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GitHub | Twitter: @mrpollo GM @ Dronecode Foundation | Linux Foundation Aerial Robotics & Open Source
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mrpollo··on Hackers destroy water pump via SCADA abuse
So the Blackout was due to a SCADA hack?
mrpollo··on Show HN: When is good time to submit a story on HN?
In my experience, Friday Night PST has always worked out great for stories I post
mrpollo··on Show HN: Doodle with strangers 1 on 1 in real-time
I was looking for my drawing on his images folder when i got this (NSFW) http://www.paintacquaint.com/g/245.jpg

Not my drawing by far but hilarious!

mrpollo··on Show HN: Doodle with strangers 1 on 1 in real-time
I was painting a guy then someone did a dog, then someone painted the sky, some trees, and someone was starting to do an elephant but i got disconnected, if you saved that image please share!

EDIT:

here's how it started

http://www.paintacquaint.com/g/221.jpg

mrpollo··on What Is Startup Chile And Why I’m Leaving Mexico
I think one of the key aspects in Mexico is Culture, by definition Work is where you are 8 hours a day, as you said finding someone that can manage its time without supervision its nearly impossible, let alone completing a task. A great point you mention is to gather around in a community and share our ideas and knowledge, running a business in Mexico, specially a technology related business can be overly complex.
mrpollo··on What Is Startup Chile And Why I’m Leaving Mexico
While i respect your decision, I'm not really sure why you didn't stay in Mexico, I think your article needs more details about what type of Help you got from the Mexican Gov., and what was the difference in Chile what did they offer?,

My big question would be, is it a totally different Market as you would expected to be? if so, what did you had to change on your business strategy?

mrpollo··on Show HN: My 24-hour project, instacss.com
My suggestion would be to add a brief description of what i should be using as an input on your form, I first tried the url of a CSS file, then a selector, then when i started typing the selector i started seeing the actual properties display thats when i knew i had to input a css property, maybe It's just me.
mrpollo··on The Anatomy of a Perfect Web Site
Interestingly enough, the site hasn't changed much since the 90's here is a link from the Way Back Machine

May 30, 1997

http://web.archive.org/web/19970530212007/http://www.berkshi...

The latest version has this interesting bit on the head

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18828">

It's only interesting to me because in my short life as a developer its the first time i see this MSHTML reference, if you are like me here is a good read:

Trident (also known as MSHTML) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(layout_engine)#cite_no...

According to this version 8 was the first to pass the ACID 2.1 test, the article links for reference this blog post from Microsoft that is dated 2009 - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2009/01/09/the-internet-e...

I'm guessing the latest update to that site wasn't long ago, makes me think about the process they have to change a site like this, for such a clean site, i think it has passed the test of time, and it reminds me how much Microsoft rules on the Corporate world.

mrpollo··on Walking man animation using only CSS3
Thanks for that, i was starting to wonder why
mrpollo··on Walking man animation using only CSS3
Runs better on Safari 5.1.1 for me, than Chrome 15.0.874.100 beta and latest Aurora on Lion, MBP 2009 15", it runs very smooth
mrpollo··on Kindle Format 8: Announcing HTML5 Support in Kindle Format 8
The list of supported HTML tags an CSS features is here (found inside article) http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_357613442...
mrpollo··on Turn your iPad into a 3D controller
What about Maya or Modo support? is it something you are planning to support?
mrpollo··on GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
I know Project and Account managers that have github accounts, you are probably missing those or similar users in nature
mrpollo··on Shipping an iPad Children's Book: Soup to Nuts
Want to buy it but can't find it either, why did the programmers need to change to a 3D Gaming platform? sounds like a good story
mrpollo··on VMware Fusion 4 Released
VMware Fusion 4 has a migration utility to upgrade from 3, really nice

http://twitpic.com/6kwhhs

mrpollo··on Pandora for Music Videos
If its the Pandora for Music Videos wheres the Like button on the video? i want to start customizing the channel i just created!

Well done!

mrpollo··on Netflix launches in Brazil, rest of Latin America to follow shortly.
from their blog post

http://blog.netflix.com/2011/09/netflix-launches-in-latin-am...

Read the 1st comment http://yfrog.com/18s1ep

"Fantastic. Does that mean if I have a US account I can use it when I visit these countries?"

Answer: "yes you can, but you will be able to see only the content available in country you are visiting"

mrpollo··on Netflix launches in Brazil, rest of Latin America to follow shortly.
I wonder if this means that if you have a US account and travel to Mexico or Brazil you are going to be able to watch w/o the restrictions? if so would the content be the same? or different from an account of the country where I'm currently on vacation? I guess we will know soon
mrpollo··on Apple Awards Tim Cook 1,000,000 Shares of Stock as CEO Bonus to Stay Until 2021
$58 p/y Assuming the stock prices will remain the same, http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:AAPL
mrpollo··on Twitter Bootstrap
IE6 isn't very good either, http://yfrog.com/h28bmvp but i get the feeling its better than IE7 and IE8 from the screenshots people post in here
mrpollo··on What happened in my birth year?
I gotta admit this was a good read, I always wondered about this, I read the whole thing on my iPhone and it was a good experience
mrpollo··on Jonathan's Card
Perhaps keeping things simple, just a message that says "the card has balance", "no balance in the card", that way we can reduce the abuse
mrpollo··on Google's playing the closed-open game again, this time with HTML5
there is none, my mistake
mrpollo··on Google's playing the closed-open game again, this time with HTML5
You are right, the error i get on my console isn't related to that, i misunderstood the error i get, i tried replicating today and the xhr request goes trough ok, http://yfrog.com/gysa24p makes me wonder what was my original problem, ill try to stop commenting by impulse.
mrpollo··on Google's playing the closed-open game again, this time with HTML5
out of curiosity why?
mrpollo··on Google's playing the closed-open game again, this time with HTML5
"this article is written with the obvious intention of bashing google" i agree, it is way faster to develop for just 1 browser, plus we should be celebrating people are trying to break ground doing this awesome videos, i can only begin to imagine all the impressive work that what went into this video, good one google +1
mrpollo··on Google's playing the closed-open game again, this time with HTML5
i just tried accessing the app with Safari and it came to my attention that its trying to load mp4 and mp3 files instead of the webm videos http://yfrog.com/h7x8xup then i got even more curious and found this file http://www.allisnotlo.st/static/js/VideoList.js look around line 236

this.src = src.replace(/(\.webm+)$/, (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Chrome/') == -1 && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') != -1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari/') != -1)) ? '.mp4' : '.webm');

but looks like they didn't upload any mp4 files :( sad

mrpollo··on Google's playing the closed-open game again, this time with HTML5
It is clear to me that this is a Google Chrome Experiment, from their labs, and that they did not had any intention of it working on any other browser but i got curious...

i was doing some research on it and they appear to be using sync xhr calls which causes FF to hiccup even after all this time.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383304 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313646

they are marked as resolved but i just confirmed the xhr sync calls dont work in some cases.

google is using the sync calls here http://www.allisnotlo.st/static/js/API.js

Here you can try this to try and play the video on FF https://gist.github.com/1109890

you will notice your console throws some errors around line 42 of that file, if anyone knows what else is wrong here please let me know.

mrpollo··on AP Finally Learns that You Can Link to Other Sites on the Internet
they are probably using bit.ly because its hiding the domain name of the other sites, as to not give free promotion.

LOL

mrpollo··on [dead]
"Adobe Laziness", that pretty much sums it all up
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