davidcann

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   by davidcann 17y ago

   Congrats if you truly get that rate for every hour you work on multi-month projects. I'm currently making apps for Disney and I price total projects based on a detailed spec (not hourly), but when you figure actual hours worked, I don't cha
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   by davidcann 17y ago

   Some full size screenshots would be good to have on the Tour page rather than the current lengthy text descriptions. After skimming through the whole tour, I still don't have a sense of whether or not your app is better than Basecamp.
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   by davidcann 17y ago

   Definitely a bug... thanks for the report.
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   by davidcann 17y ago

   Thanks for the report. That looks awful! I'm going to try to reproduce it.
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   by davidcann 17y ago

   Events are suggested by users (the little + button in the lower left). Currently, I approve/reject them by hand to keep it focused. Eventually, I'll have a public voting system.
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   by davidcann 17y ago

   Not really, but there's not much "personalized" data on almost.at to save. If there were (or is in the future), then yea, your data could definitely be saved and displayed when you return. Check out 280 Slides from the creators of Cappucc
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   by davidcann 17y ago

   Yea :/ I've been trying to solve that bug, though it has been elusive, thus far.
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   by davidcann 17y ago

   Hm... that's not good. It should have a sidebar on the left. Looks like it's Chrome on Windows, right? I'll have a look and see if I can reproduce it.
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   by davidcann 17y ago

   Yea, though technically it's not "compiled" ... only the browser wrapper is compiled objective-c code. It's still just html/javascript running inside.
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    Thanks! That's pretty funny because I only told people about this site 2 and a half hours ago!
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    Hm, did you see a little pause icon in the top right of the column? If so, you probably had your mouse hovering over that column. It pauses on mouse-over so you can read something that you see is interesting. Edit: Having said that... yes
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    1) Yes, users suggest events and the moderator (me) approves them, if they're relevant. I'm trying to keep it to a short curated list of what's happening in the world (also, there's rate limits on most APIs!). Eventually, I'll add a syste
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    hm. I tested it on Opera 9.64 on OS X and it seems to work fine. I haven't tested the linux version, though. Sorry, you must hate that Opera is always neglected by web sites!
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    Hm. I guess I have some bugs to work out. I had that happen to me once, but haven't been able to reproduce it since. I'll try, though. Yes, it's just a WebView... I hope people don't think I'm trying to push it as a "real" OS X app, beca
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    The index.html and Cappuccino javascript are served from an EC2 server and the new content is continuously loaded from sequential files on Amazon S3 via JSONP (0.json, 1.json, 2.json, etc.). Views, suggesting events, and adding followees ar
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    Well, quite a bit, I guess... but not THAT much. I'm a full time freelance developer and I made this in my spare time over the past 3-4 months. I had the idea a year ago, but you know how that goes!
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    The initial load might take a minute, but once it loads, 99% of the traffic is served from Amazon S3 via JSONP, so that part should hopefully scale well. If you're on OS X, there's a standalone browser app you can download (has the code em
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    Yea, I am definitely working to speed up the interface responsiveness. There's a standalone app OS X that you can keep open for hours, so it won't bog down your main browser: https://s3.amazonaws.com/almostatapps/almost.at.dmg
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    Thanks, good point.
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    Interesting... I was thinking an embedded viewer for photos would be good, but articles could work too. I could make that an option, so people could jump out to a new window if they prefer. Thanks!
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    Thanks! The "Followees" feature is going to be key in avoiding the twitter hashtag spam. Basically, you add people on twitter who are actually attending the event... and their posts are highlighted in yellow. You can also see only followe
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    I used Cappuccino to build the front-end, so thanks go to the 280 North guys!
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    Ask HN: Please review my new project: almost.at(almost.at)

    164 points by davidcann 17y ago|81 comments
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    by davidcann 17y ago

    I'd be interested to know if mass press releases work at all. I wonder if anyone really reads them when they come from no-name startups.
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    Feedback Widget for iPhone Developers via Get Satisfaction API(code.google.com)

    1 points by davidcann 18y ago|0 comments