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I fail to see the application for this. The chat looks like a bunch of children posting "dirty words" and laughing behind their random aliases. Not to mention the spamming and general lack of moderation. Please, stop this. You're killing IRC.

With a method like that it is very easy to accept the answer you get as magic, because there is no understanding involved. The method shown by OP is not practical to use for anything other than teaching concepts, but it is at least easily expandable and actually describes multiplication. This line thing is more of a trick than anything else.

I sincerely hope that if this is used to teach children, they also properly explain multiplication rather than simply pulling a rabbit from a hat.

> So when I heard Opera was switching its rendering engine to WebKit, a first major browser to do so among many other Opera firsts, ...

What? There top 5 browsers are IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. Chrome and Safari already use WebKit, so how would Opera moving to WebKit be "an Opera first"?

I'm not sure what the problem with Dropbox is. Almost anything I'm working on is inside my Dropbox directory. Yes, every time I save or generate some files they're uploaded to Dropbox, but if you turn off notifications[0] the only potential problem is bandwidth. And let's face it, most small projects aren't exactly going to hog GBs of bandwidth very easily.

For me, Dropbox is a simple way to automatically backup the stuff I'm working on, and I don't have to think twice about it.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/help/34/en

I backed Ouya because the idea of being able to "easily" publish the same app on phones and a console was too good to pass up. I'm just a Computer Science student tinkering with Android development in my spare time, and I can publish a game for a console. That's pretty amazing.

It may have been, but even if it was the encryption was likely done server-side. If I'm understanding this correctly, they will now be encrypting data before it leaves your browser. That way their servers never see the true data, so they can't be held accountable for what users are uploading.

In the previous model of receiving data then possible encoding it, they have full access to the raw data uploaded and are responsible for policing the legality of the files being uploaded.

> Have an alternate reality game with digital objects people can place/write on. Only Glass users can see the teddy bear in the corner, and only google glass users can see the giant graffiti wall where people sign their name.

There's a small team at Google working on a game that uses the real world as its map, Ingress[0]. I haven't been able to get access to it yet (typical Google closed beta), but from what I've seen of the game it would fit right in with Glass.

[0] http://www.ingress.com/

Apple's Retina displays (in the new Macbook Pros) have very high resolutions. The latest Macbook Pros have either 2560x1600 or 2880x1800 native resolution, depending on when you bought it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5266

Why would you say that? The author said them self that this works best in Safari and Chrome.

http://static.echonest.com/InfiniteGangnamStyle/faq.html

Porting an iOS app to RIM doesn't matter anymore. The new Blackberry OS (BB 10) is going to run Android apps [0], essentially making the Blackberry App Store irrelevant (in my opinion).

[0] https://developer.blackberry.com/android/

I think he meant that he would be more interested in using it as a general task tracker, rather than a CV add-on. Maybe a way to track any personal goals like weight-loss, excersize, personal projects, home renovation, etc. instead of just marketable things.

I love this font, but the prices seem so steep. If I could buy the whole pack for something like $50 I would consider it, but $159 is just too much.

A free option might not even be necessary, just a "See how it works" page would probably suffice. Take us through a common use case, maybe even use that convention scenario I saw in Saaspire's blog. Take a picture at a convention, upload it to ThingCounter and ask us to count heads, we get back to you with a count of heads.

A video would be even better. Videos are very easy to consume, and it is typically very easy to win people over with a well-done video.

I found a little info on Saaspire's blog. [1]

Here's a relevant experpt:

> Sean gives a lot of his time towards helping to organize the local developer community and in particular gets involved with running conferences like DjangoCon. One of the problems he encounters as an organizer is figuring out how well different talks, activities, and events at a conference are performing. Basically, he needed a somewhat accurate idea of how many people were involved and didn’t want to have to do manual counts everywhere. His solution was to provide a service that allowed you to upload a photo and get back a count for the number of people in it. When he shared this idea with me, I thought there might be even broader applications for counting anything (e.g. marketing agencies needing to count SKUs on a shelf or biologists counting birds in flocks). Enter thing counter, a service that lets you upload a photo and request a count of something.

Sounds like you're paying to have someone count the number of X's in your photo.

[1] http://saaspire.com/blog/2012/8/our-lean-product-experiments

> "You upload - We count - Everybody's happy"

I have no idea what this "thing" does. I can't even try it without paying you $10.

Yup, that's a sure-fire way to get me to immediately close the tab.

Not so much an extension, but I would love to be able to have Incognito tabs instead of Incognito windows.

When I'm doing web dev having two sessions in the same browser is great (ie. not needing another browser open), but I often only have one tab in the Incognito window. It would be very useful if I could just have an Incognito tab in my regular window.

I'm on an internship through my University, writing a report for my current employer (as a requirement of said internship program) about their current centralized version control solution (Perforce) and comparing it to a distributed one (Git). Finding sources explaining why Git is "better" is easy, but finding any one arguing the other side is proving to be incredibly difficult.

Are there simply no benefits to using a centralized system, or is no one bragging about them like all of these Git fans?

> An iPhone and web app called Everyday.me

Right, so I get into the "private beta" and go to the link in the email. It gives me a popup saying, "Please use an iPhone to install this app."

Meanwhile, on their homepage: > Access from anywhere - on mobile, email, or the web

If having an iPhone is a requirement of using your website (which I assume functions perfectly well on its own), you're doing it wrong. If the website is merely a way to view (but not edit) your content, then you're REALLY doing it wrong.

Also, why are people still developing exclusively for iPhone? Last quarter there were four times as many Android phones sold as iPhones.

Minecraft has a bunch of great Lets Play-ers. If nothing else, they've prompted me to buy /more/ games (like Vessel) because I see a video of someone starting a play-through and it's like a sneak peek into a game that may not offer free trials.

Also - slightly off topic - I can't tell you how many times a game has lost a sale because they didn't have some sort of free trial I could play to see if it was worth my money.

> It gets better: For people that don’t need a super-fast connection, Google is offering a 5Mbps connection for free — yes, free. If Google Fiber expands, there’s no guarantee that this will remain the case, but it could totally upset the market for entry-level broadband. Even the “catch” isn’t that much of a catch. Google is planning on charging a one-time $300 fee to run the fiber to each residence, but if you opt for a contract, the fee is waived. Free accounts will have to pay the installation fee, unfortunately.

Free for 7 years. I'm not saying that's bad, but it's still relevant.

A quick Google and I came up with a very similar stylus on Amazon for only $15.[0] Or this one for $8.[1] Why should I pay $100 more for something that's essentially the same? What makes your stylus different?

As far as spreading it goes, social media (HN, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter) can do a LOT of the legwork for you, you just have to plant the seeds. That's much easier said than done, and a lot of it is going to rely on luck. However, if you put enough seeds out there, one is bound to catch on in the right place to get the attention of your target demographic.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/rooCASE-Capacitive-Stylus-Ballpoint-To...

[1] http://www.amazon.ca/Capacitive-Samsung-Blackberry-Playbook-...

What's so bad about a grammar test? Any competent person (excluding extenuating circumstances: dyslexia, etc.) should be able to pass a simple grammar test. It's not some hardship that you have to study for or anything.

I was an intern at a small start up last year that used FTP for deployment; it was horrific.

I almost got kicked off of my old shared host for installing Java on my machine after I faxed them a copy of my driver's license to get SSH access. Got myself a shiny new VPS a few months ago and haven't looked back. I can finally do things I could only dream about with the shared host.

Same cultures, mostly. All people from Ontario, Canada (at varying latitudes). She's not quite as geeky as I am, but still much more so than most women I interact with.

It has caused some friction in our relationship, but I just try to remember to preface my "I don't like this part" comment with a "That looks great, but..."

Personally, I really like the new Xbox360 dashboard. Once I got the hang of it, I found it very easy to move around and get to what I want quickly. Using triggers for "tab" navigation makes a lot of sense.

If that's (partially, at least) what they're basing their UI off of, then I'm all for it.

Whenever I go to someone for advice or an opinion on something I'm working on, I look for people who aren't afraid to tell me I've done something wrong, something looks bad, or the whole idea is just plain garbage. Instead, what you get is people half-heartedly telling you, "Oh, that's really something."

I'm not a baby, people. Tell me what you hate about it so I can make it better! You can't fix bugs if no one reports them.

Unfortunately, this mentality gets me into a lot of trouble with my girlfriend, who is a Graphic Designer. She'll show me something she's working on, and I tell her what I would want to hear: "That face looks funny", or "I don't like that colour". What she takes from it is, "I hate everything about what you just showed me."

Yeah, and I hear Verizon's coverage map doesn't look so hot when you're a few hundred feet under water.

I would have guessed that they would be more interested in a virtual reality sort of setup, where they overlay the actors/actresses on your parts so you're "part of the action".

Instead they want to use this marvelous piece of technology to replace a hat, a camera and some tape.