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Link? I also would like to see Resig do JS targeted screencasts covering concepts like closures and prototyping.

I would love to see him do Khan Programming Screencasts. Seriously, the world needs more of this.

"They are specifically targetting govts and NGOs, offering to “map their country for free”, but keeping the results."

The problem is they're directly copying open data communities, and restricting the resulting data.

Mikel is a very prominent member of OpenStreetMap, which was largely credited with the mapping of Haiti after the earthquake. It may come off as a rant on first read, but he's not making exaggerated claims.

We have these in the 33 story building where I work. They can be frustrating, and fantastic. Hopefully one of these days I'll figure out the "cheat" codes to skip the bidding system that occurs to determine which elevator to summon first.

Got this error when trying to sign up for tweepsect:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 515, in __call__ handler.get(*groups) File "/base/data/home/apps/jsoauth/2.346920482575371317/main.py", line 127, in get token, secret = client.get_credentials(oauth_token, oauth_secret, oauth_verifier) File "/base/data/home/apps/jsoauth/2.346920482575371317/oauth.py", line 150, in get_credentials return self._extract_credentials(response) File "/base/data/home/apps/jsoauth/2.346920482575371317/oauth.py", line 165, in _extract_credentials raise OAuthException("Problem talking to the service") OAuthException: Problem talking to the service

Source?

While I'd prefer that Google didn't pull this move, you still can very easily download it from Kongregate themselves.

We had a thing on here a while ago called "Offer HN" where all sort of people offered (for free) their services to others. You could do the same thing for startups here for copywriting / marketing.

I'm looking for a strong front-end developer (HTML/CSS/JS) for a 40/hr week contract position for three months with competitive pay.

I actually pulled the latest development version, 0.9a1. Should I try to implement or just upgrade later?

Just set up an instance of Pinax last night on Slicehost with Debian 5.0. Very smooth, highly recommend, especially if you want social features.

Would like better Facebook / Google / Twitter oauth integration though.

Thank you! Fixed.

> In my mind, there is nothing wrong with creating alternate systems that work beyond the view of government agencies and the public in general. However, every time we do this, we create yet another fracture in the Internet that we know and love.

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -John Gilmore

Why is it clear?

Have you heard of the font "Symbol"?

I could be incorrect, but I think he means implement the feature on top of 1.6, not the system itself.

The web example would be getElementsByClassName:

  function getElementsByClassName(node,classname) {
  	if (node.getElementsByClassName)
		return node.getElementsByClassName(classname);
	else {
		// your custom function
	}
  }

(example from quirksmode.org)

Well of course. I'm surprised this article got voted up on HN.

Wow, talk about a biased article.

Also as a front end developer (who does UX / design), I think I can get about 80% in most situations, but the additional 20% is what makes sites like airbnb stand out so much.

In those cases, I'm happy to hire someone and code it myself, after all, I'd much rather they be knock-your-socks-off-good at web design than someone who is only decent at design, and okay at integrating.

Can you explain?

This might not be a terrible thing... maybe domain names shouldn't be centrally controlled in the way they are today.

I for one would love to see a totally new domain name system, in the same way BitTorrent radically changed how we look at data transfer.

Yeah, you have to set it up locally, but again, it's worth it.

I recently built a site for finding vineyards, and used GeoDjango with Postgres+PostGIS.

Setting up was a small PITA, but a bounding box query looks like this:

  footprint = Polygon(((ullon, ullat), (lrlon, ullat), (lrlon, lrlat), (ullon, lrlat), (ullon, ullat)))
  vineyards = Winery.objects.filter(loc__within=footprint)

If you're interested, check it out: http://finelocalwine.com/

Use PostGIS!

Heroku supports it -> http://www.mail-archive.com/heroku@googlegroups.com/msg04556...

Star Trek pictures? Really HN?

Reddit might be a better place to post this: http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi

Paper prototyping with pizazz?

You can get evaluation copies of windows to run IE in for debugging free from Microsoft. My big complaint is that I don't want to run a VM for every browser.

It appears as if the IE exe's made by Xenocode still work. I don't have a link for them, I'm not sure if they're hosted anywhere still.

That's still a decision.