svas

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Show HN: 3D star wars action figures(toystandoff.com)
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by svas 12y ago
This is what I don't get about Bing though. $10 billion dollars, 5 years of investment, and I don't know how many man hours. At BEST it's a mediocre imitation, and at worst, a disaster. Search is definitely not a solved probl
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by svas 12y ago
Looking above (dllu's comment) a significant factor in success at these competitions is practice. There's a good chance a lot of these folks are just students trying this for kicks. Basically, its really unclear how much self sele
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by svas 12y ago
Here's the difference between urls: Posted: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230387360... Google: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20140411-711057.html Why not post
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by svas 12y ago
Curious how the author knew to seed the backdoor'ed Notepad++ before Bill clicked the link? I suppose you could just serve up a fake backdoor program for every *.exe\msi download, and remove the honeypot on the second download? The f
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by svas 12y ago
Even in the AJAX timeframe, there was still a way to do async push style interaction from server to client. See Comet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29 Gmail used this technique via a hidden iframe.
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by svas 12y ago
Isn't this just a trailing GET? This technique has been around since the 90's and has been used in lots of applications. The comparison to AJAX in 2005 is a little odd for me, as this is already a pretty mature technique. AJAX in
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by svas 12y ago
I wonder if this will be the death of Hiku? Amazon's product is definitely going to be cheaper than $79 price for Hiku with (obvious) heavy ties into the Amazon ecosystem. I suppose they could try to pivot and cater to a different ecos
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by svas 12y ago
This is awesome. Intellisense support will certainly beat using vim for my node projects :-) It also appears to work with the free version of VS (Visual Studio Express).
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by svas 12y ago
A significant subset of .NET had to exist anyway for Silverlight to run on the Mac. I'm sure the codebase is factored internally to have some sort of platform abstraction.
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by svas 12y ago
If imgur approaches Youtube's scale won't the comments on imgur also become toxic? This still appears to be an unsolved issue (although, one could argue whether it is really an "issue"). Google's G+ approach (barrin
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by svas 12y ago
That makes sense. I can certainly see how giving away freebies is not the way to attract serious developers, and can be distracting.
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by svas 12y ago
I was hoping there would be an announcement at Build that they had acquired Xamarin, but that didn't happen. All that was mentioned was that they were a partner that they were working with. Still a possibility in the future though. The
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by svas 12y ago
That said, Apple's "return" compensation in terms of giveaway gifts and the like is a bit... stingy. Especially given how unbelievable Apple's profits have been of late. WWDC giveaway: A $40 jacket that says "14&quo
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by svas 12y ago
Has anyone tried to "port"/augment bootstrap CSS for this?
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by svas 12y ago
Not sure if you have tried doing this. In practice, it's quite painful as you need to have a separate visual studio project file for each platform (phone vs tablet). Further, the Phone implementation of WinRT is a subset of the tablet&
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by svas 12y ago
Interesting move in the right direction. I wonder if they'll take it further and let you write iOS and Android apps using Xamarin / Mono? This would actually provide an easy path for developers to get into the Windows ecosystem wh
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by svas 12y ago
The real key here is sharing business logic. Microsoft apps are written using the MVVM (Model View, View-Model) framework. The idea here is that you would share almost all of your model code, and really only rewrite the view layer (XAML) pe
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by svas 12y ago
The basic crux of how the app works is similar to how regular bitcoin miners work. As you run the app, the app runs compute jobs (known as Stynts) which generates proof-of-work (that it did something) and sends it up to our servers. The mor
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by svas 12y ago
Folding@Home, and the BOINC network over at Berkeley have done a great job at this already. http://boinc.berkeley.edu There's still an immense opportunity to tap unused cycles if you give people another reason to donate the
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by svas 12y ago
The app actually monitors the battery temperature (exposed on all Android phones) and throttles down when it exceeds a certain threshold. The charging circuitry on some phones (not all) actually disengages the battery from the charging circ
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by svas 12y ago
<shameless plug> I've been working on an idea similar to this for a few months. Instead of limiting this to crypto currency mining (a fair application, FWIW), why not approach this with the idea that people plugging in their phon