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Hearthstone 3D card viewer in pure JavaScript/CSS3(elie.net)
4 points by declan 12y ago|0 comments
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by declan 12y ago
Has anyone had the opportunity to compare Xamarin with Corona SDK? Corona SDK is free and builds to Android/Windows/iOS with cross-platform wrappers available for what Corona has chosen to wrap, which can be different for each pla
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by declan 12y ago
CNET.com and Download.com are both part of CBS Interactive (CNET Networks was a publicly traded company and was bought by CBS in 2008). I worked at CBS Interactive when the Download.com installer/adware controversy erupted: http:&#x2F
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by declan 12y ago
>By my count we now have, in no particular order... There's also Corona SDK, which uses lua and OpenGL. Write once, build for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 8. UI performance is quite good. Supposedly building Mac and Windows deskt
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by declan 12y ago
Ah, you're right. Thanks! Here's a story that describes the problem (and an unsuccessful ice bath attempt): http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/oneyear/alternative/1404... I coincidentally spoke wi
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FTC Statement Regarding the Google Investigation(ftc.gov)
2 points by declan 12y ago|0 comments
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by declan 12y ago
I've been an Apple user since the IIe days, and I remember the tiny, vulnerable niche company it was very well. But as you say: "Apple now twice as big as world's second-largest company, ExxonMobil" http://www
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by declan 12y ago
On the performance point, you're quite right on 0-60 speeds. Electric motors, all-wheel drive, and smart launch control will give you excellent times. On a track, though, where weight and handling matter so much, I wonder what the perf
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by declan 12y ago
Teslas are in line with other luxury sedans (of course you may view all of those are insanely expensive). The 60 starts at $64K, cash price counting tax credits, and the P85 is $96K. Compare that with the starting prices of the BMW 5-series
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by declan 12y ago
>How is 7% close to a rounding error? I didn't say 7% was a rounding error. I wrote "a quarter" of 7%, which is rather different.
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by declan 12y ago
<tptacek>: Yes, we've been around this circle before, and I don't think we're going to change each other's minds. As for Aaron Swartz's attorneys, they would have jumped at the chance for probation. They expli
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by declan 12y ago
Well, the mere fact that a jury convicted someone of violating Federal Law X doesn't mean that Federal Law X is a good, just, or sensible law. Aaron Swartz may well have been convicted of violating Federal Law Y, but that doesn't
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by declan 12y ago
80 percent of the developed water supply in California is used by agriculture. About 6 percent is industrial and commercial. That leaves 7 percent residential landscaping, and 7 percent residential non-landscaping (showers, washing machines
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by declan 12y ago
Welcome to the wonderful world of federal overcriminalization. Aaron Swartz faced 13 federal felonies (the Feds upped it from 4 to 13 at some point) and a possible maximum of 50+ years in prison: https://www.techdirt.com/art
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by declan 12y ago
I once tried to interview Warren Buffett and was connected to his personal secretary, who very kindly said it was unlikely to happen. No phalanxes of PR folks, just her. Maybe she updates the site for him. :) To respond to your spartan web
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by declan 12y ago
<nikcub> is certainly right about the dangers of raising venture capital as a media company. Few news organizations generate outsize returns. In terms of companies sold, there's also CNET, which was sold for $1.8B to CBS in 2008.
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by declan 12y ago
Here are some stats on advertising cost per thousand views (CPMs) from mid-2014, which may be relevant: http://monetizepros.com/blog/2014/average-cpm-rates/ Some excerpts: Average CPM for business & finan
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by declan 12y ago
I've taught as an adjunct or equivalent at three universities. Two public, one private. Two gigs were during the school year, and one was an abbreviated summer program. I don't remember the summer program rate, but I recall the sc
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by declan 12y ago
You are correct that U.S. policy is in some ways broken, but incorrect in assuming that warrant canaries serve no purpose or firms can be compelled to lie. The far better arguments are that such an order would be unconstitutional -- look at
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by declan 12y ago
The sole purpose of a warrant canary is to say something akin to: "We have received no warrants or NSLs." The Silent Circle warrant canary has no such statement. It says the opposite: if "no warrants have been served," s
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by declan 12y ago
>How hard is it for a site to setup a simple paywall linked to a low-cost payment processor? Well, it depends on what the cut is -- I don't know and the linked page doesn't say. But news organizations that are good at reporting
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by declan 12y ago
I think <guelo>'s advice above is sound. I learned this lesson myself after testing early versions of http://recent.io -- there's a high barrier to convincing users to type in an email address and password, even
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by declan 12y ago
I think the post above by <grey-area> is on target. I suspect there is a large market for very easy-to-use app building environments (though, because I know how to code and like doing it, I don't know what the competitive landsca
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by declan 12y ago
I agree the article is favorable to Yahoo, but it strikes me as likely that the author conducted interviews, reviewed the facts, and wrote what he thought was the truth. Some folks on this thread may disagree with his conclusions, but that
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by declan 12y ago
One of my favorite answers to this question comes from a federal lawsuit that ended with a ruling that source code is protected by the First Amendment. Here's an excerpt: Programs written in source code also share many of the linguist
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by declan 12y ago
This is a fair question. In my two posts on the HN thread last month, I wasn't defending the proposal on the merits; instead, I made a narrow point that the headline was unsupported by the August 2014 source document and should be chan
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Google Calls FBI Plan to Expand Hacking Power 'Monumental' Constitutional Threat(nationaljournal.com)
5 points by declan 12y ago|2 comments
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Obama calls for public debate over encryption(wtop.com)
2 points by declan 12y ago|2 comments
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by declan 12y ago
When working on an early version of http://recent.io/ , I added a physics animation of bouncing/falling balls during the network request to the server. When the network request completed, gravity pulled all the balls of
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An empirical study of goto in C code(peerj.com)
24 points by declan 12y ago|11 comments

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