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by bprater 15y ago
And even when you understand a lot about these technologies -- it can be a great reminder of things to dabble in and see if they fit your model of how you work. This week I jumped into using Less (a CSS tech like Sass) after noticing a post
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by bprater 15y ago
I've been watching a lot of live gaming lately. Primarily for "League of Legends", a game I've been playing consistently for the last 18 months. Last weekend was the first world championships for the game. At it's height, over 200,000 peopl
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by bprater 15y ago
League of Legends is a free game that has been making a big splash in monetizing through in-game purchases, which I believe TF2 is doing now? I'm wondering if Valve is making a similar big play in this area?
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by bprater 15y ago
Does anyone know of a good online catalog where libraries like this are curated? Or are folks just bookmarking these as they find them?
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by bprater 16y ago
Right now, it's great to just see people expending their creative energy exploring the possibilities. They are on the leading edge giving us great ideas on how to make good use of this type of technology moving forward.
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by bprater 16y ago
What?! Have all the sages had it right by telling people to live in the moment, to become more present? :)
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by bprater 16y ago
As a person who believes strongly in personal freedoms, thank you for saying this Paul. If someone chooses to consume a drug of their choosing and still create in a way that fulfills them and their customers -- it is a grave injustice to sh
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by bprater 16y ago
I frequent Starbucks and it is always frustrating, even though it lasts for a second, that signing into their network requires me do exactly what this article talks about. Each time I login, I'm hopefully that an engineer has fixed this.
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by bprater 16y ago
Threw me for a minute, too. Suggesting that you regex this field to chop off anything that isn't a period.
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by bprater 16y ago
So why did Microsoft's blogging platform never get the traction that Wordpress.com did? Any big obvious errors?
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by bprater 16y ago
Welcome to the world of crappy font rendering for the majority of browsers. Even with @font-face in the wild, it's going to be years before we finally see properly rendered fonts for our end-users.
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by bprater 16y ago
Not entirely sure that it's good or bad, just differing points of view on how to get a certain look. Sure, with time artists will turn the dial down and video HDR will be more subtle. All new tech goes over the top at first. Remember video
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by bprater 16y ago
My dad always told me: 'the phone is there for your convenience, not for for anyone else'. If I don't feel like fielding a call at a given moment, I simply won't pick up. But I'll take texts or emails anytime! What about emergencies? A cert
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by bprater 16y ago
I learned a few bits about CSS3, such as splitting up border radius for top and bottom.
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I'd say this is extremely poor timing considering the backlash that version 4.0 of digg.com has been getting. It reeks of knee-jerk-ism. It really surprises me that nobody in the boardroom thought to say: "This might look bad. Let's hold of
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by bprater 16y ago
Agreed. Only someone who hasn't been in the tech industry since the early days of 3D games wouldn't recognize Carmack's name. He is a demi-god to me, a person who has passionately stuck with 3D programming for most of his career and even pr
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by bprater 16y ago
Agreed. There is nothing to review but a concept here. I don't want to be jaded, but it's possible that you hacked this page together in an hour. To me, it feels like you are simply using Hacker News to draw some eyeballs to your site and g
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by bprater 16y ago
The obvious weakness here is that there are no code examples. Code monkeys want to see code. If you are going to try to pitch a new language, show of your stuff.
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by bprater 16y ago
Consider that standard CRUD-based web apps follow a pattern: add, update, delete along with listing the data. For instance, a contact manager is a good way to work through all those pieces. I'd recommend getting that core pattern down befor
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by bprater 16y ago
How can they make such a massive investment in this type of thing and end up with such a big 'oops'? It must be heartbreaking for the antenna engineers.
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by bprater 16y ago
Agreed. It feels like a hack, rather than a proper solution. I'm sure Ive isn't too happy about his gorgeous device needing to be stuffed in a $1 wrapper.
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by bprater 16y ago
Use Clickbank then. Everything you mention is what they've been doing for a decade.
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by bprater 16y ago
It is unfortunate that AIR doesn't get more press action than it already does. If you need to develop client-side apps and are already familiar with web technologies (HTML/JS), you can jump in swimming. You get a brain-dead simple API that
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by bprater 16y ago
PHP is making a disappointing showing with a whopping 3 LOC!
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by bprater 16y ago
If you can never get your data back out, how is it useful?!
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by bprater 16y ago
Doesn't it seem like, as part of the engineering part of this project, that they would have a system in place that would sweep through and do a comparison for "flipped bits" and, if found, would keep a clone of what the memory should look l
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by bprater 16y ago
jQuery is a good place to start. Getting into frameworks before you have some fundamental understanding of programming can make the learning curve a bit too steep. jQuery is shallow enough that you can get a ton of work done with it, but st
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by bprater 16y ago
I'm super hopeful this becomes standard in browsers. It'll open up more creativity ways to have fun with users. Only recently did Flash include this functionality. Essentially, you could build apps like Ableton Live type apps in the browser
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by bprater 16y ago
Curiously, the up and down arrows threw me off. I expected left and right buttons.
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by bprater 16y ago
Real slick visuals at work there. Kudos.

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