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by mcobrien 15y ago
Right now, I'm trying to strike a balance between making info available to devs and respecting user's privacy. The site gets the emails and IP addresses of people who get apps but doesn't reveal those to the dev. The only "metric" that's av
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by mcobrien 15y ago
Clickable link: http://pcod.es/ Free copies of my apps so you can see how it works: Switch, the multi-user web browser: http://pcod.es/pi6 Awesome Shopping, a super-fast shopping list: http://pcod.es/As1
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Show HN: my new site helps iOS devs share, track and promote promo codes
4 points by mcobrien 15y ago|4 comments
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by mcobrien 15y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I have a bright five year-old and, having read articles like this one, my partner and I try praise effort as much as we can. Here's the problem. For nearly all of the tasks she's set in school, she doesn't need to e
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by mcobrien 15y ago
I'm not sure I like it, but this works def nil.method_missing(*args, &block); end So now you can call nil.whatever.you.like and get nil. It's also still falsy, but now every nil value in your app silently works and doesn't thro
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by mcobrien 15y ago
This sounds interesting, but what kinds of commit statistics can I expect to see if I sign up? Also, is there any way to get statistics on existing commits in a repo I have? It would be awesome if I could do something like: cd ~/code/my
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by mcobrien 15y ago
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html looks pretty good. I'm coming back to rails after a few years and I honestly can't believe how good the official guides are. Clearly written & brilliantly organized, I wish all frameworks we
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by mcobrien 15y ago
While there's a huge amount of redundancy and nested method calls, it's worth bearing in mind that: 1. This is a preview release 2. The intention is almost certainly that the output code will be compiled and optimized later. Compilation is
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by mcobrien 15y ago
Building it into the operating system is good enough reason.
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by mcobrien 15y ago
I'm wondering about that too. It seems Nuance (the platform Siri is built on) supports lots of accents, though I'm not sure how this works on the iPhone. Maybe it uses your regional settings to choose an accent profile? http://community.nu
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by mcobrien 15y ago
Me: “Set an alarm for 9 AM.” Siri: “It’s set for 9 AM.” Me: “Change that to 10 AM.” Siri: “I changed your alarm to 10 AM tomorrow.” Me: “Cancel that alarm.” Siri: “I deleted your 10 AM alarm.” Me: “Thank you, Siri.” Siri: “Your wish is my c
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Daring Fireball: The iPhone 4S(daringfireball.net)
180 points by mcobrien 15y ago|141 comments
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by mcobrien 15y ago
My favourite: A: Knock, knock! B: Who's there? A: The Interrupting Cow. B: The Interrupt-- A: MOOOOOOOO!!
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Less code, less effort - saving time in Objective-C(inessential.com)
2 points by mcobrien 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcobrien 15y ago
The TextMate of bookmarking apps... I've happily moved to Pinboard thanks.
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by mcobrien 15y ago
We have a pretty good idea. As soon as iOS 5 goes GM, we'll be able to use Xcode 4.2 (and ARC) to submit apps. With the rumoured announcement next week, iOS 5 should be GM in the next week or two. In any case, if you're reading an introduct
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by mcobrien 15y ago
I guess the VAT situation must be different in other parts of Europe. I'm in Ireland and prices are usually advertised as ex-VAT if customers have a VAT bill they're paying themselves (because they charge VAT). That isn't the case for Irish
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by mcobrien 15y ago
Great idea! I signed up and will definitely use it for my next app. A few initial thoughts: * You refer to "games" throughout the site, but the site is (almost) just as good for non-game apps. A simple word change might make non-game develo
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by mcobrien 15y ago
Happy MacVim user here, but for me replacing TextMate with MacVim led me to replace e-texteditor with gVim when I'm on Windows. I have a shared vimrc I use on ubuntu server too, so it's really all vim. Maybe that's what minikomi meant. As a
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Electronics Skills 101 - iFixit(ifixit.com)
4 points by mcobrien 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcobrien 15y ago
I once worked in a bank doing tech support and occasionally fixed a few things in the sealed-off internal finance room. The place was littered with red final notices - including utility, phones, everything. As a bank they could easily put t
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Cost of Computing in Coal: Copyrighteous(mako.cc)
1 points by mcobrien 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcobrien 15y ago
It might be worth running :cd in the sudo vim instance and in the regular one. Your sudo current directory could well be different to your own which would explain vim not being able to find the script.
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by mcobrien 15y ago
Is it just me or does the chosen voice sound synthesized? It would be interesting to hear the original as a comparison -- I'd often prefer to hear a screencast straight from the founder.
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by mcobrien 15y ago
Tabloids traditionally make a higher percentage of income from the cover price compared to broadsheets, partly because their readers are less affluent and so less appealing to advertisers. Still, this 2002 article puts advertising at 40%, w
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by mcobrien 15y ago
To help capitalize on all the HN traffic, you might want to include a more prominent link to fotobookapp.com (probably in the first sentence when you introduce the app). It took me a while to see the link at the end of the article. Also, th
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by mcobrien 15y ago
I'm surprised you haven't been prompted to upgrade your account. 37signals switched to a new login system 18 months ago which doesn't store passwords in the clear. With a new login you get a regular password reset email.
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by mcobrien 15y ago
If you can't be first, be best. If you can't be best, be first.
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by mcobrien 15y ago
Actually, it's a "powered parachute"[1] which relaxes the FAA rules required to fly one[2]. I'd guess maintenance rules are relaxed as well. [1] http://mavericklsa.com/releases.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_parachute
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by mcobrien 15y ago
I like the reference given in the first paragraph: These computer scientists have become personalities as well as authors, earning universal respect and sometimes a cult Following. [Munroe] Munroe is listed in the bibliography as

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