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by benjoffe 16y ago
I like it better this way as it's a realistic scenario; it's the way it would appear if it had to physically be stored somewhere.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
It would be neat if they allowed multi-touch to let you place several blobs at the same time, it would make it easier than the desktop version and would warrant specialised levels to take advantage of it.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
I wonder if the results were more due to the face that the sentence itself is longer, rather than the specific words used (a longer sentence being a larger target for the user's eyes to land on).
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Authors@Google: Garry Kasparov(youtube.com)
4 points by benjoffe 16y ago|0 comments
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by benjoffe 16y ago
This is also an issue for one of my apps, which can launch in a horizontal landscape, there's no way to create two Default.png files, once for each orientation (correct me if I'm wrong, would love to optimise for it).
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by benjoffe 16y ago
I like "Ads" much better, it conveys the same information more succinctly, and without the cheesy euphemism.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
If your site becomes popular this could become a target for trolls. Eg. in some forums trolls will post a fake link to a logout page, this is why sites should use POST or private keys for logging out. If you implement this blackhole it will
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by benjoffe 16y ago
Good point there, it is a little inconsistent, since this was just launched it should be safe to rename it from 'offers' to 'offer', and perhaps set up a 301 redirect so existing links aren't broken.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
> Also, having separate warnings for your username and password matches is a bad security practice. Best to just say "username/password combination not found" instead of letting a potential hacker know he's stumbled upon a valid usernam
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by benjoffe 16y ago
Nice, kept my attention enough to try it twice (~2:30 then ~1:30). Why do you make the user write their own time in order to save it? Is that some technical limitation or part of the game design for some reason? I always find these games to
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by benjoffe 16y ago
http://www.mickjoffe.com/ Got lots of original content (interviews, 1500 of them); not sure the best way to make money out of this, in fact if you have some good ideas to monetize this stuff please let me know. Do you think ads would be b
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by benjoffe 16y ago
http://pocketodds.com/ Poker odds calculator (texas holdem), the plan is for the website version to get linked around and soon release a phone version for a couple of bucks (starting with iphone, not finished yet).
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Ask HN: How does one get access to flight data?
3 points by benjoffe 16y ago|1 comments
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by benjoffe 16y ago
"..but that's no problem, I can just cut that off with an angle grinder." I'm going to try to use that solution for some of my daily problems...
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by benjoffe 16y ago
I worked for Opera from the start of 2007 until the start of this year, (webapps team). It's really fun seeing the company from the outside again, great people, great place to work, great product; I just wish Norway suited me better. My mai
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by benjoffe 16y ago
Thanks jacquesm, though oddly it has been giving an error for the last few hours: http://benjoffe.ww.com/ Site Temporarily Unavailable We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact the webmaster/ tech support immediately to have them
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by benjoffe 16y ago
The section under "Submission Directions" is exactly the same as the directions here: http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php verbatim even down to the exact version numbers. Is there some standard testing package that these are both
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by benjoffe 16y ago
Great idea. benjoffe.ww.com -> www.benjoffe.com Thanks.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
The reason Web Workers do not have access to the DOM is because that would create a pandoras box of problems to solve, mostly revolving around concurrency and efficiency. If you have a loop where you are setting and reading dom values, then
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by benjoffe 16y ago
One related issue is how should one mark up code that is intended to flow over multiple lines? Consider doing a long chain like: MyObj.item.childItem.getAll()[0].properties... // etc. It's common to want to split this over several lines.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
Well, the code isn't actually ambiguous (since the spec states well defined behaviour), just very easy to misinterpret.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
Similarly to the blogger I was contacted by a Facebook employee asking if I'd like to apply for a job (they found work of mine online). I then had to complete a quiz (build a front-end app that conforms to a given criteria and screenshot) a
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by benjoffe 16y ago
I'm not saying their UI design is any good, simply that it's adequate. Filling out a form that is completely self descriptive and transparent incorrectly, and then blaming is absurd. This is what I see when I create an event: http://www.be
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by benjoffe 16y ago
It's easy to publish things to the entire world online just about everywhere, Facebook has a checkbox right above the button that say 'create event' that takes care of it. Granted it is checked on by default, but it is in no way misleading.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
Thanks again for passing on that idea for the 6 player deck. The concept that a repeating deck can be easily found was what helped find most of the higher order decks. edit: I'm not sure if brute force is the correct term (though I may be w
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by benjoffe 16y ago
Hi I'm the author of that page. I also recently put up similar decks for Omaha: http://www.benjoffe.com/omaha Feel free to ask questions.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
The two and three player decks have indeed been optimised to increase the opponents' hand values. The decks for higher number of players are too sparse for me to bother yet. -Ben Joffe