gyardley

99 ms·

811.
by gyardley 15y ago
Too simple for whom? I know I've been interested in and enjoyed many games that could be effectively botted - including some where you farm / hunt / gain XP. Saying that these games are 'too simple' and shouldn't exist sounds a little arrog
812.
by gyardley 15y ago
On banner ads? Lower-income middle-aged people outside large urban areas with a propensity to visit auction and gambling sites. That's not the point, though. Being exposed to a brand's banner ads increases one's likelihood of searching for
813.
by gyardley 15y ago
Reading the comments on that NYT article makes me wonder what's wrong with humanity. It's like visiting Reddit - nothing but whinging and jealousy. I know a couple of the people mentioned in that article, and they certainly haven't gotten a
814.
by gyardley 15y ago
From the article: There are reportedly dozens of other shapes and variations of the glasses in the works, some of which can sit over a person’s normal eyeglasses.
815.
by gyardley 15y ago
To a fan of New York-style pizza this statement is pretty close to sacrilege - close enough that I half-suspect you're intentionally trying to troll jcampbell1. Grimaldi's isn't the absolute best pizza in the city, but it's a very good exam
816.
by gyardley 15y ago
I don't know, Charlie - yes, these tools can facilitate genocide, but we've shown ourselves to be pretty good at the genocide thing with a lot less sophisticated technology. The next time we have a genocide, we'll use a lot of different too
817.
The Philosopher Behind the FTC's New Approach to Privacy(theatlantic.com)
1 points by gyardley 15y ago|0 comments
818.
by gyardley 15y ago
If I ran a large business, I would certainly look at the most-common purchases and combinations of purchases (especially low-cost items, like a candy bar) and consider tweaking prices so I gained rather than lost two pennies on my most comm
819.
by gyardley 15y ago
Or Harper could just be a fairly centrist politician - after all, there's no better time in Canadian politics to push through radical change than the earliest stages of a majority government, something Harper has never previously had. If hi
820.
by gyardley 15y ago
Because life is long, and when man plans, God laughs. You could divorce (or be widowed) and remarry. You could tragically lose your existing children. You could simply change your mind - it does happen. Should this happen to you, a shot int
821.
by gyardley 15y ago
Not particularly far to the right. Setting aside the Quebec-only Bloc, the three main parties in Canada are center-right, centrist, and center-left. They all like to claim the others are extremists, but all of them have perfectly mainstream
822.
by gyardley 15y ago
Zuckerberg seems to have done okay. People who are concerned with the age of their boss are a little too concerned with status / authority / hierarchy to be at an early-stage startup.
823.
by gyardley 15y ago
It's just an intensive. Probably the most innocuous use of the word 'fuck' there is. If English had standard intensive forms, and we could add additional intensity just by tweaking a word ending, we wouldn't have this issue. But we don't. N
824.
by gyardley 15y ago
I've known a couple of companies who've worked on server-side ad fetching, stitching ad images together with content images, using only first-party cookies, etc. In both cases it was just too soon - the ad blocking problem wasn't deemed big
825.
by gyardley 15y ago
No need for the self-righteousness. The guy's a web security researcher who's doing AdBlock users a favor by posting this stuff publicly. If he was actually trying to screw over you rascally freeloaders, he wouldn't be posting instructions,
826.
by gyardley 15y ago
Since your fingerprint is going to be primarily based off your user agent, if I was running this in the wild I'd only check for presence of a handful of extensions and I'd ignore their version entirely. I'd just be looking for a couple bits
827.
by gyardley 15y ago
Just attempt to load an image from the particular add-on you want to check for. <img src='chrome://flashblock/skin/flash-on-24.png' onload='usingFlashBlock=true' onerror='usingFlashBlock=false'> Should work fine, and even a small nu
828.
by gyardley 15y ago
Interesting. Based off of the FAQ, the only thing that keeps developers from sharing their users' SecureUDID with other developers and/or SDK-based companies seems to be their own discretion - turning over the domain and salt unlocks the ke
829.
by gyardley 15y ago
If any of your apps has registered a custom URL scheme, and many do, any other app on your phone can easily check to see whether it's installed. That's by design. Back when I was keeping up, it was also possible to read the mobile installat
830.
by gyardley 15y ago
Say you’re sitting at your laptop, listening to music while responding to emails, writing code, or reading blogs. Then your phone rings, and the typical scramble ensues: You minimize your browser, maximize your music app, and search franti
831.
Ask HN: European online payment preferences?
2 points by gyardley 15y ago|5 comments
832.
by gyardley 15y ago
Yep, you're right - glossed over too much of the grey in the thread. Sorry for the early-morning invective.
833.
by gyardley 15y ago
Oh? Can I demand subscription services offer me an ad-supported version because I don't want to pay the monthly fee? After all, these service providers 'have to give me a choice'. No one has to give you anything. Where does your sense of en
834.
by gyardley 15y ago
This is completely backwards - you're complaining about untargeted ads, based only on the rough context of the page you're on. Properly-targeted ads would know you're a) female and b) an atheist and show appropriate advertising if any was
835.
by gyardley 15y ago
I could be wrong, but I suspect the legitimacy or illegitimacy of copying design is a red herring here. Perhaps svbtle's invite-only status made people feel like outsiders, perhaps something you've done in the past rubbed someone the wrong
836.
by gyardley 15y ago
From just the quote you provided it sounds like he's being melodramatic, but with the full comment + the post I think he's saying you'll only get to be a good enough coder if you try to support yourself solely from your coding efforts. Pl
837.
by gyardley 15y ago
It's fair to ask about their exit strategy and plans for growth, to get a sense of how they're thinking about their company. At this stage I wouldn't expect their plans to have much more than a tenuous connection with what will actually hap
838.
by gyardley 15y ago
Hahaha - well, there you go. Thanks for the update.
839.
by gyardley 15y ago
I've had experience hiring employee #1 and my wife's had experience being employee #1 at other companies. At that stage the founders should be comfortable talking about cash on hand and burn rate with you, so while insolvency is a risk, you
840.
by gyardley 15y ago
Yep, sustained success on mobile is all about cross-promotion between a portfolio of games.

More ›