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huytoan_pcon Google Video Quality Report

Anybody knows why recently Youtube re-buffers every video when I hit replay? It might make sense for long videos but for relative short videos (music videos and the like), it's really frustrating.

huytoan_pcon Twice

Fascinating story but how is Apple genius here? Was it Apple's all along to acquire Lala, let Lala's engineers go before they exercised their options, somehow made Color a failure, then bought the all the engineers back on the cheap? The real genius (or at least real good biz person) in this story is Bill Nguyen, Apple just did what makes sense for them, it just happens that two of their acquisitions are Bill's companies.

huytoan_pcon The open-source "svblte like" blogging platform

Can somebody tell me what is technically interesting about Svbtle? How is it different from, say, Tumblr? It seems to be just a normal CMS with a minimalistic look. It does attract a lot of prominent bloggers in tech, which, to me, has more to do with Curtis's personal connections than any technical merits.

huytoan_pcon Flatstrap - Bootstrap with no rounded corners, gradients or drop shadows

The text on the homepage has drop shadow too...

huytoan_pcon Kevin Rose Will Join Google

Because money is not everything. Once you have reached financial security like he did, you start yearning for other things like power or a legacy. He still has a long way to go to achieve all those things. If he "retires" now, before long, the name Kevin Rose will be forgotten, because there are plenty people in this industry who have achieved his level of wealth and success.

huytoan_pcon Pegasus for Cocoa Touch - Framework to build UIKit view hierarchies in XML

How stable is Pegasus now? Is anyone using it for realworld applications yet?

huytoan_pcon Show HN: JavaScript Instagram-like Filters

It's definitely a good start, but IMO the quality of the filters are not on par with those of Instagram.

A better JS filter library I found is CarmanJS. Check out their demos at http://camanjs.com/examples/presets

huytoan_pcon Facebook hit git performance issue on large repository

Here you go: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150121348198920

"We can build a binary that is more than 1GB (after stripping debug information) in about 15 min, with the help of distcc. Although faster compilation does not directly contribute to run-time efficiency, it helps make the deployment process better."

huytoan_pcon My Recent Development Stack: OS X Tools

I use this Chrome extension to view JSON responses directly in browser https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chklaanhfefbnpoihc...