shuttlebrad

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by shuttlebrad 12y ago
It's a reference to Aphyr's blog series on partitions in distributed application - http://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-an... . It's a great series and seems to have raised the level
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by shuttlebrad 14y ago
Depends heavily on what you're letting people do, and how long they're going to spend doing it. Games tend to have smaller numbers of "verbs", and longer engagement times - for a superb example of progressive teaching, play through the Por
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by shuttlebrad 14y ago
He's probably referring to the idea that much of the complexity around today is not particularly useful - in particular, that programming with values rather than variables makes understanding a program substantially easier. Simple Made
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by shuttlebrad 15y ago
We geeks typically place too much importance on the fidelity of the experience: on the idea that the kindle itself feels cheap, or the music from the (standard) iPhone headphones is poor quality. Most people just don't care - they want to
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by shuttlebrad 15y ago
The "so-and-so read site X" thing will make this really transparent to people, really quickly. Its creepy how much "Friend X has read article Y on the Guardian" is happening.
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by shuttlebrad 15y ago
Well, the fiddly part so far seems to be that's set to a single level (announce/don't announce) and every different app needs its own mute button. Spotify, for example, will happily announce to the world whatever you happen to be listenin
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by shuttlebrad 15y ago
Compare $20 to the cost of 1. working out how to do it yourself 2. ironing out any kinks in your homegrown solution 3. worrying about it 2am. Totally worthwhile. (edit: formatting)
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by shuttlebrad 15y ago
While the app's a work in progress (and if you forgive the shameless shill), Splitsies ( http://splitsies.net ) does more or less the same thing and is freely available in the App Store. Doesn't do groups yet (because I haven't worked out h
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by shuttlebrad 15y ago
Actually, that's a UI issue ;) In the web or mobile app, just click the "delete" icon next to "you" when adding a bill. And yes, we've got a way clearer and sexier UI in the pipeline.
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by shuttlebrad 15y ago
We're looking at it. I'll probably go for mobile web first - 1 developer and a backlog of essential work that needs to be done. But I hear the call for Android, its definitely on the urgent list. (edit to respond to edit) What do you mean
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by shuttlebrad 15y ago
My take on the problem has been live since end November (yeah, working on the marketing & design side now). http://splitsies.net/
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by shuttlebrad 15y ago
Interesting: if I may ask, what lead to the decision?
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by shuttlebrad 15y ago
Interesting - it looks really similar to my app Splitsies which launched late last year: http://splitsies.net/ - it'll be interesting to see how their dependence on Facebook connect works out for you.
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by shuttlebrad 16y ago
The only two major issues for me are * search: the built-in one takes ages compared to remote search. I understand that it makes the search behaviour the same both locally and remotely, but its still a hassle to have really slow search l