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   by bennyg 12y ago

   The Gimbal 10 beacon line blows. Battery life is around a month at best. I literally changed all of the Gimbal 10 beacons' batteries in my office two weeks ago and some are at 50% power right now. But they were free, so tradeoffs...
2. 182.▲
   by bennyg 12y ago

   The beacons my company received from you guys must have been out of the norm then. All 3 Estimote beacons are dead, and they all died around the same time (one in super conservative mode, one in what should be a normal use case, and then on
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   by bennyg 12y ago

   Ahh yes, I totally forgot about the phones maybe, sometimes, probably could this time work and range the beacons. Half the time my suggested method for getting the ranging to work is to delete app, restart phone, turn bluetooth on/off,
4. 184.▲
   by bennyg 12y ago

   As an iOS developer who has spent the last 9 months making beacon enabled things for my employer, I personally think beacons are shit. Some of my findings over the last 9 months: - Estimated battery life was estimated very poorly. - Nobody
5. 185.▲
   by bennyg 12y ago

   Honestly I'd go ahead and just strikethrough your entire comment. This is terrible advice.
6. 186.▲
   by bennyg 12y ago

   Thank you.
7. 187.▲
   by bennyg 12y ago

   Isn't this a false dichotomy? Option 3) Spend the day fixing the security problem, then write a transparent post about it thus improving revenue/traction with new/existing users.
8. 188.▲
   by bennyg 12y ago

   I think that's selection bias creeping through. It's easy to remember the really negative events and less so the mundane, positive ones. Perceptions is reality and all that.
9. 189.▲
   by bennyg 12y ago

   There's no way reading email in the terminal is close to 1% of all email users haha.
10. 190.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    That's good to know - wasn't super clear on my first pass of the documentation.
11. 191.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    Yeah, the only problem is that I don't want to cut major functionality just to use their API. Things I do, that it doesn't look like the API handles: - More than 100 stories - Best, Top, Ask, ShowHN, Jobs, User Submissio
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    by bennyg 12y ago

    I've been waiting forever for an API from HN, but unfortunately I will not be using it for my app ( https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone ). I've built a library for iOS ( https://github.com
13. 193.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    :( - I was hoping for a cool algorithm to determine that. Haha maybe I'll write one.
14. 194.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    AirBnB is a solid exception to the "must be daily users - 20% retention" statistic. No way is their average user base a daily user.
15. 195.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    Yes I understand that. I'm not saying that. The parent to my comment made it sound like there really can't ever be any problems (not verbatim, just the tone I read it with) with the cars, and let's be honest, that just isn&#x
16. 196.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    Which would be awesome if it were true.
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    by bennyg 12y ago

    Is it doing this by checking colored pixel areas and making SVG shapes for them? If so, whatever you use should replace Illustrator's Image Trace functionality, cause that is so bad at creating crisp vector copies of things.
18. 198.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    I honestly can't tell if that was satire about the dating game.
19. 199.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    I think you should use homebrew to get an update. Apple hasn't updated bash since like 2007.
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    by bennyg 12y ago

    Brand == Perception. You can't argue that their brand is based off the perception of grand innovation. Take a look at every Apple keynote ever.
21. 201.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    Absolutely. No designer worth their salt is starting with PS for these app icons.
22. 202.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    Also by holding it down.
23. 203.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    I agree. Get a script for it, and whenever you get a new computer or what have you, run it once and boom - you're off to the races.
24. 204.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    Other apps can too. You have to use telprompt instead of tel in the URL scheme.
25. 205.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    Thank you - finally.
26. 206.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    They're only encrypted when they go to the App Store. You can make a .ipa file and install it on your own/jailbroken devices without it ever being encrypted. It's extremely easy to decompile it and get variable names, string
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    by bennyg 12y ago

    This. It seriously frustrates me when I see new wire framing tools pop up for iOS since just using Xcode will be about the same speed (if not faster) to set something up with and its now something a developer (or yourself) can just modify w
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    by bennyg 12y ago

    The problem I have with all of these images, is that they never sit centered with the text in the generated HTML. I love the idea, and I even have some different badges in a few of my repos but man is it frustrating to see sometimes haha. I
29. 209.▲
    by bennyg 12y ago

    Thanks for the link. I'll check it out after our soccer game today.
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    by bennyg 12y ago

    As someone who literally started developing for Android about 3 weeks ago, I also share this sentiment. Android Studio (and a pet plugin project a couple old coworkers are working on that makes Maven look downright dumb) and Gradle have bee