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by davepeck 15y ago
My girlfriend found Pinterest via Ravelry, a knitting social network. Not sure which of the two she spends more time on at the moment, but pretty sure most of her online time is on one or the other. I think Ravelry is an impressive (and, od
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(Random aside: I agree with all your arguments against the retina iPad display. That said, I wrote the iOS Artwork Tool, which reads and writes the .artwork files found in iOS SDKs. Last night I updated the tool with iOS5 support and to m
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These guys are killing it. Going to bake this in to my next test release of GetCloak for iOS. One feature I'm particularly jazzed about is the logging capture support. It is so painful to explain to test users how to capture logs on iOS!
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We need to get a group together to take over. So much good stuff still to do with OBA...
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You might be interested in the Walk Score Transit API. In addition to surfacing a "transit score" for a given area, it also provides a simple RESTful way to get stops and routes at a given lat/lon: http://www.walkscore.com/professional/pub
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One base class to rule them all.(destroyallsoftware.com)
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The AWS APIs are a twisty maze of passages, all [nearly] alike. The management console is okay if you just want an instance or two, but it still strikes me that AWS is best when you want (or need) to automate allocation of cloud services. L
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Do you have a sense of how much tuning can reduce costs? We're looking at a ~7x jump in prices for a big app; might we be able to quarter that? Halve it?
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One of my clients, whose app sees a decent amount of traffic, is going to go from $510/month to $2070/month _if_ the 50% frontend discount is applied. After the discount lifts, it looks closer to $3300/month. Which, in my opinion, is insane
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Sent! Cheers.
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I saw Firesheep in active use at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon earlier this year. Yikes. No solution is perfect, but VPNs seem like the way to go for now. [Shameless Plug] I quit my day job earlier this year and started building htt
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Correct. Our iOS app is at its core a vector for generating and installing such profiles -- but with some niceties so you don't have to enter your credentials multiple times, etc.
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Yeah, it's a custom frontend on a vanilla OpenVPN binary, so no GPL issues. That said, I'm actually considering what would happen if I went ahead and open-sourced the client anyway. Probably the only truly interesting code there is the Obj-
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Shameless plug: my new app and service, Cloak ( https://www.getcloak.com/ ), is a zero-hassle VPN. It's currently in beta for OS X. I'd love feedback from the HN community! Grab the app, enter your Cloak credentials, and you're done. If Clo
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We talk of 10x, but the truth is we are rarely confronted with it in our daily lives. Maybe 1.5x, but not 10x. When we do meet 10x, the order of magnitude is so staggering that we attempt to explain it away. Here's another 10x, who happened
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Interesting. I'm using DP4 to make sure my app (getcloak.com) is compatible -- I've found DP4 to be quite buggy: Kernel panics not evidently tied to third party drivers, crashes in Safari, plenty of UI glitches etc. Oh, and Ableton Live doe
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I'm using Braintree for my new app ( https://www.getcloak.com/ ) and am extremely happy. They have incredibly responsive customer support, both business and technical. When I reported a unicode-related bug in their Python API, the technical
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Yes; you can use their bulk dump/upload tools to help make it happen...
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Not that this contributes much to the conversation but: YES on both counts. I use GitHub's issue tracker in volume both for some fairly large projects (getcloak.com, walkscore.com, and wherebe.us) I've found that the Issues web interface le
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Out of curiosity, are you on the HRD already? We have some fairly sensitive billing code and... well, I'm nervous about the transition to HRD...
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Voted "other". We're using the App Engine master/slave datastore for getcloak.com. We're moving over to the HRD soon; the role of the HRD in App Engine's future wasn't clear when we started building our app.
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Microsoft's Redmond campus is pleasant, collegial, and consists of nondescript corporate buildings of varying design connected by wooded pathways and large lawns. Actually a really nice place to work. The campus has grown so much, however,
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Can you explain your technology more directly? Your web site doesn't have a lot of technical detail, perhaps because people who would understand the technical details aren't your target audience. For the HN crowd, understanding what pieces
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I'm not quite sure what point you're making, but I should clarify mine. I wasn't trying to say anything deep. I was just making a _very_ surface observation that, at some level, our brains consume, transform, and produce bits. It's almost t
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Let's own up to at least one basic fact: at least some portion of what we do is algorithmic -- computational -- in nature. Why? As we have this discussion, we're absorbing 1s and 0s. And we're spitting them back out in response on the other
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Using AirBnB for the first time -- currently staying at a great apartment in Manhattan. My girlfriend and I are both quite happy! Both of us, and the apartment owner, are first-time AirBnB'ers. It _can_ work, I believe, but you've got to ve
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Working on it still...
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Seattle too.
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I use GAE for a lot of projects that I've worked on (getcloak.com, walkscore.com, wherebe.us) and the pricing changes are going to hit me hard. I've been a strong GAE proponent since the very early days [1]; GAE's sudden price announcement
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Yes. We're going to be moving to a different provider in very short order -- we'll have more to say about this soon.

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