Hacker News: jasongullickson

First Week with FirefoxOS

jasongullickson — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:13:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.gullicksonlaboratories.com/first-week-with-firefoxos/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6290486

Points: 1

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Go print yourself with 3dna

jasongullickson — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:19:03 +0000

Article URL: http://www.gullicksonlaboratories.com/go-print-yourself-with-3dna/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6042078

Points: 2

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Murfie is the first major music marketplace to accept BitCoin

jasongullickson — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 20:43:09 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.murfie.com/2013/07/02/murfie-is-the-first-music-only-marketplace-to-accept-bitcoin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5980611

Points: 2

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The future is written in javascript

jasongullickson — Sat, 04 May 2013 03:09:21 +0000

Article URL: http://www.gullicksonlaboratories.com/the-future-is-written-in-javascript/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5653797

Points: 1

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How Music-Encoding Service Murfie Skirts Legal Muddles

jasongullickson — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:00:19 +0000

Article URL: http://techland.time.com/2013/02/06/how-music-encoding-service-murfie-skirts-legal-muddles-and-why-its-ceo-thinks-ownership-still-rules/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5178793

Points: 1

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New comment by jasongullickson in "Adafruit CEO Limor Fried named Entrepreneur magazine Entrepreneur of 2012"

jasongullickson — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:20:01 +0000

Hang on let me pause my Creative Labs Nomad and finish this call on my Palm Treo so I can respond to your comment; oh wait...

Just because something is first doesn't mean it is best. Limor took something cool and made it awesome, and you can be sure that in a generation or two someone else will take her work further.

I grew up hacking on Heathkits and reading Forrest Mimms books and just as Mimms did for me as a child, Adafruit's products turn a new generation on to the fun, creativity and power locked up in understanding electronics.

The fact of the matter is that DIY electronics was fading out by the 1990's in no small part due to the ever tightening noose of proprietary technology and planned obsolecense in consumer electronics. In this environment, Adafruit was able to make soldering sexy and fabrication fashionable; how could anyone find fault in that?

Test the market for your tech with Tindie Fundraisers

jasongullickson — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:07:45 +0000

Article URL: http://www.gullicksonlaboratories.com/test-the-market-for-your-tech-with-tindie-fundraisers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4934079

Points: 1

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New comment by jasongullickson in "Depp to Star as a Supercomputer in Christopher Nolan Film About the Singularity"

jasongullickson — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:18:19 +0000

Ah that makes more sense.

New comment by jasongullickson in "Depp to Star as a Supercomputer in Christopher Nolan Film About the Singularity"

jasongullickson — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:56:41 +0000

"...a scientist whose brain is uploaded into a supercomputer' while trying to create the first ever sentient computer"

It's hardly creating sentience if you're just installing an existing intelligence on another piece of hardware...just sayin'....

Ask HN: What's the best way to build Javascript widgets today?

jasongullickson — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:13:58 +0000

We're working on moving our site from a straight-up ROR app to hypermedia API on the back-end (still running on Rails) and Javascript/HTML5 on the front.

I've used everything from raw Javascript to jQuery to Dojo to build client-side components against a REST API before, and I'm comfortable with going that direction, but I'm asking the community here if something has come along that supersedes these tools for this sort of application?

In particular we want to develop a modular set of controls that can operate in a stand-alone fashion, composed only of client-side code but can also be combined and hosted in existing Rails-served pages as well as static HTML.

Thoughts?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886734

Points: 3

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New comment by jasongullickson in "Introducing the Rails API Project"

jasongullickson — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:13:52 +0000

We'll be taking this for a spin. I've been pushing for an API-driven site for awhile but the case for that model was cinched when we started adding non-web clients to our system.

A leaned-out Rails is a nice compliment to other bolt-on API options and fat GUI-based API builders. Personally I prefer to start with something even simpler, but the facts are you can cover more ground faster (and potentially safer) with something like this vs. building your HTTP stack from scratch.

The Hypermedia stuff is most exciting to me, as hand-rolling that is a hard-sell for many teams (if you have a system of any significant richness).

New comment by jasongullickson in "Introducing the Rails API Project"

jasongullickson — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:10:01 +0000

You've got a crack team of Rails devs and a deadline?

The App Cobbler

jasongullickson — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:26:56 +0000

Article URL: http://www.gullicksonlaboratories.com/blog/?p=92

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4799310

Points: 1

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New comment by jasongullickson in "What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit"

jasongullickson — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:07:27 +0000

"What's wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8..."

What's wrong with everyone using the same web browser? After all, that's exactly what the HTML standard is for, right?

Sonos gets Murfie CD-Ripping Service Support

jasongullickson — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:36:00 +0000

Article URL: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33199_7-57548687-221/sonos-gets-murfie-cd-ripping-service-support/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4778826

Points: 1

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Why doesn't Heroku have a "Technical Difficulties" page?

jasongullickson — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:30:12 +0000

When AWS or other issues take Heroku down, why do they display broken sites instead of something less hideous, like the old-fashioned "Technical Difficulties" slide from television's days of yore (or better yet, a static page you provide)?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4685024

Points: 1

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New comment by jasongullickson in "E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life"

jasongullickson — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:40:20 +0000

I'd replace my Droid RAZR with one of these in a heartbeat...

New comment by jasongullickson in "New $250 Chromebook"

jasongullickson — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:40:03 +0000

They are getting better (although what's up with that hinge? Blech!). Still not as cute or clever as it's ancestor tho: http://litl.com/

New Patent Could Saddle 3D Printers With DRM

jasongullickson — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:24:00 +0000

Article URL: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/new-patent-could-saddle-3d-printers-with-drm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4669817

Points: 1

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New comment by jasongullickson in "3-D Printer Company Seizes Machine From Desktop Gunsmith"

jasongullickson — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:28:49 +0000

Shouldda used a RepRap...