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I call bullshit on their stated reason for taking it down

we believed it was prudent to take it down to undertake a code review to assess if there were any issues

There's a lesson here in making apologies. The best 360s and/or apologies are unreserved, never give an excuse.

That's also what was most interesting to me.

This smells like the whole Twitter Bootstrap thing a few weeks ago, but the bootstrap guys had enough pull to take the brand with them after they left Twitter.

He never said it was mongo specific

4 additional checkboxes for various marketing things like surveys and tips.

I like the comparison to the "building computers in your garage" era, this really is the start of something huge.

Making a new technology space accessible to the masses is always the first step in a revolution.

Heyzap (YC 09) hiring for multiple roles: Rails Engineer, iOS Engineer, Android Engineer, Sales.

We are building the world's largest mobile gaming social network.

We have a no-bullshit culture, we ship incredibly fast, use the newest tech. Great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, book budget, generous paid vacation time, catered lunches, unlimited snacks.

To apply, or to chat with us about where you might fit, fire us an email at jobs@heyzap.com, or find out more here http://heyzap.com/about

I'm currently using Kippt to keep track of awesome plugins and libraries that I find on my travels around the web (eg. cool javascript libraries).

Adding social lists means that I can now share these with my colleagues/friends. Great addition.

I don't think that means people should not measure things, if we didn't measure things we would never improve.

HSBC

try mongodb. its like a polo shirt for your ideas

3 step process:

Step 1: Download the "Command line tools for Xcode" here

https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action

Step 2: Install homebrew with this command

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(/usr/bin/curl -fksSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/master/Library/Contribu...

Step 3: gem install rails

I don't think that's a better solution, it's similar but less integrated with the app stack.

There are no ads on heyzap.com and no redirects on that page, maybe you clicked on one of the footer links while shooting? :)

Should work on all modern browsers supporting the canvas tag

Heyzap (YC09) is growing fast and hiring for multiple roles, including rails and mobile (iOS/Android) full-time engineers. We are also continuously looking for great interns.

Like some others have posted, we have had great luck with Hacker News readers joining our team, come and be a part of it!

From hosting/attending open houses for the past 2 years, we've seen:

networking, hiring, advice, socializing/drinking, partying

If you like hanging out with smart people, the open house is the place to be.

great way to see typical user behavior!

The android SDK comes with both Java's java.net.* http client support and the Apache HttpClient 4.0 library, but both require you to write epic amounts of code just to perform a basic HTTP GET.

OpenFeint cross promote games through their "Free game of the day" model and charge developers for the promotion. It's a standard CPI model.

Give tax breaks and other incentive to entrepreneurs and investors, forget this discount coupon crap.

actually, both are acceptable terms

Ma.gnolia anyone? http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/01/magnolia-suffer/

When our backups or replication fail I usually say we are at Ma.gnolia threat level orange :)

We're also hiring for Engineers and Business Development! (http://www.heyzap.com/jobs)

The beauty of doing this statically entirely in javascript is that you can serve the js file from anywhere, including s3 for example.

You'd normally use this script when you were in full control of the parameters you are passing, so its fairly easy to avoid this situation.

I find it amusing that they took out a full page ad in a print newspaper.

Hundreds of companies store/send back passwords in cleartext. I agree it is annoying and poor form for security, but hardly shocking.

Maybe someone could make a "Companies which store passwords in cleartext" database to name and shame them all.

Venturebeat is down right now. I'm sure it will be back up soon, but in the meantime check out our blog post:

http://blog.heyzap.com/general/heyzap-launches-social-bar/

This is the old "dollar store" model of business. Tempt customers in with insane bargains, and they'll thing everything is a bargain even if it isn't.

We've got integrity checking on all calls back to our server (eg. when unlocking achievements and buying items).

We can also ping a game developer provided secure callback URL to let them know when we have seen a purchase or an achievement.

It _is_ possible to hack the flash content while it is running to unlock the achievements etc on the client, but the vast majority of players (99.9%) don't do this, because: a) it defeats the purpose of playing the game b) it is hard

So in reality it isn't a problem for game developers or for us :)