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Yeah, it was just a prototype to protect live video streaming on Android devices... Performance was pretty bad and so the frame rate was pretty low. I think it would work decently for desktop Flash. JW Player have a HLS plugin for Flash which is pretty good, a lot more fleshed out than my prototype ended up being.

Apple do something similar http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Networ... this approach is more secure than what we de (Restrict access to the manifest file and have Flash request the current key when needed at runtime).

HBO and pretty much any major Network all have iOS apps.

HLS streaming can be protected, you can encrypt the chunks and decrypt on the player. Ironically enough for my previous job I built a HLS prototype solution that did exactly this... in the Flash Player.

Its neither, feedback supplied to the "Show HN" type posts would generally be positive, or at least constructive and polite. Even if there was no feedback to offer, people would still leave a congratulatory comment about launching.

4-5 years ago it felt like the only people who understood what you went through to launch were people on this site, everyone else including family and fellow co-workers at big corp were negative about the idea of leaving a "safe job" to pursue a dream.

But now with everyone having an idea about the next big app, and blockbuster movies coming out about the geeky kid who did follow his dream, everyone else is starting to "get" us, they can relate. So the feedback you get from outside of HN has become positive, and so the feedback from HN has become more of a "reality check".

I don't see why it just can't be polite but constructive though.

I had the exact same problem, tried about 10 times and failed each time, even though I was sure they were right.

When I created a new account though it worked first time, not sure if there is a problem with verifying existing accounts...

I really like your product, and I also like Trello, but unfortunately our corporate policy is to avoid hosting data on third party servers so I can't use either. These products would make a great tool for my small team.

This is not a suggestion just a comment/wish, I'd like to see some app like yours offer the ability to store/retrieve data from a web service that we can provide to you but written to your specification, not sure if something like that is possible, but it would be preferable to a packaged application my small team cannot afford. I haven't seen a SaaS app take this approach, but it is interesting to think how it might work. UI as a Service?

On the Shopping List page, should the button read "Edit List" not "Edit Menu". Looks like I can use that for the secret ingredient, I can just use a recipe online close to what mine is, then add the one or two things to the list.

* Also was pleasantly surprised to see ColdFusion. Are you using CF9 or one of the open source servers?

You can watch almost all the EPL games in the US with foxsoccer.tv on any computer that has flash installed. (Costs me about $15 per month).

You used to be able to stream the Tri-Nation and Super 15 Rugby games as well, but Direct TV brought the rights, and now you can only watch them here if you have a direct tv satellite dish (The don't offer the games for streaming). This was very stupid of SANZAR, now everyone is getting into the European games instead.

Seems to be a major shift occurring in required skill set which does not help when you are trying to move from a Senior role to Senior role.

At least in my experience in the NJ/NY region, I have been looking for Flex/AS3 work for a few months, and have not seen a single interesting role advertised.

Personally it's quite daunting to make the 4th major shift in my career. Started out in classic ASP/COM, moved to Java when Microsoft introduced .NET, moved to Flash/AS3 about 4-5 years ago developing web video solutions.

Now I don't know where to start retooling, should I work in Mobile, or move back to web backend, or web frontend work... or a mixture of all three. Also after 15 years it's hard to take that pay cut and start back at zero again.

This is how flash player now works, with the latest release it drops the frame rate of the flash movie to something like 2-3 frames per second if the movie is not visible in the browser.

Flash player is also single threaded so executes code on a single cpu core, but it does rendering using multiple cores. If you are seeing a single core spike to 100% usage then it is a sign of badly coded actionscript (onFrameEnter event handlers are very popular with designers who cut and paste as2 code), if you are seeing multiple cores at around 100% then it is a rendering issue, i.e. trying to redraw the entire stage every frame and/or a very high frame rate (> 30 fps).

I'm not sure if code attached to the frame in the Flash IDE would also cause multiple cores to spike, or if this also executes in the single threaded cycle. But again, having actionscript inside the .fla instead of separate .as files is a sign of a poorly designed/developed flash application.

Love your site! I was at a flash conference last weekend... all the adobe developers compiled to native android apps and then show them working on the nexus one. It was surprising how simple the whole process was.

Do you think the flash games on your site will also be compiled as native apps? If so is there a way to integrate kongregate achievements so I can still gain the points?