Hacker News: maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maxhowellHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:05:40 +0000<![CDATA[Decentralized Xcode Theme Repository]]>Article URL: http://omgthemes.net

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]]>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 03:11:47 +0000http://omgthemes.netmaxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6852457https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6852457<![CDATA[Ruby’s `FileUtils.rmdir` Doesn’t `raise` on Failure]]>Article URL: https://coderwall.com/p/g76mgw

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]]>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:40:50 +0000https://coderwall.com/p/g76mgwmaxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6354470https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6354470<![CDATA[New comment by maxhowell in "HTML.js – Befriend the DOM"]]>What does Hacker News recommend as a standalone AJAX solution nowadays?

]]>Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:22:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6205510maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6205510https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6205510<![CDATA[New comment by maxhowell in "Bottle light inventor proud to be poor"]]>It's like a Window. You can “turn off” a window by putting a curtain over it.

]]>Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:20:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6205493maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6205493https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6205493<![CDATA[New comment by maxhowell in "CSS Absolute Centering"]]>Everyone who says using tables is wrong, is wrong. The only issue as far as I'm concerned is it is tedious to style tables, and you have to have
all the time which is tedious to work with. All the other arguments are perfectionism. Even the accessibility argument is nonsense nowadays, it amazes me people are claiming screen-readers haven't advanced in 10 years. TEN YEARS AGO screen readers sucked with tables.

]]>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 16:51:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6191710maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6191710https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6191710<![CDATA[New comment by maxhowell in "HN is Becoming 2005 Slashdot"]]>Agreed. But good things become popular, and popularity changes good things. Not always for the worse. But this time, yes for the worse.

]]>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 23:52:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157604maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157604https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157604<![CDATA[New comment by maxhowell in "Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer's Biggest Hit"]]>The US is way more into dance music now than they were 10 or 20 years ago when Europe etc. were quite into it. Daft Punk are predominantly known for dance music, so this album got more interest from US music publications etc. Of course, this album is the least “dancey” they’ve made, and heh, no doubt that helped!

]]>Fri, 05 Jul 2013 21:04:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5996746maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5996746https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5996746<![CDATA[New comment by maxhowell in "My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why"]]>I'd consider Windows more readily, but you are a bit screwed if you do decide you want to dip in the Open Source pool. You can dip there, but it's harder and less well supported, and some things simply don't work. So you are tying yourself to Windows, and often, Microsoft tools. Fine if you're sure it'll work, but I would feel like I was gambling.

]]>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:33:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970479maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970479https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970479<![CDATA[New comment by maxhowell in ""Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23"]]>Sorry to be blunt, but it's clear you have never had to design or support a user-facing product. Anyone who has done either of these things will disagree with your base assumptions, ie. that users care about understanding their software, that they read warning texts, and that they don't mindlessly flip switches when trying to achieve unrelated goals.

]]>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:39:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970164maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970164https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970164<![CDATA[New comment by maxhowell in "Sublime Text 3 Public Beta"]]>And it's fabulous, I switched from Sublime Text 2 last week and have no interest in Sublime Text 3 anymore. I was disturbed that Sublime Text 2 had several irritating bugs that I encountered most days and yet all dev was going into the next version that would require a new license. Also I am a sucker for OS X native feel and ST2 clearly had effort put in there, but still fell short.

]]>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:21:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5958093maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5958093https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5958093<![CDATA[New comment by maxhowell in "Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One"]]>Indeed, never offer features that you don't intend to fully support. People hate change, but they hate you more if you take away something they use, especially if they feel they paid for it.

]]>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:12:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5909341maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5909341https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5909341<![CDATA[New comment by maxhowell in "The Opa Framework for JavaScript"]]>Yes with hindsight I wish I had written it in JS, but writing the BS compiler was something I wanted to get done fast, and I'm more proficient with Ruby.

BS has the #x{foo} syntax for htmlEncoding, or did you mean that should just be the default?

]]>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:01:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5905912maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5905912https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5905912<![CDATA[New comment by maxhowell in "The Opa Framework for JavaScript"]]>Recently I wrote a less overwhelming pre-compiler that allows you type HTML inline with your Javascript, may be worth a look: http://mxcl.github.io/bs BullScript’s goal is just to make writing JS a little nicer, but not to be some whole new language.

]]>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:46:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5900388maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5900388https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5900388<![CDATA[New comment by maxhowell in "Why I have left Samsung"]]>Whining child damages his Hacker News Karma with unprofessional comment after just 3.5 years of membership.

]]>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:13:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5724438maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5724438https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5724438<![CDATA[New comment by maxhowell in "The beauty of Git in Dropbox"]]>I have for about a year now done all my work out of Dropbox (via a symlink from ~/src) it works great for multiple machines and has added advantages, eg. I never worry about deleting files that aren't staged anymore, as I can undo the delete from Dropbox’s website.

Git is for long-term version control, working out of Dropbox is like having a script running that stashes and unstashes every change you make so that its in the git-reflog.

]]>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:15:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5558984maxhowellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5558984https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5558984