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irunbackwards··on Hacking Instagram: release your photos under Creative Commons
Yeah, totally spaced on the badges. Thanks for pointing them out :)
irunbackwards··on Hacking Instagram: release your photos under Creative Commons
Which CC license is being adopted?

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

irunbackwards··on What HN Users Use (45% Mac, 63% Chrome)
Haha, I love that. Had a friend who did the same thing. But seriously: why not get a beefier computer for your buck and if you need OSX, spring for a copy and install it on a virtual machine?
irunbackwards··on Tumblr 'Truly Disappointed' That Twitter Revoked Its Friend-Finding Privileges
The ol' one-two punch.
irunbackwards··on Typing Practice for Programmers
Why can't I share my test results on social networks? This is like one of the only types of social activites / games I would want to share with my friends!

Other than that, this is freaking rad!

I found it funny that I'm normally a 120-150 WPM typist, but when typing special characters for regex, etc, I hit a patch of molasses.

irunbackwards··on Motorola Launches “Unlock My Device” Site – Bootloader Freedom Has Come At Last
Oh I know how you feel brother. Fellow DX owner here.
irunbackwards··on Single Element MacBook Pro with CSS
Are you a wizard?
irunbackwards··on The Obvious Corp's preview of Medium
Not suggesting otherwise, I've been eager to try a platform like this with a lot of other users.
irunbackwards··on The Obvious Corp's preview of Medium
Feels/seems like smallest federated wiki.
irunbackwards··on PHP finally gets finally
Is it possible to see the reasoning behind the 'no' votes?
irunbackwards··on Ask HN: Why are lots of startups using the .io domain?
I'm not sure, but the only one that makes sense so far is filepicker.io
irunbackwards··on An Asynchronous Image Uploading Interface for Svbtle
For sure, you totally hit the nail on the head - the solution presented for svbtle is not an optimal choice for a production, user-facing web application.
irunbackwards··on An Asynchronous Image Uploading Interface for Svbtle
I believe Dustin Curtis is the author: http://dcurt.is/codename-svbtle/
irunbackwards··on An Asynchronous Image Uploading Interface for Svbtle
Haha, you have a valid point, but how many authors using the svbtle platform are using IE at all? Svbtle is totally an author/editor feelgood platform.
irunbackwards··on Ask HN: Are there any free APIs that do speech transcription?
I found this on Quora, looks like it's up your alley, and there is a free trial: http://koemei.com/pricing

Also, this gentleman talks about accessing the undocumented Google Speech API: http://mikepultz.com/2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chr...

irunbackwards··on One Thousand Dollars an Hour
What is the average hourly rate for high-level engineering consultation? It seems that's the service he's offering, and I don't really think he is overcharging.
irunbackwards··on Why you should never use GoDaddy ever again (even for a domain search)
Several registrars practice this, sadly.
irunbackwards··on Digg v1: Betaworks Flushes Seven Years of Internet History Down the Toilet
Links with rel="nofollow" have no link "juice" however Digg.com itself is a very prominent and trafficked website, so any links that are not capped with a nofollow have extraordinary value. (A very basic judge of "link quality" from a particular domain is its "PageRank" value, which Digg.com scores at an 8 of 10.)
irunbackwards··on SmartAsset, the Financial Calculator Killer
This definitely solves a major paint point for a lot of people. Cheers and good luck. Great post!
irunbackwards··on Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away
I've dreamed of Sparrow for Windows for a while now, but Postbox is holding me over. It's a good alternative -- it has a traditional, but sexy user interface.
irunbackwards··on How do you manage your web server? (openvz)
We just used an openvz environment in one of our deployments. My system administrator is using a combination of puppet and yum (using the hardware node as the main repository for the ovz containers) to facilitate updates and other simultaneous maintenance tasks.
irunbackwards··on Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham develops federated wiki
Much better headline than the one actually on Wired, "Wiki Inventor Sticks a Fork in His Baby."
irunbackwards··on Show HN: My company's new turn based strategy game for Android
It was very easy to set up and get going with it. Disappointed with the low fill rate and lack of variety in the interstitial ad category. All we get are ads for the Bahamut Dragon game. It's an awesome ad, and yes I want a dragon, but I don't think anyone else does, haha.
irunbackwards··on Coinbase (YC S12) seeks to bring Bitcoin to the masses
bit-pay.com offers a service where you can accept payment in Bitcoin, which is then immediately converted to USD at the average market rate (of the last 15 minutes) and sent to your bank account. I believe the funds are available next day, I forget.
irunbackwards··on Sergey Brin Demos Google Glass At I/O
Here's the actual hangout: https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts/ZAnS9UMS...
irunbackwards··on Show HN: My company's new turn based strategy game for Android
Not a problem at all, and I am taking a look at their documentation to see if that is possible. I think it is, great suggestion!
irunbackwards··on Show HN: My company's new turn based strategy game for Android
Hey philsnow,

We currently use MoPub as our advertising network, and that is an interstitial advertisement from them. I'm thinking we should probably add something to the market description stating that this will happen after you make a move.

irunbackwards··on Show HN: My company's new turn based strategy game for Android
Right now, yes. Several people have brought up that this game could really be played without an account (for people that just want to play one game at a time, and don't care about leaderboards in the future, etc.) so we are definitely taking into consideration developing a feature that would allow instant gameplay.
irunbackwards··on Show HN: My company's new turn based strategy game for Android
Haha, thanks. The idea actually spawned from one of our cofounders discovering this game in college and playing it with his friends on paper. Even if you don't download the app, let us know what you think of the game itself! Here's a good run-down of the "official" rules as well as a standalone java app you can play on your computer with your son:

http://scheinerman.net/jonah/supertictactoe.html

irunbackwards··on Show HN: My first web app - HakingPot
Blank search results in a 500 error.
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