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Do you close your browser? I always have at least 5 tabs open with ReloadEvery, plus standard apps (GMail, Twitter etc.) mostly completely unrelated to what I should be doing.

I bought a cheap monitor on ebay and connected it to my laptop so I can have Twitter open all the time

Re:What's new in CSS4 on Thursday October 27, 2011 @07:57AM (#3162593)
I hope they introduce variables/mixins/functions (Akin to SASS or LESS)
Re: on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @07:54AM (#3158150)
I don't, and I don't think I've ever met anyone, who has an issue with SMS spam.

Maybe I'm wrong but this seems like another solution to a problem that doesn't exist

Re:Browse the WEB in a new way on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @04:49AM (#3157684)
Since when is `WEB` written in capitals?
But, it doesn't work.

Your code can only be as good as the platform you're working with. You can't code features beyond what are supported, and if you're trying to do too much, you need to scale back. If you based a games design on the idea that every computer was quad core with a huge graphics card, it would be pretty amazing, but no-one except a select few could play it.

Short of it is, you're code doesn't work, whatever is wrong with it, it doesn't work. And you can't expect browsers to change to suit you, if you really don't know how to improve it, scrap it and start again but at the moment you can't blame the browsers for not being able to support your, probably brilliant, game.

Re:DIY: build iPad3 clone from start to finish (video) on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @07:12AM (#3153631)
How can one build a clone of something that doesn't yet exist?
I keep filling my car with water, my car stops working, they should really fix cars.

If your code crashes every browser, your code is shit. Yes the browsers could do better, but you shouldn't write shit code that crashes them.

Re:Poll: Would you be part of "What is NSFW" poll? on Monday October 24, 2011 @06:36AM (#3148992)
So we're taking a poll to take a poll?

That's almost as good as our change management system, we have to fill in a form to request a form to request a change number to request a form to request a change

Re:Show HN: Our project, free DNS service EntryDNS.net on Monday October 24, 2011 @05:32AM (#3148863)
Firefox 7.something

Is there a mailing list or something so I can find out about new stuff if you add it? We currently use Zerigo but, for what we get, it's far too expensive, so it would be nice to keep up with things like this.

Re:Show HN: Our project, free DNS service EntryDNS.net on Monday October 24, 2011 @05:25AM (#3148839)
Looks pretty good, though I would probably want a non-free option if I was going to use it for a larger site, and maybe a few more servers around the world for better response times.

"Cloud DNS" is currently dominated by huge companies charging way more than they need to (Dyn etc.), with a few additions (location based response, better API, stats etc.) it has the potential to go somewhere, if that's what you want it to do.

Possible bug; the 'Log Out' link takes me to a 404 page - http://entrydns.net/users/sign_out

Re:3D Cube World Level Generation on Saturday October 22, 2011 @12:19PM (#3143764)
"This project has been temporarily blocked for exceeding its bandwidth threshold" Maybe use Github next time
Re:How to Tweet Your Way to Good Customer Service on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @12:59PM (#3130997)
Customer service over Twitter is an obvious plus. Though I don't think it's possible to achieve anything (At least, anything that involves private/account information, without following/DM-ing), it certainly looks good on the company. When complaining about a problem, even if the response is just "Hi, please send an email to [address]", it shows they are prepared to communicate with their customers.