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hy3lxs

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About hy3lxs

I like to build things.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #7854898

    Mostly from scratch. Cannot speak directly to experience of original developers, but I could see moving target as being an issue. Would love to see our code open sourced someday an…

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    Comment #6176983

    When I see a GPLv2 app in the app store that is non-free, how do I know that the proceeds are properly going to the XaoS project?

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    Comment #5308155

    "Locksmith gets less tips and more price complaints for being faster" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007385 (807 days ago)

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    Comment #5297118

    I don't know if you did the "right" thing, whatever the hell that means, but I think you did the humane thing.

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    Comment #4070189

    We're trying to have the best of both worlds. You are not anonymous to Airtime -- so you can be held accountable for your actions in the public areas of the site. However, you are …

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    Comment #4070099

    Please send your facebook id to feedback@airtime.com to help us track this. Thank you!

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    Comment #4070091

    Airtime is about extending your social graph one algorithmically-matched individual at a time (one-to-one). Ustream and Justin.tv are about broadcast channels (one-to-many) of whic…

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    Comment #4070064

    Read your posts: allow us to prepopulate your video library with YouTube videos that you've shared on your wall in the past. XMPP permissions: we are deeply integrated with faceboo…

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    Comment #4070050

    That number would be still too high for us. We want virtually zero.

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    Comment #4070044

    When you are chatting in the "public" area anonymously with other users, we take screenshots to monitor for abusive behavior. When you direct call someone from your buddy list, tha…

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    Comment #4070030

    Here is our introductory video to give you a taste of the product: https://www.airtime.com/about We're still working on our team page, we've been a bit busy lately.

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    Comment #4070008

    Brought to you by the genius and taste of Matt Cahill, our Lead Designer. Illustrations by Shyama Golden.

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    Comment #4069960

    We would most certainly not do anything like that intentionally. The normal user flow is the standard facebook app authentication dialog that clearly lists all the permissions requ…

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    Comment #4069946

    When you are connected to someone you aren't friends with, your profile is flipped to anonymous mode. So your identity is protected and you have the social freedom anonymity provid…

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    Comment #4069936

    This is boilerplate. The important part is having the freedom to keep the site absolutely safe.

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    Comment #4069929

    We will someday, just not today. For the initial user population, it's a better user experience to prepopulate your profile, video library, and friends list with data from fb.

  17. job
    Airtime hiring software engineers

    If you love to code and: - graduated with a BS degree in Computer Science (or coded a bunch in something related) - code fluently in at least one of [C, C++, Python, Erlang, JavaSc…

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    Comment #1455419

    User interfaces my mother doesn't understand: - Running multiple applications at the same time is too confusing. She doesn't understand/notice the taskbar. She always tries to clos…

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    Comment #1428677

    After using them heavily for several years, I have sadly come to the conclusion that Google Docs and Spreadsheets are toys. Every time I try to get "serious" work done in them, I r…

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    Comment #1333565

    From CS-106X, Programming Abstractions (intro course) http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs106x/handouts/01-CS106X-Cour... Your final grade will be computed as follows: Programs 25 % Mi…

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    Comment #1307742

    Pixar worked hard to make sure their use of 3D cinematography in UP was properly integrated throughout their creative process so that it would be something that added to the movie …

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    Comment #1292093

    It's an expected value thing. If the event is catastrophic enough (the Ur-Quan notice our radio signals and enslave humanity, or global warming destroys the ecosystem and we all di…

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    Comment #1285486

    According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX_Video_Acceleration , Flash did not use DXVA (hardware-accelerated video playback) until 10.1. Video being the complicated beast th…