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by odbol_ 10y ago
I made about $10 from app sales of my Android Wear watchfaces https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.odbol.foun... and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.odbol.o
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Please, someone tell Apple so I can stop downloading 4GB to update Xcode.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
But they try to make it hard because they only want the most perseverant/rich immigrants to make it into the country.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Please run your site though an accessibility validator like ACA. At the very least make sure all images have an alt attribute! I feel like so many devs ignore accessibility even though it's not really that hard.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Having done a hardware Kickstarter, I can tell you it's not as easy as just "increase the price". Hardware is hard. We did two crowdfunding campaigns: almost broke even on the first one, and are still in massive debt from the
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by odbol_ 10y ago
You're talking about consumer-facing software though. There's no app for "lettuce".
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Who said they needed to exclusively use artificial lighting? They do have the sun over there, right?
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Well, right now the U.S. has spent about $4 TRILLION on bombing countries in the Middle East... Maybe we could use some of that money for a better purpose. The world has enough money to do these things, it's just a question of prioriti
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by odbol_ 10y ago
How about those people go teach their local kids about science? Or volunteer to take care of the homeless or the elderly? That seems like it would benefit society much more than talking to a few bored people in a checkout line.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Why is a blank under-construction website on the frontpage of Hacker News? This site sometimes...
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by odbol_ 10y ago
I don't think PHP has anything to do with that. Probably more experienced coders (i.e. older, hence PHP), just cranking out great code. Language/stack has nothing to do with it. For example, my day job I work with Android all day
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by odbol_ 10y ago
We used Berkeley Sourcing Group. They have an office in China as well as California. So we gave them all the designs, then they did the work of finding factories to do everything and coordinating them all together all the way up to final as
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Manufacturing in China vs the U.S.: for my company's Kickstarter project, the U.S. was about 5x more expensive. (It's a bit different for electronics). However, after flying me and my co-founder to China, living there for a month
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by odbol_ 10y ago
It's pretty hard, and super expensive. One thing that really helped us is AdEspresso. Give it a few different pictures and blurbs, and it combines them in all possible ways and A/B tests all the combinations. Then you can pick the
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Good, now whenever I need tech support, all I need to do is get my gripes published in a global news site and trend on Hacker News so I can get Google to respond to me...
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Yikes. All the more reason to embrace technologies like the Decentralized Web. The solution to government surveillance is not laws - we've already seen that laws don't stop secret shadow government entities - the only defense is t
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Great! Maybe now I'll stop getting spam connect requests from all these Russians I don't even know...
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by odbol_ 10y ago
You mean compared to just right clicking the top right corner in Chrome? A lot.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Do what Edward Snowden does: physically remove the microphone circuitry from your phone, then plug in earbuds if you ever need a microphone to talk on the phone, etc. I'm guessing he probably didn't buy the new iPhone 7...
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by odbol_ 10y ago
I've already fixed the CSS for hacker news several times; they always reject my suggestions though. It's like they want to keep it shitty
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Plus, you can just go to any garage sale and buy one of the original consoles with 100s of games for like $20
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Even better, only let people own one residence to begin with. If they're not living in it, it's not theirs. That might solve the problem that there are more empty homes in the U.S. than actual homeless people...
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by odbol_ 10y ago
What's innovative about owning land?
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Right, because that's working out so well for them.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Also, no forests or animals.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Be prepared for Trump Towers in every National Forest. It's going to be YUUUUGE.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
We're not talking about capitalism vs. communism. We're talking about capitalism vs. consumerism, aka Planned Obsolescence. Capitalism _could_ produce products (even high-tech products like phones) that last for longer than 2 year
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by odbol_ 10y ago
> pro-life atheist, or a pro-gun liberal, or an anti-war economic conservative You just described Libertarianism
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Even though the best Viners out there make amazing films with Tarentino-level editing in only 6 seconds. Editing is an art - sure you can automate it, but until we have strong AI it's not going to be a substitute for a talented editor.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
haha is this a joke? Apple basically forces you to upgrade your phone every two years, by releasing a mandatory OS update that makes older phones slow as dirt. I'm talking about my mom's 1957 Ford pickup that still runs great toda

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