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marcus | 4 years ago | on: Helion

I haven’t checked their technology yet but if their iteration speed is an order of magnitude faster than the competition my money is on them

marcus | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are programmers a commodity?

Programmers aren't commodities as they aren't interchangeable, there are vast differences in outcome between different programmers.

To a good programmer most jobs offerings are commodities, they are interchangeable and their offerings/rewards/challenges are very similar.

Thus the developer you are interviewing is also interviewing you.

marcus | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013)

Wix - Tel Aviv, Israel

Looking for Front-End hacker. Wix is looking for you, an experienced developer with passionate for Web development; JavaScript, HTML5 ,CSS3, TDD, Angular.JS

Contact info in my profile

marcus | 13 years ago | on: Nvidia plans a Tegra 4-based portable gaming device

Everything you need is part of the standard Android SDK directional pad support, start/select buttons shoulder pad buttons and joystick support

An existing game can be switched to use the physical buttons with minimal work... This isn't a rewrite, more like connecting another source event to the functions that handle user interactions. I expect most games to need less than a couple of hours of work to support this device.

marcus | 13 years ago | on: I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit

Not quite ready for prime time but I am working on a project that makes it really easy to grab content from any site using a point and click interface no xpaths selectors or regex.

You enter the url you want to capture data from, it gets loaded in an iframe, you click on the texts you need and set a schedule to receive updates and how(email/twitter dm) that's it.

It supports javascript driven content and can handle practically any website.

http://www.followwww.com

marcus | 13 years ago | on: Detect iPad Mini in HTML5?

iOS audio will only play in response to user generated event (click for example) never when the site loads.

And I am not saying it has to be a random noise or very loud the accelerometer on the iDevices since the iPhone 4 is superb a very low sound will probably be sufficient. The sound can be easily integrated into the natural flow of the site, as many sites already do small beeps or play music etc to provide feedback to the user.

marcus | 13 years ago | on: Detect iPad Mini in HTML5?

Already posted it on SO but here goes:

Play a stereo audio file and compare the accelerometer response when volume is high on the right channel and on the left channel - iPad2 had mono speakers and iPad Mini has stereo speakers built in

marcus | 14 years ago | on: Yahoo sells 1/2 its Alibaba stake for $7.1B

So Yahoo without Alibaba is worth about $4.6 billion (18.8-14.2), subtract the $2.1 billion cash and short term investments and you get a price tag of $2.5 billion for all of Yahoo's other operations and assets.

marcus | 14 years ago | on: 5 Years of Bad Ideas -- Python tips, tricks, and chicanery

My definition of magic:

Magic is anything which makes other code behave in a way that would require reading the magic to understand, despite not being apparent in the magicked code.

Good because it makes many things a lot easier, bad because it makes code a lot less explicit and simple and increases cognitive load (you need to always consider the magic not just the current code you're looking at).

marcus | 14 years ago | on: Apple's inspirational note to new hires

This reminds me of a conversation I had once with a friend who worked in McKinsey, I told him "I might be smart enough to work for McKinsey, but I am definitely not stupid enough to work in McKinsey"

marcus | 15 years ago | on: Reversible programming

Given the fact that the entire call/uncall mechanism is based on keeping the original parameters that are required to undo the calculation - it will work fine, but you won't be able to call the undo on the result you got from any other source (i.e. not through the call/uncall mechanism)

read the source for p-divmod (one of the most useful functions in cryptography). You need to pass the original y to get back the original x in the reverse

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