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by novum 13y ago
I live in SF and it's certainly far from perfect. California no doubt has its share of problems too. But as noted in comments below, I would never -- not ever -- consider living in a state run by people like Rick Perry.
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Bugshot(marco.org)
14 points by novum 13y ago|0 comments
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by novum 13y ago
I don't think there's any malicious intent. In my demographic, (almost) all events are set up through FB because your friend graph, mass-invites, and guest lists are built in. My flatmate's boyfriend is fond of throwing large
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by novum 13y ago
FB has, over the years, gradually lost my trust until I deleted my account in November 2010 after having been a member since late 2004 when FB was college-only. As a 20-something living in SF, it's a daily thing now: I don't get i
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by novum 13y ago
The first screen on the app store shows the movement control: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mudrammer-a-modern-mud-clien... Also here: http://splinesoft.net
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by novum 13y ago
It is my own MUD-specific implementation for cardinal directions. Next up is a gesture for up/down. :)
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by novum 13y ago
Thanks! I'm also looking to do gestures for Aliases, commands, and assisted key entry. MUSHes in particular use characters %@&*= that are just awful on the iOS keyboard.
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by novum 13y ago
It may surprise some HNers to learn that there are still thousands of MUDs online today in many different settings: fantasy, sci-fi, absurdist, and more, some of them with hundreds of players on concurrently. And not just MUDs, but MUCKs, M
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by novum 14y ago
I used Billmonk for years with my flatmates until, sometime last year, their site became so consistently unreliable -- and often unreachable -- that we moved to a competitor (splitwise). I heard nothing from Billmonk for months until this o
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by novum 14y ago
Thanks! I wanted to include some of the more popular MUDs, but not so many as to be overwhelming for newbies. 1.0.1 is already with Apple and I've got some really exciting gesture-based movement coming up in 1.1. Reviews are always apprecia
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by novum 14y ago
Clickable: http://appstore.com/mudrammeramodernmudclient http://splinesoft.net/ I'm hard at work on 1.0.1. I'd like to do gesture-based movement (e.g. diagonal swipe up and left to go northwest) in a manner that doesn't interfere with s
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Show HN: My first iOS app, a modern MUD client for iPhone and iPad
6 points by novum 14y ago|5 comments
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by novum 14y ago
Sheesh, talk about a hostile reading experience. Dismiss the overlay: document.getElementById("overlay").style.display="none";
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by novum 14y ago
> Seriously? Hahahaha, no. This is an absolutely terrible idea, please don't ever do this! Last paragraph. :)
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by novum 14y ago
Tim Cook. ...and a world-class supply chain, which might best be summarized as: Tim Cook.
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by novum 14y ago
Nonsense. I've been using Sparrow as my primary email client and I don't use GMail. I like the GMail-esque concept of archiving items out of your inbox and ultimately aiming for inbox zero. It works on third-party IMAP just as it does on GM
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by novum 14y ago
Osfoora for Mac and other desktop twitter clients do this too. I'm fairly certain it's a requirement imposed by Twitter.
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by novum 14y ago
I'm an alumnus of H&SS. I majored in Information Systems, which is (amusingly, I still think) in H&SS rather than the Tepper School of Business or the School of Computer Science. Sure, we had some occasional teasing ("H and Less Str
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by novum 14y ago
Private conversations, family photos, and records of road trips, births, marriages, and deaths all stream into the company's servers and lodge there. Facebook has collected the most extensive data set ever assembled on human social behavio
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by novum 14y ago
A commenter noted on a previous thread that Opera owns fastmail.fm - I had no idea. I've been very happy with fastmail since migrating away from GMail earlier this year — I bought 5 full years' worth of custom domain service just a week int
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by novum 14y ago
I wonder the same about mobile web apps. Why try so hard to make the visual design and user experience so similar to a native app...when you're not a native app? I'm sure LinkedIn spent an inordinate amount of time tweaking javascript to ap
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by novum 15y ago
The app looks incredible, but you can't get past the splash screen without one of those bookfaces. This is the first time I've been completely locked out of an iOS app I wanted to use for not being on FB. One wonders why they feature a twit
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by novum 15y ago
> I've yet to figure out whether I can activate voice control for dialing, but that'd be even better. Long hold on the headphone button.
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by novum 15y ago
Facebook calculates an "edge rank" for each piece of content based on metrics such as likes, comments, post time, content type, and so on. Edge rank is used, among other things, to determine the likelihood of a given piece of content appear
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by novum 16y ago
I like the idea and signed up. I set a small (20x20) image as my background and was dismayed to see it sad and alone in the center of a black background. Could you add an option to tile background images?
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by novum 16y ago
I waste enough time on HN already, thanks.
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by novum 16y ago
> 4. The community is often snobbish and out of touch with how the other half lives. I suspect this is endemic to many (most?) community sites, especially as they grow. HN is no exception. > 5. It’s a time suck. That one’s self-expl
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by novum 16y ago
I have several fake Twitter and Facebook accounts I keep around for exactly this reason. I certainly wouldn't connect my real accounts without knowing exactly what they plan (not) to do with my identity. Edit: "I love Dropbox because it giv
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by novum 16y ago
Because he's designing the next iPad. Several people on his team have left Apple for very lucrative careers as designers and engineers at hardware or design firms. It's a phenomenal boost to your career.
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by novum 16y ago
Secrecy: Apple's secrecy is comparable to the U.S. government's in terms of "need to know" and compartmentalization. This. My roommate is a hardware engineer on the iPad team, and he won't even confirm that there will be another iPad. He

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