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Re: The Path to MusicList

Joost Schuur — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:57:02 -0000

Looking forward to it!

Re: Hands-free Tinder uses your heartbeat to decide ‘hot or not’

Joost Schuur — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 09:39:19 -0000

I find it hard to believe this is a reliable, real product that will see the light of day.

It takes the heartbeat glance a good 5-8 seconds to get the heartbeat on my watch. Swiping would be faster. Presumably there's a slight lag in your heart rate going up too, and it going down again for the next picture.

Plus, Tinder doesn't have a public API (although third party docs exist). Why would anyone spend time using unofficial API access for a product they want to release?

It's more than likely a proof of concept at get attention.

Re: Am I crazy for watching YouTube videos at 1.5x speed?

Joost Schuur — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 11:52:07 -0000

I do 2x on podcasts and tutorial videos all the time.

Re: Video Games Live co-creator: I want tickets to be affordable for all | Latest news from the game development industry | Develop

Joost Schuur — Tue, 06 May 2014 05:00:22 -0000

Tommy: The article reads like 'We want to come to London, but tickets would be £75-100 and we don't want to do that'. But there's actually reasonably priced tickets available now, so it looks like there's been developments since your quote and the emergence of these tickets.

Re: Video Games Live co-creator: I want tickets to be affordable for all | Latest news from the game development industry | Develop

Joost Schuur — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 05:32:58 -0000

This article sounds a little dated. Tickets for the London, Nov 2nd 2014 event are £28.60 - £139.95: http://www.gigsandtours.com...

Re: Ticket Alert: Walk Through Brunel’s Thames Tunnel

Joost Schuur — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 05:13:18 -0000

It doesn't look quite as quaint in your pics than in the one in this story.

Re: Working from home? Here's an extra shot of focus. - LivingSocial's Technology Blog

Joost Schuur — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:45:21 -0000

Can you put that focus reminder alt-tab script on GitHub?

Re: The Citi Bike Story No One’s Talking About: Only 3 Injuries in 500,000 Rides

Joost Schuur — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 08:49:04 -0000

Maybe there's more injuries because it's the summer and more people are riding bikes?

Re: Remember when Google denied Google Now drained the iPhone battery?

Joost Schuur — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:25:19 -0000

Well something has definitely changed my battery lifetime dramatically over the last few weeks. I've uninstalled the Hangouts app, but that didn't seem to change anything. I've retracted location permissions to a bunch of apps, and still no noticeable change. Even with the 3.0.1 update to Google Search, it still doesn't seem to make a difference.

Re: Simplify. — PaulStamatiou.com

Joost Schuur — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:39:26 -0000

What it boils down to is if you're consuming (i.e. Hacker News), you're not creating. And if you're not resting and recharging, the quality of your creative output suffers.

Saying it out loud is the easy part. Acting on this knowledge on the other hand...

Re: Simplify. — PaulStamatiou.com

Joost Schuur — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:21:09 -0000

tl;dr

Re: How To Record Google Hangouts On A Mac

Joost Schuur — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:24:09 -0000

I see. With the lower video quality due to Jesse's camera, I assumed the video all came from one source.

To be frank, I only made it through part of the video. I found Jesse's commentary style to not be very enjoyable to watch, regardless of what my own platform choices might be. You might even call it 'snotty'.

Re: How To Record Google Hangouts On A Mac

Joost Schuur — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:27:09 -0000

So you were doing the classic 'double ender', where you used just the audio track from the other end and synced it up with the audio in your recording, right? If you're not using Jesse's video at all, why record his screen though? Why not just use Garageband or whatever?

Re: Sublimewebinspector

Joost Schuur — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 06:50:22 -0000

And what have you released lately to the public for free, 'bob'?

Re: Check Out the New Recommended Resources on Nettuts+

Joost Schuur — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:31:14 -0000

Apart from a section with just tools though, what would be great is a structured sequence of skills to master. Something like 'if you want to learn front end development, start with this (learn here, here and here), then do this, eventually start using this tool or library and then do this'.

Re: Check Out the New Recommended Resources on Nettuts+

Joost Schuur — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:29:14 -0000

Definitely add some project management tools like Trello.

Also, steal shamelessly from this Hacker News thread: http://news.ycombinator.com...

Re: Our Customers Rock: Introducing Basin for Android

Joost Schuur — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:03:07 -0000

I would love to see a similar app for iOS. I know this is a third party app, but there is a feedback thread on this as well:

http://digitalocean.uservoi...

Any updates on Digital Ocean's thinking regarding a mobile app across platforms since the comments that were made there last week?

Re: It's Okay To Be Smart • themathkid: Tuttminx twisty puzzle. It is a...

Joost Schuur — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:28:22 -0000

I came across a YouTube channel the other day by a die hard Rubiks's Cube fan, who does speed solve, unboxings of similar puzzles and even mods his own: http://www.youtube.com/user...

Re: London’s Tube WiFi goes paid from January 29, as Virgin Media, EE and Vodafone customers retain free access

Joost Schuur — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:12:57 -0000

They sure make their new fees hard to find. Even their 'How much does it cost' FAQ doesn't actually provide the pay as you go pricing. You have to create an account with them and give them your email address before they give you the details.

Re: Crapo: 'I Am Grateful To Have This Matter Resolved'

Joost Schuur — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:32:21 -0000

I don't think that word means what he thinks it does.

Re: "Potential Prostitutes" site lets users label women as prostitutes, charges "removal" fees

Joost Schuur — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 04:50:51 -0000

The way I see it, there's basically three types of profiles on this site:

1) Mugshots from actual police records with real names. Even if you pay to remove yourself, those police records still exists on plenty of sites (the one where this site just took the pics/names from in the first place).

2) Random pics from escort ads with no real full name or even the first name. Chances are they don't even include the real name. No point in removing yourself, because who's going to find it in a web search in the first place? Sure, maybe it crops up in an TinEye image search, but just like 1), that pic was already on the Internet elsewhere where it was associated with the sex worker biz.

3) 'Revenge' profiles, where someone posted a racy pic and real name of an ex out of spite, or worse, who is to stop the site owners from seeding their profiles with random pics they found on the Internet? In this case, the profile is so out of context and lacks credibility (especially if there's no mug shot of police report to back it up), who would believe it when they found it?

So really, there's no rational reason anyone would want to pay these guys.

In reality, there's probably a number of people under 3) that will freak out at the idea of their name being associated with the nature of the site. They can't calmly understand that it's not as bad as it looks and you shouldn't give into the crooks running it. Other folks may see someone else's name on the site and not get that it's likely an extortion scam.

Still, I'd just like to think people are smarter than this. The lack of Twitter feed updates makes me hope that this thing isn't getting enough tracking to merit continuously maintaining it.

Re: The story of every for-profit social web service ever.

Joost Schuur — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:03:36 -0000

It's not they they wrote something other than what they meant. It's that other people told them 'This is what I think you mean, so I'm going to tell everyone that my interpretation must be true'. There's a difference between poorly presenting your intentions and presenting other intentions altogether.

Now as it turns out, they did revise what they said in another blog post. But I don't even think they're changing their mind here either. They're simply delaying a new TOS change until they can better explain what they want to do in a blog post, as opposed to a mere legalese change like the last time around.

Instagram/Facebook are still guilty of colossally fucking up this announcement and not understanding the fickle nature of the average Internet user. I just don't think this changes their plans for monetizing the service significantly. Just how they intend to communicate and roll those changes out.

Re: The story of every for-profit social web service ever.

Joost Schuur — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:35:54 -0000

So what's the lesson here? Have fun while it lasts? Charge users from the start, and settle for a smaller, but more stable (i.e. profitable) community?

Or maybe just make deleting your account and data a little harder, so that people have time to cool off a little and buying you some time to explain what you actually meant with your new EULA.

Re: Poll: Obama Maintains 5-Point Lead In Ohio, Race Tightens In Virginia, Florida

Joost Schuur — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:22:17 -0000

Jeep Production Isn’t Moving to China, Chrysler Chief Says
http://thecaucus.blogs.nyti...

Re: Is There a Landmine Hidden in Amazon’s Glacier?

Joost Schuur — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:00:40 -0000

Get rid of my robots? Oh, they're not going to like that. Quick, cover their ears before they hear what you just said!