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sylvinuson Two Programs Enter, One Program Leaves

I couldn't find a Javascript environment for running this. Anybody knows if it exists?

If not, who's up for a github night ? ;-)

sylvinuson Jamendo reaches 300k CC-licensed tracks, releases free mobile apps

Developer homepage, with open APIs: http://developer.jamendo.com/en/

sylvinuson Pure browser qrcode generation as simple as $('#contain').qrcode('foobar')

great idea!

slap me for being so 90s but would it also be possible to have it degrade into a small <table> when canvas is not supported?

sylvinuson How to go faster than jQuery, Ext, Mootools...?

I, for one, would like some of these micro-optimizations to make their way into the mainstream frameworks ; I don't see my.js getting big in the current state of things but merged into jQuery, it could really help us all :)

sylvinuson Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework

This seems much inferior to http://mediaelementjs.com

sylvinuson Sequoia To Color Labs: Not Since Google Have We Seen This

This is a serious contender in the shortest joke contest :)

sylvinuson Sequoia To Color Labs: Not Since Google Have We Seen This

Am I the only one to think there is some kind of real-time Google Earth stuff going on behind the scenes, supposedly in their labs ?

$41M, I can clearly see how that would fund a face/shape/... recognition engine, reconstruct some 3D models from the images and then play with them.

Frankly the iPhone app just seems to me like a cheap way for them to get a bigger image dataset and begin telling users that all their photos will be public anyway.

sylvinuson AT&T Cracking Down on Free Tethering via Jailbroken iPhones

T-Mobile (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845532&...) and Orange/SFR in France (though it never happened to me yet) have been sending the same type of messages after User Agent detection...

User Agent spoofing should be added to MyWi/PDANet to avoid this!

sylvinuson Khan of Khan Academy at TED (video)

I'm also most impressed by Salman, definitely a genius.

However I wonder if he should be the only one making those videos for his new non-profit? I'm sure there are experts in other fields than science who could keep his "style" and make the whole "reinvent education" thing go much faster?

sylvinuson I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

yes, good catch. we can improve the interface but also one of our main problems is the reliability of the current tag data, which is too low. We're considering a process with mechanical turk to fix it.

Anybody here with experience with mturk and this kind of metadata tasks ?

sylvinuson I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

yes, indeed. I can imagine carrier or licensing deals being complex... that's why I said we were just frustrated, not angered against Google :)

Cool that you work on the Chrome team. Can you share more insider info with us about this story and its makeof ? ;-) thanks!

sylvinuson I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

thanks p206.. we'll fix that ASAP :) Hope you found some music you love! cheers

sylvinuson I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

yes that's also a funny side of the story. As I was going trough the border on tethering, with barely any cellphone reception, I was trying to fill out the "one-time" form without any U.S. address in mind ;-) Luckily I have a cousin in Houston so gave him a quick call to get his address and I submitted the form as soon as I got my data link back up :)

generally speaking, it's extremely frustrating for an european startup to see these regular U.S. only launches from Google. (come to mind Google Voice, ebookstore, google music, and now Cr-48...) But well, small price to pay to enjoy living in Paris most of the time :)

sylvinuson I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

exactly what I did... tried to switch apache to port 81 to be able to configure the cache plugin. But even this way, all the disk accesses were taking 30 seconds each...

The real error was posting it there in the first place and not directly on the Jamendo blog... Never again! :)

sylvinuson I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

true... we're not happy with the current state of the jamendo.com website. 2010 was mostly focused on getting close to breakeven thanks to jamendo.pro (which we did). We also did a management buyout from our former VCs, laid of a lot of staff, so all in all, we're just happy to still be there, growing, and hiring again :)

Now we have several ongoing usability projects, we released a HTML5 player a few weeks ago (replacing the old Flash crap) and are now working on layout and stability improvements on the main pages. It will definitely make Jamendo a complete joy to use again, if we can just spare some time from breaking Google easter eggs ;-)

cheers!

sylvinuson I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

true, it was a bit over the top. I've edited to "can't go back to any other browser than Chromium/V8 anymore." which is closer to my actual feelings :)

And this comes from a former hardcore Mozilla fan :)

sylvinuson I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

hi guys. I'm Sylvain who solved the thing, thanks for relaying the info here! :)

The blog indeed crashed, it's on a very small VM with a remote filesystem and even with a WP cache plugin.. not so much luck, even with apache stopped.

However our company blog has a proper sysadmin ;-) So after I setup a redirect there no more issues... until we get on slashdot maybe ? :)

Cheers!