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sebgeelenon Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [video]

Seems like the FCC already blocked the page mentioned in the video...

sebgeelenon Google Map Maker will be temporarily unavailable for editing

I wonder how the edits could be pre-review by an image analysis tool, that will auto detect if the submitted path is a text or a logo. Might speed up the manual process.

sebgeelenon WebGL: 80.000 particles

This same page appear on HN almost 3 year ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4008040.

Interesting how this all WebGL stuff is still so "hacky" and not yet commonly used all around .

sebgeelenon WebGL: 80.000 particles

It's this guy (https://twitter.com/boblemarin). I know him, and he is pretty damn good.

sebgeelenon How one man made 22 games in 22 years, mostly from his basement

A genre is not a game.

sebgeelenon Paper sizes

Is this the place to bring "inches vs cm" on the table ? :p

sebgeelenon How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn Spreadsheet

This describe a process used by J.K. Rowling to write the 5th HP book. Am I the only one to think this is also the worse book in the series ?

sebgeelenon The Pirate Bay down, forever?

The blog title contain a question mark, I guess this HN topic should also have it...

sebgeelenon Ragnarok MMO open-source HTML5 client

The servers have probably been HN DDOS

sebgeelenon The place on the web where comments don't suck

It's probable, but in real life people, most of them at least, stay reasonable. Why is it so different on the Internet? Is it only because of the social rules that we are gentle IRL?

sebgeelenon The place on the web where comments don't suck

Why is it so difficult to build a community on the web where people stay reasonable in their comment ?

sebgeelenon The 12 step process to download Microsoft SQL Server Express 2014

My good friends Usability and User-Friendliness just fall dead ...

sebgeelenon Algorithm for Capturing Pokémon

in this case some gif or icon would be even better! imho.

sebgeelenon Is that photo legit? Izitru offers an answer

On the website: "... Your image will be hosted on our site ..."

Is that even legal without opt-in or so?

sebgeelenon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?

http://www.woorank.com/en/jobs/

sebgeelenon Amateur hour at AWS

I know.

Sadly this page is not updated often enough. I mean, when there's a known issue on one of the aws service this page display a little "i" icon, which is barely visible.

And when, you encounter some problem with your AWS stuff that clearly come from their side, if the problem it's not wide, they just say nothing. At that point you can search yourself for hour to be sure it's not your responsibility, and after-woods, you just wait, blind.

sebgeelenon Amateur hour at AWS

The thing AWS does which can be described as amateur, was the communication. AWS has always been really quiet when there's an issue on their services.

It's a nightmare to know when your problem is due to your infrastructure or if their's a bigger scale issue at AWS cause they never talk about it...

sebgeelenon Ask HN: Easiest service for a storefront for subscription-based products?

https://recurly.com/‎ is a good billing service for monthly payement.