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by jeff18 17y ago
Well, I'll bite. Adobe: Is there a definitive reference for both the video tag and the JS API used to communicate with it? The HTML5 draft is extremely well defined (that's the point) albeit constantly evolving (hence draft). Adobe: My assu
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by jeff18 17y ago
I like how on Hacker News, Calacanis was getting his throat bitten out by Aaron and the community, while he was trying to feebly defend himself and do damage control. However, when you read this article, it makes them sound like great frien
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by jeff18 17y ago
Here's a transcription for your information: whiiiiiirrrr djoot - djoot - djoo tshooooooooooooooooooooo
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by jeff18 17y ago
I think that most outside poopers are severely mentally ill and untreated or severely drugged out. I think the notion that these people are like characters in the Sims where they tried super hard to get to the nearest city-provided restroom
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by jeff18 17y ago
What was it like when you saw the Flash missing icons in the live keynote? Counter terrorism?
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by jeff18 17y ago
Ok, got the email, so I can review the second half. Don't ask for my Twitter login / password. That's a terrible, terrible practice which trains people to get phished. You don't even use SSL, so the username and password is transmitted in
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by jeff18 17y ago
My review: Don't ask for an email address. Just give the user a unique page that auto-updates and tells you what the wait time is. If the users wants, let the user enter their email on this second page. Asking for an email (even with a di
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by jeff18 17y ago
How do you explain the human feces nearby the public bathrooms that exist?
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by jeff18 17y ago
I find that really patronizing. The subtext of your comment is that "people with Aspergers can't help but be douches with a massive ego". On the contrary, I think that many people with Aspergers are quite nice. Autism is not an excuse fo
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by jeff18 17y ago
On the contrary, I find stuff like this highly interesting and consider myself a hacker. I found the comments between Calacanis and Aaron Wall the most awesome stuff I read on Hacker News in the past week, to be honest, and the way I found
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by jeff18 17y ago
For future reference, a good way to handle this would be: "The #bittorrent channel on Freenode has been getting trolled hard lately and I no longer have access to it due to the following policies that I think suck: <insert policies>
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by jeff18 17y ago
The source for the transcript is Bram Cohen's official blog.
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Freenode sucks(bramcohen.livejournal.com)
47 points by jeff18 17y ago|63 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
It is actually quite easy to handle payments by yourself. You can go direct with PayPal, Amazon FPS, and Google Checkout, or go through a service like Kagi, Plimus, etc. which will abstract it even further. However, I would expect most web
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by jeff18 17y ago
Safari has supported Web Workers since Safari 4, so if they are not in Mobile Safari yet, they will almost certainly be in soon!
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Web applications on the iPad(blog.wolfire.com)
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by jeff18 17y ago
How about a button that says "guess my location". Surely no one could be confused by that.
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by jeff18 17y ago
This is not really true with platforms like the iPhone, which support OpenGL ES 2.0. If you're talking about a AAA iPhone game -- sure, you will need to design specifically for the exact specs of the device. However, if you are porting a
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by jeff18 17y ago
Why would a significant portion of jQuery users want to be unpaid QA testers? It surely is a noble cause and is great for the community at large, but it's naive to expect that more than a tiny minority will actually contribute when they ca
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by jeff18 17y ago
If you're philosophically opposed to web applications why are you participating in Hacker News?
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by jeff18 17y ago
When large companies (Google, Apple, Microsoft) register secret domains, they tend to do so professionally. I don't think any product has been leaked in recent history due to an amateur DNS screw up.
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by jeff18 17y ago
This takes me back... Internet Explorer 5 for Mac used to support a widely lauded feature similar to this, where you could "subscribe" to a page and it would tell you when it updated. RSS pretty much obsoleted the feature and I have never
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by jeff18 17y ago
I was talking about the whole page itself -- I hope no one actually has a 300 kilobyte CSS file. ;) My point is that it sounds impressive to say "Hacker News can cut down its CSS file by 14.3%"... however in the real world, shaving 225 byte
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by jeff18 17y ago
Hmm, I think this is an example of an unnecessary optimization. After gzipping, minifying a CSS file might cut your website from like 300k to 299k. On the other hand, if this guy combined his CSS files into a single file, he would reduce s
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An Introduction to AI in Games(blog.wolfire.com)
53 points by jeff18 17y ago|5 comments
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Ruby Rendering in WebKit(webkit.org)
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by jeff18 17y ago
The demise of CSS seems a little dramatic. Sass looks sort of cool, and I'm glad it exists, but it seems more like a small nicety rather than a fundamental, web development game changer.
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by jeff18 17y ago
Wow, I am surprised this guy didn't get tortured or anything. How is he supposed to convince a foreign country that the bombs discovered in his bag are not his?
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by jeff18 17y ago
I disagree. I think you're right that digital distribution is the future, games are expensive, Steam's DRM is sort of acceptable, Valve is a cool company, etc. I'm totally with you on all of that. However, this data is not useful. All this
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by jeff18 17y ago
I don't think the data to developers is very useful. I mean let's say you are selling 30 copies per day at $20. Steam sells it for $2.50 during the holiday sale and you sell 3,000 copies that day. What useful data could you get other tha

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