ammmir

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   by ammmir 14y ago

   even in safari on iOS 5, i can't get it to play the next track after the lock screen timer kicks in while something is playing.
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   by ammmir 14y ago

   CloudPlay ( http://cloudplay.fm ) is a minimal music player for your menu bar. It searches iTunes of course, but also online sites like YouTube, SoundCloud, and bunch of others. Depending on the type of music you listen to, it might be all
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   by ammmir 14y ago

   awesome, i love the simplicity! i'm curious, how are you seeding your crawler and determining attributes for the next song recommendation? from my understanding, pandora has a team of musical experts and it takes them 30 minutes to gather d
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   by ammmir 14y ago

   not a big enough problem for most people. signatures should be built-in to email, not a user-facing feature.
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   by ammmir 14y ago

   If they're smart, they'll HTTP 301 redirect these old URLs to new ones, if they ever decide to change them. URI design is hard, especially when you're dealing with a single namespace on a site with massive scale like Twitter. But if everyon
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   by ammmir 14y ago

   http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI should be required reading for every designer, developer, and stakeholder who is involved in building any kind of product on the web.
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   by ammmir 14y ago

   Maybe I don't understand the problem correctly, but why not just preflight an HTTPS request when your widget loads? In the time it takes the user to pick their file(s) to upload, the initial SSL negotiation will most likely have finished. A
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   by ammmir 14y ago

   I applaud the initiative, but I think the JSON needs to be friendlier. * Use REST. * Use HTTP Basic auth instead of cluttering the URL query string with the API key. * Use ISO 8601 for dates, no exceptions. * Use lower_case or lowerCamelCas
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   by ammmir 14y ago

   i soft launched http://cloudplay.fm into beta today on HN (see [1] for the discussion). it's what i use every day, and i'd love to convert you as a user :) [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4361448
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    Fantastic suggestions! A lot of these sites don't have APIs, so I'll probably need to put together a little scraper.
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    Thanks :) Are you using a custom keyboard? Right now I've only mapped the Apple media keys (using the Option-Shift prefix since iTunes takes over the non-prefixed ones and Mac App Store apps can't trap them, giving Spotify/Rdio the upper ha
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    Last.fm scrobbling has been the #1 request to my surprise! Track grouping is one of the next features, just need to think more about the browse process. The Echo Nest also has a great API for finding similar tracks that I was planning on us
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    hmm.. are you using iTunes Match? I believe iTunes uses a private API to stream music, so unfortunately there's not much I can do until I find another way. In the meantime, I should probably hide non-local iTunes tracks.
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    It's definitely coming to mobile (probably iOS first) if there's enough interest. There are already a few browser-based players that search multiple services, and I wanted something that doesn't require me to hunt down which browser tab is
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    Thanks! I can't believe I never noticed Youtify before, it's amazing. I think we'll see a lot of similar functionality to go across different services.
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    Thanks! Import of favorites and likes across different services is coming soon! The window itself closes if you click away from it to another app :)
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    Currently it uses whatever is in your iTunes library, so you can play any downloaded podcasts, but you're right, a podcast directory/download feature would be great!
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    This is an app I've been working on for the past couple of months (see [1] for some background). A lot of us listen to music while coding or designing and I wanted to build something that makes it as pain-free as possible. I'd love to know
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    Show HN: CloudPlay - A music player for YouTube, SoundCloud, and more(cloudplay.fm)

    54 points by ammmir 14y ago|30 comments
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    Protocols are nearly impossible to market to consumers; services and apps are what people want. Whether it'll be SMTP Lite, P2P HTTP, or whatever, doesn't matter at this point. I think what's missing is a compelling user experience that's d
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    RSS? DNS? camelCased JSON? I don't know if you're going to entice many developers with that combination. What we need is a simple protocol (not an API), maybe JSON/MessagePack based with UDP signaling, that makes it easy to build distribute
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    do you have any photos of what the 85 bike trail used to look like? i only found some constructions shots at http://www.interstate80.info/85_uc_california_2.html but i'm sure it must've been beautiful.
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    we're doing something similar at Dialoggs [1], where people can have private discussions for collaboration (with file uploads, embeds, etc.) as well as public Dialoggs about whatever topics you want. for example, i created http://dialog.gs
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    for my primary project, i keep a list of items on a physical whiteboard. i pace around a lot when thinking, so an app would never be as intimate to use. for everything else, i use a text file with items formatted like: [X] add feature
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    the closest air interface/protocol with a large enough install base is probably Bluetooth Low Energy. unfortunately, a lot of consumer devices don't expose many profiles or other low-level functionality, so if you want to do something off t
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    cool. have you looked at http://nreduce.com/ ? i'm participating in their first batch and each team is supposed to do a weekly check-in video of what they're working on. it has helped keep me accountable for my project, and provides that
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    does anything similar exist for native mac apps? i'm building a music player and would love an integrated solution for tracking activity, crashes, etc.
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    Xcode for Objective-C. Chocolat.app for other stuff. MacVim for opening files quickly/temp stuff.
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    if your userbase is fairly active, you could migrate passwords the next time they login (and store a flag indicating the password "version"), since you'd have the plaintext version during authentication time. alternatively, you could bcrypt
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    by ammmir 14y ago

    very cool! it'd be nice to import playlists from youtube and favorites from soundcloud, and even save stuff back to them. i'm building something very similar, but as a native mac app that lives in the menu bar: http://cloudplay.fm -- comp