I have done a few flash to HTML5 conversions without source code, and the method I've gone with is just to use the flash as a guide and write the HTML5 app from scratch. You end up with cleaner, more maintainable code…
The exact same thing happened to Alex Blumberg in this episode of Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/91-the-russian-passenger/. They investigate and try to find out how his account could have possibly been…
It's quite obviously fake -- given that we are 11 days from April Fools, it's probably either an April Fools joke discovered prematurely, or set-up for a bigger one. Maybe something similar to the tale of icarus.
Disagree completely -- the world has plenty of office workers scared to try something so bold, we need better filtering tools and more people trying rather than believing that the current system works to capture,…
I thought he did a good job too, but I think that lying at all, even about little details in order to have a more coherent, compelling story about an important topic poisons the whole thing, because it brings into…
Very nice design, the layout, with common areas below meeting areas, reminds me of Pixar's headquarters http://www.bcj.com/public/projects/project/39.html I remember hearing in the excellent pixar documentary that one…
These (apparent) e-mails between an owner with the dead battery issue and Tesla seem to indicate that there is a a 'built-in notification system' for this, but it wasn't added for the first 500 cars :…
I think the penalties associated with using plugins is simply the price DRM advocates should have to pay. I don't think it's the job of the W3C to make it easier on them to maintain this practice. The short-term gain of…
FYI - I just added 'On Lisp', but the registration button is at the top right, called 'Signup'.
Google did this, but it wasn't recently -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=505255
I too made a canvas clock (though with a heavier dose of existentialism) a little while ago if you're interested. link: http://morrow.github.com/Life-Clock/ code: https://github.com/morrow/Life-Clock/
I created a similar project (CSS docs only) after seeing the original version of this posted here and thinking of some improvements (instacss I think it was called). My version uses the HTML5 history API and runs off of…
I've used stripe and it's definitely a breath of fresh air, but as I understand it, most people won't bother switching away from paypal to something without international support. Stripe's working on that:…
You have to wait to post replies sometimes, depending how many levels down the conversation is. This is a safeguard against threads full of knee-jerk back-and-forth responses, I suppose.
Here's a screencast I found that shows how transactions go down between dwolla users (you enter amount, dwolla account id). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbf24_PTyx8
Good point. You could also realistically eliminate those who know they are infected from the potential false-negative category, which would give you an initial pool of 240,000[1] potential infected who don't know…
I'm also aware of the statistics - roughly split between gays and heterosexuals. I think the problem lies more with the epistemological side of things. As the marrow registry, how do you know whether or not someone is…
Well the STD test was only going to be able to rule-out donors who are positive at the time of sign-up anyhow. After submitting to the test and giving their sample, everyone becomes potentially infected until you test…
I wonder if there is some political philosophy to describe my thoughts on this - but I never understood why government just didn't set up taxes on things it didn't like, and directly allocate the revenues from those…
I'm not sure why they wouldn't allow some form of in-person registration accompanied by an STD screen at a clinic for people who they are eliminating now for being too "high-risk"? The marrow guys could even cover the…
http://marrow.org/Join/Join_in_Person/Recruitment_Centers.as...
Here's a start: http://marrow.org/Join/Join_in_Person/Recruitment_Centers.as... http://www.a3mhope.org/ http://www.a3mhope.org/index.php/donor/list-of-drives
"What am I doing to help any of those millions of starving children? Very little." Feeling guilty isn't solving the problem, however. Guilt is just a pre-cursor to either resolve or apathy. If you don't do anything…
Alex, I wouldn't be worried of the app harming someone so much as someone hurting themselves and their family blaming it on you or your app in a search for a cause of their loved one's suicide. Add in a lawyer who…
I think it's due to the two sides of the argument - one is that the proposed trademark is infringing, the other is that the current trademark is being used. Defending it in court every time is a way of supporting the…
I have done a few flash to HTML5 conversions without source code, and the method I've gone with is just to use the flash as a guide and write the HTML5 app from scratch. You end up with cleaner, more maintainable code…
The exact same thing happened to Alex Blumberg in this episode of Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/91-the-russian-passenger/. They investigate and try to find out how his account could have possibly been…
It's quite obviously fake -- given that we are 11 days from April Fools, it's probably either an April Fools joke discovered prematurely, or set-up for a bigger one. Maybe something similar to the tale of icarus.
Disagree completely -- the world has plenty of office workers scared to try something so bold, we need better filtering tools and more people trying rather than believing that the current system works to capture,…
I thought he did a good job too, but I think that lying at all, even about little details in order to have a more coherent, compelling story about an important topic poisons the whole thing, because it brings into…
Very nice design, the layout, with common areas below meeting areas, reminds me of Pixar's headquarters http://www.bcj.com/public/projects/project/39.html I remember hearing in the excellent pixar documentary that one…
These (apparent) e-mails between an owner with the dead battery issue and Tesla seem to indicate that there is a a 'built-in notification system' for this, but it wasn't added for the first 500 cars :…
I think the penalties associated with using plugins is simply the price DRM advocates should have to pay. I don't think it's the job of the W3C to make it easier on them to maintain this practice. The short-term gain of…
FYI - I just added 'On Lisp', but the registration button is at the top right, called 'Signup'.
Google did this, but it wasn't recently -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=505255
I too made a canvas clock (though with a heavier dose of existentialism) a little while ago if you're interested. link: http://morrow.github.com/Life-Clock/ code: https://github.com/morrow/Life-Clock/
I created a similar project (CSS docs only) after seeing the original version of this posted here and thinking of some improvements (instacss I think it was called). My version uses the HTML5 history API and runs off of…
I've used stripe and it's definitely a breath of fresh air, but as I understand it, most people won't bother switching away from paypal to something without international support. Stripe's working on that:…
You have to wait to post replies sometimes, depending how many levels down the conversation is. This is a safeguard against threads full of knee-jerk back-and-forth responses, I suppose.
Here's a screencast I found that shows how transactions go down between dwolla users (you enter amount, dwolla account id). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbf24_PTyx8
Good point. You could also realistically eliminate those who know they are infected from the potential false-negative category, which would give you an initial pool of 240,000[1] potential infected who don't know…
I'm also aware of the statistics - roughly split between gays and heterosexuals. I think the problem lies more with the epistemological side of things. As the marrow registry, how do you know whether or not someone is…
Well the STD test was only going to be able to rule-out donors who are positive at the time of sign-up anyhow. After submitting to the test and giving their sample, everyone becomes potentially infected until you test…
I wonder if there is some political philosophy to describe my thoughts on this - but I never understood why government just didn't set up taxes on things it didn't like, and directly allocate the revenues from those…
I'm not sure why they wouldn't allow some form of in-person registration accompanied by an STD screen at a clinic for people who they are eliminating now for being too "high-risk"? The marrow guys could even cover the…
http://marrow.org/Join/Join_in_Person/Recruitment_Centers.as...
Here's a start: http://marrow.org/Join/Join_in_Person/Recruitment_Centers.as... http://www.a3mhope.org/ http://www.a3mhope.org/index.php/donor/list-of-drives
"What am I doing to help any of those millions of starving children? Very little." Feeling guilty isn't solving the problem, however. Guilt is just a pre-cursor to either resolve or apathy. If you don't do anything…
Alex, I wouldn't be worried of the app harming someone so much as someone hurting themselves and their family blaming it on you or your app in a search for a cause of their loved one's suicide. Add in a lawyer who…
I think it's due to the two sides of the argument - one is that the proposed trademark is infringing, the other is that the current trademark is being used. Defending it in court every time is a way of supporting the…