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by ja27 15y ago
If there's a $1.99 "20 additional game levels" after you finish the first 20, that's not scummy. If there's a $99 in-app purchase (Basket of Smurfberries), that's scummy.
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by ja27 15y ago
I've had that conversation. I'm so glad my youngest is 8 now. Yes, I wish all the apps that make their money from free + in-app purchases would just give me an option to buy the whole thing for a one-time price.
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by ja27 15y ago
There are indicators that apps have in-app purchases but most kids and parents don't notice them. In-app purchases require you to enter your iTunes account password so it's generally hard to accidentally buy something. The problem is that o
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by ja27 15y ago
Generally good advice. Play-testing with young kids is a big help. I also don't like an app that has the kid shake the iPad (or iPhone) a lot. I'm torn on the "Don't trick my kids into buying stuff" one. I've seen a lot of crappy apps (and
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by ja27 15y ago
Draw Something (like Pictionary) is in a sweet spot. To begin with it's a game and people play with their friends. They leverage Facebook to find your friends that have the app already. You can still invite people that don't have it yet, bu
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by ja27 15y ago
Flashblock still loads the plugin and content, doesn't it? I don't run Flashblock, but does this still work: http://hackademix.net/2008/06/08/block-rick/ I disable plugins in Chrome and either whitelist sites or run them as-needed.
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by ja27 15y ago
I just launched my first iOS app a few days ago. The marketing is probably at least half the work. We're in the education space and it's been a little hard really developing contacts and getting attention without an app, so we built a fairl
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by ja27 15y ago
I wish they'd do something to encourage the 'team' aspect. Too many people just rack up their own personal score or work on individual achievements. They could slightly increase drops for being on the winning team or open up some new team-b
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by ja27 15y ago
I keep it disabled in Chrome and selectively enable it for sites I trust or as-needed. I'm glad to see that it's less necessary over time.
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by ja27 15y ago
It worries me that so many people are jumping into the app business. There are "Moms With Apps" - stay-at-home moms outsourcing development of their ideas. There are the "make money" schemers selling their info products. It feels a bit like
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by ja27 15y ago
It's not that bad. A little verbose, but it's not like switching from C to Lisp or Prolog.
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by ja27 15y ago
Yes. I was hoping someone would find out the pricing but I guess it's safe to assume that it's outrageous.
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by ja27 15y ago
or: c) Of the few hundred employees with access to iPad 3s, at least one slipped up and visited public websites with it.
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by ja27 15y ago
It's not an end-user device yet. A lot of people are jumping on this as a cheap media center PC and they'll be disappointed. But there are plenty of us that want to stick a battery pack on it and put it in a robot or something more fun.
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by ja27 15y ago
ironic
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by ja27 15y ago
I'll have to look for that. My in-laws give me a Best Buy card every year for Christmas and half the time I use it to buy their Christmas gift the next year. Amazon gift cards get spent right away.
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by ja27 15y ago
Well to start with, they went to MacWorld and previewed the app there. I don't follow the space much, but I think the company was somewhat well-known already for Mac apps.
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by ja27 15y ago
Ahh, ok. I'm not sure you get the more average university experience then. I spent 5 years at a fairly large research state university without ever having a class from the department head, despite the fact that his main focus was also AI. I
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by ja27 15y ago
He and Agarwal seem like odd choices to teach this lower-level undergrad class. Maybe because it's so high-profile?
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by ja27 15y ago
I hide my birthday on Facebook anyways, but I also locked down my wall so people can't write on it. That cut down tremendously on the amount of account-hijacking spam that was getting posted to it from my Facebook friends. I still got 3 Fac
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by ja27 15y ago
Even better, books can be sent "media mail" for even cheaper rates. http://www.usps.com/send/media-mail.htm
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by ja27 15y ago
Another example is Peter Atwood, who makes small production runs of knives and tools. His stuff sells out right away, which tells me he could charge a lot more than he does. High end knife makers like Busse are the same way but aren't just
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by ja27 15y ago
Or what I want - to be able to purchase an iPad app from my iPhone. Even if I can't download it on the device I'm currently on, I should be able to make the purchase.
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by ja27 15y ago
I got this earlier in the week. I initially couldn't get the final 500MB but the trick is to upload a single 500MB+ video by itself. The free space is great, but the photo upload is a decent feature. It's not as useful to me because I shoot
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by ja27 15y ago
And built the speaker. That's one thing I haven't done in a crystal set. Just a coil, magnet or even scrap steel, and the right paper.
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by ja27 15y ago
It certainly does matter, especially on the transmitting side. It's just hard to predict how long it needs to be without breaking out antenna modeling software. Here's a site with a few different wifi antenna designs and some antenna modeli
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by ja27 15y ago
There are lots of ways to homebrew variable capacitors. A sheet of glass and two pieces of scrap copper does well. I have a "crystal" radio (uses a modern diode) all built on a paper towel tube. The coil is wound on the tube like usual but
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by ja27 15y ago
Did they also pay "tribute" to Adobe by downloading a copy of Photoshop from a torrent site and using it?
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I've slacked off using it lately, but I used it a lot last year. My middle-school daughter even organized a group project for school with it.
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by ja27 15y ago
I guess I should say that the reason I gave up on them is because of their layoffs and stagnation. I lost faith in their ability to survive.

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