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gregorkas··on Simple block flappy bird in less than 250 lines of JavaScript
Please give it a bit more upward boost when clicked... currently it's nowhere near the real version,
gregorkas··on Ask HN: Ideas on making money?
Try finding something online, i.e. odesk.com, elance.com, etc.
gregorkas··on Query, a new question app built by a 17 year old Iphone developer.
Nice app, but I think you're a bit too old to keep pulling the "17 year old developer" trick out of your sleeve since being 17 in the world of developers isn't that special. Maybe if you were 12...
gregorkas··on Web Developer Workspace Full CSS
How is it full CSS if there's JavaScript to animate the clock?
gregorkas··on Show HN: Product Hunt – Hacker News for Products
My scrolling experience was really laggy... as if images were constantly loading in the background slowing the page. But it's a nice site otherwise.
gregorkas··on 6 must know programming skills for 2014
You probably meant 2012.
gregorkas··on Amazing T-Rex illusion [video]
That's not even a T-Rex..

Original: http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/dragon_illus... and there's also a printable PDF to make your own.

gregorkas··on [dead]
This answer deserves more upvotes.
gregorkas··on Alternative to Sparrow?
Interesting that you noticed that only now :D. I like Airmail, it's similar to Sparrow and has great multiple account support. Also the GUI is very nice.
gregorkas··on Contributing To GitHub Projects is Easy
Contributing to GitHub Projects is easy indeed, but finding a project to contribute to is very hard. Unless you spot a project you like at random and decide to help out it's ok, but if you just wanted to find one on GitHub you can go shoot yourself.
gregorkas··on Giant World War II Sub Discovery
pics or it didn't happen
gregorkas··on Need money for plastic surgery
What you need is a change of mind, not a plastic surgery. Your nose looks perfectly normal to me, but I suspect there might be an issue with the attitude. You need to convince yourself that it's a good thing.

In reality no one notices your nose. Women are like VC's, they invest in your personality, not in what your product is.

gregorkas··on Show HN: StackO - An Android word game developed on a budget of approx. 1500$
I haven't tried the game yet, but I'd just like to point out that your website gave me some motion sickness (and I generally don't have a problem with that) because of the background patterns.
gregorkas··on Why I Hacked Apple’s TouchID and Still Think it is Awesome
I still think that they didn't "Hack" the TouchID as they claim. Faking a finger print is one thing, but truly hacking it is completely another.

Imagine a scenario in which you find an iPhone (or "borrow" it) - how do you unlock it without knowing the owner and having access to their fingerprints? You don't, not with this "hack".

A cool demonstration of the fingerprint lifting technique though.

gregorkas··on Street artist jailed for art on 9-11 monument. FundRazr for bail ends in 20 mins
I think I can come up with a hundred nobler causes I would rather give my money to. Giving money to poor families or funding cancer research would make my day happier than getting a street artists' ass out of jail.
gregorkas··on Ask HN: Any alternatives to gmail?
outlook.com works great for me, their web interface is very powerful and easy to use.

would recommend

gregorkas··on Graphite is the new Gold
I honestly thought that it had something to do with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite when I looked at the title... I was almost going to go to the store and buy all the pencils I could get my hands on. But then I clicked the link.... :/
gregorkas··on Github's 404 has a nice parallax effect now
First of all, it doesn't have it "now" since it's been this way for about a year.

Second, you also have these: https://github.com/500.html https://github.com/502.html https://github.com/503.html

And maybe some more.

gregorkas··on It's time to finally kill CAPTCHA
I would rather suggest a physical CAPTCHA device for the visually impaired featuring a revolving braille writing sheet of paper. Or maybe just a huge red button they would press to confirm that there is a real person sitting behind the computer.
gregorkas··on Javascript Constructors and Prototypes
I agree with you, but still, I look at (a lot of) JavaScript every day and it's hard to explain it, but for some reason I find the lack of semicolons disturbing. I have no problem with CoffeeScript and I've also worked with Python a lot so I appreciate a language without semicolons, but I don't approve mixing the styles.

I think this is more of a psychological thing than a syntax thing because if you're used to a syntax of a language, it gets embedded in your brain and with years of practice you can spot a missing semicolon from a mile away after only a quick glance over the code. People are afraid of changes and if they are used to something and that thing is taken away they become unsettled.

Or their brain explodes if they see JavaScript with missing semicolons :P.

gregorkas··on Javascript Constructors and Prototypes
I wanted to read this because I believe it's a great article, but the fact that he doesn't use semicolons pretty much turned me off.

While I was looking at the JavaScript code my brain almost exploded.

gregorkas··on How to upload pre-made videos to Instagram
This is nice, but I stopped reading at: "You’ll need a rooted Android device for this to work.".
gregorkas··on Ink – Interface Kit
How is this different from Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/)?
gregorkas··on "Live Reload"-like feature with a single line of javascript
That's a great solution. Looking forward to trying it out. Thanks!
gregorkas··on $32M is ballsy, and I like it, but here's the problem
I really liked your old theme... this one is kind of boring. Just saying.

I agree with the article though, but the thing people tend to forget is that the phone can actually be a desktop computer too... which maybe makes it worth it.

gregorkas··on Looking at Earth from Saturn
Is NASA saying that there is a huge arrow in space pointing to Earth, right below us? It's twice the size of our planet and nobody ever noticed it? Wow... It looks like we are too busy looking into other planet problems to notice our own.

(also that thing is a marker for aliens telling them where not to go)

gregorkas··on Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch
As alien as this video is, I must say it's one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen as it directly represents the power of human knowledge. If I would fit into that camera's case, I would give anything to watch something like this in person.
gregorkas··on Special treat: Putin speaking Enlish
Seems CG to me :D
gregorkas··on Poll: How often do you deploy to production?
We are deploying once or twice per month and we are using the "git flow" branching model. More info here: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
gregorkas··on The first iOS 7 app is live on the App Store
"HTML5 is ready for prime time." - actually, it's not. Try Android and you'll see. Although your app mimics the iOS 7 look, I wouldn't go bragging about it. Even the default HTML table looks like iOS7 so clearing all the styles out of your iOS6 implementation isn't all that impressive.

I must say that the functionality of the app really does a great job at behaving like a native app, but there was some lag when returning to the main screen via the "Cancel" button.

When HTML5 is ready for prime time, I want it to fly. I want the apps match the performance of native apps (stop fooling yourself, currently they are close but not perfect) or even outperform them.

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