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by matt2000 14y ago
No actually I don't think we do, but I'll check since that would obviously be a big problem. If you get a sec would you open an issue for us so we remember? Thanks for pointing this out.
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by matt2000 14y ago
I'm not exactly sure how the adhoc stuff works on android but there's a specific api for it which is usually used for local gaming. In any case the use case for this app is that the Internet is shut down in your location so you probably don
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by matt2000 14y ago
I was talking a little bit about this in a comment down below, but android just added adhoc wifi networking (in v4.1 maybe?) so it's not too widespread. iOS has had it for a while, but the app is currently android only, which seems to be th
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by matt2000 14y ago
We are considering as a next step having signed messages so you know at least two messages came from the same person. We want to maintain anonymity to protect posters, but it'd be interesting to know that posts were at least coming from th
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by matt2000 14y ago
The app is Android only at the moment, so there's that, but also it actually doesn't use bluetooth file exchange, just connects via bluetooth and sends a data stream which can include encoded photos. Actually on iPhone it would be a little
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Show HN: P2P microblogging over Bluetooth to avoid government censorship(github.com)
153 points by matt2000 14y ago|66 comments
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by matt2000 14y ago
I also didn't realize that vine was making real movies with sound, thought it was just animated gifs then someone turned on a blender in a clip and I freaked out, hah.
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by matt2000 14y ago
I think the eBook marketing is right on the borderline of what makes sense to have on the site. "I made $3K in 2 weeks marketing diet shakes" would clearly be over the line because it's not a technical effort. Writing an eBook is somewhere
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by matt2000 14y ago
You definitely have a right to vote, I just wanted to let the community open a discussion on what the focus of the site is. If a bunch of newer users were upvoting sports news I think this would be an easy conversation, this isn't sports ne
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by matt2000 14y ago
Vine is great, and this is a really cool look into it. Mesmerizing.
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A rare positive change to a Terms of Service (GitHub)(docracy.com)
3 points by matt2000 14y ago|2 comments
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by matt2000 14y ago
I have a hard time describing any license that limits your rights as one promoting freedom. I never understood why the FSF wasn't more behind the BSD style licenses.
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Why Apple is valued like an oil company(matthall2000.tumblr.com)
1 points by matt2000 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How did you get into programming?
8 points by matt2000 14y ago|16 comments
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by matt2000 14y ago
This is sheer insanity to me. I just don't understand why comp sci isn't taught as a fundamental course like math. Do you have a sense why nobody was enrolling? Was it seen as too hard, too nerdy, something else?
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by matt2000 14y ago
This is a great point, I didn't consider how many people got turned off a computer right from the start because of an unfriendly interface like a basic prompt.
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by matt2000 14y ago
Interesting - do you remember at all how you first got into programming? How did you even find out it was an option? And what was the first thing you tried to make? BTW, I'm the OP and I'm 38, I started with Logo on Apple II's at the Librar
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by matt2000 14y ago
Well put. However, I would argue that we should be attempting to reach the kids who might not realize they could or would like to be future engineers. The problem with the book analogy is that it's very obvious how you would make a book, al
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by matt2000 14y ago
This is pretty funny, would be great as a browser or gmail plugin.
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by matt2000 14y ago
I don't think the prompt itself is the thing, it's the perception that the machine is under their control. In these kinds of things perceptions seem to matter a lot, especially to kids.
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The Danger of iPads in Schools(matthall2000.tumblr.com)
6 points by matt2000 14y ago|14 comments
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by matt2000 14y ago
In case anyone is in a position to hire programmers and cares about treating creative people fairly, we have an open source Hacker Employment Contract: https://www.docracy.com/hackercontract that tries to fairly handle stuff like IP creat
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Ask HN: What's your enterprise pricing plan?
1 points by matt2000 14y ago|0 comments
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by matt2000 14y ago
Every time one of these rover photos gets posted I find myself scrolling around the high res version looking at rocks for a while. Amazing that this is coming from Mars - seems worth it to not to let this kind of thing become routine.
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by matt2000 14y ago
Can anyone give me some advantages of dotcloud over Heroku? Having trouble specifics from just the homepage. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Why is Heroku affected by single zone outages?
2 points by matt2000 14y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Why isn't Heroku multi-AZ?
1 points by matt2000 14y ago|1 comments
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by matt2000 14y ago
Are you also on Heroku? Our RDS is also multi-az and is actually up, but heroku bit the bullet so it doesn't matter.
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by matt2000 14y ago
Yeah, we've had failovers on RDS and Heroku is having trouble as well.
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Ask HN - How to make an android phone prototype?
2 points by matt2000 14y ago|1 comments

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