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by kreek 16y ago
I think depends on what your selling. If it's an item that's related to a user's profile (location, favorite bands, movies, etc) you can do quite well. I always click on adds for new albums or concerts for bands I have listed. Much easier f
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Thank HN: Helped us stop a DDOS attack
2 points by kreek 16y ago|0 comments
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by kreek 16y ago
That is indeed some badass JS, but why does it send my CPU to 100% and turn both the fans on my MacBook Pro, I thought only Flash did that?
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by kreek 16y ago
Pages load fine for me, however submitting a comment is taking longer than usual.
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by kreek 16y ago
While it has one meaning for hacker news, at my company a 'hacker' is someone who hacks around a problem. They do absolutely no design before hand and bash away at something until it "works".
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by kreek 16y ago
I love my Mac, IPhone etc. but Apple is not the be all end all of success stories. They have one culture, Google has another (more hacker-centric), and other successful companies have even more of a hacker culture. Apple is a hardware compa
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by kreek 16y ago
A split-finger fastball, looks like a fastball then suddenly drops down before it crosses the plate.
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by kreek 16y ago
I was doing a search for a way to invite users with devise The third link the Google machine returned ( https://github.com/salex/rails3-Devise-BCSD-Can-Invite ) was to a complete Basecamp style demo using devise, cancan, and devise invitabl
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Retirement on Rails(iwishicouldwrite.com)
2 points by kreek 16y ago|2 comments
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by kreek 16y ago
I did say it was 'mini' :) Part of what followed was a disagreement about the style of Zed's request, another part was the plagiarizer trying to explain that he wasn't really plagiarizing when quite clearly he was. Then the offending party
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by kreek 16y ago
Posts like that are why I admire Zed. He just went through mini-hell getting an unauthorized copy of his work taken down. He could very well have said "F-U guys" and taken his ball and gone home. Instead he writes a lengthy post to help any
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by kreek 16y ago
While it is true that some Flash apps have loop (games must have a loop) it's a bit ignorant to compare it to an event-driven architecture. Flash's ActionScript, which is based on ECMAScript (as is JavaScript), is an event driven-architectu
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Star Wars. Tie Fighters. Gun Turrets. Oh, yeah, and augmented reality(mobilecrunch.com)
3 points by kreek 16y ago|0 comments
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App to convert Flash on iPhone hits App Store(news.cnet.com)
1 points by kreek 16y ago|0 comments
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Adobe and Google enhancing WebKit for better typography(blogs.adobe.com)
83 points by kreek 16y ago|39 comments
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by kreek 16y ago
or with animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
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by kreek 16y ago
Both sides seem about the same to me but I also have the Flash 64-bit player for OS X http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html . For those interested in Flash game optimization here's a video on porting Plants vs Zombies to Flash
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Google polling app misleads voters(politico.com)
2 points by kreek 16y ago|0 comments
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by kreek 16y ago
"This isn’t a choice between chocolate and vanilla folks, it’s all rocky road: a few marshmallows to get you excited before the election, but with a lot of nuts to ruin the aftermath." That pretty much sums up modern politics for me, and I
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Free BlackBerry PlayBook for developers who have their app accepted on AppWorld(crackberry.com)
4 points by kreek 16y ago|0 comments
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by kreek 16y ago
I agree, the 'first half' is a pretty big window and Adobe missed their AIR on Android release by months. That said 2011 is eleven years before 2022 ;)
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Flash Player "Square" - 64-bit on OS X and Linux(labs.adobe.com)
2 points by kreek 16y ago|0 comments
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by kreek 16y ago
Shelf
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by kreek 16y ago
This project and the technology are pretty amazing great work. However, I have a bit of an issue with the idea these logos are intruding on the record of our lives. Not to get too Ayn Rand on you but A is A, this is the world we live in. Re
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by kreek 16y ago
Heh, I tried Chrome for the last event and got the same "check back later" message and though it was too busy. I didn't even see the 'Streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Safari on iOS 3 or later' message. Woul
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Gamification = b*llsh$t(gravitybear.com)
4 points by kreek 16y ago|3 comments
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by kreek 16y ago
Nice magazine cover too bad it's straight rip off of The Cult's 'Electric' album cover. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Cult-Electric_(album...
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by kreek 16y ago
I don't know about other sports but I have researched this for the Premier League (soccer) and they own the stats lock stock and barrel. Even if you hired a bunch of mechanical turks to watch every game and jot down every shot and tackle th
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by kreek 16y ago
The problem I've seen with some junior developers is not that they run to Google it's that they aren't very proficient at using it. On a number of occasions in the last couple of months I've had a junior dev stuck on a problem for hours. On
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by kreek 16y ago
This looks great. I'm primarily a Flex developer and JavaScript for web apps has always scared the bejesus out of me as I felt I was back to the dark days of ActionScript 2. I still feel I'm faster with strong typing and a good IDE (I hardl

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