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by alexbosworth 16y ago
We have been contacted by these people who sell access to the 'Top' list. Zero 'organic' is overstating it, but there definitely is a reason that there are terrible apps in the top paid lists.
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
With the facebook credits for games, fb is going freemium, just in a roundabout way. Twitter could partner with Apple maybe and do the same thing? For my twitter app i know it wouldnt make much but I might add some paid features if it were
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
What I really mean is JS Apps that use XMLHttpRequest or JSONP - I found that prepared me pretty well for asynchronous disk reads and asynchronous http requests, I was already doing that in my browser code and it ported quite cleanly to nod
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
I have been running Node.js in production for a while, it is kind of a wild-west, Apache/PHP holds your hand for you and takes care of a bunch of things you might not realize. If you come from a background of already writing javascript heav
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
They are going very fast, just changed out for a module that is a fork of a fork of a module made for .2 line that keeps getting obsoleted with every point release
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
I think it's about content: Google has transformed the webs' spam gardens by promoting crap sites. Because Google pushed low substance sites high in their search results, this created a vicious cycle where sites were rewarded for creating m
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
Different standards here in China - people were literally fighting with the Apple store employees when the iPhone 4 came out
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
Often times just the feeling of being less tired and more stimulated is what is necessary, not actually being so
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
To create an auto list, login, perform a query or an advanced query with the filters button, and then pull down from more actions to add the results of your query to your list. It will add maximum 50 per day. It's written in 100% node.js -
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I built a system for auto Twitter lists based on queries + filters(tweetbe.at)
7 points by alexbosworth 16y ago|2 comments
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
Any more info on your Hacker Lab?
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
We do iPhone app dev on contract, my advise is for best results make sure your project mockups are really clear about what you need, iOS UI can be tricky to get right.
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
Search ads are a double edged sword. They are good because you can advertise and deliver people exactly what they are looking for, but offer them something different and the conversion rate will plummet and Google will penalize you
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
We had the same problem and developed an iOS app to solve it: http://bit.ly/todoApp [app store]
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
Never going down in a database doesn't just mean that it doesn't have downtime, it also means that as a whole system it's immune to bad queries. Bad queries can destroy you in MySQL, if you are doing dynamically created queries that hit un-
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
I use it, it's expensive and slow and hard to develop for, but it never goes down or causes operational headaches You must pair it with an in memory cache, even then it's still slow and expensive I'd still recommend it though for some use c
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
Looks great, really slow on the iPad though
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Switching To Node.js(alexbosworth.net)
1 points by alexbosworth 16y ago|0 comments
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
RSS is missing another big thing from Twitter/Facebook, which is standardized 2 way conversation. Another thing a centralized organization is useful for
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
Web Workers don't work on iOS do they? At least my iPad doesn't seem to support it - ran into this issue using Web Workers on my project
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
I'm sorry my point is that I don't want to see private connection results myself in addition to no one else seeing them.
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
Some of it is from people I've exchanged emails with over GMail, which shouldn't be public data, unless Google has leaked it out somehow.
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
I wish I could turn this off or edit it, it's a bit creepy and never really shows me anything relevant.
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
A disclaimer: my company develops iOS apps on contract so I am a bit biased in preferring native code, but I have tried to do HTML5 as a substitute in the past. In my experience trying to develop HTML5 apps instead of a native app: 1) Devel
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
Html5 on the ipad is still wishful thinking by people who don't want to bother being an ios developer. This demo is clearly worse than the BBC app and i have yet to see an ios web app that doesn't feel hacky and make me wish for a native ve
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
Pretty neat, I'm glad they didn't use silverlight Here's mine: http://zoom.it/ERnN#full
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What to do after an App success?
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
A large number of reviewers on Amazon are rewarded for good reviews by publishers sending them free stuff. That's what an Amazon engineer told me: the real name program and the top 1000 badges were designed to encourage this, even though it
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
Would be cool I agree but I am waiting for some more features from Twitter API before I try and add that. If you go to your lists and click 'load all', then go back to your following list, you will see labels next to everyone who is on a li
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by alexbosworth 16y ago
Thanks for letting me know - fixed now

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