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by jbrennan 15y ago
I second Sinatra+Datamapper. I'm not much of a web developer, but I really love the simplicity of Sinatra. Using it is like C, in the sense that it provides very little for you (ie. it stays out of your way). Unlike Rails, there really aren
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by jbrennan 15y ago
I've struggled greatly with this as an indie trying to sell my own software. I've yet to have any success (ie make non-trivial money) on my own. I've never been able to get attention from any kind of blogs (although when I attempted, the li
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by jbrennan 15y ago
Can you describe it? I thought the code was all C? Or were the tools written in Objective-C? Either way, that's very interesting (big Objective-C fan, here).
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by jbrennan 16y ago
If you've done any looking around already, you've probably seen this advice: "Just start building something", and it's really the best advice. Of course, check out http://developer.apple.com/ios . Their documentation is incredible. They ha
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Realized there's a typo. Should be "Concentrate.app", not Concentrap.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
* Yes, I think something a little instructional would be good. Although as your app is very simple, it also makes it easy to understand already, so that's a great point. * I think whether a task is "Deleted" or moved to a "Completed" list o
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by jbrennan 16y ago
I don't use any external scripts, I just set mine to block problematic domains for me (places where I find I sink a lot of time, HN, Reddit, Twitter are the primary ones), and usually I make it close my IM client (or sometimes set my status
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Looks pretty, and simple. I liked the quick sign-on. A few niggles: * After I've signed on, the first thing I see is it asking me to "Share with friends", before I've (theoretically) even figured out what the hell the app does. It feels a l
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by jbrennan 16y ago
I've been a big fan of Concentrap http://getconcentrating.com It lets you set periods of time where you'll be focusing on a certain task, and lets you perform actions when you start and end that period. For example, when you start a "Work
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Xcode 4 Color Themes(nearthespeedoflight.com)
4 points by jbrennan 16y ago|0 comments
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by jbrennan 16y ago
He also founded the OMNI group.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Could you expand on why Mark Zuckerberg is not in the same "class" as the others? I'm not sure what makes him so different in the example, other than Facebook is not yet so old as the other companies.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Maybe I'm misinterpreting (or just have my facts wrong) but I thought SVG is generally poorly supported among browsers, even today. I seem to think WebKit browsers have decent support for it (though I remember it being sluggish in desktop S
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by jbrennan 16y ago
I think the benefit of using styled text over images is they scale up nicely, instead of becoming pixelated. On the desktop this maybe isn't so important, but it makes a nice difference if you're zooming in on a mobile browser (or using a h
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A Followup to UIView Explorations(nearthespeedoflight.com)
1 points by jbrennan 16y ago|0 comments
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by jbrennan 16y ago
To be fair, there are new Japanese being made every single year, too.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
If it's possible for an application to bring down the system that sounds like the system was poorly designed.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Then maybe the contour of the iPhone 4 was designed after the groove on the MacBook.
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On Objective-C's inheritance model and UIView's -removeFromSuperview.(nearthespeedoflight.com)
1 points by jbrennan 16y ago|0 comments
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by jbrennan 16y ago
The red really hurt my eyes (on an iPad). Otherwise, congrats on the launch.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
No but they seem to have great meta-cognitive functions (ie the colony itself).
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Precisely.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
In fact, I believe this was available in iOS 3.2. But definitely on all devices as of 4.0.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Apple's GameCenter works really, really well for that. It's part of the GameKit framework.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
I believe it's bad UI because Text Selection is marking a range of text for manipulation (like copy, move, style changes, etc.). Of course, you might also like to erase the text, in that case you can use the Delete/Backspace key. But to hav
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The Inhumane Interface(nearthespeedoflight.com)
1 points by jbrennan 16y ago|3 comments
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by jbrennan 16y ago
The title appears to be.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
But keep in mind, the 3rd Gen iPod touch only inludes the 16 & 32 GB models, and not the 8GB they sold along side it. The 8GB was really still a second-Gen iPod.
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by jbrennan 16y ago
This is the kind of inspiration I come to Hacker News to find. Fantastic work!
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by jbrennan 16y ago
Maybe nobody. Maybe it belongs to Mom or Dad.

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