jzcoder

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Comment · 4 years ago

I immediately close a page dense in text and using a thin font like Lato or Raleway.

Comment · 6 years ago

I don't think this matters. If he strongly claims he is an expert on Flask, and I knew Flask, then I would test the depth of that knowledge. You can't validate every detail on their resume, but if you find they misled about this one fact, odds are they mislead on other facts you are not capable of validating.

Comment · 6 years ago

You should look at Actions in the Python implementation of Cocos2d. It uses operator overloading to allow '+' for sequential actions and '|' for parallel actions. These are composable and reversible for quickly creating complex animations.

http://python.cocos2d.org/doc/programming_guide/actions.html

Example:

        bounce = Jump(150, 0, 4, 2)
        scale = ScaleBy(2, duration=1.5)
        rot = RotateBy(360, 0.80)
        scale_and_rot = scale | rot
        bounce_in = bounce | scale_and_rot
        bounce_out = Reverse(bounce_in)

        logo.do(bounce_in + bounce_out)

Comment · 10 years ago

Norton Guides. A similar TSR that also included a compiler for building your own guides. I remember one popular one was the Ralph Brown Interrupt List. I think about this tool a lot, but I think IDE's with auto completion and showing parameters has largely replaced the need. But using NG, still seems faster than having to launch an IDE help system or doing a google search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Guides

Comment · 11 years ago

Corel had a serious SVG effort during this early period around 2002-2004. They created a SVG Viewer and tooling around an initiative known as Smart Graphics.

Here's a Press Release about it: http://www.corel.com/uk/pdfs/press/79.pdf

Comment · 11 years ago

Here's another set of examples, for different targets:

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Testing_Guide_Appendix...

Comment · 11 years ago

Instead of pure random data, fuzzers can use 'attack heuristics' to try and minimize the search space. These are specific patterns that are more likely to expose bugs, based on previous vulnerabilities and known coding errors. For example using '%n%n%n%n%n' many times to exploit C-style format string stack vulnerabilities.

Mozilla started a project known as FuzzDB to collect these heuristics, although it doesn't appear to have been maintained recently.

Here's some examples from FuzzDB: https://code.google.com/p/fuzzdb/source/browse/trunk/attack-...

Comment · 13 years ago

I agree. The first thing I did when I saw this announcement was look for the REST API. Surely, those existing platform specific libraries are built on a REST API, so why not document and release them.

Comment · 13 years ago

I agree your approach has a different set of advantages. It's just the end goal is similar and the name is so similar. That's more the point I was trying to make.

Comment · 13 years ago

Looks interesting. But, a similar solution exists with a similar name called PageKite (https://pagekite.net/). They do not deploy your application code to the cloud. With PageKite you run your environment locally and then create a tunnel from a public address to your local environment.

I think the only benefit to Kite is if you want your development application to be running from a public address for a long time.

The PageKite approach allows you to have whatever web environment you want and to bring it up/down at will. I have used PageKite for over a year and it has worked very well. It also seems safer, since I wouldn't want to deploy my development changes to a public web site with some unintended security flaw.

Comment · 13 years ago

Does anyone have experience with what they call "app tender" sites like http://appcity.org/ ?

I've heard one anecdote about a guy who knows a guy who bought a very simple iOS app for 10K, did some marketing on FB and made like 20K within a month.

I'm more interested in any experience from the developer perspective selling apps on a marketplace like this. I've also heard the new iOS makes this easier to do.

Comment · 13 years ago

I have used 99designs for two logos and used Logoworks back in 2007 for one logo. 99designs produces many more creative and professional designs than Logoworks. Logoworks owned by HP was more expensive and we were ultimately unsatisfied with the experience after being beaten down going back and forth on the little choices we had, even after they offered to throw in a few more "staff" designers.

Getting close to 100 designs with 99designs even though many were variations still gave us far more alternatives that we were happy with. In fact, it became difficult to choose a winning design.

You have to stay active during the process. Offering suggestions on what you want to see and what you do not like. The designers usually do exactly as you say. After their initial concept they usually just make minor changes. Comments like "like this but can you be more creative with this part" does not usually work.

As a startup, I believe it was both cost effective and the best use of our time. Instead of spending time finding a designer with a portfolio we liked and then going back and forth with revisions with them. Almost every revision we requested on 99designs was done within a few hours. I also feel the anonymous process of 99designs prevents wasting time by trying to be too nice with comments.

I have not worked with a designer, how many choices are you really going to get before it starts to be uncomfortable as you are wasting both the designers time and yours. Five designs? Ten designs? With 99designs you might get 20-40 unique designs. It just seems like better chances for success in a short time.

Comment · 13 years ago

I always forget the new name. Luckily, the old URL http://freshmeat.net still works. I browse it maybe once every few months. Mostly for nostalgia sake.

I also noticed http://www.osnews.com/ has picked up more recently. I used to browse that a lot too, but it was stagnate for awhile. Glad it's trying to make a come back.

Comment · 13 years ago

Intuit removed the DRM from TurboTax after one release in 2003 after public outcry and financial analysts questioned them about it. All you gamers have to do is stick to your position and not buy the product. Unless you hit them where it counts, they will continue to do this. Imagine, if the sales didn't meet expectations and analysts questioned EA.

Comment · 15 years ago

All the upsell checkboxes are defaulted off. I don't understand what the problem is clicking through a couple of pages without checking anything. I've done it dozens of times with no problems.