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Building Carousel: How we made our networked mobile app feel fast and local(tech.dropbox.com)
98 points by spoletto 12y ago|16 comments
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Show HN: I open soured my iPhone app, SquareQuote(github.com)
1 points by spoletto 14y ago|0 comments
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by spoletto 14y ago
Do you know about http://www.reddit.com/r/history ? There are subreddits for many different interests. I've found them to be of similar quality to HN. Great communities of people communicating around a shared interest. :)
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by spoletto 14y ago
This is my favorite commencement speech. I've revisited it many times. Each time I do, it adds perspective to the way I live my life. I thought HN might enjoy it as well. :)
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The Wonder Of It All(dropbox.com)
1 points by spoletto 14y ago|1 comments
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by spoletto 14y ago
If I understand correctly, the browser stores a certificate that proves you own your email address. These certificates are only valid for a certain amount of time, even if you check that you own this computer. So what happens when your cert
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by spoletto 14y ago
I'm basically using Bit.ly as a key-value store and short URL generator. The Billr server doesn't maintain a database.
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by spoletto 14y ago
The images that are being sent contain the amounts, tax, subtotal, tip and total for up to 16 individual people. Here's an example: http://billr.me/J7W5uY
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by spoletto 14y ago
S3 is pretty cheap as well. $0.125 per GB of storage. Considering the images are ~80KB on average, S3 hosting is also just pennies per month. :)
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Using AWS and Bit.ly to Eliminate Server State(stephenpoletto.tumblr.com)
15 points by spoletto 14y ago|12 comments
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Show HN: Course assignment I authored for creating a websocket-based tether app(cs.brown.edu)
3 points by spoletto 14y ago|0 comments
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by spoletto 15y ago
Glad to hear it! Let me know if you have any feedback on how it works!
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by spoletto 15y ago
I experimented with Tesseract OCR: https://github.com/rcarlsen/Pocket-OCR/ In my field studies, I found it was not very reliable. Text recognition would often fail even on printed receipts. Also, several of the restaurants I went to used
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by spoletto 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'm working on other problems as well, but this was a real pain point for me last semester. I'm a senior in college and eat out in groups quite frequently. It's always a real pain when the check comes and everyone s
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Show HN: My side project for splitting restaurant bills(billr.me)
22 points by spoletto 15y ago|7 comments
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The "coolness" of self-abuse and the importance of balance(astaticvoid.com)
2 points by spoletto 15y ago|0 comments
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Announcing the iOS 5 Tech Talk World Tour 2011(developer.apple.com)
3 points by spoletto 15y ago|0 comments