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by mcav 17y ago
> Tons of awful blog posts, from years ago, This. While humanity has uploaded a lot of valuable, worthwhile information online in the past decade, that's just a blip compared to the amount of totally useless junk online. That makes th
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by mcav 17y ago
I'm using Spreedly; they have a Kickstart program going on which freezes fees at the lesser of 1%/10¢ per transaction, and no monthly fee. If my math is correct, that makes it cheaper than all except Cheddargetter until 50,000 customers.
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by mcav 17y ago
Developing for the iPhone is like launching a rocket. Provided your calculations are correct (i.e. you don't do anything to get rejected), you're really trying to get escape velocity, so that your app pops onto the top lists. If you miss th
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by mcav 17y ago
You can print these too -- even in high res: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/holidaycard/print.html
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by mcav 17y ago
They don't pay nearly as well, from what I've heard.
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by mcav 17y ago
That executes the code in a local scope, so that any variables defined within that block don't leak outside of its namespace.
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by mcav 17y ago
I hadn't thought about it that way before. You make an excellent point. The most worrying part about losing your privacy isn't that someone like the NSA might read your documents. Mid-level or lower-level officials are the ones to worry abo
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by mcav 17y ago
I'm an Iowan. Finally some tech activity here for a change!
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by mcav 17y ago
The moment Apple makes an API method public, they make a commitment that the API will be supported, unchanged, and maintained in the future. Any API creator must make careful decisions in that regard. You don't want to support something tha
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24ways.org 2009 (Daily Web Development Articles until Christmas)(24ways.org)
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by mcav 17y ago
(that was quoted from the tarsnap website)
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by mcav 17y ago
I don't want to be responsible for the upkeep (and downtime) of my primary form of non-face-to-face communication.
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The 00's: A Decade from Hell(time.com)
1 points by mcav 17y ago|1 comments
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Creativity is Not Design - Design Test 2(andyrutledge.com)
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by mcav 17y ago
Ah, point taken. I guess I was too interested in the editor itself to bother reading the whole page first.
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by mcav 17y ago
Same here, Safari4/Mac.
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by mcav 17y ago
This brings back terrible, terrible memories of MFC. I remember opening up my Visual C++ packaging to find a gigantic poster, several feet wide, showing the entire MFC class hierarchy. And the text wasn't even very big. CObject anyone?
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by mcav 17y ago
When Flash isn't rendering to the screen (i.e. via constant blitting), it hardly consumes any CPU at all. In my experience, blitting the screen 30fps causes a lot of CPU load even when you aren't doing anything.
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by mcav 17y ago
There are canvas emulators that make Canvas more or less functional in IE, albeit with a speed hit. But even then, Canvas isn't designed to do the same things Flash excels at: vector-based animation.
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by mcav 17y ago
Not if you want it to run in a browser.
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by mcav 17y ago
I'm working on some casual card/board games, so unfortunately I can't really use Flixel since it wasn't designed for that (primarily vector images, uses events rather than game loop to keep CPU low). But Flixel looks great, and I wish there
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by mcav 17y ago
Users cannot download apps outside of the app store without jailbreaking. It's an awfully far-fetched assumption to think that users wouldn't download apps outside of the app store if that were an option. People download windows/mac apps
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by mcav 17y ago
I didn't know you could download MP4 videos of TED talks! (links below the video) http://video.ted.com/talks/podcast/PranavMistry_2009I_480.mp...
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by mcav 17y ago
You could theoretically make an OpenID provider that does that, I think... rather than redirecting users to a website to enter your password, it just shoots an e-mail for you to confirm.
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by mcav 17y ago
They're trying to support more standards -- by definition, they're just reinventing the work others have already done. So it's grunt work, only useful for their future influence and power. They could ship IE9 with WebKit in addition to
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by mcav 17y ago
Amazon Payphrase is thoroughly confusing. I still don't understand how it's supposed to make life easier; several of the comments here indicate that I'm not alone. It isn't explained very clearly.
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by mcav 17y ago
This looks to be quite useful. I've tested it just now and it works as advertised, minus a couple of installation quirks. It's interesting to me that it follows almost exactly the same principles as text-based blogging system as Jekyll and
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by mcav 17y ago
I've never liked the Picasa scrollbar either. Hard to tell how long the document is.
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by mcav 17y ago
Marco's response: http://www.marco.org/244246945 Equally as well written, IMO.
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by mcav 17y ago
What kinds of apps do you use in xmonad?

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