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by gurgeous 14y ago
I certainly was measuring memory consumption. Many of these images are offscreen in paging scroll views (per the blog post), or stuck in caches.
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by gurgeous 14y ago
Ooh, cool! We're using JPGs, though. At quality 75: 67K flT7c.jpg 558K flT7c.png Once those JPGs make it across the network and arrive on the device, we're stuck with plain old CGImages, right?
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by gurgeous 14y ago
I'm not familiar with PVRTC, unfortunately. Here's one of the better articles I could find: http://www.kihongames.com/blog/labs/2011/04/labs-pvrtc-power... Some highlights from the article: - "Avoid using PVRTC when you have static images
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by gurgeous 14y ago
Ha! I really hope none of these techniques are in vogue for iPhone 10. Or iPod 10, for that matter.
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IOS Image Tricks(dwellable.com)
90 points by gurgeous 14y ago|22 comments
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Show HN: Sinew, a Ruby gem/DSL for crawling and scraping(github.com)
1 points by gurgeous 14y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Dwellable Secrets (nice data viz with d3)(dwellable.com)
4 points by gurgeous 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple to update most of its Mac lineup at WWDC(9to5mac.com)
2 points by gurgeous 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook IPO Raises Regulatory Concerns(dealbook.nytimes.com)
5 points by gurgeous 14y ago|0 comments
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by gurgeous 14y ago
I am the author. We don't have comments on the blog, so feel free to chime in here.
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Autocomplete With Rails & Mongoid(dwellable.com)
6 points by gurgeous 14y ago|2 comments
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A Web Retailer Buys The Perfect Domain Name. Then Comes a Letdown.(nytimes.com)
19 points by gurgeous 14y ago|1 comments
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by gurgeous 15y ago
He loved the Urbanspoon iPhone app. The iPad app, not so much. Someday I'll write up the story about the time we met in person. Yes, I too got yelled at by Steve Jobs.
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Steve Jobs trashed my last iPad app, so I created this(geekwire.com)
43 points by gurgeous 15y ago|13 comments
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Another Verizon CMAS snafu(twitter.com)
1 points by gurgeous 15y ago|0 comments
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Startup dudes: Cut the sexist crap(danshapiro.com)
424 points by gurgeous 15y ago|254 comments
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by gurgeous 15y ago
I too had a bad experience with a vacation rental and was unable to post my review to VRBO. That's why I founded Dwellable, a vacation rental site. Here's the full story on GeekWire from a few months ago: http://www.geekwire.com/2011/hawai
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by gurgeous 15y ago
I participated in the beta. This is a nice app, well done. Dropbox and music - two great tastes that taste great together.
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Amazon workers left out in the cold(mcall.com)
2 points by gurgeous 15y ago|0 comments
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by gurgeous 15y ago
Is it just me, or do they have way too much downtime? It seems like downtime is the rule there, not the exception.
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Heroku Incident Archive(status.heroku.com)
2 points by gurgeous 15y ago|1 comments
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by gurgeous 15y ago
I was in the beta. TouchBase is cool, very handy if you're running around from meeting to meeting all day.
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by gurgeous 15y ago
Thanks Nat - I fixed the like button. Turns out that you have to specify the href param when using the iframe, unlike twitter.
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by gurgeous 15y ago
I've written a lot of data tools as part of Urbanspoon and subsequent startups. I like to collect publicly available data, clean it up, normalize it, and then release it in a more useful way. Hot tips for crawling data: - Cache pages lo
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by gurgeous 15y ago
Update - GeekWire picked it up: http://www.geekwire.com/2011/hunger-science-fiction-books-sp... Also, thanks to webwright for the title suggestion.
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Show HN: BestSFBooks, Mashup of the Best SF/Fantasy Books
78 points by gurgeous 15y ago|25 comments
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by gurgeous 15y ago
Here we have something called the Standard Health Questionnaire (SHQ), which they make you fill out when applying for insurance. But there are a bunch of exceptions at the top which make it possible to avoid submitting the SHQ. Running out
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by gurgeous 15y ago
My family rates assume one 10 year old child and spouses that are the same age. Could that be the problem? I tried to add disclaimers to that effect. Maybe I need to make them more prominent. Certainly the rates match up quite well during m
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by gurgeous 15y ago
Twitter Bootstrap - highly recommended!
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by gurgeous 15y ago
I've toyed with adding some elaborate calculators. Last time I went through this exercise I built a rube-goldberg spreadsheet that let me plug in doctor's visits, major illness, deductible, premium, etc. and spat out a yearly number. It was

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