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jQueryIsAwesomeon Psy Makes $8.1 Million By Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style

Lets do the math: 800 million views for 8 million dollars; so to make $8.000 you need 800.000 Youtube views... this is in no way an example for other artists; and "Gangman style" is a exception in music popularity grow, like "Asereje", "Macarena", "Smells like teen spirit" or "Mambo #5" (is just that YouTube didn't exist back then).

jQueryIsAwesomeon Show HN: the app that powers our order fulfillment warehouse

It's a known bug[0]; they should change the font-size of the h4 to 19px and then becomes a little better.

[0]http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692

jQueryIsAwesomeon Switch Your Databases To Flash Storage

Or just mixing intervals of memory installation; so you install the next SSD at half the life-span of the previous one.

jQueryIsAwesomeon Local police post mugshots on Pinterest, leading to a 57% boost in arrests

Obviously you would send both pictures to the police with the name and info of the matched suspect so there would be human confirmation.

jQueryIsAwesomeon Researchers get cardiac muscle cells to grow, repair heart attack damage

You should avoid doctors then, for not to become part of the "problem".

jQueryIsAwesomeon I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit

Create an script that scraps proxies and then use those to scrap twitter, use it in a Russian domain, claim 140 characters can't be copyrighted, claim that the tweets are being extracted from third party sites that use the twitter API but lack any kind of TOS and disclaimer; sell API access, profit!

jQueryIsAwesomeon "Office Space" creator Mike Judge shooting new HBO parody of Silicon Valley

The script is just an adaptation of this twitter account: https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says

jQueryIsAwesomeon Dogs learn to drive in New Zealand

At least the risk of drunk drivers would fall to cero. Also they are probably more polite than the average driver.

jQueryIsAwesomeon GitHub now has Issue Attachments

One should be able to post a silly post every 100 seemingly-relevant posts.

Also the top post in this article is just someone calling this a "Christmas present"; at least you made me chuckle.

jQueryIsAwesomeon U.S. now 'totally unified' in opposition to U.N. Internet governance

I (and many people) are in favor of give control to the ones less likely to corrupt/change it; unfourtunaly we dont know who that is so is better to stick with the one already in control to avoid surprises.

jQueryIsAwesomeon Show HN: HTML5 Flash Warning Fix for YouTube

This is getting silly so this is my last answer:

1) It doesn't work in Youtube.com itself and it doesn't have anything to do with copyright but with the uploaders preferences (but yes, song owners sometimes enforce this setting on behalf of other users).

2) Many music videos are disabled; so call this a patch is technically inaccurate because it probably disables more videos than it enables wish is something that makes "gets the job done" a debatable statement.

3) To point out a bug doesn't mean I am willing or able to fix it; that is not how open-source works anyway.

jQueryIsAwesomeon Show HN: HTML5 Flash Warning Fix for YouTube

Forking the project would take more time than starting from scratch; wish is something that needs to be done anyway.

And this is a healthy reminder that when you mess with someone else platform without an actual API you have to test a lot... because you don't understand anything about the implementation; not to mention it could change anytime (especially something as experimental as HTML5 video tag).

jQueryIsAwesomeon Show HN: HTML5 Flash Warning Fix for YouTube

1) Don't call me bro; I am pretty sure we are not relatives.

2) You don't understood what i said; when you change #watch-player for an iframe it wrongly believes you are watching it from a third-party website when in fact you are watching it from youtube.com itself. So many videos become unwatchable because those are configured to be watched only in youtube.com

Example: http://i.imgur.com/TZpWp.jpg (Translation: EMG doesn't want you to watch this outside youtube.com)

jQueryIsAwesomeon Show HN: HTML5 Flash Warning Fix for YouTube

The implementation is just wrong; this extension will prevent the playback of any video that have playback disabled for third-party websites; because using an iframe makes youtube believes that you are watching the video on another site.

jQueryIsAwesomeon Playable Mario Game as a blog background

A little bit ironic to sell a book about HTML5 games using IMG tags for the background game.

jQueryIsAwesomeon Playable Mario Game as a blog background

Let me some A/B testing on that; the laugh by some of the visitors may actually increase sales. But this is speculation, just like yours.

jQueryIsAwesomeon Touché

Whenever I want to feel excited about the future I just look at this video; seriously is really magic stuff. Changing your bathtub temperature with one gesture of your hand in the water; changing the channel by a simple gesture in the couch, the use-cases are virtually unlimited. Also if one day it becomes even more sensitive it could transform any object into a fingerprint detector!

jQueryIsAwesomeon Show HN: 2u.fm is a social music discovery site, my side project for over a year

There is some bug in this song showing Javascript code instead of the description: http://2u.fm/genres/classic-rock#song-38265

Pretty nice site; would be nice to be able to login using Twitter.

jQueryIsAwesomeon Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites

    -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;

This CSS rule in that site is the worst kind of CSS rule; one that disables basic browser functionality.

jQueryIsAwesomeon Show HN: Interactive SICP

Normalize it and then check if it is equal; this took longer than I like to admit: http://jsfiddle.net/jeKMF/

jQueryIsAwesomeon The Case for More Guns (And More Gun Control)

This is another time; and not even half America would be able to take out the government even if they really wanted to... back then not even tanks existed.

jQueryIsAwesomeon The Case for More Guns (And More Gun Control)

The sea of possibilities that internet gives is clearly being used mostly for good or neutral/trivial activities. But with a gun only two things can be done: kill or intimidate; for every shooted man you need to start the discussion of who was the "good" and who was the "bad"; there is no need for those discussions with most of the internet activities.

You are also talking like a paranoid; incidences with internet used to release deathly viruses are so far only videogames stories and DDOS attacks have more similarities with an electricity outage than to killing someone. And not a single bank got broke because some DDOS attack.

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A story needs to submerge the reader in the story and emotions in the life of the protagonist; it needs to flow to grab the reader and good grammar is also a must. This is an example of a story not flowing (plus some grammar mistakes):

We delivered to Shlomo. He couldn’t believe how fast we did it. He couldn’t believe we also did the GIA certificates the way we did. He paid us in cash — $35,000. I took, $17,500. He gave us more work.

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I thought of the girl who worked in his office who had the huge scar down one side of her face. I thought of how I loved her and wanted to lick her scar

The only appropriate response is: wut?

But in all seriousness this story is lacking some good storytelling and any teaching (besides perl being a good programming language to create websites in 1997).

jQueryIsAwesomeon Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten

Sometimes browser zooming breaks pixel calculations... yeah, one more edge case to the already long list of edge cases.

jQueryIsAwesomeon Tor exit node operator raided in Austria

Someone else's child porn is going through your computer when you operate a ISP.

Someone else's child porn is going in your taxi when you are a taxi driver.

Someone else's child porn is being recorded at your house when you rent your house to someone unknown to you.

By your line of logic we should all sit still and do nothing because otherwise we may be helping a pedophile.

jQueryIsAwesomeon Tor exit node operator raided in Austria

What you think can be done is irrelevant by itself; you have to explain or suggest _how_ it can be done.

jQueryIsAwesomeon APIs that will transform the Web in 2013

It would be really cool, but the reality is that websites that uses similar kind of data are usually direct competitors and work as closed gardens (Facebook vs Google+, Vimeo vs Youtube, Bing vs Google). But I do hope that at least multimedia tags will be able be dragged and accepted by other websites (drag a video tag to YouTube, drag a pdf to dropbox, etc)

jQueryIsAwesomeon List of Twitter Bootstrap Resources

It was never mean to be modular; just to be extended and modified in a per-project basis, just an starting point for fast design development. You are suppose to be able to just use some part of bootstrap but many of this extensions assume that you are using it fully; and also there is no way of handling conflicts between extensions because this are just a bunch of files with no console or control panel to do a proper administration.

jQueryIsAwesomeon List of Twitter Bootstrap Resources

You don't draw the line; you just arrange those in order of independence, first the ones where there are no dependencies but bootstrap itself, then the helpers to use it in major frameworks (Meteor, Django, Drupal, WordPress, etc) and then minor frameworks and miscellaneous dependencies.