ajlburke

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by ajlburke 12y ago
One funny side of this is that a fair number of Trader Joe's "house brand" items have been available as "President's Choice" or "Black Label" in Canadian Loblaws stores - often both made/imported
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by ajlburke 12y ago
You might want to check out "Orphan Black" then - it's a Canada/BBC co-production and really really good.
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by ajlburke 12y ago
Christianity wouldn't have spread nearly as quickly or as far if it hadn't been able to piggyback on the Roman Empire's infrastructure. On the flip side, after Rome's political influence left most of Europe, the parallel
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by ajlburke 12y ago
I'd argue that if you're only 10 minutes away from work by car, then you're not really living the "big wasteful" suburban life. Real sprawl (I'm unfortunately quite familiar with the kind outside of Toronto) in
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by ajlburke 12y ago
Labels are troublesome, but the specific use here seems appropriate: it's a man who is in a technical field and who people see as having an immature attitude towards women and perhaps even life in general. Sure, "not all men"
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by ajlburke 12y ago
You know, this whole "wow, what's it like to win the lottery?!" attitude is what makes the startup world so destructive and, I'll say it, exploitative. Yes, live an intense life building something cool - but don't f
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by ajlburke 12y ago
"The work you did a year or more ago couldn’t possibly still be relevant today." Are you 16 years old? Tech changes quickly, but not that quickly. A GitHub repository with older projects would be useful to show depth and variety o
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by ajlburke 13y ago
I recall something like this happening during the dot com boom of the 90s: Someone organized a big mixer so imported women could meet rich Silicon Valley guys - but it turned out to be the same day as Comdex, so no guys showed up. (Couldn&#
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by ajlburke 13y ago
The basic emacs shortcuts even work on iOS, if you're using a Bluetooth keyboard. Now the muscle memory works everywhere .
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by ajlburke 13y ago
Note that Apple now keeps the previous version of the app around for users on older OSes. Of course they won't get any of the upgraded features, but at least there's still something there for them - and you won't have to worr
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by ajlburke 13y ago
Sort of off-topic, but the big banner picture at the top has a lot of obvious Photoshop rubber-stamping in the bottom left around the edge of the crater. It's presumably covering up blank bits from the photo stitching, but I worry it&#
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by ajlburke 13y ago
Looks cool - but coming from being in a similar automatic-diary iOS app space (Remembary), I'm really curious about your business model. You have a team of 9 people and you've been working for 2 years - presumably costing well int
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by ajlburke 13y ago
For those who don't know French (approximate): Candide asked the Turk, "Do you have a vast and magnificent estate?" "I only have twenty acres," the Turk replied. "I cultivate them with my children; The work war
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by ajlburke 13y ago
Yeah but what happens to the pigs in the end? Chickens are still around afterwards to lay more eggs.
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by ajlburke 13y ago
I"m really going to miss the Roy Building when they tear it down / turn it into condos. I can't think of a better place to host your early-stage startup / indie dev office in Halifax: prime downtown location, relatively
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by ajlburke 14y ago
That would be "Desert Bus" - an attempt to make the worst video game ever. Of course people have formed leagues and tournaments to play it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Tellers_Smoke_and_Mirr...
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by ajlburke 14y ago
"Wobbler had written an actual computer game like this once. It was called 'Journey to Alpha Centauri'. It was a screen with some dots on it. ... He'd seen on TV that it took three thousand years to get to Alpha Centauri. He had written it
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by ajlburke 14y ago
Nice post-mortem of a quirky bug. I think we're only going to be getting more problems as web services can change their APIs instantly, while iOS apps have a build-test-deploy cycle measured in weeks. Don't get me started about Facebook
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by ajlburke 14y ago
Well, it was a very positive review. http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/01/remembary-great-ipad-jour... But yes agreed on getting to know press people - although it's a balancing act to not seem too creepy while being friendly.
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by ajlburke 14y ago
Sure - although the amount of upfront work required varies with your definition of "Minimum" and "Viable". I've done full-cycle apps with branding, architecture, UX, QA, promotion, etc. and yes they start at $30k - but they're finished po
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by ajlburke 14y ago
Getting a good review in AppAdvice completely changed the fortunes of my app, especially because after that Apple started noticing it too. However, AppAdvice is one of the biggest review sites out there, and reviews on smaller sites didn't
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by ajlburke 14y ago
His quote does seem a bit high. In my experience (Rails and iOS developer) if your back end is mostly RESTful resources and a simple data structure, and your front end is standard iOS components like simple tableviews and a NavigationContro
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by ajlburke 14y ago
I had heard about how cool MIDI was, but wasn't blown away until I saw a demo of MAX back in 1992. MAX let you generate and re-wire MIDI signals in real time with a simple but powerful graphical interface (it's still around and now does rea
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by ajlburke 14y ago
That's funny - but our current PM Stephen Harper isn't exactly a towering paragon of liberty and justice. He also has much more direct power over how the country works than Obama or Romney. ... although there's a great discussion to be ha
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by ajlburke 14y ago
Congratulations! I think sync is much easier when it's done up front rather than bolted on later. I'm wondering if sync might have stalled the Momento guys - they had big plans for Android and iPad versions but haven't brought anything out
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by ajlburke 14y ago
Shameless plug: you might like Remembary ( http://remembary.com/ ) - it's based more around writing in your diary, but it also pulls in Twitter and Facebook and RSS feeds like Momento. It also automatically finds the pictures you took each
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by ajlburke 14y ago
Looks nice. I'm curious though: the site mentions that everything is synced through the Cloud. Did you use iCloud or is it a home-grown solution - or something else? Sync is hard - and I've found iCloud sync in practice is still pretty hard
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by ajlburke 14y ago
I've found audiobooks work really well - there's no screen glow to keep you up and most players let you set up a shutdown timer. The Audible edition of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" has worked really well for me: it's a fa
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by ajlburke 14y ago
Good to know they're still there - too bad they haven't expanded much though.
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by ajlburke 14y ago
I saw similar booths in the Munich airport a few years ago, where they were called "NapCab". I had had a rough overnight flight and a messy transfer in Heathrow, a six hour layover in Munich, and of course server problems came up while I wa

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