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by chime 15y ago
If he has an iPhone, ask him to check out: http://vizwiz.org/
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by chime 15y ago
http://vizwiz.org/ > VizWiz is an iPhone app that allows blind users to receive quick answers to questions about their surroundings. VizWiz combines automatic image processing, anonymous web workers, and members of the user's social n
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by chime 15y ago
Do you mean footnote 2?
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by chime 15y ago
His final solution (500 equidistant points per glyph) is very clever though visually, it results in putting unnecessary emphasis in areas of variability. For example, look at the bottom of uppercase 'Q' or the middle of lowercase 'f' - noti
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by chime 15y ago
It's not incorrect usage: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-whi2.htm
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by chime 15y ago
I think his point was that the recruiter did not know this.
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by chime 15y ago
> Wikipedia is wonderful, but it's sad to see people sacrificing so much of themselves for it. It is moving to see people sacrificing so much of themselves for others. I have nothing but absolute respect and awe for people like you and
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by chime 15y ago
> I believe CoffeeScript is the culprit. CoffeeScript removes semicolons from CoffeeScript, not JavaScript.
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Edit: I would appreciate some feedback/criticism instead of just down votes. Let me explain it from the point of view of my users. My Chrome extension Plus Minus is quite popular ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pidkbnhjgdngcfca
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by chime 15y ago
Just watched the entire demo. First time I heard two people present a product together - definitely makes it a lot more interesting and much less monotonous. After the first 30seconds, I went "pfft, live reload isn't new." But I'm glad I st
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by chime 15y ago
> I can't remember the the Hindi word for "guess" right now. Bujho.
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by chime 15y ago
This is the first API that I've encountered that works with cellphone numbers. I can see this being integrated into Android for incoming calls from unknown cellphone numbers.
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by chime 15y ago
You'd need multiple IPs to go beyond 75/day. If you're going through the trouble to do all that, you might as well directly email phonenumber@txt.att.net, phonenumber@vtext.com etc. yourself ( http://hacknmod.com/hack/email-to-text-message
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by chime 15y ago
I see nothing wrong with that. The sale price should reflect what customers are willing to pay so as to maximize profit, not what the actual cost is.
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by chime 15y ago
This is the better advertisement than what either of the two pizza joints could have bought. A little bit of neighborhood rivalry, costing each of them probably a few hundred dollars per day got them in NYT.
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by chime 15y ago
Sorry, it is supposed to be silent - shouldn't have any error/warning alerts. I didn't realize upgrading from PhoneGap to Cordova would break so many things. I'll be fixing it tonight.
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by chime 15y ago
During development, I used the hidden http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/2009/07/speech-synthesi... API but that doesn't work anymore. I can't wait till Apple makes it available to us. Then I can give my app away for free if I want.
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by chime 15y ago
I cannot open-source my app as of right now because of contractual reasons. However, I am in the process of negotiating a significantly lower price and the ability to open up my code. It's mostly CoffeeScript and some ObjC. Here's the compi
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by chime 15y ago
Technically, Apple can remove an app remotely from all iDevies if they are legally required to do so. Whether they will be required to do that in this case is unknown.
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by chime 15y ago
When people use the "think of the children" argument, they are usually talking about the hypotheticals. "Think of the children" when you let guns or drugs in the neighborhood. "Think of the children" when you legalize prostitution. In this
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by chime 15y ago
This is horrible. I've spent the last 18 months of my life developing an AAC text-to-speech app too ( http://ktype.net ) and have dreaded this exact scenario. I've built the app from ground up, solving each problem my users might face on
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by chime 15y ago
Which wordlist/dictionary are you using? I use WordNet for my word finding app: http://chir.ag/projects/tip-of-my-tongue/ FYI, the search is broken right now, probably due to HN traffic. I get the error: Internal Server Error.
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by chime 15y ago
Because now they have taken a role of pro-active censorship/moderation of private communication. Will Hotmail allow such links for long? How about Bing? Can I paste these links in an Excel/Word file on Office365? What about non-free service
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by chime 15y ago
My wife and I just tried it out and loved it. We were giggling like little kids playing around with the app's features. On a more serious note, the shared todo list is great! No doubt a lot of other apps have this but with chat, photo shari
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by chime 15y ago
If you want indenting etc., check out Workflowy or my app: https://zetabee.com/text
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by chime 15y ago
I have RDP open on a different port. Could you give me an option to enter the port#?
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by chime 15y ago
Dialing the phone and taking a picture work no differently than they currently do on iOS/Android - your app simply calls the device's native functions and then the OS takes over the operation. And once the operation is complete/cancelled, f
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by chime 15y ago
Was Oink 100% public or were there private conversation/shares? If everything on Oink was public (like a public blog or Twitter before direct messages), then it doesn't seem like a big deal. It's just making it easier to snoop. Otherwise, w
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by chime 15y ago
> Something happens to companies as they get larger... I think promotion happens. When you're a fresh grad right out-of-college and the Managing Director says "client is our #1 priority", you take it to heart. That's your new mantra now
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by chime 15y ago
I did something similar with KType (an iPad app to help people with speech and motor disabilities communicate better). To get out of the app's main feature - full-screen keyboard - you have to hold the four corners of the iPad screen at the

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