philfreo

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Facebook Moves to Encrypt User IDs(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by philfreo 16y ago|0 comments
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by philfreo 16y ago
I think the perception different between "app" and "application" can mostly be credited to Apple's (successful) marketing.
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by philfreo 16y ago
First 2 times it didn't work, then I got it: http://appldnld.apple.com/FaceTime/061-9589.20101020.Mbgt5/F...
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by philfreo 16y ago
Best comment: "Congratulations, Mike! Now stick to your roots and leak the price! :-)"
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by philfreo 16y ago
What you're talking about has been around forever, and is called a "bookmarklet" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet
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by philfreo 16y ago
Zynga has acquired a bunch of different game studios. While I'm sure they've tried to retrofit the acquired games to better architectures, they probably weren't designed with scalability or efficiency in mind from the beginning.
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by philfreo 16y ago
Domize ( https://domize.com/ ) and Wordoid ( http://wordoid.com/ ) both seem really useful
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by philfreo 16y ago
tl;dr version?
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by philfreo 16y ago
Quizlet.com (educational tools / study games) - San Francisco, CA We're looking for: -- Both front-end and backend engineers. PHP, MySQL, Javascript/Ajax, UI design/CSS, etc. -- A smart marketing person passionate about web + education We'r
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by philfreo 16y ago
I hope this isn't too off-topic, but since this is the perfect mix of hackers + people interested in education... Quizlet.com is the startup I'm working on and we're also hiring. We're a for-profit but strongly educationally focused web com
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by philfreo 16y ago
We just made some improvements (and will continue to) on Quizlet Search. Shoot me an email at phil@ (site domain) with any more feedback.
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by philfreo 16y ago
This is actually specifically NOT want I want: "Modernizr does not add missing functionality to browsers; instead, it detects native availability of features and offers you a way to maintain a fine level of control over your site regardless
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by philfreo 16y ago
What I want to see is a drop-in JavaScript library that makes many of the new HTML5 elements, attributes, etc. backwards-compatible with all common browsers starting with IE6. E.g., I want to say <input type="text" placeholder="What is
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Apple Testing Proximity-Powered Prototypes Today; Likely To Appear In iPhone 5(techcrunch.com)
2 points by philfreo 16y ago|0 comments
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by philfreo 16y ago
Shameless plug for our startup: Quizlet, which is trying to make learning languages -- particularly vocabulary -- easier. We've got some cool audio features coming out soon. http://quizlet.com/
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Ask HN: Fast Internet in San Francisco?
2 points by philfreo 16y ago|1 comments
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by philfreo 16y ago
I'd stay away from elance and other similar sites if I were you. Focus on getting your name out there as a freelancer in certain niche communities (Django, for instance) rather than competing mostly on price for any kind of work.
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Ask HN: Experience with Text-to-Speech providers?
1 points by philfreo 16y ago|1 comments
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by philfreo 16y ago
In Google's case, speed/latency for their users is what they're really trying to optimize.
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Faceted Search With Sphinx(ioncannon.net)
2 points by philfreo 16y ago|0 comments
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by philfreo 16y ago
also be aware that data is getting submitted to your domain on every request -- not great for performance
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by philfreo 16y ago
While I agree this example is pretty ridiculous, Google is spending a lot more time innovating in web performance than most
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Velocity 2010: Tom Cook, "A Day in the Life of Facebook Operations"(youtube.com)
1 points by philfreo 16y ago|0 comments
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Speaker Slides & Video: Velocity 2010, Web Performance & Operations Conference(en.oreilly.com)
1 points by philfreo 16y ago|0 comments
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by philfreo 16y ago
eBay in a couple weeks
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Liminal Existence: Beautiful Lines(blog.romeda.org)
2 points by philfreo 16y ago|0 comments
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by philfreo 16y ago
You may want to follow BP's PR Twitter... http://twitter.com/bpglobalpr ;)
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by philfreo 16y ago
I don't believe it
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Lazy Loading Asyncronous Javascript(friendlybit.com)
28 points by philfreo 16y ago|3 comments
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by philfreo 16y ago
This shows another benefit of always logging in using a password manager like 1Password. Even if I were fooled and tried to login on this phishing form by pressing Cmd+|, 1Password wouldn't fill my password because the URL doesn't match...

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