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Re:FYI: The entire new 'Cosmos' series is now on Netflix on Monday August 11, 2014 @11:54AM (#8163776)
It was available on Netflix a while ago, but it looks like it has been taken down and I don't know when they might put it back up.

It's available to stream on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dADUBcoEEHw&list=PLBA8DC67D5...

Ask HN: How do you deal with encoding HTML5 videos?

I'm working on an iOS app that lets you record video and share it with friends. The videos are currently encoded as MP4 files, which means they play in Chrome and Safari. However, this leaves us with the issue of them not playing in Firefox or other browsers which don't support MP4.My question is this: How do you deal with this problem? Do you re-encode the videos on the server into a format...

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Re:Show HN: Payoff.io on Friday March 14, 2014 @01:54PM (#7400567)
Thanks for checking it out! Yes to both of your questions. I do want to let others contribute, but I also have more features I want to add that I haven't gotten around to just yet. One would be mobile/tablet support.

I could be wrong, but there is one bug which doesn't stop you from putting in a loan which would never be paid off--based on the balance, APR, and minimum payments entered. I need to put in an evaluation before the details are submitted and pop up an error message if that's the case, but right now it locks up the browser.

Re:Show HN: Payoff.io on Friday March 14, 2014 @12:08PM (#7399756)
I created this because other sites I used to track and compare debt payoff plans were missing a few features that I thought would be good to have. For one, I wanted to quickly see how minor changes to my payment plans would have a big impact in the long run. Second, I wanted the ability for the loan info to save locally, so that the next time I went to the site I could view my info without needing to log in or re-enter my info. Lastly, I wanted a schedule that told me exactly how much I should pay to each loan for each month, and to get this schedule in an easy to read format.

The site might still have a few bugs, and it could definitely use some optimization. However, I have been excited creating this and using it myself that I felt I should share it now before I added it to my list of abandoned projects.

In Photoshop you can increase/decrease a value with more control by holding Shift (+/- 10) or Option (+/- 0.1). Similar shortcuts might aid in finer value control without adding anything to the UI.
Re:Making iOS 7 squircles using CSS3 on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:45PM (#6572347)
Nice! One minor tweak that reduces redundancy in the CSS: You can set 'background-color: inherit' on the :before and :after pseudo-classes for the icon links and it works the same way without having to apply the background-color on the element and it's :before/:after.
Re:Chrome 22 breaks things on Saturday September 29, 2012 @12:48AM (#4588849)
Nice catch. I'm seeing that too. The reflection appears out of position when you have a box-shadow on the element.
Re:Chrome 22 breaks things on Friday September 28, 2012 @06:25PM (#4588098)
As I said earlier, I didn't mean that Chrome is completely, literally broken. I meant in the sense of a user having just updated their version of Chrome, going to a site, and not being able to do anything. For me and a few coworkers, this was exactly what happened to us when we started noticing these two issues last night. These two relatively minor CSS bugs have broken the functionality of a site we have been working on to the point where it is unusable.
Re:Chrome 22 breaks things on Friday September 28, 2012 @05:12PM (#4587817)
While my server deals with the traffic, here are the important bits:

- Floats don’t push block content down (http://jsfiddle.net/cvalleskey/WD9pB/)

- Z-index breaking when element is a child of a fixed parent (http://jsfiddle.net/cvalleskey/9S3S8/)

Re:Chrome 22 breaks things on Friday September 28, 2012 @03:54PM (#4587474)
Oh, that's what happened? Apologies for the alarmist title, but depending on your site's CSS this can completely destroy its usability. I meant it in the sense of a user saying everything on a site is broken, not that everything in Chrome 22 is literally broken.