sghael

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by sghael 3y ago
The convention should be to use 1337 as your seed, and disclose that in your publication.
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by sghael 10y ago
Localytics | Boston | Front End, iOS, Android | ONSITE Localytics provides a mobile engagement platform for many of the world’s top app publishers including ESPN, Grindr, Periscope, and HBO. Our customers rely on us to keep their mobile use
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Issue 93 in marketbilling(code.google.com)
1 points by sghael 13y ago|0 comments
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How I learned Backbone.js, Three.js & GLSL in one week(blog.greweb.fr)
1 points by sghael 14y ago|0 comments
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by sghael 14y ago
Also looking forward to the technical writeup. Not sure if it's just me, but when touching the menu controller on the top left, the dom slide over to reveal... nothing. Also, general weirdness using the gear button to change selection betw
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JRuby 1.7.0.preview1 Released(jruby.org)
2 points by sghael 14y ago|0 comments
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by sghael 14y ago
The photo isn't store in a database. It's stored on S3. They are not backing up S3, so this concern is misplaced.
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by sghael 15y ago
Could you give a little more detail on your setup? I'm curious how others are designing around these issues.
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JRuby 1.6.6 Released(jruby.org)
2 points by sghael 15y ago|0 comments
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by sghael 15y ago
We're using C2DM at Ravid ( http://getravid.com ). In fact, we open sourced our C2DM Ruby Gem: https://github.com/sghael/speedy_c2dm
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by sghael 15y ago
This is Sandeep (co-founder of Ravid). My co-founder (keithba) and I found that sending private, asynchronous video messages on mobile devices is way more difficult than it should be. We created Ravid to solve this problem. Note: US-only
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by sghael 15y ago
Images are just signals as a function of 2D space. So you can use the 2d FFT: http://fourier.eng.hmc.edu/e101/lectures/Image_Processing/no... Another idea to grok: a checkerboard pattern image where every other pixel row and column are
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by sghael 15y ago
That seems like a non-sequitur. Based on the article, LightSquare isn't an application of GPS. It's a wireless broadband network that just (unfortunately) happens to f with GPS signals.
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Ask HN: How to mitigate DNS provider issues?
4 points by sghael 15y ago|8 comments
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by sghael 15y ago
Redundancy is insurance. By the nature of being there it's taken advantage of
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by sghael 16y ago
wow, extremely slick. Are you using any specific UI/design framework to tools to create such a polished look/feel? Or totally coded from scratch?
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Design annoyances(codefastdieyoung.com)
87 points by sghael 16y ago|27 comments
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by sghael 16y ago
actually 9 mom months. so 1 month with 9 moms working on it.
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by sghael 16y ago
This is the first thing i thought as well. Build should be #1. The reading you do should directly support your building (finding help on HN or SO that help you solve the specific problem/bug at hand)
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by sghael 16y ago
back now.
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by sghael 16y ago
Sorry the server is on fire right now... got a tweet from smashing magazine. Working to bring it back up.
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by sghael 16y ago
Great catch. Although, in my defense I'm always looking to save time so I just used out of the box settings on the wordpress "Platform" theme. If you're starting from scratch on your own site, dont make this mistake :)
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Want to move fast? Just do this(codefastdieyoung.com)
326 points by sghael 16y ago|40 comments
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Always know where you are(codefastdieyoung.com)
1 points by sghael 16y ago|0 comments
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by sghael 16y ago
I agree. My other thought was 'isn't there a staging server in there somewhere?' Something that is near identical to production, with fake production data, etc, that could surface the problem before a customer sees it. btw, props to Fog C
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by sghael 16y ago
this is an interesting point (I've up-voted you). But my gut feeling is that it doesn't matter. While I don't have any experimental data, I have to imagine this rendering penalty is in the noise of page/site performance. Asset packaging,
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Best practices for JS and CSS organization(codefastdieyoung.com)
54 points by sghael 16y ago|19 comments
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by sghael 16y ago
I think its a better user experience to always show the number on a screen. Otherwise the user has to listen to the computerized voice recite the passcode, and they have to memorize it before punching it in. This way, temporary memorization
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by sghael 16y ago
I'll soon be running on multiple (2 min) servers in different locations, for availability. Will probably stick to Linode. I use Webmin to monitor all processes and get realtime alerts if something amiss occurs. Performance wise, there are
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by sghael 16y ago
Phone numbers are less disposable than email addresses (generally speaking), and thus you are less likely to have fraudulent/shady transactions occur on your site if the user is phone verified. This may not be super important if all you wan

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