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Re:Helion on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:59AM (#29120218)
I haven’t checked their technology yet but if their iteration speed is an order of magnitude faster than the competition my money is on them
Re:Ask HN: Are programmers a commodity? on Monday May 30, 2016 @05:33PM (#11803338)
Programmers aren't commodities as they aren't interchangeable, there are vast differences in outcome between different programmers.

To a good programmer most jobs offerings are commodities, they are interchangeable and their offerings/rewards/challenges are very similar.

Thus the developer you are interviewing is also interviewing you.

Re:One in every 600 websites has .git exposed on Sunday July 26, 2015 @11:58PM (#9953240)
ENV variables are inherited by child processes by default, so please use care when using this approach.
Use the tuple (email,passphrase). Still easy to remember and the email functions as a salt, and will prevent any rainbow attacks
In a private company you would be mostly correct. In a public one changes like these might require that you go back and fix your previous quarterly fillings -> not something that is done lightly.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013) on Sunday September 01, 2013 @10:20AM (#6310458)
Wix - Tel Aviv, Israel

Looking for Front-End hacker. Wix is looking for you, an experienced developer with passionate for Web development; JavaScript, HTML5 ,CSS3, TDD, Angular.JS

Contact info in my profile

Re:Nvidia plans a Tegra 4-based portable gaming device on Monday January 07, 2013 @10:37AM (#5021433)
Everything you need is part of the standard Android SDK directional pad support, start/select buttons shoulder pad buttons and joystick support

An existing game can be switched to use the physical buttons with minimal work... This isn't a rewrite, more like connecting another source event to the functions that handle user interactions. I expect most games to need less than a couple of hours of work to support this device.

Sorry about that, missed a config param when transferring to the host. Should be working now.
Not quite ready for prime time but I am working on a project that makes it really easy to grab content from any site using a point and click interface no xpaths selectors or regex.

You enter the url you want to capture data from, it gets loaded in an iframe, you click on the texts you need and set a schedule to receive updates and how(email/twitter dm) that's it.

It supports javascript driven content and can handle practically any website.

http://www.followwww.com

Re:Detect iPad Mini in HTML5? on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @07:09AM (#4783022)
iOS audio will only play in response to user generated event (click for example) never when the site loads.

And I am not saying it has to be a random noise or very loud the accelerometer on the iDevices since the iPhone 4 is superb a very low sound will probably be sufficient. The sound can be easily integrated into the natural flow of the site, as many sites already do small beeps or play music etc to provide feedback to the user.

Re:Detect iPad Mini in HTML5? on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @06:28AM (#4782928)
Already posted it on SO but here goes:

Play a stereo audio file and compare the accelerometer response when volume is high on the right channel and on the left channel - iPad2 had mono speakers and iPad Mini has stereo speakers built in

I have, but I wanted to get some feedback first, hence the "Show HN"
The app is iOS 5.1 only right now, a new version which supports 4.2 was submitted last week to apple
I would really appreciate your feedback.

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Re:Yahoo sells 1/2 its Alibaba stake for $7.1B on Monday May 21, 2012 @03:33AM (#4001748)
So Yahoo without Alibaba is worth about $4.6 billion (18.8-14.2), subtract the $2.1 billion cash and short term investments and you get a price tag of $2.5 billion for all of Yahoo's other operations and assets.
I believe in a balance, too little magic, and you're working with one hand tied behind your back, too much magic and you're working with blindfolds.
My definition of magic:

Magic is anything which makes other code behave in a way that would require reading the magic to understand, despite not being apparent in the magicked code.

Good because it makes many things a lot easier, bad because it makes code a lot less explicit and simple and increases cognitive load (you need to always consider the magic not just the current code you're looking at).

Re:Apple's inspirational note to new hires on Monday May 07, 2012 @07:47AM (#3938586)
This reminds me of a conversation I had once with a friend who worked in McKinsey, I told him "I might be smart enough to work for McKinsey, but I am definitely not stupid enough to work in McKinsey"

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