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by ctrager 15y ago
A de facto rule of spoken English: "Everyone should floss their teeth" - Singular nouns of indeterminate gender take plural, and therefore genderless, possessives.
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by ctrager 16y ago
Since your tracker is oriented towards web development, you might want to take a look at my work here, a Firefox addon for taking screen captures of a web page, marking it up with arrows, highlights, and then posting them to the the bug tra
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by ctrager 16y ago
Although my app doesn't support logging in, commenting, voting, it is still nice for reading, no?: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.ifdefined.hackernew...
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by ctrager 16y ago
Pardon me for being a provincial Midwesterner, but is it common that an playing for a German audience would be in English? Especially one that relies on the viewers following verbal instructions?
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by ctrager 16y ago
What turned out to be necessary for me was looking at the source code of the android apps themselves, rather than the sample apps in the SDK. Specifically, I developed an app that used the camera ( http://ifdefined.com/blog/post/BugTracker
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Designer of Verdana font wins MacArthur "genius" grant(macfound.org)
2 points by ctrager 16y ago|0 comments
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by ctrager 16y ago
I can't think of any reason why I would spend more time on it. Why are you asking?
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by ctrager 16y ago
My younger son made that icon, and at first the ad was for my older son's website that sells tshirts, http://hackertees.com/ I'll pass along the complement to my younger son.
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by ctrager 16y ago
I concede defeat. gluegadget's app is better than mine: http://ifdefined.com/blog/post/A-Hacker-News-app-for-Android...
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by ctrager 16y ago
"Chicago poised to license, regulate vacation-apartment rentals": http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/ct-biz-0629-vacation-re...
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by ctrager 17y ago
I use Sinatra running at Heroku for my Hacker News Android app, for the screen scraping part, the part that scrapes pages just like this one. Both are easy and fun.
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by ctrager 17y ago
I was in "Like" prior to the update that added multitouch to the browser, and prior to finding into Aedict, a Japanese/English dictionary app. After multitouch and Aedict, I'm in Love. And, shameless plug: Did y'all try the free Hacker New
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by ctrager 17y ago
Is there a way you could send me a screenshot that illustrated what you mean?
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by ctrager 17y ago
I'm running into this issue. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4303 Is the solution to learn how to work without Eclipse? I'm only now getting over the pain of learning how to work WITH Eclipse.
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by ctrager 17y ago
Earlier today I published a Hacker News app to the Android Market and disappointed a lot of people because the app wouldn't run on their devices. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1097568 So, I recompiled for 1.6 (G1), but I couldn
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Hacker News app for Android now works for 1.6 too, but not 1.5(ifdefined.com)
9 points by ctrager 17y ago|3 comments
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by ctrager 17y ago
Try again for G1. I just republished.
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by ctrager 17y ago
I just republished, for Android 1.6 (G1)
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by ctrager 17y ago
I just uploaded a newer version to the market that should work with Android 1.6 (G1). However, I couldn't compile for 1.1 and 1.5. The compiler complained about my "res" folder. If folks want to point me in the right direction, how to le
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by ctrager 17y ago
I saw your app before I started working on mine. You did a nice job. You set the bar pretty high!
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by ctrager 17y ago
Ok. Maybe even tonight.
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by ctrager 17y ago
According to the following the white-on-black display uses less power. Also, I found that once I altered a little bit of the default color scheme I had to alter ALL of it somehow, like changing the background and text color would mess up t
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by ctrager 17y ago
On Android too, if you use the browser on Android, you can interact with Hacker News same as usual, login, vote, etc. But you'll find yourself zooming and panning a lot. The rest of this comment is off topic: Speaking of voting, here are
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by ctrager 17y ago
Try this link instead. Don't ask me to explain, but I had to rename the file here .zip instead of .apk, so rename it after you download it: http://ifdefined.com/HackerNewsReader.zip
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by ctrager 17y ago
Voting would require allowing you to login, a whole 'nother degree of difficulty, especially given the architecture of going thru the proxy at heroku. If enough people seem to care, I might attempt supporting logging in. And charge 99 cent
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A free Hacker News app for Android(ifdefined.com)
33 points by ctrager 17y ago|29 comments
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by ctrager 17y ago
Caitlin Flanagan is one of my favorite essayists, and here is my favorite essay of hers, "The Wifely Duty": http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200301/flanagan If you are young or single or childless, it's not for you. Yet.
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by ctrager 17y ago
This reminds me of something I heard about Motorola, and their decline after the Razor phone peaked. They learned that the phone business is more like the fashion business than the electronics business. With software related to the dev pro
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by ctrager 17y ago
As a developer, I say not trivial. This isn't just about bug trackers, because bug trackers integrate with version control, maybe our IDE, and soon code review tools. A bug tracker can be like email, on the screen all the time, with a lot
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by ctrager 17y ago
Joel has been and seems to continue to be anti-paid advertising. I've heard him say it on the Stackoverflow podcasts, and I know it from trying to get FogCreek to advertise on my website (I tried again after having read the Inc article, th

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