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mattkahl

Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:19AM (#22286821)
I agree if you’re already using Spotify to listen to podcasts. But if you’re not, you’d definitely notice a move to Spotify Exclusive because you’d need to have two podcast apps.
Re:Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript on Monday March 07, 2016 @02:43AM (#11237625)
The "You name a critical .js bundle something related to ads" point is something toward which I'm particularly unsympathetic. The fact that most ad blockers (a) are whitelist-based and (b) contain blunt-edge/naive implementations leads me to believe that false positives are the problem of the ad blocker developer and ad blocker user, not the developer of the website.

If Joe or Jane developer of Acme Demolition Inc. names a Javascript file `ad_main.js`, the burden of resolving the my-ad-blocker-is-blocking-this-file problem is not on them.

This is why I've yet to find an ad blocker that I would recommend to anyone without web development knowledge.

Re:Geek rants on git on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @12:39AM (#7632124)
Tower is, in my opinion, the best and most full-featured Git GUI. Having used it within multiple teams, I've found that it helps users understand what's happening under the hood (esp. regarding remotes). Unfortunately, the author seems to be a Windows user and Tower is, as of today, only available for OS X.

Find it here: http://git-tower.com

Re:Show HN: My NBA + Twitter mashup on Monday April 22, 2013 @02:36PM (#5590987)
Looks awesome! Great idea and execution. I tweeted it at Jalen Rose and Bill Simmons.

Minor things:

- You're throwing a bunch of log statements right now. Might be taking down the javascript in IE (I didn't see if you wrapped `console.log`).

- Remember, `this.$el` can replace `$(this.el)` (gotta love those convenience methods, I see you're using `this.$(selector)`).

- Also, UnderscoreJS provides `_.isUndefined` and `_.has` which is a little nicer than the `typeof foo.bar !== undefined` test.