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Clever way to get free Internet service from Comcast(vinhboy.com)
2 points by starnix17 16y ago|0 comments
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by starnix17 16y ago
He said on Twitter that he was working with a contractor on it, but it fell through. I think my app has polish, and it's slowly getting better, but most of it based on the official app adapted to Android UX patterns. Either way, Marco is ni
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by starnix17 16y ago
Hard Copy - Unofficial Instapaper client: http://www.appbrain.com/app/hard-copy-instapaper-app/com.ton... It's a fun project to get into Android with. I imagine that my pizza/date money income from the project is going to disappear now th
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$250,000-a-day Minecraft strikes indie game gold(texyt.com)
254 points by starnix17 16y ago|112 comments
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by starnix17 16y ago
How so? People weren't willing to pay it?
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by starnix17 16y ago
Metafilter's $5 sign-up fee is incredibly smart. I imagine it brings in a decent amount of income and it really keeps the community top notch.
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by starnix17 16y ago
Yeah, it's really not much of a problem. Especially now that Google is working on their own push notification service there really shouldn't be a need for that many background services.
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by starnix17 16y ago
I believe the fast app switching is more or less the same, but Android lets developers write services that can do anything in the background, isn't iOS limited to just audio or VOIP? For example, I can't write an app to download new tweets
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by starnix17 16y ago
I like Disqus and how easy it is to implement, but does anyone else feel like it is cluttered? I don't want a commenting system that allows me to "like" comments, vote them up or down, subscribe via email, etc. To be fair though, I'm sure a
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by starnix17 16y ago
I wonder why Conde Nast even bought reddit in the first place. It's cool that they let them run the web site as an independent entity more or less, but it really seems like they don't like supporting them (see Reddit Gold).
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by starnix17 16y ago
I know most people always comment on how the Diaspora project is destined to fail, and they're probably right. However, there's no denying how awesome it is that a few college kids can raise over $100,000 like this to build their project. E
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There Is No Philadelphia Blog Tax… Just A Philadelphia Everything Tax(window.punkave.com)
2 points by starnix17 16y ago|0 comments
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by starnix17 16y ago
On a more positive note, does this mean he is working on Facebook's Android app? If so, that's great, it's really _really_ terrible.
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On Philly’s “blog tax”(seanblanda.com)
2 points by starnix17 16y ago|0 comments
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by starnix17 16y ago
Foursquare's response: http://blog.foursquare.com/post/990202740/changes-to-our-aut... tl;dr version: Implementing HTTPS, should be live in "coming weeks'.
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by starnix17 16y ago
You can, but it's not easy and it's definitely not something a normal consumer would do. Although I imagine the people buying the Nexus Ones from the developer site aren't normal consumers.
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by starnix17 16y ago
The Nexus One is the only modern Android phone (besides the original Motorola Droid) that runs pure Android- it doesn't have any of the additional software like HTC Sense or Motorola Blur. It's also usually the first to receive updates, it
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by starnix17 16y ago
I'm not sure of the hours, but I would definitely make more money of I was doing contract work for someone else.
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by starnix17 16y ago
40%-50% seems standard, some novelty apps my friends have out only have like a 20%-20% install rate
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by starnix17 16y ago
Not really, I have this: http://endlesswhileloop.com/apps/ but it's more of just a web page that lists everything.
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My experience selling apps on the Android Market(blog.endlesswhileloop.com)
34 points by starnix17 16y ago|13 comments
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by starnix17 16y ago
It's pretty cool that vim has had the same lead developer running the project for nearly 20 years. It's also pretty cool how he asks for donations to be sent to nonprofits instead of himself. I know this is irrelevant to the new release, bu
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by starnix17 16y ago
Whoops, disregard my comment, thanks for point that out.
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by starnix17 16y ago
I agree with your tethering comment, but FWIW there are a handful of tethering apps you can get without rooting Android that allow any user to tether for free.
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by starnix17 16y ago
Oh wow, thanks. It's definitely not as good as the Instapaper iPhone app, but I've been tweaking it over time and it's slowly getting better and better :-).
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by starnix17 16y ago
The sad thing about task killers is how many "normal" people will end up using them because some salesperson for carrier X has told them to do so. Go to a Verizon store and look at their Android phones, I bet most of them have a task killer
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by starnix17 16y ago
It's just one app, it's a third party Instapaper client (there's no official Instapaper app for Android [yet]) http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.tonycosentini.hardcopypro
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by starnix17 16y ago
FWIW, I went from making $20 a month on Android apps to $100 a month in the past two months or so. I wonder if developers that actually sell mass amounts of apps are noticing this too?
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by starnix17 16y ago
Some other funny quotes from the article: "It is optimized to run smoothly over 14.4 kilobit/second modems as well as higher bandwidth lines, delivering performance at least ten times that of other network browsers." "Native support for the
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Ask HN: What are some good GoDaddy alternatives?
16 points by starnix17 16y ago|19 comments

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