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zacksjoden | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Leave job right before app goes to production?

Not a developer, but what do you mean in your second paragraph? Do you think people should take more time between jobs or spend part of their (generally two weeks) notice as vacation? Just wondering.

zacksjoden | 13 years ago | on: Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

I've read about this a bit for mods on DSLRs for taking older Canon's and allowing them to record video. If the DSLR isn't designed for recording video the sensor isn't designed for continuous light exposure which will heat up an ruin the sensor. I don't know the differences but I'd imagine using one of the newer DSLRs that have video recording capability as a webcam would be fine.

zacksjoden | 13 years ago | on: Making Sprite-based Games with Canvas

I haven't followed html5 development too closely, but audio support in current browsers hasn't been uniform. I'm guessing the lack of one size fits all for audio in browsers is why.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_Audio

edit: I'd also guess because audio is hard and that it is probably easier to make graphics and gaming logic than making sounds/music properly.

zacksjoden | 13 years ago | on: Bitcoin rises

I've been reading off and on about Bitcoins on HN for a while and had no idea that they could be broken down into smaller units. From Wikipedia:

"In trade, one bitcoin is subdivided into 100-million smaller units called satoshis, defined by eight decimal places.[4]"

zacksjoden | 13 years ago | on: Supreme Court sides with student in case over textbooks

In maths at my local community college the teacher made lesson plans for the 3 latest editions of the book, allowing students to be able follow along with whatever one they had/could afford.

zacksjoden | 13 years ago | on: Why was my email leaked?

I've signed up since then and haven't received any spam at all(also created a new email at the time).

zacksjoden | 13 years ago | on: How the U.S. Military Uses IRC to Wage War

dsl the user: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5148079

zacksjoden | 13 years ago | on: 5 Mistakes Web Designers Make

I think the blog post is worth reading and has some good points but the picture does seem out of place.

zacksjoden | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Our Vancouver based web agency just launched. We'd love your feedback.

Regarding 1, enabling Javascript fixed that for me, Chrome Version 23.0.1271.101 with ScriptSave v1.0.6.13 on OSX 10.7.5.

zacksjoden | 13 years ago | on: SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails; affects all versions

For someone just learning RoR and having installed it via http://railsinstaller.org/, how should I upgrade?