I thought you had made a fantastic pun there for a second... Then realized what you really said.

"It's a real gem."

As an actual developer, I don't understand what about screenshot is insulting. Enlighten me.

I still want to see this implemented with some local breweries. I'd definitely use tweet-a-beer.

I agree. Tweet-a-beer (especially for a local brewery) has more of a community feel. Tweet-a-coffee (even though I end up at starbucks almost daily) feels more like giving to a faceless corporation.

done via Twitter and Chirpify http://tweet-a-beer.com

This just sends five bucks — it isn't tied to a specific drinking establishment or brewery, or even to beer. Totally not the same.

awesome

That would be pretty cool as a user (drinker?), but I don't see the ROI for the brewery.

For the brewery its the same benefits as gift cards: Not everyone that receives one will actually use the money. On top of that, free advertising.

And all you have to do to get these benefits is somehow integrate with twitter and a payment system. Which might be a tall order for a local brewery.

(Or is that easier to do than I think?)

Its not my area, so I don't know how easy it is to do, but I do think it could be a space for a third-party to step in. Someone figures out how to handle the twitter/payment side, reaches out to some local breweries/bars, takes a small cut of the money for each beer tweeted. Its not going to be a super profitable business, but it might be a fun sideproject for someone.

I forgot to add the 3rd benefit to the brewery is that I would assume, in general, when people stop in, they don't come alone, and they don't just have one beer and leave. Once they're in the door, they tend to spend more money.

You mean besides the business it would get?

Well, sure, they'd get business--that's the benefit.

But how easy is it to tie into twitter and a payment system? That'd be the cost.

Starbucks can distribute such costs (which may not be fixed, but certainly won't grow linearly) across a larger number of stores than your local brewhouse can.

While there may be issues with localized liquor laws, this is the greatest idea I've ever heard. Too bad you just missed the last YC batch! I'd be your first beta user.

The app could be TAB (as in open a bar tab) Badumm-cha!

http://isup.me is much easier to remember :P

... it did say that HN was up when it wasn't for me though.

This should have been done a while ago... Preferably before I took a course on it in school. Oh well, more useless knowledge from the broken-ass university system.

That's what I was wondering... I'd assume it's a trained eagle. Wouldn't want the eagle to be stuck with a camera on it's back.

I would expect a wild eagle to either avoid the people more or to make a bigger fuss about them. This one flies over them for fun (or so).

pattern matching maybe? I would assume he can recognize his handlers by sight and checks out all of those he passes just in case they moved from where he took off from?

that or he saw lots of tasty little critters about

Never realized there was an emojis api too... https://api.github.com/emojis

Is anyone actually using 3D shapes in CSS in practice for anything more than novelty? If they are, I haven't seen it. It's been more of a "look what I can do with just CSS", because it's fun to hack around with new technology.

I played around creating a flippable-card based UI for use on mobile:

http://experimenting.alastair.is/cardswipe/

I think it has potential. And yes, I know it doesn't feel quite right (or work on desktop), it was the result of a few hours of work. The hardware-accelerated nature of it means that it does feel very smooth indeed.

Exactly. It's the CSS equivalent of writin a Brainfuck interpreter in C++ template metaprogramming.

http://rfw.name/blog/2012/11/12/brainfuck_with_templates.htm...

I have built a very specific product preview with 3D CSS (http://www.foldable.me) and have experimented some more with 3D CSS, but struggled to find a usecase for it (other than some funky UI animations).

well, declaring a css transform as 3d, even if just using it for 2d transforms, seems to trigger GPU acceleration in some browsers, notably iOS. so, it's a new hack to use (margin: 0 auto; is so last year).

Having fun with it so far... Simple demo - http://cdpn.io/Gyzlh

Just tweeted that they pulled an allnighter and will be publishing a link @ 1:30PDT https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/366964441159438337