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   by bprater 15y ago

   Deploy from git sounds like a nice touch.
2. 152.▲
   by bprater 15y ago

   You may want to seriously consider working on fleshing out this plan now. Paypal supposedly has thousands of people working in fraud control. When word gets out that Stripe makes it "dead simple" to process credit cards without a merchant a
3. 153.▲
   by bprater 15y ago

   This guide would probably hurt someone more than help them. It might work as a cursory overview, but even then -- my head would spin if this was my first guide to *nix.
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   by bprater 15y ago

   Is it? Sounds like a strong privacy argument to me. Especially if Silk doesn't offer an opt-out. There will be wayyy too much useful data in Amazon's lap for them to simply ignore it.
5. 155.▲
   by bprater 15y ago

   How often will this be updated?
6. 156.▲
   by bprater 15y ago

   Agreed. There are ropes tied to the edges. He won't go beyond a meter without some serious flight control software. Even with software, this octopus will be a tough beast to tune.
7. 157.▲
   by bprater 15y ago

   I didn't see a font size option? Did I miss it?
8. 158.▲
   by bprater 15y ago

   Well deserved. The team has consistently brought the kinds of functionality we need as developers since they launched the service. Kudos guys!
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   Ask HN: Where do I find a math super-hero?

   2 points by bprater 15y ago|3 comments
10. 160.▲
    by bprater 15y ago

    Agreed. Loved that he showed the vertical refresh in the algorithm. The colors were nice, too. Would love to see more about algorithms like this.
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    by bprater 15y ago

    My broad point was that in watching hundreds of projects launch via H!News -- that in this Facebook era, all of us are having less tolerance for doing the skimming you mention. When you are fortunate enough to make it to front-page of H!New
12. 162.▲
    by bprater 15y ago

    From the site: "It gives us great pleasure to finally announce the release of batman.js to the JavaScript community today. This release represents the first code dump of something we’ve been working hard on at Shopify for a long time, so we
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    by bprater 15y ago

    I'm doing .txt files, too -- but lately, I've been doing them via Dropbox and the Google Chrome add-on called "SourceKit". I now have a permanent tab in any of my PC's browsers that allow me to quickly open and edit these files.
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    by bprater 15y ago

    One of Randal's additions to the world is the "Schwartzian transform", something I remember using extensively a decade ago when I was doing web programming in Perl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartzian_transform
15. 165.▲
    by bprater 15y ago

    I would really love to see more programmers streaming while they work.
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    by bprater 15y ago

    One of the poorest usability designs I've ever seen.
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    by bprater 15y ago

    The article indicated that they didn't raise enough money to actually switch the telescope on. Worth noting.
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    by bprater 15y ago

    Isn't this part of the Montessori model -- no grading?
19. 169.▲
    by bprater 15y ago

    Downvoted because it's not the kind of humor we prefer here. We enjoy well-thought out intellectual debate. You final paragraph here is what you should have posted initially -- it has substance.
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    by bprater 15y ago

    I just tried to embed one of these on a test site. It's really not that useful. The HTML code ends up taking up half a screen. I'd prefer these icons dumped into a custom font file. Then it takes up literally one character in HTML and can b
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    by bprater 15y ago

    I'm using Chrome on Windows. Does most of the font on this site look poorly rendered to anyone else?
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    by bprater 15y ago

    Computers were pretty clunky, too, at the beginning. We are seeing the very earliest moments of the Star Trek replicator. When the market smells a demand, we'll get the pretty you are looking for.
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    by bprater 15y ago

    Better explanation at the top would be nice. Something like: "Tired of designing for 10 browsers and needing to copy and paste the site's URL to each one? Here are two simple bookmarklets will make it a snap." I had to come back to Hacker N
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    by bprater 15y ago

    I'm surprised the mainstream media hasn't picked this up. It has all the right plot points to drive a story -- over-the-top crime, police can't find the persons involved, the victim is striking back at the company who started the mess.
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    by bprater 15y ago

    Here's the documentation for Safari's 'webkitEnterFullscreen': http://tiny.cc/uw00x
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    by bprater 15y ago

    OOh. That's sweet. You need, need, need to make that clear. Being able to local dev and then share that with clients or customers is pretty huge. Keep testing your pricing model. Don't get locked in this early. I suspect that $15 might be t
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    by bprater 15y ago

    Check out their startup: http://browserling.com/ It allows you to not just get a screenshot of the site you are working on in a variety of browsers, but you can actually navigate the site, click on links, enter text, etc. Impressive! For
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    by bprater 15y ago

    I'm curious about the choice to integrate WebGL. How is current browser support around this? What advantage does it offer in building a text editor?
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    by bprater 15y ago

    Too bad the source is obfuscated. This is the kind of thing that could draw a young person into digging deeper into programming.
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    by bprater 15y ago

    Agreed -- the page is completely useless in explaining why I'd want to invest time into checking the service out.