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Maybe off-topic but I don't know where else to turn: a couple of years ago I discovered a JavaScript graphics library that took a shape drawn roughly by hand (e.g. a square raster image) and created a perfect square object, which could then be scaled, rotated, etc. I searched all over GitHub but couldn't find it. Would anyone here know what it is/called and where to find it? I believe it relied on HTML 5 and <canvas>. Thanks much.

For those deploying apps built with Node.js, who - in your experience - provides the "best" hosting service? By "best" I mean reliability most of all, good/fast support, reasonable pricing, and a facility to host non-node apps (such as, say, PhantomJS) alongside the main Node app. We're currently using one provider who'll remain nameless, but whose support is sketchy, provided by someone whose native language isn't English and has difficulty understanding some questions, and whose deploy cycle takes several minutes, and who suffers from periodic outages. Frustrating, and we need someome more reliable. Current candidates include Heroku, Modulus looks promising, but who else would you recommend? Thanks!

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Act quickly: Survey closes on December 21 (this Sunday).

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The company is recruiting developers – specifically those working on payments-enabled solutions and, more importantly, those building applications that interface directly with payments hardware - to take part in a 10-minute online survey. Developers can take the survey on their computer or mobile device, and the survey will run until midnight PST (US), December 21. Developers from all corners of the globe are encouraged to participate (but the survey will be in English).

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Your input is needed! Thank you!

Where else, apart from HN, do developers tend to hang, to get news, etc.? Are Reddit and StackExchange good places? Can anyone suggest other places?

Hi all,

Does anyone know of a service that, for a fee and with well defined parameters, will gather a bunch of users to perform beta testing on a product?

So, say there's a browser extension that someone has developed, and she wants to get, say, 15 people to install it, use it, play with it, and provide useful feedback on it (more than just,"this is awesome" or "this sucks") - feedback that can be used to shape the product.

I've heard of Betalize, but, visiting their site, it's very hard to tell how it works and how to launch what they call a "contest". Does anyone know if they're still in business? Anyone know of a worthy competitor?

This seems like an obvious idea and a service just about every startup would need. But I haven't seen anything like this. But maybe one of you has, and so I'd appreciate any insights you can offer.

Thanks very much!

NPM seems to be down. Unable to build any Node.js projects that involve basic core components. Seeing "registry error parsing JSON" for components that have been fine the last couple thousand build. Anyone know what's going on?