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wsbail29

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    Comment #7869096

    Cool stuff. If you are interested in creating effects like this you might also be interested in: http://facebook.github.io/rebound/rebound-js/docs/rebound.ht...

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    Comment #7664761

    We open sourced Rebound for Android a few months ago. It provides simple spring dynamics similar to Pop and is used to drive animations in Facebook apps like Chat Heads and FB Home…

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    Comment #6620583

    FYI: I just merged a pull request that adds gradle support. Would love for somebody to send a pull request to add maven as well.

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    Comment #5545382

    Thanks for the feedback. I agree that hitting a loading spinner on the home screen should never happen. Sounds like you might have encountered a cold start. Occasionally the Androi…

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    Comment #5544946

    Right on. Thanks for checking it out! I'm looking forward to getting more of the features that power users look for in the launcher so we can widen our potential audience.

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    Comment #5544917

    Hi folks. I'm one of the engineers on Facebook Home (disclaimer these are my opinions and not those of Facebook). It's been really interesting reading the early reviews. I think we…

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    Comment #4529505

    Here's a CoffeeScript port of this algorithm I did awhile ago. https://gist.github.com/3733089 and a demo: http://wsb.im/flocking/index.html Definitely fun stuff to play around wit…

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    Comment #4064564

    Liked the shout-out to Robert Kieffer. Keep up the good work Jeremy.

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    Comment #3880278

    This is a really nice inventory of the latest Chrome Developer Tools. I also really like the recent Settings additions of "emulate touch events" and "Override device metrics" for m…

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    Comment #3876615

    nice implementation! The color adds a lot of visual interest. Here's my monochrome implementation. http://wsb.im/conway/index.html

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    Comment #2555371

    Thanks for the code review folks. I made the countNeighbors method a bit more concise and removed some unnecessary binding code from the travelWorld method.

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    Comment #2555083

    I've been playing around with CoffeeScript and docco a bit lately and I thought I'd share this little project. Thanks to Jeremy Ashkenas for creating these fantastic tools.

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    Comment #1787831

    It means that Backbone provides a way to cleanly separate your model/data from your presentation such that your model is concerned with synchronizing state with a server and the vi…

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    Comment #1787669

    I really like the approach here of extracting the core functionality of js mvc and data binding without the bloat of a huge framework. I plan on using this on a project soon. Well …

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    Comment #1390436

    My layman's idea for stopping the leak: Insert a drill pipe into the well with some sort of expandable yet sturdy bag tucked into the end. Once the pipe is fairly deep inside the w…

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    Comment #1382224

    that's what she said

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    Comment #1181426

    nice work guys...interesting to see a different take on the Flow as a team collaboration medium. Also, Love the flow based puns like "Flowser". At Shareflow we call the creator of …

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    Comment #1129225

    Nice job! I did something like this awhile ago too. I wrote a scraper that pulled all of the reviews from Pitchfork (scraping was necessary before they updated their site with rss …

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    Comment #1031761

    It's true that more than 30 style tags on a production application is a big problem; however, in development mode it can be useful for debugging and maintainability to break out yo…

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    Comment #926008

    thanks for the tip...I'll look into this!

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    Comment #925883

    http://tweetrad.io/blog/2009/11/05/tweetradio_technology.htm...

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    The technology behind Tweetrad.io

    http://tweetrad.io/blog/2009/11/05/tweetradio_technology.html A couple of folks asked how tweetrad.io works behind the scenes (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=920610). Here's a…

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    Comment #921298

    Thanks for the great feedback. I'm Looking into the bugs. As for the feature requests, logging in to view your personal feed and the pause button are on our roadmap and should be a…

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    Comment #920619

    Tweetrad.io is a fun little side project that converts twitter feeds into audio using text to speech. We use a distributed network of converter bots to handle the work queue. Jobs …