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Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?
155 points by kumar303 13y ago|57 comments
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by kumar303 13y ago
marketing/PR has been focused on mobile so that we can shift as much focus there as possible. The dilemma is that most devs are not spending time to make their apps work on mobile devices. However, a miniscule amount of people use Fire
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by kumar303 13y ago
FYI, Web Audio is about to land in Firefox 25 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779297
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Kipochi turns African phones into bitcoin wallets(itwebafrica.com)
2 points by kumar303 13y ago|0 comments
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by kumar303 13y ago
actually, arguing that fraud filters must be private is interesting. Would you make the same argument about keeping encryption algorithms private? :) The two concepts are similar but not exactly the same. Unlike encryption algorithms, a fra
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by kumar303 13y ago
The idea of a completely open company is interesting. Balanced is not completely open (yet?) because there are still financial info and salary info that is not public. Gittip is an example of a fully open organization http://gitt
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Building Apps For Firefox OS, Chrome OS And The Web(thenittygritty.co)
2 points by kumar303 13y ago|0 comments
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by kumar303 13y ago
or, to put it another way, please stop writing closed source software ;)
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by kumar303 13y ago
To clarify more: Persona is not "moving in this direction," it has always been designed as a completely decentralized identity solution. The Persona server is just a boostrap to get it started so here's what you can do: creat
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The tiny Instagram projector(getprojecteo.com)
70 points by kumar303 13y ago|58 comments
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Web Activities: a way for one web app to share data with another(gordonbrander.github.io)
2 points by kumar303 13y ago|0 comments
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by kumar303 13y ago
I guess it would use a provided intermediate server like the one Facebook offers: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/login/login-for-...
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by kumar303 13y ago
Is this dark magic? :) How does it do oauth without a domain? If you build an apk for Android how does the authentication step grant your app an oauth token? Does it use a shared firebase server to grant access? If so, how is that secure be
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by kumar303 14y ago
Actually, to many people harassment isn't a serious thing. It's just a "casual" snide comment about being cute or looking hot. Many men don't realize they're making women feel uncomfortable in geek circles.
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by kumar303 14y ago
It makes me sad that HN reinforces the fact that women have a hard time participating in s/tech conferences/tech forums/g PyCon was 20% female this year which was a remarkable milestone. Along with this milestone came an amplification of wh
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by kumar303 14y ago
Prior to this, Mozilla has been using AWSBox as a similar deploy environment for node.js https://github.com/mozilla/awsbox
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by kumar303 14y ago
I think it's a fair argument to say that one is locked into Mozilla today with our receipt protocol. However, we've designed it from the ground up to work in a decentralized manner so that other marketplaces can participate. This is the
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by kumar303 14y ago
Correct. Now you have a PhoneGab app not a WebOS app :)
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by kumar303 14y ago
You can use CORS in a packaged app to talk to your own web service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing or you need XHR permissions such as "permissions": { "systemXHR": {} } https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
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by kumar303 14y ago
Well, WebOS did it in secret and built their own walled garden of "web" APIs, sadly. That may or may not be why it never got traction. Either way, if you built a WebOS app then it won't run anywhere else today. With Firefox OS, Mozilla at l
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by kumar303 14y ago
You also need an "always on" network to verify paid iOS or Android apps. They use web services for verification.
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by kumar303 14y ago
It's just as easy on Firefox OS. Writing a web service is not required! Mozilla provides one for you :) BTW, both iOS and Android require servers to be available for purchase checks unless, as the app developer, you don't care about piracy
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by kumar303 14y ago
You're talking about a phishing attack and it's actually worse for OpenID http://identity.mozilla.com/post/7669886219/how-browserid-di... Once Persona is integrated into browsers it will offer better security. BTW, the iframe is always in
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by kumar303 14y ago
It's fully distributed because the identity provider is your email domain. When joe@gmail.com logs in, gmail.com could be the only server that the system interacts with! This is described here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Pe
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by kumar303 14y ago
in 5 years many people using the web will have no idea what you're talking about when you say "browser" :)
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Mozilla is building an open apps platform not a "Mozilla platform"(blog.mozilla.org)
1 points by kumar303 14y ago|0 comments
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by kumar303 14y ago
Awesome work, Greg! You may be interested in following some of the WebRTC work around peer to peer connections http://www.w3.org/2011/04/webrtc-charter.html It's in the distant future but they need real world cases to get the APIs right.
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by kumar303 14y ago
Boot to Gecko / Firefox OS is a Gecko based mobile OS. However, the open apps platform we're building lets you run an HTML5 app on, well, any HTML5 device including Chrome, IE9, etc. This mostly applies to the Marketplace in how it offers p
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by kumar303 14y ago
I totally agree: the web does not have a decent abstract UI layer for devs to use. Help us build out Web Components! https://github.com/mozilla/x-tag
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by kumar303 14y ago
Good point, html5 has some catching up to do here but I think it's possible, at least on JIT'd js environments, to achieve the same performance. Can.js has one of the best performing UI code right now and can do the lazy loading, live bindi

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