JoelJ's comments

On: 20 minutes with my Chromebook

[JoelJ]

"OS X and Windows give you a nice sound to show you how loud you’ve just made it, but ChromeOS just gives you a little volume bar."

Windows actually doesn't.

[xelfer → JoelJ]

Default Windows 7 install here and I hear a ding noise every time I change the volume.

[thornkin → JoelJ]

Except that it does. Try left clicking on the volume icon in the tray and changing the volume.

[darklajid → thornkin]

You, like me, probably set the sound theme to 'none' to get rid of all these annoying startup/error/whatever noises.

In that case, you are right: No sound is played when you set the volume. Probably (I couldn't be bothered to test it) you usually hear one of the sound theme entries, at the new volume.

On: JavaScript Super Mario Kart

[JoelJ]

Strange, I love Yoshi's Island and have beat it many times and have never noticed a problem (at least, haven't noticed it to the point that I would remember it. If it was unplayable, I would've noticed). I'll have to load it up again sometime and see if I see a problem.

[JonnieCache → JoelJ]

Years ago, earlier versions of zsnes did not exhibit this bug. However it used to simply fail to render lots of stuff. What was left behind would still look fine, so you wouldn't notice. Think parallax background layers, sprite effects.

On: Hey HN: Check out my sideproject: csharp-servlets

[JoelJ]

looks like Google Code is down. They said it would be readonly today for maintenance. So hopefully it'll be back up soon.

On: IPhone Home Automation

[JoelJ]

Pretty sweet.