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jbhelms

174 karma · joined December 11, 2009

co-founder of Onyxtek Inc. www.onyxtek.com co-founder of LavaSend https://lavasend.com founder of Rate My Neighborhood www.ratemyneighborhood.net
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jbhelms··on Ask HN: Did you ever do anything unethical to get your startup off the ground?
I contacted a company to buy Sex Offender data. I called twice and then sent 3 emails. After a month of no replies I wrote a program that screen scraped their site.
jbhelms··on Helicopter Game using HTML5 (Canvas / font-face etc)
Your game crashed my FireFox, FYI.

Version 3.6.8 On Windows 7 64 bit

jbhelms··on To retire comfortably, under-40 workers need to seriously bulk up savings
I'm with you on this except I want to own the company, not work for it.I see nothing wrong with working until you die, it's the working for someone else till you die that bothers me
jbhelms··on Ask HN: I need bug reporting/feedback for my web app. Suggestions?
FogBugz does the screenshot thing you are asking for. I have used FogBugz at my day job for years now. While it has it's quirks it is pretty nice.
jbhelms··on [dead]
Your link is broken
jbhelms··on π% of 1337 ≈ 42
I only saw the movie, in the book did they ever mention why 42 is the meaning of everything?
jbhelms··on Ask HN: 32 bit Windows server VS 64
Thank you, I will do the php install on my current x64 server and not worry about 32 bit dlls until the time comes up again.
jbhelms··on Ask HN: 32 bit Windows server VS 64
I attempted to install Ontime but it relies on a 32 bit dll to run.
jbhelms··on Ask HN: 32 bit Windows server VS 64
I'm sorry I should have clarified it is a Server 2003 instance.
jbhelms··on IPhone 3G Performance with iOS 4.0 is terrible
I have had the iOS 4 on my iPhone 3g for almost 24 hours and haven't noticed anything weird or off the wall. I did notice that not much in iOS 4 is available on the 3g. No multitasking for one. I had some problems with Exchange, but a reboot of my phone fixed that.
jbhelms··on Ask HN: How Can I Make My Facebook App Better
How do you rate? I didn't see where you could rate the games. If you could use javascript to change between the game types that would be better then a postback. Also, it is prolly better to use an IFrame instead of FBML for speed.
jbhelms··on Ask HN: Can you plese review my new site
thank you
jbhelms··on Ask HN: Can you plese review my new site
what did you search for?
jbhelms··on Ask HN: Can you plese review my new site
you can review without logging in, just not edit an address.
jbhelms··on Ask HN: Can you plese review my new site
thank you, how did you do that?
jbhelms··on Ask HN: Can you plese review my new site
I forgot to say, the site only works for addresses in the US
jbhelms··on Ask HN: Does anyone know where i can find a sex offender web service?
If anyone stumbles on this with the same question

www.beenverified.com sells them in batches. 1000 hits to their webservice for $150 or 10000 for $1000

jbhelms··on Is Web Development Computer Science?
I think if you consider a plain old HTML page as Web Development then fine, it is not Computer Science. I consider that Web Design. To me Web Development is making robust applications that can do more then display markup. All the back-end stuff is what makes it an application, and in turn makes it computer science.
jbhelms··on Is Facebook a Brand that You Can Trust?
I wrote a, failed, game for Facebook, but was really surprised what information the FaceBook API would give you on your visitors once they approved your app.

No matter the intent of the changes are. The article implied that they wanted people to share more information, but I think that just stopping the API from giving applications free rain is a good start.

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