alexbosworth

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   Buy and sell ads/ad-space using bitcoins(anonymousads.com)

   2 points by alexbosworth 14y ago|1 comments
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   by alexbosworth 14y ago

   My experiences from writing + running our tasks App backend ( http://tomorrow.do/ ) on Heroku: 1. Node.js + expressjs is quite an efficient option for serving API and the static site on Heroku, only the single free dyno is needed for over
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   by alexbosworth 15y ago

   it's hit or miss, but its mostly disconnected - i am posting this from beijing
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   Anyone getting hit with Cloudant rate hike?

   2 points by alexbosworth 15y ago|0 comments
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   Cool use of zero-fill right shift in prototypejs(github.com)

   6 points by alexbosworth 15y ago|1 comments
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   by alexbosworth 15y ago

   Express is the best
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   by alexbosworth 15y ago

   "employers, which is to say, predominantly large hierarchical structures that exist by skimming surplus value off of their workers’ work and simply paying them some portion of that value as a wage" Kind of a terrible way to describe compani
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   by alexbosworth 15y ago

   iPad only if tablet only: Android tablet market is still immature by comparison
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   by alexbosworth 15y ago

   Have you checked out GoodReader? You could make an App that works with that, GoodReader registers as a file handler for PDF
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    Flagged: fake
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    It's made to copy the JQuery 1.5 "Deferreds", and to copy JQuery's model that easy/common things should be easy, uncommon things should be possible but may be more complicated to write. As for 'bonus features', the only thing I have that mo
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    Thanks - There is no real reason for that :/
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    I only use nginx because it is a proven component and I don't think node can improve on that much there
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    The issue was pretty mundane, the server script is very simple - so I assumed it wouldn't need to have a lot of monitoring overhead to deal with traffic spikes. Even though it's a very simple script the volume of traffic used up all the mem
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    Sorry I'm not sure what happened - it seems like screen died?
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    Thanks! The mobile Apps are written native to their respective platforms
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    I coded it and did participate in the design, but I definitely didn't make the App alone! Do It (Tomorrow) is an Adylitica production - you can read about my company here: http://adylitica.com/ - our team: http://adylitica.com/team . IE
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    The Logout extra book bug is a Chrome bug, but they have fixed it in the beta channel and this problem should go away when they roll out Chrome 13
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    Login stickiness is using localStorage and no cookies are used, but that seems to be causing problems for some people :( I am trying to get this one sorted
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    Do It (Tomorrow) is based on a simple concept where you can just look at what you have to do today and push less important things to later. The "days" aren't literal dates, add todos to today - they will stay on that page forever until you
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    I'm curious too, I have heard about the remember me not sticking, but can't pin it down :(
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    Thanks - Watch for an update that will fix this on the Android App
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    I am working on Opera, I tested it half-way but it has some issues I will have to work out before it will work perfectly.
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    I have noticed that on different screens the font is appearing differently, this is something that I didn't anticipate and I guess is a pitfall of using a custom-created font. This is on my to-do list, adding another font ;) It actually sta
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    The Page Flip is in Chrome and Safari, but when I started it was going to just be a perk for Safari as Chrome didn't support 3d perspectives. I noticed one day that the beta channel of Chrome had started to support 3d perspectives, but to m
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    Obligatory 'this is a first release' disclaimer :D
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    Show HN: I made a Web-based Todo App - used: CSS3 3D transforms, Node.js, love(tomorrow.do)

    237 points by alexbosworth 15y ago|106 comments
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    by alexbosworth 15y ago

    Self promotion, but try our App http://bit.ly/todoApp - it's a dead simple way to keep track of tasks. Here is a boingboing article on it http://boingboing.net/2011/03/08/of-the-many-many-fac.html
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    by alexbosworth 16y ago

    I interviewed with Digg in the early days (not sure you remember me but with you Owen) I think while finding big successes can be hard, dealing with them once you have them can be even harder. Kevin was pretty quick to realize that Twitter/
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    by alexbosworth 16y ago

    Setting up enterprise distribution is something that has saved us a lot of headaches for testing. You can use testflightapp if you want a hosted solution for enterprise distribution