johnpolacek

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by johnpolacek 14y ago
JS Devs - I think if you can open up your minds and take a look at what is actually a new and interesting approach to a JS framework, you'll be glad you did. Take a look at the examples. There's definitely some potential with this one.
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Minimal HTML5 Shooter: Empty Black(emptyblack.com)
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The Never Ending Quest To Build Cool Stuff(johnpolacek.github.com)
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
What about the users? Twitter's connectivity to other apps and websites is one of the things that make it useful.
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
Is it a prototype, yes. Is it fake, no. http://mashable.com/2012/08/20/aerofex-hover-vehicle/
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
Yeah, I JUJ'd it.™ (just use jQuery)
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
Added a play toggle to the demo page.
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
Another guy posted about the tubular plugin as well. One thing BigVideo.js has is controls you can customize and I have an example where you can do autohiding of content on top of the background. http://dfcb.github.com/BigVideo.js/example-
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
My recommendation is to detect phones through a combo of screen size and touch support and serve a background image or color instead.
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
Pull requests are always welcome! ;)
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
That is really, really cool. Did not know about that one. Can you add custom controls? Like in this BigVideo example below (click one of the playlist buttons on the left): http://dfcb.github.com/BigVideo.js/example-playlist.html Another
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
Thanks! I'll have to do some more work on getting it to work right on Firefox. It is a little different since FF doesn't have native h.264 support so it goes to a Flash fallback. I wanted to make it easy, so that you would just have one sou
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
Tested on Firefox 14.0.1 and it is working for me. Which version are you on?
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Show HN: BigVideo.js(dfcb.github.com)
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
Sounds like you are a Regular Joegrammer
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Scrollorama2: SuperScrollorama(johnpolacek.github.com)
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RESS (Responsive Web Design with Server Side Components) Resources(lukew.com)
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Greensock Animation Platform (aka Tweenlite) now in JavaScript(greensock.com)
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
In most cases I'd think affiliate ads would be a better way to go than AdSense anyway.
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
My current favorite podcast: TechZing Live - http://techzinglive.com They discuss HN stories, but mostly talk very honestly about working on their startups and have great interviews with people like Patrick Collison (Stripe founder), Anth
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by johnpolacek 14y ago
JsRender should probably be on there. https://github.com/BorisMoore/jsrender
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by johnpolacek 15y ago
If you're into this stuff, check out Steve Mann, who's been doing wearable tech since the 80's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiFtmrpuwNY
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by johnpolacek 15y ago
Great stuff: 1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. Never use a long word where a short one will do. 3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. 4. Never use the p
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Show HN: Are You A Brogrammer? Take the quiz and find out(areyouabrogrammer.com)
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by johnpolacek 15y ago
Wow, what a nice surprise to see my creation on HN. To all the critics, I built this to be a slide deck on responsive web design, not a responsive website itself. Its main purpose is for me to launch full screen on Chrome and show on a proj
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by johnpolacek 15y ago
Just pushed an update that should help the performance a bit. (thanks eivindbekk/John Resig)
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by johnpolacek 15y ago
Yeah, but I get what the detractors are saying. Its like Uncle Ben said, "With great power, comes great responsibility."
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by johnpolacek 15y ago
How about this one? http://gidsy.com/handbooks/making-the-perfect-listing/
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by johnpolacek 15y ago
Yeah, I pushed it a bit with that one for sure, but I just couldn't resist, haha
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by johnpolacek 15y ago
Well I worked previously as a Flash dev, so guilty as charged, haha Personally, I always hated the overdone Flash stuff as well. And the scrolly stuff can get out of hand, that's for sure, but sometimes it is really cool. Ben The Bodyguard

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