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by ja27 13y ago
I built a dozen or so educational apps. I started each on iOS then have ported a few to Android and Windows Phone. It hasn't yet been a great financial success, but it is almost entirely passive income now. Updating apps for UI changes
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by ja27 13y ago
Funny. My son's Cub Scout pack worked with a local homeless group and the top requested things they packed in gift bags for them were cheap flashlights and tube socks. They use the socks for everything.
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by ja27 13y ago
Yep. Lost 3 hours of writing once. No chance of recovery apparently. Now I've learned to not edit existing notes on mobile devices if I can avoid it. Copy the note to a new one and edit that so I have a backup.
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by ja27 13y ago
Yes. I signed up in-app today (with a fake phone number) and that's a direct quote from the app. No idea on the downvotes. I guess because, like I said, telling users you hash the phone numbers doesn't matter if you're using
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by ja27 13y ago
I'm sure Robert Khoo has been begging him to do something like this, but that doesn't make it any less sincere.
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Resolutions(penny-arcade.com)
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by ja27 13y ago
Unless it's changed recently, the phone number is user-supplied and I'm not sure if it's verified at all. They do claim that the phone number "will be stored as unique mathematical representations (or 'hashes')
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by ja27 13y ago
I once wrote a quick Java program that recorded our project's build output (about 5 minute's worth at the time) and captured the time between each line of the output. Then it could play back the build output at the same pace. I co
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by ja27 13y ago
I got two from the first batch - one from each supplier. One runs 24x7 at home as XBMC (which is little-used by the family), a VPN server, a small file server, and to record audio from a couple radio shows I like to timeshift. The other is
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by ja27 13y ago
Georgia Tech had a lab of CDC 721 terminals and used PLATO for at least one class. It always felt weirdly futuristic (or Hollywood fake) for a seemingly "dumb" terminal to switch into a graphical touchscreen mode. I wish we'd
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by ja27 13y ago
Just one in a long string of quarterbacks the Tampa Bay Buccaneers squandered.
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by ja27 13y ago
I think the outrage isn't that we (Americans) did it. The pros know we spy on everything we can, all the time. But the outrage is that now there are newspapers all over the world telling John Q. Public (Johan Q. Public?) what happened.
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by ja27 13y ago
"...the iPad Mini probably somewhat reduced the demand for the Touch" The $229 / $299 price reduced the demand for the Touch. I'm surprised they haven't found a way to get a sub-$200 Touch.
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by ja27 13y ago
I live in a pretty suburban area in Florida. A trip to Target, Walmart, Sam's Club, Home Depot, Lowes, etc. costs me about half a gallon of gas ($1.60 at the moment) and an hour of my time. Then there's the risk that they either d
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by ja27 13y ago
I've met Gabriel at a few Mini Maker Faires and have one of his XProtoLab boards. It isn't a replacement for a real oscilloscope, but it is a fun tool to always have around.
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by ja27 13y ago
It's barely worth it, but the other two I'd consider: Nook - https://nookdeveloper.barnesandnoble.com/ Nabi - https://www.fuhuapps.com/ There are more though: http://www.crazyandroid.co
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by ja27 13y ago
There are a few updates: http://www.danisstory.org/ http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/three-years-l...
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by ja27 13y ago
We'll probably take the plunge and get one for someone in the family when the next wave come out. Most of our documents are in Dropbox, Skydrive, Google Docs, etc. We also have a RaspberryPi and PogoPlug serving up plenty of local netw
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by ja27 13y ago
With a few exceptions, our local school district only buys HP, so this could finally open up Chromebooks for our schools.
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by ja27 13y ago
When I drop my daughter off at 6:45 AM (school starts at 7:30), sometimes their football team is out on the field practicing under lights.
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by ja27 13y ago
I think the best one that I didn't write was a long back-and-forth argument in a C header file where TRUE was defined as 0 and FALSE as non-zero. The original author of this product apparently had screaming fights about that being THE
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by ja27 13y ago
There's an endcap at my local Sam's Club with Chromebooks. It's amazing to see them lined up like they're an impulse buy. I think they're actually in the boxes and not just a stack of empty boxes to claim the real d
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by ja27 13y ago
And Bluetooth 4.0 (low energy). I doubt Apple will ever do NFC.
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by ja27 13y ago
xargs. Can't tell you how many times I wrote quickie C programs and awk scripts to do what xargs does. http://sidvind.com/wiki/Xargs_by_example
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by ja27 13y ago
New hobby: searching LinkedIn for developers that work at LinkedIn and endorsing them for crazy stuff.
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by ja27 13y ago
I guess the link title here changed?
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by ja27 13y ago
I'm VPNed into a Raspberry Pi back at my house right now. Works fine. I just followed a tutorial or two but if I remember correctly, it wasn't much more than "apt-get install openvpn" and a few configuration steps. It&#x
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by ja27 13y ago
Their $100 / app, up to 10 apps per developer account "Keep the Cash" promotion made that very popular. Nokia's DVLUP program rewards people for apps with high numbers of 5-star reviews, so there are a lot of developers
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by ja27 13y ago
What's changed is that now more and more people realize the futility of crypto when the government can force you to decrypt or treat you as a criminal just for using crypto.
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by ja27 13y ago
At one company, my boss got talked into trying to count LoC so that the combined QA testing / customer support organization could charge their costs against each development team in proportion to their code size. Our team spent the nex

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