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1. 31.▲
   Managing your psychology as an indie dev(blog.astropad.com)

   3 points by mronge 12y ago|0 comments
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   Apple Watch and how good design is honest(blog.astropad.com)

   14 points by mronge 12y ago|0 comments
3. 33.▲
   by mronge 12y ago

   Hey Peter! Sorry about that, we had to pull Pencil support at the last minute due to bugs. The trial only records days actually used, so if you resume when we have Pencil support you'll still have time left.
4. 34.▲
   by mronge 12y ago

   I'm glad you like it! If you can, try using your wifi on the 5ghz band. In some cases that helps a lot
5. 35.▲
   by mronge 12y ago

   There are styluses for the iPad with 2048 levels of pressure, the Cintiq still does have better accuracy but the iPad tech is getting better all the time. Alot of pro artists are using Astropad now, in fact we even had a Pixar animator use
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   by mronge 12y ago

   We'll have to follow up with a tech blog post where we go into more details.
7. 37.▲
   by mronge 12y ago

   That's the tech we built we call LIQUID: http://astropad.com/#tech
8. 38.▲
   by mronge 12y ago

   We are extremely interested in the rumored iPad Pro and stylus :)
9. 39.▲
   by mronge 12y ago

   Thanks, that's great to hear :) We've been working on this for 1.5 years and we had to write completely custom tech to make it happen. We're happy to answer any questions about our tech
10. 40.▲
    Astropad: Turn your iPad into a professional graphics tablet(astropad.com)

    31 points by mronge 12y ago|18 comments
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    by mronge 12y ago

    Are there any known patent issues with CABAC?
12. 42.▲
    by mronge 12y ago

    We didn't evaluate Android as we are long time Mac devs so we knew we could work fastest on iOS and Mac. We are somewhat concerned about getting sherlocked, but I have no idea what to do about that other than push on!
13. 43.▲
    by mronge 12y ago

    Building streaming video over wireless has been crazy hard. We are happy to answer questions on that and our trials with USB.
14. 44.▲
    by mronge 12y ago

    I went ahead and put together a post. Check it out. "Apple, is USB allowed now?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8778010
15. 45.▲
    Apple, is USB allowed now?(medium.com)

    51 points by mronge 12y ago|9 comments
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    by mronge 12y ago

    We've been developing app that also streams video content from Mac to iPad, and this recent Apple reversal on USB has been very frustrating for us. About a year ago we submitted an app to the App Store that uses the same USB tech (Peer
17. 47.▲
    by mronge 12y ago

    How come all mobile browser uses software JPEG decoding? Is it because of the startup latency of the hardware decoder?
18. 48.▲
    by mronge 12y ago

    I've tried living in eshell but zsch auto complete is just too damn good. Is there really good auto completion for eshell?
19. 49.▲
    by mronge 12y ago

    Apple has them
20. 50.▲
    by mronge 13y ago

    My understanding with FDA guidelines is they are always "voluntary" only in name. Companies effectively have to comply or the FDA will crack down very hard on the company.
21. 51.▲
    by mronge 13y ago

    That is NOT true. It does in fact use the real login window
22. 52.▲
    by mronge 13y ago

    Ah go for it, it's still fun
23. 53.▲
    by mronge 13y ago

    Yes, but most of these projects have been abandoned. GitHub for Mac used a similar project but they've also changed direction. There is just too much "stuff" to reimplement. It is really a job only Apple can do
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    Mac apps are harder than iOS apps(medium.com)

    87 points by mronge 13y ago|45 comments
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    MailCore 2, a new email library for Mac and iOS(libmailcore.com)

    23 points by mronge 13y ago|2 comments
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    CocoaConf Alt 2013 Canceled(cocoaconf.com)

    17 points by mronge 13y ago|4 comments
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    by mronge 13y ago

    I'd love to see these benchmarks on a beefier ec2 instance type. I'm curious how it would compare to the dedicated hardware
28. 58.▲
    by mronge 14y ago

    Probably performance reasons on mobile. Past 5 large accounts the app probably starts to get slow
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    by mronge 14y ago

    The cost of living difference between Minneapolis and San Francisco is HUGE. For the cost of an apartment in San Francisco you could have a huge house on 1/2 an acre of land in the Minneapolis area. This calculator takes into account more,
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    by mronge 14y ago

    I do not believe this was officially supported by the Sparrow team as he make it seems...