benbscholz

Getting people to watch the stream is enough. Check it out if you haven't.

I have been reading about this all week, but having a banner on my Mozilla home page reminded me to write my congressmen. I can't hurt to remind people about this -- especially considering the impact it is going to have on the users of this site.

I think the HN crowd is more aware of SOPA than the visitors to those sites, but I think adding to the banner couldn't hurt (some people may have missed the SOPA stories from the last week).

"...implementing an entire MP3 decoder in JavaScript allowing Firefox to play MP3s without any Flash. Now I’m looking for an H.264 decoder in JS."

Out of curiosity, where does one learn about writing a video codec? Is there a canonical resource for codec implementation?

I have been having a lot of fun hacking together a simple Scheme interpreter in C. This is my guide: http://michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-bootstrap-v0_...

The implementation of an interpreter has always interested me, but I never thought it was within my reach as a weekend project. Norvig's original lis.py post made me look around for other implementations. This follow-up is a real treat.

You may want to visit Mr. Poole's first website, 4chan, which requires anonymous posting on some areas but allows a limited identity in others (through tripcodes). The effect of anonymous posting on content quality is immediately apparent.

This summer I really enjoyed reading the joelonsoftware archives. The last update was mid-September, but the previous posts kept me busy for quite some time.

What's troubling is not that another company had a digital scrapbooking service called Timeline, but this allegation:

"Timelines has its own page on Facebook. In its complaint, it alleges that the social networking giant is shifting visitors away from this page and redirecting them instead to Facebook’s own timeline page."

I can't see how this would be to Facebook's advantage. ALL of their users are getting the Timeline update, what's the point of trying to steal traffic from this other company?

iPad support is nice, but it makes me wonder how many people regularly take photos with their iPad.

Edit: Looking more carefully, it looks like their isn't an iPad specific UI.

What stops third party apps from filtering these tweets?

If this is still going, I wouldn't mind an invite either.

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I don't believe there are any "racist undertones" in the article. The article is observing a shift in the user demographics of blackberries from business executives to a lower economic class because the blackberry currently provides cheap messaging.

The mobile site is really functional and to the point, although on my Android phone in Firefox, the header "gift cards to anywhere" runs together.

I am getting a 404. I wonder if it is related to group of plussers that were reporting it for abuse.

I can't find the iPad app in the App Store.

The issue was brought to my attention by this post: https://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts/SeBqgN9Z...

The video features built into gchat have served my needs perfectly. Between hangouts & youtube video sharing, I think google+ is out-shining them at this point in time.

He probably wants to explore the competition...

I tried it. It is an interface for creating lists of facebook contacts with special privileges. Nothing that you can't do in the settings panel of your profile.

I don't think Athens was known for its "warrior culture".