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by al_james 16y ago
Cool hack. Of course, running GZIP on your server renders it all useless.
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by al_james 16y ago
Er, if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
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by al_james 16y ago
Humph.... Signed up and lots of random people started following me. Thats what I hate about twitter. I am not here to make friends, I am here to share with my contacts. Request: Private profiles and only share with my followers.
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by al_james 16y ago
Arh, good tip thanks! But still a bit of a pain. A tiny icon next to the URL bar would be much better!
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by al_james 16y ago
Hmmmmmm.... Any chance of a google chrome extension button? I dont have a bookmarks bar!
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by al_james 16y ago
No thats not the case. You still have to use S3 as the origin. This is talking about allowing you to assign a default root document, e.g. a index.html so that requests to (e.g.) http://cache.mydomain.com/ will return something.
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by al_james 16y ago
Ok, in other words google are becoming less willing to develop cutting edge technologies and are going to spend more time on making money out of their traffic (e.g. purchase of ITA and listing hotel prices). If you make money on the interne
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by al_james 16y ago
Do you have a UPS in your garage?
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by al_james 16y ago
Actually, I agree. I have often thought there is a space for a revamped PHP, with compatible syntax (because people know it) but with many of the niggles removed and a better core library.
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by al_james 16y ago
Hmmmm.... GPU's in the cloud anyone?
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by al_james 16y ago
But otherwise, how do you, for example, listen to your iTunes but mute your browser?
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by al_james 16y ago
I think you have hit my main point. Objective-C feels too heavyweight for (typically) small iOs apps.
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Ask HN: Do you think Browsers need a volume control?
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by al_james 16y ago
Speed and user experience! Fullscreen Webkit animations are normally jerky and slow. Trying to do any form of complex graphics (canvas bitmap data for example) is a no hoper. Overall phonegap applications (at least the ones I have seen) are
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by al_james 16y ago
Yuck! After all these years of high level languages, having to use a mid-level language like objective-c to develop for iPhone feels like a step backwards! If only HTML5 / phonegap was more of a viable option.
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by al_james 16y ago
No I dont think that at all... I just think gay guys will do it for free, so there is (maybe) as much money to be made!
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by al_james 16y ago
I think the penis showing men would just disguise their penises. So we would see penises with little wigs and glasses on. I would like to see the penis AI cope with that!
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by al_james 16y ago
Chatroulette is not going to be a viable long term business. It does, however, tell us two things: 1) A lot of men seem to like to show there penis to people (especially girls) 2) Girls dont like to see random men's penises Square that circ
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by al_james 16y ago
I know some people who worked on a 'porn detector' project at a University. Their main job was to tag the training and test sets by labelling breasts and other naughty bits. Fun job! ;)
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by al_james 16y ago
No its not. Apple can hardly sell the Apple TV concept at at their current price point, these are alot more expensive. People wont pay it. I should imagine these cost more than most people's TVs.
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by al_james 16y ago
I disagree. Its too expensive as a TV only box, and thats a market that is still very new and small. People (well everyone I know who has one) look at this as an entry level Apple desktop machine.
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by al_james 16y ago
The inclusion of a HDMI port is interesting. Probably useless to most people (who have existing monitors or will buy a normal computer display) but does this suggest this might run the new Apple TV service?
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by al_james 16y ago
How does it run?
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by al_james 16y ago
Yes, it is quite expensive. But then again, the entire Mac range has become more expensive over the last year. You used to be able to get a macbook for about £750, now its £850. At these prices I struggle to recommend Macs to people to who
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by al_james 16y ago
Awesome. Thanks.
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by al_james 16y ago
Yeah, I might put together a browser plugin that does that to the current page URL when I hit a button!
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by al_james 16y ago
Nice indeed... Does anyone know if there is a browser plugin (pref. Chrome) to bypass the paywalls of popular sites?
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by al_james 16y ago
Well, unit testing is only really efficient at finding certain kinds of bugs . Its good at protecting your core framework / system from breaking changes to its API, e.g. an engineer changing the result of a null being passed into a functio
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by al_james 16y ago
Also, is it me or do these effects look awful? No antialiasing on my machine, lame Amiga era pseudo 3D effects and blurry type in a tiny screen resolution. Yawn, yawn, yawn.
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by al_james 16y ago
Yawn. Hardly relevant to real web design use cases is it?

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