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Dropzone 3.5 for Mac Released(aptonic.com)
1 points by johnw 11y ago|0 comments
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by johnw 12y ago
There's noway that this is going to be practical within the current laws of physics. You can't use a wide beam to cover an area because the amount of energy available drops by orders of magnitude the further you get from the trans
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Show HN: Launched my new app – Dropzone 3(aptonic.com)
3 points by johnw 12y ago|0 comments
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by johnw 12y ago
Does anyone know how you actually use this? I built the project and ran it then enabled Bluetooth on my Mac and iPhone somewhat expecting to receive a notification of the iBeacon but got nothing. Does it have to be coupled with an iOS app t
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Powering the Raspberry Pi with hydrogen(raspberryhy.com)
2 points by johnw 12y ago|0 comments
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Setting the record straight(blog.whatsapp.com)
2 points by johnw 13y ago|0 comments
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by johnw 13y ago
One big hole in this theory is that its been widely reported [1] that a transponder was switched off before the pilots last radio contact. The pilots would have had no reason to pull the breakers before the last communication if they were
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by johnw 13y ago
Also interesting is the amount of damage being done to the wheels as it drives around up there. Some good pictures of that here[1]. Apparently the wheels are designed to leave a mark so they can keep track of the rovers location by looking
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by johnw 13y ago
Absolutely agree, free software has so much to offer and yet here we see it being promoted using the most desperate and ineffective means possible: dressing up in costumes and handing out flyers to people - people who quite likely just had
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by johnw 13y ago
Alright, but how do you explain the instructor who had 3,200 hours on the 777 who was sitting beside the pilot not making any mention of a too low airspeed or incorrect landing configuration right up until it was to late? Makes me wonder if
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by johnw 13y ago
Thanks. Really glad you're enjoying it. The code is a real mess, but I'm hoping to gradually improve it now it's open source.
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by johnw 13y ago
This is amazing. The UI is absolutely gorgeous. A few minor things I noticed: -Scrolling seems very laggy when scrolling with the mouse wheel, although dragging with the scrollbar seems fine. This only seems to be happening in the Popular (
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by johnw 13y ago
You're welcome :) I'd love to see some other platforms supported as well.
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by johnw 13y ago
Yep, it's for messaging using Dropbox shared folders.
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by johnw 13y ago
Hi HNers - I posted the below explanation to GitHub but I'm reposting it below as well in case you don't see it: I originally did this project as a Mac app that I was intending to sell but unfortunately it didn't take off th
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Show HN: I open-sourced my Dropbox-based Mac sharing app(aptonic.github.io)
19 points by johnw 13y ago|11 comments
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by johnw 13y ago
Fun fact: If you stacked this many iPhones screen to back on top of each other the stack would be at least 82 times the height of the worlds tallest building[1] (assuming they were all the thinner 5S - Apple didn't say how many of this
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by johnw 13y ago
This reminds me of Quartz Composer[1] in a lot of ways: you wire the inputs and outputs of a bunch of different nodes together (called patches in QC) and each patch gets you a step closer to the solution. This seems to work especially well
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by johnw 13y ago
Everything I've heard about Nest contradicts this. I'd love to hear in more detail why this didn't work out.
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A Better Way to Manage the Rails Secret Token(daniel.fone.net.nz)
79 points by johnw 13y ago|57 comments
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by johnw 13y ago
Sounds like the writings been on the wall for a while now. They were fined by the CFTC in late 2012 and had to withdraw from the US market for not being a licensed exchange [1]. Most of their customers were in the US so this was a major blo
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by johnw 14y ago
All engineering involves trade-offs. Ideally, we'd prefer to have maintainable code that ships on time, but this usually isn't possible. So you have to look at how much payoff you're getting from maintainable code versus shipping late. I wo
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Google Glasses up to $10K on ebay(ebay.com)
1 points by johnw 14y ago|0 comments
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The Tweetifier Story(shipsomecode.com)
2 points by johnw 14y ago|0 comments
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Bold Poker replaces your deck of cards with iPhones(boldpokerapp.com)
6 points by johnw 14y ago|0 comments
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Kim Dotcom Will Go to the US in Exchange for Legal Funds(torrentfreak.com)
106 points by johnw 14y ago|92 comments
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by johnw 14y ago
Yes, I dropped the price to $9.99. So we'll see how that goes. I don't know what I'm doing at all with regard to pricing but the result from this sale does make me think that $14 may be too high.
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by johnw 14y ago
I have no customers who were angry about this. Not one. So this fear I had of upsetting customers who missed the discount appears to be unfounded.
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by johnw 14y ago
Thank you! And I agree with what you're saying (although it pains me greatly to admit it). It really is difficult to make a sustainable living from the App Store. Even the top apps don't pull in all that much and sales always drop off very
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Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store(aptonic.com)
190 points by johnw 14y ago|83 comments

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