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by stevepotter 11y ago
Good point. How about .supermenu-button?
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by stevepotter 11y ago
For me, using css classes in a css file has worked fine for reusable components. For isolation, the root element of the component has a class name like class="supermenu". What are the disadvantages of this as opposed to the intr
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by stevepotter 11y ago
I just browsed your site and don't understand exactly what the product is. In the first part of the video I see someone browsing the web with some kind of mood widget. Then I see an e-reader. Are those your product? How does it wor
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by stevepotter 11y ago
We use those too and they are totally safe. The difference between those and the classic floaties is these can't come off, which I remember happening all the time with the old style.
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by stevepotter 11y ago
I developed an allergy to contacts during college. After wearing them for more than 15 minutes, my eyes would swell up. I was on a sports team and didn't want to negatively affect my performance with eye wear. So I got the lasik. I
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by stevepotter 12y ago
I went through a major testosterone-related health scare when I was 31 (4 years ago). I was in the midst of launching a startup. Stressed out, financially strained, hardly sleeping, hardly exercising, drinking too much. I thought I was e
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by stevepotter 12y ago
I built something similar a few years back. Walking at a snail's pace for a few hours a day was nice for bloodflow and focus. Then I started getting major headaches. I went to the doctor and couldn't figure out what was wrong.
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by stevepotter 13y ago
The anti .net kneejerk reactions on HN really disturbs me. You spend all day on stackoverflow then blindly bash their tech stack. Developing, deploying, and hosting .net apps is just fine. Many brilliant people choose .net and are plenty
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by stevepotter 13y ago
Wow thanks. I can't believe this slipped by me. You are awesome.
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by stevepotter 13y ago
Actually one is on the way and I'm hopeful. I found the odroid to be incredibly fast and the 2gb ram it provides is great since the machine runs a gui, web server, and other various things.
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by stevepotter 13y ago
I do R&D for laboratory machines. We're trying to break away from the clunky old components (which also almost always use Windows). I started with the Pi but it was too underpowered. Now I'm using hardkernel's odroid u
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by stevepotter 13y ago
Sounds great except often something needs to be done when a value is null, like giving user feedback. If the answer then is to provide another block, just go back to the if statement.
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by stevepotter 13y ago
Big fan of SomaFM for work. They have some great xmas stations that come out in December, if you like. SomaFM did stress me out a bit with their constant requests for donations. They made it sound like they were being shut down any day,
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by stevepotter 13y ago
The actual Franklin quote is "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Your version is paraphrased. The "essential" and "a little temporary&q
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by stevepotter 15y ago
I learned that a "cute" message can be the best thing. I am a dev on a top iPhone app and while testing our push notifications, I sent a notification out to millions of people. Luckily I wrote "Have a nice day!". It cost thousands of dol
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by stevepotter 15y ago
Yes, that was by far my favorite comment. Well played.
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by stevepotter 16y ago
Code Complete is a great read. I recommend rereading it annually to make sure you don't stray the course. I do not recommend reading it anally. Bad lighting.
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Cross platform mobile solution for a video app?
1 points by stevepotter 16y ago|0 comments
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by stevepotter 16y ago
I realize you get update actions. But what if you have different types of updates? Perhaps editing basic info like a project's Title. Or locking it? Or archiving? Are they lumped into the same action?
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REST question
6 points by stevepotter 16y ago|6 comments
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by stevepotter 16y ago
Well written. When someone signs up for my app, I check out each customer personally and write them a custom email. So immediately the customer feels part of a human-driven product.
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by stevepotter 16y ago
I'm not bitter. I never expected to win. I am surprised Amazon even puts on a contest with such lavish prizes. AWS is a low cost way to start an app. They make bootstrapping possible. Therefore, I feel they are doing themselves a disser
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Is AWS Startup Challenge Unfair to Bootstrappers?(blog.takeoffvideo.com)
26 points by stevepotter 16y ago|11 comments
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Nice business plan tips from a seasoned pro(mgg-consulting.com)
1 points by stevepotter 16y ago|0 comments
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by stevepotter 16y ago
Here's a decent example: ffmpeg -i "C:\input.mov" -fpre "presets\libx264-normal.ffpreset" -y -threads 0 -f mp4 -vcodec libx264 -b 1600k "C:\output.mp4" By the way, this will give crappy audio quality due to ffmpeg's garbage aac encoder. W
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by stevepotter 16y ago
Exactly. I had a pretty solid encoder running. But it was slow and wouldn't scale well. Zencoder's pricing is right and I would rather build it into my pricing model than deal with the hassle of managing an encoding system. This frees u
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by stevepotter 16y ago
Kevin, thanks for the kind words. You're kinda right. A video site like YouTube has two stages to get your video up and running. First is the file upload. Second is the encoding, where the uploaded video is converted into the necessary
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Why Zencoder is ideal for a video web app(blog.takeoffvideo.com)
59 points by stevepotter 16y ago|25 comments