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by aschobel 17y ago
It's a fabulous metaphor, but "Can't open any more Cards" really detracts from it. Palm may have nailed the UX, but Android nailed the engineering.
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by aschobel 17y ago
"Best" in what sense? Android's life-cycle and Bundles makes a developer think about saving app state information from day one. Something as simple as a configuration change, rotating orientation, recreates your Activity. Since creating and
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by aschobel 17y ago
Was thinking more for Mobile / Desktop apps, but I see that xAuth support is fully out which should streamline things http://twitter.com/twitterapi/status/9702051031
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by aschobel 17y ago
UX, not libraries seems to be the bigger barrier for OAuth.
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by aschobel 17y ago
We use it via FBML and JavaScript SDK and the slow down seems to be minimal. We load their script right before </body>. Biggest annoyance is that it doesn't degrade very gracefully when FB has availability problems, you get a white
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by aschobel 17y ago
Thanks! We are really excited to see what kind of apps the community will come up with. If anybody needs help feel free to me at aschobel at snaptic.com or come to one of our meetups http://www.meetup.com/Snaptic/ Sorry if this sounds too
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by aschobel 17y ago
A bit disappointing that they are using Silverlight. Not being able to use this on iPad seems to limit its utility.
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by aschobel 17y ago
dupe - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1282850
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by aschobel 17y ago
Is there something similar for handwritten text?
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by aschobel 17y ago
Snaptic is hiring ( https://snaptic.com ), we hack on iPhone / Android / Web / API. 2 million+ active installs on Android. We speak scala, Obj-C, JS, and python. Tools we are hacking with these days: avro, MongoDB, Google Closure Please sho
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by aschobel 17y ago
Facebook Scribe supports multiple stores http://wiki.github.com/facebook/scribe/scribe-configuration
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by aschobel 17y ago
Simple to build, just make sure you grab libidn: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.18.tar.gz It also defaults to white text, so set your terminal background to black.
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by aschobel 17y ago
Looks like it shares some pieces from the PC version ]= strings /Applications/Kindle\ for\ Mac.app/Contents/MacOS/Kindle\ for\ Mac | grep PC and what is this about? strings /Applications/Kindle\ for\ Mac.app/Contents/MacOS/Kindle\ for\
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by aschobel 17y ago
It's a handy to get around the noprocrast filter
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by aschobel 17y ago
Funny timing since iPad pre-orders start in a few days which is taking a different approach than the Alto
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by aschobel 17y ago
It really depends on the carrier. I've had great luck rooting the G1, MyTouch, and N1. N1 is the easiest of the bunch.
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by aschobel 17y ago
Yikes, that is quite unfortunate. Do 3rd party markets apps like Wifi Tether from anda.pk work? http://discuss.gdgt.com/htc/hero/support/tethering-with-the-...
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by aschobel 17y ago
If you get the phone from Google or T-Mobile it is trivial to root them and install your own firmware. Hopefully Motorola won't lock down the bootloader too badly on AT&T.
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by aschobel 17y ago
Tethering app was only removed from the US T-Mobile store, it is available everywhere else. http://androidcommunity.com/google-allowing-tethering-apps-f...
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by aschobel 17y ago
pbcopy is a great little utility another neat trick is dragging and dropping a file to the terminal and having the filename pasted to the terminal
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by aschobel 17y ago
Lua support inside of Lighttpd via mod_magnet is quite powerful for rewrites. Curious if there is a nginx equivalent.
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New EC2 Instance Type: m2.xlarge 17 GB of RAM, 2 cores @ 3.25 ECU(aws.typepad.com)
3 points by aschobel 17y ago|0 comments
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by aschobel 17y ago
Thanks for making this! Let me know if you want any help hacking on this. [username]@gmail.com
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Apple Now Blocking 'Overtly Sexual' Apps from App Store(macrumors.com)
8 points by aschobel 17y ago|9 comments
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by aschobel 17y ago
Hi5 SDE used to get asked the "How Strong is an Egg?"/"Drop Two Bowling Balls from a building" question. Not sure how this proves anything.
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Windows Phone Image Gallery(microsoft.com)
1 points by aschobel 17y ago|0 comments
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Build better Web applications with Google Sitebricks(ibm.com)
3 points by aschobel 17y ago|0 comments
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Bug Labs intros BUG 2.0 platform with faster processor, Android support(engadget.com)
3 points by aschobel 17y ago|0 comments
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by aschobel 17y ago
All our apps are free. We haven't publicly announced our numbers, but we have a "nice" multiple of the daily download numbers you posted. Sorry for being vague, I need to check with my co-founder before talking publicly about this.
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by aschobel 17y ago
Believe me, it's frustrating to see how much press they get.

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