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by flyosity 16y ago
My solution: http://t.co/sQ3yuns (36% from tax increase, 64% from spending cuts) Tried to take on the challenge of solving it without needing to let the Bush tax cuts expire. No national sales tax, no closing of tax breaks on mortgage int
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by flyosity 16y ago
I don't consider myself a "fanboy" of any company, but companies that I admire greatly for the quality of their products and their passion include Apple, Oakley and Nau clothing.
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by flyosity 16y ago
The project I work on has about 500-750KLOC and over a thousand files and after the initial index (about 20-30 seconds, which is UI blocking) the subsequent Find In Project calls take only a few seconds. This is on a 27" iMac Core 2 Duo.
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My favorite features (that I've only seen implemented half as well in every other editor) is the pop-up Go To File dialog where I can start typing a file's name and it'll find the file in the open project, and the Go To Symbol dialog where
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by flyosity 16y ago
The author has been doing some really innovative stuff with CSS3 and declarative styles/animations for awhile now so I don't see the problem with these experiments. They're fun, they teach new things, and they're given away for free. Where'
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by flyosity 16y ago
I'm working on a series of tutorials that teach web designers how to take their skills to the iPhone and iPad and start building native iOS apps. Each tutorial will go through the full process of designing one screen of a fictional app in P
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Be Curious, Be Dangerous(flyosity.com)
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by flyosity 16y ago
He was doing a lot more than just living off it, Tweetie was the #1 Paid App for a long time and was in the Top 10 for all Paid Apps for months. He was selling thousands of copies per day for $2.99.
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by flyosity 16y ago
He'll be making capital gains money, not income, so this move will not help him. (I had the same thought re: the move but was corrected on Twitter by a friend who sold his startup - Newsvine - and lives in Seattle.)
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And Google since they bought FeedBurner a few years ago.
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There's also a huge host of Webkit-based Mac Twitter apps that might be affected by this. Hibari is one.
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by flyosity 16y ago
You're totally right. I'd probably extend it upwards a year or two, but I completely agree. 99-cent apps, made for younger people. Entertain someone for a few minutes, make them smile, make just a tiny bit of their day more enjoyable: those
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by flyosity 16y ago
Thanks Paul, it's upvoted in my mind :)
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"If it has more features, it is better and deserves more." Perhaps you're not a mobile developer. Mobile apps are about focused user experiences. Tight features that make sense within the context of the app. You wouldn't drop a crossword pu
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by flyosity 16y ago
As an iPhone/iPad developer, the thing that pisses me off the most is when users leave a low rating and say "when you implement <feature no one cares about> I'll move it up to 5 stars." This happens all the time. It's blackmail but
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by flyosity 16y ago
They built a product that they didn't use. His entire post-mortem could have been that one sentence and it still would've taught a ton of entrepreneurs a great lesson.
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by flyosity 16y ago
A good article, and applicable also to why some of Google's projects succeed and others fail. What fail? Ones that rely upon a deep understanding of social interactions: Orkut, Buzz, Wave. These social applications/networks don't have a spe
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by flyosity 16y ago
Scrolling on an Evo or a Droid X is choppy, especially on a large webpage (zooming in and out as well). It's incredibly noticeable when comparing the most high-end Android devices next to an iPhone 4. If this isn't a priority, I don't kno
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by flyosity 16y ago
It's not about setting the label's properties in the exact same way & order (okay, that's also fishy), it's that they named all their UI elements the exact same names: _lastUpdatedLabel, _statusLabel, _arrowImage and _activityView. I'm
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by flyosity 16y ago
The little things add up. A few pixels here, a broken alignment there, they make the overall design look unkempt. If it's egregious enough it makes things look sloppy. It may not seem like a big deal, but getting things pixel-precise makes
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by flyosity 16y ago
You should also post this on Reddit to maximize the upvote potential of this one witty statement.
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FWIW I think saying "doing a startup" sounds pretty childish. Why not say that you're starting a company? "Doing a startup" sounds like you're just messing around with a concept, testing the waters. "Starting a company" makes you look more
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by flyosity 16y ago
I'm a UI guy who works on the web by day and iPhone/iPad stuff at night (I also write Obj-C.) Usually I post my in-progress stuff at Dribbble: http://dribbble.com/players/mike
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by flyosity 16y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head here re: people who don't try or have failed as App Store developers. I was in the App Store Day 1 of the iPad launch with an iPad-specific app. It was my first shipping iOS app and I built it in about 2
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by flyosity 16y ago
Something isn't "just as good" if it can run down a full battery in one hour simply by using a built-in feature, aka, WiFi sharing.
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Paradigm-shifting app for iPhone: Ocarina by Smule. Didn't break any rules and is easily the most innovative mobile application ever developed.
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And the more frequently you drive in your car the more likely you are to have a fatal accident. The more frequently you fly in an airplane the more likely you are to die in a plane crash. Many people drive in their cars every single day wit
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by flyosity 16y ago
It's not identical, Android lets you do a lot more in the background than iOS 4.0 does. That's the crux of my part about battery life... because it lets apps do anything in the background it will drain your battery. Apple didn't want to giv
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by flyosity 16y ago
Maybe the Android Marketplace is "better" than the App Store because anybody can put an app up there, but the apps certainly aren't better, not by a long shot.
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The motives may be complex but I'm guessing it comes down to Apple not wanting garbage clunking up their beautiful and "magical" device. Random runtime environments that Apple can't control? Hell no. Cross-platform apps that use the lowest

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