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by pretz 14y ago
Hmm, really? Looks like consensus is a design flaw is a design flaw.
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by pretz 14y ago
You can consider this an officially sanctioned response.
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by pretz 14y ago
I work for Yelp, and it sounds like we screwed up. Apologies that we weren't able to get this woman into the MySQL event. We're obviously reviewing our security procedures to make sure they are more sane and sensitive for next time.
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by pretz 14y ago
Key phrase in OP: "at the same time as the show airs"
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by pretz 14y ago
Not a complete list, but this is a tricked out wine used by many many games: http://transgaming.com/cider/games
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by pretz 15y ago
Also, more advanced technology is going to be much more expensive when it first hits market than simpler refinements on existing technology. The boom box was a significant price reduction from the standard hi-fi setup of the 70s. Cell phone
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Apportable's Objective-C Foundation Library for Android(github.com)
2 points by pretz 15y ago|0 comments
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Parcelgen: A Code Generator for Android Data Objects(engineeringblog.yelp.com)
8 points by pretz 15y ago|2 comments
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by pretz 16y ago
The article is about fossils found in meteorites that have been on earth for a very long time. I'm not worried about fossilized bacteria taking over Earth's ecosystem.
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by pretz 16y ago
Verify the certificate you get during the SSL connection is the certificate you expect to see.
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Just add points? What UX can (and cannot) learn from games(slideshare.net)
4 points by pretz 16y ago|0 comments
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by pretz 16y ago
This one goes to 11.
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by pretz 16y ago
Trust me, as an app developer it annoys me too that there's no easy way for me to allow users to opt-out of contacts access. Making a second app is just too complicated.
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by pretz 16y ago
Hiring good writers and good editors is expensive. The New Yorker cares much more than most web publications about the quality of their output.
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by pretz 16y ago
Sorry, that's because everything on Pier 39 sucks.
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The PC's High Water Mark(weblog.garyturner.net)
5 points by pretz 16y ago|0 comments
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by pretz 16y ago
That's exactly why this method exists on Android. They have a similar testing tool called Monkey: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/monkey.h...
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mrjob: Yelp open sources its Elastic MapReduce framework for Python(engineeringblog.yelp.com)
101 points by pretz 16y ago|13 comments
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by pretz 16y ago
http://alex.turnlav.net/yarg/ OS X interface for rsync. One of those pet projects I never found the time to give the polish it needs. Github: http://github.com/Pretz/Yarg
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by pretz 16y ago
And by creating an incredibly polished, good-looking, easy to use, accessible game. Every part of Angry Birds was clearly tested and iterated on until it was perfect. Half Life 2 is just another first person shooter, they're a dime a dozen
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by pretz 16y ago
Congratulations, you win the Most Misleading Headline of the Day prize!
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by pretz 16y ago
Yes they do, because they don't have a choice. If I pay $570 for an unlocked Nexus One to use on AT&T's network, I still pay the same monthly service price as my friend who bought a $99 subsidized iPhone. I get no advantage for my nice
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Ask HN: Good Android Development Blogs?
9 points by pretz 16y ago|0 comments
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by pretz 16y ago
I'm a developer on a fairly high profile Android app. We target Android 1.5 (the oldest version with significant market share), and we've had very few problems with fragmentation. Our app works just as well on a G1 as it does on a Nexus o
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by pretz 17y ago
Yelp is still hiring. We're in downtown San Francisco. Frontend, backend, iPhone, Android, you name it. Lots of python. http://www.yelp.com/jobs
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by pretz 17y ago
Yelp for iPhone (and Pre, and Android) will do that. You can filter your search results by "Open Now". Of course, we don't have perfect data, but we're trying. (I'm a Yelp developer)
57.
by pretz 17y ago
That 0.005 seconds I saved by not piping cat will significantly increase my productivity! No more wasting time!
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by pretz 17y ago
Hmmm, the the are surprisingly searchable: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3...
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by pretz 17y ago
To me, those results are kind of obvious to anyone who understands garbage collection, array lookups, and method call overhead.
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by pretz 17y ago
Choice Vint Cerf quote: "Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things," said his sarcasm. "If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds."

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