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by bengotow 13y ago
Is there any way to use Inky without it syncing all of my account passwords to the cloud? It looks awesome, but I just can't do that.
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by bengotow 13y ago
Agreed - not only is this cool, but the audio samples are pretty high quality. Great example of HTML5, too. A few years ago, this would have required Flash ;-)
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by bengotow 13y ago
I haven't been following Bitcoin very closely. This looks great, but I'm confused why the authors went to so much trouble to duplicate the existing daemon down to every last bug. It sounds like their architecture improves on the d
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by bengotow 13y ago
You know this is incredibly impressive, but I still wonder what the practical use case is. I think traveling over rock and through dense forest might be easier with these, but how often do we really do that these days? We're involved i
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by bengotow 13y ago
I absolutely agree. This is really impressive if it works, but there's no way I'm giving this my Apple ID.
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by bengotow 13y ago
I think he's got a point - users won't jump ship because Braintree (and Venmo) are now PayPal products, they'll jump ship because PayPal ruins them with fees, long payout times, etc...
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by bengotow 13y ago
I don't really understand projects like this on Kickstarter. It's a great concept - the demo looks awesome, etc. But it's a viable product. Why should I kickstart an app that will be a paid product after it's finished? I
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by bengotow 13y ago
I think this will help out consumers overall, but I don't want customers posting negative reviews of my app because the old version they downloaded crashes due to a Facebook or Twitter API change that I patched the app for months ago.
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by bengotow 13y ago
Totally agree. This is an incredibly well presented article that makes great use of the web to create a more insightful, moving experience. Internet storytelling well done.
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by bengotow 13y ago
I've been hoping for a game like this for a long time. That said, I'm not going to support it until they demonstrate how it's going to be played. The problem is that programming is a challenging—and often frustrating—experien
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by bengotow 13y ago
I agree—this game is really frustrating because it's difficult to see the barriers. Challenging games are often frustrating, don't disagree with you there - but this particular flavor of challenge isn't really fun. I'd p
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by bengotow 13y ago
When I try installing it off the eff website, I get this message in Chrome: "Apps, extensions, and user scripts cannot be added from this website." No option to override or ignore the message :-/
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by bengotow 13y ago
Yeah—seems to be much faster. Maybe all those server upgrades were long overdue!
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by bengotow 13y ago
I agree, but it's funny. iOS 7 is all about dynamic, physical interfaces - so much so that they built a physics engine into UIKit. At the same time, they're ripping apart the user experience so that nothing onscreen _looks_ like a
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by bengotow 13y ago
Ahh cool - I just followed the graphic on the "Getting Started" panel (the pic with the framework being dragged into the left sidebar) I already had the Spark Inspector framework linked in so I guess I was able to skip the instructions!
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by bengotow 13y ago
Hey! Author of the Spark Inspector here - what would make you more comfortable with the setup assistant? I'd love to get you to use it ;-) You can modify your project yourself, but it's important that the framework is added to the debug bui
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by bengotow 13y ago
The network logging in PonyDebugger is a great feature - I use Runscope to grab and analyze API calls and the Spark Inspector for view introspection and debugging, but network logging might be coming to the Spark Inspector one of these day
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by bengotow 13y ago
Hey folks! Developer of the Spark Inspector here. I've been playing around with Reveal all morning. I think the biggest difference between SI and Reveal is that SI links into your app more extensively. You don't have to click 'Refresh' to m
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by bengotow 13y ago
I'm the author of Hexdefense (a tower defense game with a hex board), and I think this page would have saved me days. I'd love to see someone collect the logic and algorithms on this page into a portable library. Thanks for creating such a
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by bengotow 13y ago
Wow my problem was bigger than I thought it was. I actually thought this blog page _was_ the homepage of the site. Never thought to click the logo in the upper left until now. Now I get it :-)
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by bengotow 13y ago
This looks great. I've read through the site copy, but I'm having trouble figuring out how it ties into my workflow. I was about to sign up, and then I closed the tab. As cool as the GIF is, I'd much rather see a short video of the product.
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by bengotow 13y ago
To my knowledge there isn't one. I talked to a friend of mine that works on the Android core, and he said it'd be a challenge to do without continuously polling the entire view stack for changes. Objective-C's runtime makes it easy to hook
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by bengotow 13y ago
@jcampbell - I just installed the app in a new user account and it looks like that is caused by the crash reporter trying to get your email address. Definitely a bad experience - I'll see if I can fix it.
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by bengotow 13y ago
I agree—PonyDebugger is great. I think it's less trivial to use, though. My goal with the Spark Inspector (and it's setup assistant, which makes all of the project changes for you) is to bring down the difficulty and provide an experience o
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by bengotow 13y ago
Thanks for the heads up! I'll see what I can do - I noticed that in Chrome but I figured it was just me...
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by bengotow 13y ago
I'll try to change the deployment target and see if I can make it 10.7 compatible - shouldn't be too hard. I actually went 10.8-only because Apple usually requires the latest version of Mac OS for iOS development, so I figured most develope
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Show HN: Spark Inspector, a run-time debugging tool for iOS apps(static.sparkinspector.com)
73 points by bengotow 13y ago|26 comments
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by bengotow 13y ago
I have some incredibly talented friends who operate this way. The trick? Team up with some MBAs. Do the hard stuff, design a contract that gives you trickle revenue, and pass it off to them when it gets boring. It's completely fine to be th
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by bengotow 13y ago
Op, have demonstrated your expertise. Nicely done. Thanks jdnier for the example.
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by bengotow 13y ago
Mailbox.app is a security concern because it copies all of your Gmail to it's own cloud server, and delivers the email to the app from there. Sure, it's exposing your emails on the device. I'm more concerned about them exposing _everyone's_

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