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JackuBon Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

Read a paper few years ago that Slow TV[^1] will become popular in the digital era. I couldn't believe it at the time. And here we are. I guess it's a logical step to fight speed of current era.

It did a sudden takeoff even in my country - Prague tram-cam is the best[^2].

[^1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television [^2]: http://slowtv.playtvak.cz/prave-ted-mazaci-tramvaj-jede-prah...

JackuBon Grd – A CSS grid framework using Flexbox in 512 bytes gzipped

Afaik it's just for escaping `-`

It means that this `.-stretch` needs a class `.Grid` on the same element

JackuBon The Next Front in the New Crypto Wars: WhatsApp

But headlines love it!

JackuBon Factorio – a game where you can automate basically anything

I love the irony that you have to fight bugs.

PROTIP: Try multiplayer. Unexpectedly, my girlfriend loved it and we had a lot of fun there.

Also, they are hiring: http://www.factorio.com/jobs

JackuBon Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go

And there is "DataDag" once :)

JackuBon If you're alive in 30 years you might be in 1000 years too

Biologists hate him! This programmer discovered Philosopher's stone with this one weird trick!

Anyway: Yes, we will do great advances in health care, but will we _cheat_ death? Will those advancements be available? Is this something we _should_ do as a society? Technological determinism/solutionism (as presented in the article) is a really shoddy idea. It ignores so many things and assumes that progress is an arrow always flying forward…

JackuBon After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design

Maybe it's time for another redesign…

Site is quite broken on iPad

JackuBon What the new video compression strategy from Netflix means for Apple and Amazon

I was running small project that encoded videos with SaaS in multiple formats/sizes (~10) and then distributed it over CDN (no major traffic). CDN price was about 99% of project costs. Transcoding and storage on S3 was fraction of a cost. I was also trying every trick in the book to make files smaller, just to cut on traffic.

JackuBon A bird's eye view on API development

Building SPA using Siren, it can be really useful for disabling parts of UI - when you have complex rules on whether user can list/edit/create resource, you just check if such action is in response and use its options.

Yes, you can do same with bool flags in response, but if you structure all your decision making like this (around Resources and actions) it's quite easy and natural to make all your components react to un/availability of resource/action, thus accomodating even more complex scenarios - user can list, edit (only some), but can't create new.

JackuBon State of emergency in France

This is a HN frontpage material only becuase it's on GitHub?

JackuBon Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

For dev or CI you might want to take a look at Gavel https://github.com/apiaryio/gavel (or even Dredd for that matter https://github.com/apiaryio/dredd)

(disclosure: I work for Apiary.io)

JackuBon Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

You might want to take a look at Gavel https://github.com/apiaryio/gavel (and its JS implementation Gavel.js https://github.com/apiaryio/gavel.js)

(disclosure: I work for Apiary.io)

JackuBon Biotech CEO claims she is the first to undergo gene therapy to reverse aging

I'm not familiar with FDA that much (I live in EU) and I believe it isn't anywhere near perfect, but you want to be conservative when it comes to public health. Look at case of Thalidomide from 50s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

  In the United States, pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey M.D. 
  withstood pressure from the Richardson-Merrell company 
  and refused Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval 
  to market thalidomide, saying further studies were needed.

JackuBon Biotech CEO claims she is the first to undergo gene therapy to reverse aging

Tech Review just reports on news here - announcement came from Reddit thread by Parrish afaik.

JackuBon Biotech CEO claims she is the first to undergo gene therapy to reverse aging

Just a note: I haven't seen it mentioned in article, but "gene therapy" was discovered in 70s and it's widely used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy - what's new here is use for anti-aging and DIY nature of treatment.

I feel it's important to judge weight of this story.

JackuBon Biotech CEO claims she is the first to undergo gene therapy to reverse aging

Publicity stunt instead of scientific paper in reviewed journal, "we don't care about FDA approval" attitude, undisclosed location in latin America - sounds totally credible.

JackuBon Atlassian Stash Renamed to Bitbucket Server

I'd like to point that change happened when I was reading their API docs and it was quite confusing for few minutes.

JackuBon Ask HN: Facebook clickjacking – is it detectable?

https://www.facebook.com/me/likes should do

JackuBon Show HN: Tipping culture for developers on the Web

… and Flattr … and TipTheWeb … and Gratipay

JackuBon A (Terrifying) Traffic Analysis of Windows 10

Word of caution, linked server aeronet.cz is well known for spreading pro-russian propaganda[0], conspiracy theories and fake news.

[0]: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronet.cz

JackuBon Unhappy Birthday

Heh, it played fine in EU. All Comedy Central stuff works here AFAIK.

JackuBon Orbit: EA's first open source project

My initial response was "will it have DLC?", but after reading this part again

> This initiative is the result of a lot of effort from people across BioWare and EA

I can imagine "lot of effort" it took. I feel excited about this direction and I hope that there are more projects coming.

JackuBon Adware Bundler IronSource Raises $105M to Buy Startups Ahead of IPO

I think lot of those real businesses are selling their products this way, because scam/adware networks are much cheaper than AdSense (few dollars for ten thousands of views)

I saw lot of adware ads are also for courses for _rich life_/making money on internet etc. I can imagine these businesses' target demo are people that get affected by adware.

JackuBon Meta-programming JavaScript Using Proxies

Saw it used on other sites too.

Here is original: http://tympanus.net/Development/AnimatedHeaderBackgrounds/

JackuBon Scroll Slow. Have Fun

Can confirm same high pitched sound on 27 iMac.

Plus: open developer toolbars, find styles for .bars, change margin-bottom and sound changes frequency.

JackuBon “Warning: Do Not use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation”

Reminded me of Starship Troopers scene:

[Ace is having difficulty with throwing knives] Ace Levy: Sir, I don't understand. Who needs a knife in a nuke fight anyway? All you gotta do is push a button, sir. Career Sergeant Zim: Cease fire. Put your hand on that wall trooper. PUT YOUR HAND ON THAT WALL! [Zim throws a knife and hits Ace's hand pinning it to the wall] Career Sergeant Zim: The enemy can not push a button... if you disable his hand. Medic!