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by pak 16y ago
These are all great points. Re: filtering, this needs to be better documented, agreed. "present"==="field exists for row, with any value". There's a distinction between empty grey and empty white cells that we tried to make but it may not
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by pak 16y ago
It actually includes a simplified integrated database that is built on top of Amazon's SimpleDB. (Try going to Configure and then the Data tab.) SOAP is currently our best option for external data integration. We are also contemplating t
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by pak 16y ago
OK, I've added a way to contact me. My real name actually is Pak, first name Ted.
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We're working on compatibility with the iPad, when we began working on this the only iOS devices were small screened and we had no hope of ever making this useful there... now that the iPad is out, well that changes things, and we hope to s
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by pak 16y ago
Hey HN, I was the creator and lead developer of this project, and we've been rolling it out for launch over the last few weeks. The homepage is: http://quickfuseapps.com/ We think it's really neat stuff--it basically takes the web mashup
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by pak 16y ago
Yeah, sharing links to your apps should work. If you make an app without creating an account, it is publicly shareable for about 1 day. Whoever creates an account to save it will take ownership, and then it becomes private.
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by pak 16y ago
We used jQuery UI as a framework, but built a lot of custom widgets for the wires, modules, nodes, receptors, etc. Yahoo Pipes was certainly an inspiration for our design, but we rethought the concepts behind using wires (using them as a
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QuickFuse(quickfuseapps.com)
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by pak 16y ago
All of what you are talking about is majorly dependent on the field of development and the tools currently available. Python isn't available or practical for everything. Try this: http://quickfuseapps.com/app/edit It's for building voice
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by pak 16y ago
Hey fellow hackers, This is a platform for building voice apps in a drag and drop editor. You can probably see that inspiration was drawn from Yahoo Pipes, and a few other graphical programming languages. The entire interface is all JQuer
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by pak 16y ago
I assume this is a jailbroken iPad, so most iOS users will never know this even exists. There's just too much cool stuff in the jailbroken world that will never make it to the legitimate side...
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by pak 16y ago
Surprise, Bolt Bus is a 50/50 venture between Greyhound and Peter Pan.
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by pak 16y ago
What's wrong with Chicago? Chicago was genius. Old Macs had black and white screens, no grayscale. But grayed-out text was a necessity for showing disabled or unavailable items in the desktop GUI Apple was developing. Most bitmapped fon
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by pak 16y ago
another significant drawback of JavaScript layout is that it creates very noticeable flash-of-unstyled-content, since the page isn't being laid out incrementally.
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by pak 16y ago
Wouldn't that depend on which direction you are being observed from?
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You got lucky. Every sane ticket-taking venue, especially in New York, scans the barcodes. I am rather surprised that that particular venue accepts a printed sheet of paper at its word.
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by pak 16y ago
This is abusive, not clever. Anything that forces you to code things as opaque string literals that get eval'ed is not a good idea. The next person to come along is going to wonder "what is this doing inside a string? what is r?" You als
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by pak 16y ago
I was about to cite the second law of thermodynamics. I don't think people are on the whole bad to each other, but the ones that are can ruin it for everybody too easily in the absence of rules. Your example is perfect.
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by pak 16y ago
+1 for RT. It's gotten a little prettier since 3.8: http://blog.bestpractical.com/2008/07/today-were-rele.html#s... Incredibly powerful, free, customizable. Expect to learn a little Perl if you want to integrate with external systems, a
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by pak 16y ago
The point of that, really, was that Jobs shouldn't need to convince anybody about Apple's decisions, the products of the company speak for themselves. It's not as much an ad hominem as a "if you don't like my decisions Ryan, go make your o
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by pak 16y ago
If you made a site and showed it to a guy that made a similar site now valued at $20B, you'd probably think about it a lot. I think one of the main takeaways here is that an initial media backlash is the fastest way to kill a social site lo
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by pak 16y ago
I've already read it. The scrollbar itself is pretty, but you cannot exactly capture the precision of a mousewheel or in my case, a two-finger scroll event. For me, the two-finger scroll speed is disturbingly faster than other windows t
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by pak 16y ago
Can't wait for the day when even messages get exposed bit by bit to APIs and third parties. It will get slipped in as a default one day, and before you know it...
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I think it's a cardinal sin for Cappuccino to replace native scrollbars and native scrolling. Maybe your UI gets to look a teeny bit more unified, but scrolling is almost as primitive an interaction as mousing. It is carefully tuned on ev
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by pak 16y ago
FSJ continually refers to him as an Apple employee which never fails to crack me up.
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by pak 16y ago
If you miss the flying toasters, you can get a Quartz Composer screensaver that imitates it for free from http://uneasysilence.com/toast/ . The only thing that bothers me is that the toasters don't fly in quite the same pattern, but it's
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by pak 16y ago
Whoever figures out a way to controlledly repeat this little freefall will get insanely rich. If you knew the DJIA or ACN were going to take these dives, shorting the market for this period would have made scads of money. It pains me to th
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by pak 16y ago
These folks just went from my list of websites I dread visiting to "damn, that is some sweet technology".
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The intrinsic reason that web layout is particularly hard to do in an IDE is because the interactions between JS, HTML, and CSS are hard to fully represent in an editor. There is no simplistic, uniform layout system as you'd find in Cocoa
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by pak 16y ago
Great idea, certainly ambitious, but concerned at how intuitive it actually is to use. For instance, I'm looking at your Logic Editor screenshots and I have no idea what any of them are actually doing. It seems to be on the minimalist side

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