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by bprater 17y ago
My prediction is that this is the beginning of a new era for young hackers. I think we underestimate how powerful that "View Source" button in our browser is. All of us have learned a tremendous amount from each other by taking a peak at ea
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by bprater 17y ago
Are there any pure JS implementations of something like Sass/Compass?
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Visualizing Commodore 64 memory in real-time...(icu64.blogspot.com)
30 points by bprater 17y ago|5 comments
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by bprater 17y ago
I know the CEO, good guy.
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by bprater 17y ago
Agreed. When you are bit-banging and other low-level stuff, you want a language like C. It's such a silly argument. Good programmers pick the language that matches the problem they are trying to solve. Anyone that considers themselves a hac
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by bprater 17y ago
What is this a reference to?
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New jQuery book for seasoned hackers...(jqueryenlightenment.com)
2 points by bprater 17y ago|0 comments
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by bprater 17y ago
Being well over the age of understanding all the new cool words, I hit up urban dictionary to find out what 'meep' meant: "The most versatile word in the English language, or in fact any language." Kind of like a blank Scrabble piece, I gue
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by bprater 17y ago
Build a API dude. This type of service can be useful to some of us who need to send snail mail to customers when they sign-up, cancel, etc. And I agree with everyone else about the prices. Eventually 6c won't cut it and then you'll have to
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by bprater 17y ago
$1.20/hr @ 34 GB, $2.40/hr @ 68 GB
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by bprater 17y ago
Well, that's fairly disappointing. I've been excitedly watching for it to make it into the operating system. I think it would be a positive but subtle shake-up for the industry.
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by bprater 17y ago
I'm continually frustrated by these reports. I can tell you about a fun algorithm I came up with in my sleep and maybe even prototyped, but a large-scale app it doesn't not make. How realistic is it that this will become mainstream? How oft
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by bprater 17y ago
DirectX 10 was one of the few "hooks" or killer features Microsoft assigned only to Vista. I'm wondering if they should have spent more time looking for similar killer features before shipping.
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by bprater 17y ago
Is selling any unrealized concept unethical? Is pitching you an idea for a company in trade for your money wrong? I think it becomes unethical when you begin lying: "Production of the app is coming along nicely! Here are a few more screensh
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by bprater 17y ago
They've certainly put lots of thought into the design of this device/software. But the whole time I kept thinking: "what about the keyboard?" (Eventually, at the end, they showed the device in a traditional trackpad position below a keyboar
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by bprater 17y ago
It's worth checking out how Amazon did their iPhone Kindle. When you initiate a rotation, it pops up a little button at the corner of the screen for about 2 seconds that allows you to lock that orientation. Most elegant implantation I've se
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by bprater 17y ago
I'd like to hear a theory about why this might be evolutionarily true. Was it because the men were out in the sun all day, decreasing the contrast of their skin, while women working together tend to have more contrast because they likely li
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by bprater 17y ago
Consider me completely surprised. I'm still looking at both photos and trying to figure out why I key one in as male and one as female. And then trying to resolve that it's the same face!
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by bprater 17y ago
I really love these toys that they are making available to us. Even simple examples like this give us an idea of the creative potential we will have over the next few years.
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by bprater 17y ago
I suspect that is the duration of the charge and not the amount of power it can put out at any given moment.
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by bprater 17y ago
Possible to get a compressed/TLDR version?
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by bprater 17y ago
Looks like it'll have all the AIR bits-and-pieces in it. So you'll get database/filesystem access, etc.
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by bprater 17y ago
Seems like a huge opportunity for folks who are fluent in Flash/AS3 and haven't had time to jump on the Objective-C bandwagon. It's likely that since it's compiled down, it'll run faster than interpreted Flash! Great move by Adobe! (I'm cur
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by bprater 17y ago
Sounds very hacktastical to count the entries as a way to know if the service is alive. If I found someone doing this on one of my production database machines, I think I'd have to dig out the paintball gun and start chasing them around, es
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by bprater 17y ago
Depression is an incredibly insidious disease folks, especially because sufferers normally keep it hidden from others. Some days you can feel completely fine, have amazing connections with people, love your work, be a completely present and
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by bprater 17y ago
Are we seriously going to have this argument? This is Hacker News, where most of us don't play the Ford/Chevy game with programming languages. Most of us have used multiple languages and know exactly when to employ the right tool for the jo
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by bprater 17y ago
Does anyone know if a future CSS spec will encompass these types of abstractions?
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by bprater 17y ago
Anyone have a reference for this? I'd be curious to see what the code looks like.
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by bprater 17y ago
So what is the basic hack you RFID hackers?
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by bprater 17y ago
Agreed, this debate may sound silly to some, but for those of us that are passionate about typography, making this sort of change is akin to the movie studio going in and recutting Pulp Fiction to "make it better" or having the staff at the

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