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by haseman 17y ago
So evil, in this case, is not calling someone before sending them a C&D letter? If their motto was "Don't be Annoying" I could understand the outrage... and yes, Google probably made a mistake by not calling the guy first. But it seems
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by haseman 17y ago
Many of the rural exchanges are anything but innocent. Many of them work with free conference call and phone-porn companies and then hike their connection rates to absurd levels. They rely on the law to over-charge telecoms. This isn't t
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by haseman 17y ago
Incorrect and misleading headline. I'm all for bringing Google down a peg, but at least read the name of the regulations you think Google is in violation of first.
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by haseman 17y ago
Mantis. Free, simple, my QA guys understand it.
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by haseman 17y ago
I wouldn't suggest it as a default setting. If power users want an alternative to holding the device up and shaking it until it switches, this could be it. You make good points, it's not intuitive, but it is a solution that wouldn't requi
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by haseman 17y ago
Could easily be solved by a setting that turns off accl switching and allows users to make a two finger twisting gesture on the screen to rotate it.
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by haseman 17y ago
If you like wearing more than one popped collar, move to north beach. Otherwise, live in the Mission, Lower Haight, or Soma.
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by haseman 17y ago
It was only a matter of time. The same thing happened on Verizon's 'Get It Now' store.
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by haseman 17y ago
Apple and Google have brought a lot of new people into our industry. There's going to be a learning curve, and it's going to be painful for all of us at first.
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by haseman 17y ago
We work around this problem with our own XML runtime parsed UI Library. It lets us have a set of layout files for each screen size of the application. Since we've implemented it for almost every platform out there, it means I'm mostly wri
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by haseman 17y ago
It's Fake Steve Jobs. I imagine it's a little tongue-in-cheek...
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by haseman 17y ago
The unhelpful answer is: it depends. Obviously, you should design your application to reach as many people as you can with a core set of functionality. For us, this means passing on possibilities that work only on a small set of devices. (U
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by haseman 17y ago
Mobile software is hard. At our company (small mobile software shop) we currently have ant scripts that churn out builds for over 100 devices with at least 10 different screen sizes and many different input methods touch/dpad/trackball. On
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by haseman 17y ago
Anyone telling you that the App Store is still a gold rush is trying to sell you something.
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by haseman 17y ago
"That's right: The biggest and most notoriously closed wireless carrier on Earth is partnering with the biggest and most open Internet company ever, to bring Google's new Android phone platform to users who want a truly expandable smart pho
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by haseman 17y ago
Turns out, being sarcastic is hard. Wasn't trying to start a flame war, just making a simple snarky comment.
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by haseman 17y ago
That may be so, but apple will never let you ship an app they haven't approved. They have very specific language forbidding VM's and interpreted languages. So you may be able to dodge Objective C (like the Mono/Unity folks have) but you'r
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by haseman 17y ago
How to outsmart Google? Easy in just a few steps: First, overthrow whatever governmental system is currently in power. Second, install a 'communist' government who is friendly to your business. ... Profit!
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by haseman 17y ago
The demise of the American Empire has been predicted for decades. While this guy makes some good points about how the economy isn't fixed, they get lost in his sensationalist rhetoric.
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by haseman 17y ago
All I can say, after several years of Mobile development, is: Thank God. We've been relegated to the dusty corners of the consumer market for so long. It's amazing to see the mainstream web services community catching on. Now we mobile gu
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by haseman 17y ago
I've been writing mobile software for a few years and I'd wholeheartedly agree with the first two. The third I would be less religious about... you should always listen to your customers, but you should be driving the buss, not them. Good
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2 Things I've Learned from other People's Failed Startups
9 points by haseman 17y ago|3 comments
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by haseman 17y ago
Excellent set of links! Thanks!
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Ask HN: Design for a Software Guy?
5 points by haseman 17y ago|3 comments
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by haseman 17y ago
What if the turtle's universe was a dream thought up by the great flying spaghetti monster? My probability math is rusty, but it's my understanding that probability is only relevant in a finite system. The article (in a very sneaky way) as
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by haseman 17y ago
A modern rehash of René Descartes's "I think therefore I am" problem. He asked, essentially, am I living a fantasy dreamed up for me by a "great deceiver". Replace "great deceiver" with "computer simulation" and the argument plays out the s
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by haseman 17y ago
I've had success in asking for a raise with a technique that breaks down into two parts: First, frame the issue as a problem for you. A problem your bosses can help you with: I.E. your unhappy about the mismatch between your salary and you
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by haseman 17y ago
One of the great things about the internet is it's always about to change. I think these services have interesting models....but I'll be damned if I'm going to let a 'sales tax calculator' blow a sale because it goes down. A rational busin
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Why Android will not catch the iPhone(hasemanonmobile.com)
1 points by haseman 17y ago|1 comments
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by haseman 17y ago
Technology isn't hurting our brains. It's evolving them to deal with a different set of problems.

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