plus it archives the output of every historical build, locally-archived build artifacts, lots of extensibility with plugins, and so on.
Comment · 12 years ago
CI means knowing that your product is always in a releasable state. Green tests is only one small piece of that.
I have an iOS app or two that I work on independently, as side projects. Even though I am the sole developer on these projects, CI saves me dozens or hundreds of hours of time. My CI script[0] downloads provisioning profiles from Apple's Developer Center, installs them, runs my tests, builds my app, archives the resulting IPA and .dSYM.zip to Amazon S3, uploads the build to Testflight, notifies my testers, then sends my iOS devices a push notification with an ultimate success or failure message.
And it does all of this every day at 4am, while I'm sleeping, and I don't have to think about it.
How much longer would all of this take if I were doing it manually each time? Time is the only infinitely valuable scarce resource. I don't want to spend time mucking with codesigning and provisioning profiles; I want to spend more time coding.
[0] I've open-sourced my iOS build script! https://github.com/splinesoft/SSBuild
Comment · 12 years ago
I have mixed feelings here.
On the one hand, the announcement is correct that "email is here to stay" and it's exciting to see innovation on top of an ancient protocol that was never intended for the abuse it receives today (IMAP).
On the other hand, the announcement is correct that "email is here to stay" and because my entire life runs out of my inbox, I am almost certain to never grant an arbitrary third party like Inbox access to my mail. How does Inbox make money? And Inbox fully intends to store my mail; why should I trust them?
On the other other hand, I have been a long-time happy customer of Fastmail.fm and I am both amused and disappointed to see that Inbox does not support an arbitrary IMAP connection (e.g. to support Fastmail).
Comment · 12 years ago
Data Scientist (noun): A statistician who lives in San Francisco.
(only half joking)
Comment · 12 years ago
I think I can also attribute my initial interest in programming to MUDs. Funny how, all these years later, they still give me satisfaction albeit through a much different tech stack. :)
> recite ritual of reminiscingComment · 12 years ago
My personal side project, a MUD client for iPhone and iPad, is not even remotely profitable. That's right: online multiplayer text-based games. There are still thousands of them online today, set in fantasy, sci-fi, absurdist, and many other worlds!
I knew before I started that it wouldn't make much money. That's not why I wrote it; I wrote it because I wanted this app for myself.
It expands to fill much of my free time, driving my ROI even further negative, but I sure do enjoy it. :)
By Great Odin's Beard, a free copy! http://tokn.co/msvuyzp8
I have also open-sourced many of its iOS bits: https://github.com/splinesoft
Comment · 12 years ago
Hard to say. Sounds like you have until 2/26, at which point something(?) happens: http://help.testflightapp.com/customer/portal/articles/14527...
Comment · 12 years ago
They already have gone away for Android. On iOS, it looks like they won't allow new apps to be created but existing apps may continue to upload new builds.
Comment · 12 years ago
This looks really neat. Thanks!
I wish I could self-host this on my own server. I also wish it did not rely on Github as I also self-host my own repos.
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks. I signed up for an account, but everything I'm seeing is about A/B testing, in which I am not interested.
Mega points to you for having a Jenkins plugin. Awesome!
Is your framework required for beta distribution? Your docs are inconclusive on this point.
If the framework is required, would you consider adding a Cocoapods podspec for it?
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