astalwick

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by astalwick 12y ago
The critical point in the life of a startup is very often that short period at the start, when the team is small and stretched in a hundred directions, trying to 'execute' on everything at once. It's really important to choo
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by astalwick 13y ago
Awesome. Having played with it a bit more: very nice! I'm particularly impressed with the onboarding. Installing the extension was painless, and the quick tutorial was great. Nice work.
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by astalwick 13y ago
Seems like a great idea. Small thing - I registered with Facebook and accepted the read permissions, but refused the write permissions (sorry, no apps get write permissions). Instead of saying "ok, we'll just ask again when you
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by astalwick 13y ago
As yet another Canadian, I've gotta say: Canada's great and all, but not perfect. Everything that you've said about American society and its treatment of minorities can equally be applied to natives in Canada. And I think th
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by astalwick 13y ago
Very cool. I can see how this really would make it a lot easier to learn chords and chord progressions. Actually, this is probably a great 'prototyping' app, too. I'm not sure I'd use this app directly in a track, bu
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by astalwick 13y ago
I would love to see a comparison graph from Canada. The US and Canada are not the same country, but they're similar in a lot of ways. If Canada's graph shows the same drop, it'd be an indication that maybe the problem isn&#x
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by astalwick 13y ago
So, but, that's just ignoring the reality of the world. Fact is: people eat meat. People will continue to eat meat, that's not something that's going to change (in the short term, anyway). Given that, how can we improve th
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by astalwick 13y ago
This is true, and you're absolutely right, however: This is way less convenient than it should be. Buying meat from individual farms is impractical on a day-to-day basis for most people. The problem is the anonymity of meat that is so
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by astalwick 13y ago
Fantastic idea. Looks like a lot of fun. I remember taking a psych course on early childhood development in university, and thinking how much fun it would be to have a baby and actually try some of these experiments. As a new parent, thoug
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by astalwick 13y ago
Raphael really goes deep on the browser compat side of things. It supports IE6, falls back to VML. As a result, it's quite a bit heavier than SVG.js. Raphael also seems to be a bit more about abstracting SVG away from you, where SV
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by astalwick 13y ago
But it's not. Not THAT easy. I'm a developer, with a fair bit of experience, and I'm nowhere near the average defcon attendee. (Unless I'm badly overestimating their abilities). My mom? She asked a shop owner, two days a
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by astalwick 13y ago
So, but, really: I am interested, as are a lot of other people. Hence the gnashing of teeth. I'm not thrilled by the security community's black-and-white stance that if it can't stop a defcon attendee, then it's not r
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by astalwick 13y ago
With the feature, I can explain to my mom, my girlfriend, my sister how to steal passwords from any chrome browser. In a way that they will remember and be able to repeat tomorrow. Without it, I can't. That matters.
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by astalwick 13y ago
Degree of difficulty matters. The technical ability of the attacker matters . With this feature, it's trivial for absolutely anyone to steal my secrets in seconds. Without this feature, the time-to-compromise goes up, as does the tec
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by astalwick 13y ago
Because the 'least scary class of attackers' represent the vast majority of potential attackers. This feature makes it trivial for a user error (not locking your desktop) to leave your passwords immediately visible to anyone that
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by astalwick 13y ago
What's the alternative? How do you get DRM into browsers that don't support plugins or extensions?
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by astalwick 13y ago
Audio only Youtube player is against the Youtube terms of service. You have to display the video at a certain minimum size. A friend of mine made something similar to this, but audio only, and - if I remember correctly - got a cease and des
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by astalwick 13y ago
For what it's worth, I hope that twitter is able to put something interesting out there. They bought up wearehunted, which was a genuinely slick site - excellent trending music charts. I'm a little concerned that they'll try too hard to 'in
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by astalwick 14y ago
Nice work. The playable website is fantastic. FWIW, I would have paid $0.99 up front. I bought the level pack, but it's pretty rare that a game will hook me to the point that I make it through the free levels. I probably wouldn't have bough
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by astalwick 14y ago
I've never lost a house because of a flood or hurricane or whatever, but I'm pretty sure that governments don't do make-whole reimbursements. Could be wrong.. That said, at least in Canada, I believe that federal, provincial and municipal g
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by astalwick 14y ago
The cities are already there. That's a done deal. And of the people that live there, not everyone lives there because they CHOSE it. Not everyone has the ability to up and move to a newer, safer city simply because they're worried about flo
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by astalwick 14y ago
Sorry, I meant to reply earlier, but got distracted by a bug. Thanks for pointing out the typo! That's probably been kicking around there for awhile now. :-) Wavo detects a referral by checking for referral tokens in the url's querystring.
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by astalwick 14y ago
If the source video is deleted, Wavo simply skips that video and moves on to the next in the playlist. And yeah, when we have the username/password pair sign-up, we'll simply have an option in the app preferences that will allow the user to
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by astalwick 14y ago
Our first priority, I think, is probably to make a mobile version of the site available. Personally, I'd love to be able to use wavo on an ipad. That said, you're right, a desktop app would be great! It would be nice to be able to pause/pla
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by astalwick 14y ago
Yeah, we're kind of relying on context within the UI here to keep Wavo focused on music. That said, there's nothing technically stopping you from creating a playlist of any youtube or soundcloud content you like. :-)
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by astalwick 14y ago
Ah, interesting! Thanks for letting us know, we're looking into that right now. Regarding Facebook, we do require Facebook to login (as mentioned elsewhere, we're going to add other ways to log in soon) and we require the Facebook SDK for s
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by astalwick 14y ago
Thanks, really glad you like it! We've spent a ton of time on the interface. (You would not believe the amount of UI we've designed, thrown away, redesigned, and thrown away again)
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by astalwick 14y ago
Hey borgopants -- I'm one of the devs at wavo. We've gotten the same feedback from several people, and we know it's a priority. Artists and labels, in particular, have asked for non-Facebook login methods. It's on its way, promise. We just