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by rkalla 15y ago
The App Store is two parts -- there is the developer facing part where you publish into it and the consumer facing portion for discovery right? Apple's mobile and Mac App Store work this way. Amazon's app store, google marketplace, etc. etc
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by rkalla 15y ago
Eli, no where did I say those companies don't have similar TOS, I was trying (badly?) to make the point that while some of the commenters below (and folks on Slashdot) wave-away concern over the open-endedness of Dropbox's TOS because the c
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by rkalla 15y ago
When the new TOS were announced I think a lot of balked at reading those statements. The examples given in the TOS (e.g. "to convert your files") all seem reasonable, but as Indyan pointed out, it sure leaves the door open to some fuzzy int
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by rkalla 15y ago
So damn clever... releasing an SDK for the Kinect[1] was one of the smartest things Microsoft could have ever done and I think has gone a long way to contribute to it being the fastest selling piece of hardware in history[2] (did anyone kno
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by rkalla 15y ago
This seems like a lot more than an "IDE in the cloud" -- they have this great monetization angle of letting you publish your apps directly into their "App Store" (something like Google App Engine but also a store front for customers?) and a
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by rkalla 15y ago
Plug away man, ImpactJS looks fantastic. I hope you are getting some uptake in it and continue to refine it -- you'll be sitting pretty here as people look for non-WebGL alternatives to gaming in the browser that isn't Flash.
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by rkalla 15y ago
Oh, I was gunning for only CSS3/JavaScript/HTML -- I assume the WebGL version linked here ported a lot of the OGL code from the mobile version to WebGL right? (I could be wrong)
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by rkalla 15y ago
I would be curious to know how much (and which parts) are Go powered as well.
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by rkalla 15y ago
A few months back I played with Box2D inside of libgdx[1] using JBox2D[2] and thought the performance of untextured 2D entities was OK... seeing this running in JavaScript sort of floors me. I forget (regularly it seems) how far JavaScript
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by rkalla 15y ago
Latch, very fair point. I did a bit too much hand waving there, but maybe more like $0.10/GB would be more accurate.
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by rkalla 15y ago
Whenever I see announcements like this, I try and cap my enthusiasm -- I think reading about solid-state-drives in the 90s and not getting them until... well the last 2 years, I have learned to be cautious with falling in love. THAT being s
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by rkalla 15y ago
Making all in-bound traffic free is a super-aggressive (and much appreciated) move. As blhack pointed out Voxel's per-GB rate[1] before AWS dropped was extremely competitive, but they charge for in and out-bound data. AWS, after the 1st o
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by rkalla 15y ago
Got it, thank you Ryan.
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by rkalla 15y ago
Seems like a graceful failure -- jQuery is still responding to calls. For anyone that this freaks out and wonders how they can utilize the googleapis service in the future but have a fallback incase things fall apart, here is a fun little s
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by rkalla 15y ago
Big win here (for me) was the File API finally got added so you can do DnD uploads now. IE has actually supported the DnD API for a while now, but didn't have the File API component to make the upload happen. Rendering speed didn't seem muc
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by rkalla 15y ago
A few more thoughts: - When you do put together the ad-supported version, include a mechanism for it to pull text from a web address and display it in a popup -- that way when you release Bullet Factory: Super-Bullet Edition, you can update
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by rkalla 15y ago
Here's what DID work for you -- summing up all those failures into a well written, entertaining and light-hearted article that is genuinely helpful to anyone else in the iOS game. Oh yea, and the front page of HN this time around. It sounde
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by rkalla 15y ago
I suppose we also have no verification that the passwords are no longer stored in plain text either, so changing it seems to be postponing the inevitable -- it is now a target for getting hacked again, with a delicious plain text payload as
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by rkalla 15y ago
tl;dr v2: inside look at how Wall Street functions - these just happens to be people that got caught.
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Creepy tracks flickr and Twitter feeds for GPS coords to track you(betanews.com)
1 points by rkalla 15y ago|0 comments
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by rkalla 15y ago
The "propellers" more or less look like the cylindrical drum in a standard push lawn mower with blades on it[1], but instead of blades it has fins. The drums counter-rotated against each other, generating lift. Highlights of the engine desi
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D-Dalus: Disruptive Aussie aircraft design uses cylindrical propulsion.(gizmag.com)
7 points by rkalla 15y ago|4 comments
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by rkalla 15y ago
(OT, but trying to be helpful for non-native speakers) their - possessive/ownership. "Their dog bit me!" "Their car is a mess!" there - place/position. "Put the toys over there." they're - contraction of "they are". "They are my best friend
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by rkalla 15y ago
(ASIDE) Really appreciate the heads up on techzing -- been looking for a podcast to add to Java Posse and Mixergy for over a year and never been happy with Podcast discovery in iTunes. Just added TechZ and can't stop hitting "GET" reading t
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by rkalla 15y ago
This is exactly how they handled my 14 day old Nexus One hardware issue as well. I think they incentify the CS reps to avoid replacements or repairs with rewards. It shows in the service, it is like dealing with used car salesmen.
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by rkalla 15y ago
This was exactly the same experience[1] I had with HTC back when I got the first Nexus One (hardware defect). A year later I got a myTouch 4G, again rampant hardware issues with the screen. I plan to honor my initial promise of never trying
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Unavoidable Security Risk Caused by Elastic Load Balancing on AWS(thebuzzmedia.com)
1 points by rkalla 15y ago|1 comments
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by rkalla 15y ago
This is wonderful.I just found 4 or 5 other HN'ers here in Tucson I would like to touch base with.
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by rkalla 15y ago
FWIW, I put up a fairly extensive review of Duke Nukem Forever[1] I, much like burgerbrain and others though the general shenanigans and debauchery (bewbs!) would keep me entertained and while they were certainly highlights, the core shooti
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by rkalla 15y ago
Damn close, but not quite. That article Anand put out during the height of TRIM-gate after discovering the permanent speed-degradation designed into the early drives as they filled up (fixed in all newer controller designs FWIW). The one I

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