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amccloudon Masonry, infinite scrolling and Django

I'm looking at tindie.com and I see the inifinite scroll but I don't get the need for masonry. All The blocks appear to be the same width and height.

amccloudon StickNFind – Bluetooth Powered ultra small Location Stickers

Getting someone to commit cash is better than someone only saying they like a product.

amccloudon Django 1.5 beta release notes

Also, multi column indexes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/options/#dj...

amccloudon How to serve Django Statics (and not go insane)

I've done something similar to the hash in the static url. Used the git commit hash to break cache. Nginx would see the hash in the url and just ignore it. Cloudfront would see the hash in the user and thinks it's a new file.

https://gist.github.com/4129151

amccloudon Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700 Mbps

"- Distributed game session hosting where the players temporarily and reliably become the host of a shard"

I think that's how Halo's online gameplay has worked for a while. http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Connection_Host

amccloudon Show HN: I built a thing

I also build something similar when I was living in an apartment.

I've open sourced the it here: https://github.com/amccloud/django-tropo-webapi/

and the bulk of it https://github.com/amccloud/django-tropo-webapi/blob/master/...

It was great because it allowed my roommate and I to buzz people in from our own cell phones. It also allowed me to set an entry code to give out to friends and for deliveries. It would sms me and my roommate when someone came through the gate. To further extend on that idea you could create specific codes for specific people that only work at specific times.

amccloudon Apple Will Sell App-Enabled, Color-Changing Light Bulbs

There is also Lifx http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limemouse/lifx-the-light...

amccloudon Square Arrives in Canada

In the US our bank/atm cards are our debit cards. I don't see how that is light years ahead of the US.

amccloudon Markdown Resumé

Doh! Wish I had saw this yesterday. Just started work on my resume that has a similar style. http://resume.amccloud.com/

amccloudon When Facebook Disables Your Fan Page

Google seems to do just fine without comptent customer service. Maybe that's the key to a successful advertising platform.

amccloudon Click around, hover over a link

From what I can tell, requestAnimationFrame in Chrome runs at a slower frame rate. I've had a similar experience with a plugin i'm writing. Maybe I was doing something wrong but requestAnimationFrame was firing once for every ~10 actual frames in Chrome.

amccloudon NoPassword

Another similar application but to you mobile instead. Acts like a physical key. http://launchkey.co/

amccloudon Easier builds and deployments using Git over HTTPS and OAuth

Should be "Go forth and pull"

amccloudon Help fund Read the Docs

http://getsentry.com/ Is already doing it. Sentry is opensource https://github.com/getsentry and hosted service.

amccloudon Want to learn Django? Start here.

I think it's powered by http://slug.in/ which was a recent djangodash project.

amccloudon Why you can't change the shipping address for your new iPhone 5

Once you order you can change the delivery address here: http://www.apple.com/orderstatus

I also called Apple today and had one of my order's delivery address changed.

amccloudon Stripe Apps

Stripe has fee-splitting. See my link above.

amccloudon Stripe Apps

https://stripe.com/docs/apps/fee-splitting

amccloudon How Yipit deploys from Github with multiple private repos

What makes you say that. Just make sure your server are on the same network.

amccloudon How Yipit deploys from Github with multiple private repos

No. Github Enterprise can be setup to be only accessible from your internal network.

amccloudon Nokia Faked Its New Lumia 920 PureView Ad

I'm also skeptical about the floating lens claim. That doesn't seem like something you can just turn on and off.

It looks more like software stabilization if you look at the video in their apology http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/09/06/an-apology-is-due/

amccloudon How we keep GitHub fast

  - Public repo search.
  - Main search box says "Search or Type a Command"
  - Heartbeat icon in main navigation.
  - Compass icon in top right user navigation.
  - Advanced search button is now an actual button.

amccloudon Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

Welcome to VegasTech!

amccloudon Deploying at GitHub

If GitHub uses GitHub to deploy GitHub, what happens when GitHub goes down?

amccloudon Ask HN: Is Apple not hashing passwords?

If anything, this proves they are hashing to something like MD5 because the max length on the password column is 32. They're likely using some sort of ORM/declarative model that you define validation rules on. It makes sense to set the max length of your password column to the hashes length. It just happens that their forms using the same validation rules as their models/database.

amccloudon Show HN: HackerNews reimagined without tables or center elements.

You should replace the <li>|<li> with li:after { content: " | "; }

amccloudon Show HN: Eligible API for 700+ Health Insurance Companies

It looks to be inspired by https://stripe.com/docs

amccloudon TypeLink.js find important links by typing

Neet! When I try search though the "h" in Search gets added to the input.

amccloudon Rivets.js - Binding data to views

Template markup is generally more complex than that and certainly more complex than your bindings. The ability for designers to edit and change the markup without having to look at code is a plus for using templates. Not to mention as a backbone convention it is expected so it makes things more portable.

amccloudon Rivets.js - Binding data to views

I'm had the same exact thought. That's why I created https://github.com/amccloud/backbone-bindings