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by stevenp 14y ago
That's me! Thanks for the kind words! I'm currently working on routing, and hope to have something ready to ship really soon. :)
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by stevenp 14y ago
Latitude is already available for iOS. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-latitude/id306586497?m...
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by stevenp 14y ago
Will there be a sequel? I want to be in it! :) I'm sure there are lots of us here that would be happy to participate.
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by stevenp 14y ago
Right now transit directions are dead in the water since nothing in the App Store supports the new API yet.
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by stevenp 15y ago
"stant" is for "instant".
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by stevenp 15y ago
You seriously think they don't? I refuse to believe that design decisions like this are made with absolutely zero feedback or human input. Google is an incredibly data-driven company. They always have been. Design changes can serve a multit
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by stevenp 15y ago
It's interesting -- I've been living in a furnished rental in Hawaii for the last few months where I have a very small TV (maybe 22"?) and I've had my Apple TV hooked up to it since I got here. Before the update, I found it very hard to rea
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by stevenp 15y ago
Dealing with nasty user feedback like this is one of the most painful parts of running a product. It still amazes me how many people refuse to consider the fact that there are humans on the other end of the computer. Instead, a lot of these
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by stevenp 15y ago
My experience working with Solr is that a lot of the time people don't have a good working knowledge of how to optimize an index because it's so easy not to. At my last job, the initial implementation they we involved storing the full text
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by stevenp 15y ago
Interesting. Does that mean that the companies like Placebase (which Apple acquired) weren't generating their own map data? I guess I just assumed that they were, but the small amount of info I can find on them now makes it seem unclear.
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by stevenp 15y ago
We know that Apple is working on using their own map technology based on some of their acquisitions. Is it possible that OSM is just a stop-gap until their own maps are ready to go? Perhaps they didn't want to enter into another licensing a
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by stevenp 15y ago
I noticed this today on Usenet. I've switched to downloading all my TV from torrent sites to Usenet because it's much more reliable. Everything old is new again. It's nice to see that the animated shows I enjoy like Family Guy are available
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by stevenp 15y ago
There's a difference between downloading music (albeit illegally) and taking someone else's work and trying to pass it off as your own. When I download a Duran Duran album, I don't post it on my website and claim that I made the album and a
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100,000 Grindr users exposed in hack attack(smh.com.au)
2 points by stevenp 15y ago|0 comments
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by stevenp 15y ago
Great. Now, thanks to Space Quest III, I will not get any work done this month.
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by stevenp 15y ago
I too was one of the contributing authors on iPhone Cool Projects and I also had to run around chasing people to get paid my "advance" months after the book had already been published. I did have a contract in place before starting, but A
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Open letter to fab.com: It's a beautiful idea, but delivery is better(citizenal.posterous.com)
1 points by stevenp 15y ago|0 comments
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by stevenp 15y ago
The design of this blog reminds me why I rely so heavily on Instapaper to read blog posts. It's as though someone etched a blog post into the surface of an IKEA desk. I'm sure that you put a lot of time into this post, so you shouldn't dist
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by stevenp 15y ago
The fact that foursquare was beating Gowalla 100:1 is proof that you don't have to have a better, more fun-to-use, better designed product in order to win in the market. My love affair with Gowalla was prematurely extinguished when they piv
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by stevenp 15y ago
Let me be the first sourpuss to say that "Get your shit in order" is a bit jarring for a headline. In order to use a phrase like that, I think you need to balance it with something that offsets the shock, and you don't have so much as a scr
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by stevenp 15y ago
That pull quote blew me away. This guy comes across as totally arrogant, plain and simple. Even Steve Jobs, who Nguyen apparently worships, got inspiration from other people's products. If nothing else, this article is a great warning again
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Tasting Fractals: True Confessions of a Synesthete(geneticjungle.com)
1 points by stevenp 15y ago|0 comments
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by stevenp 15y ago
Thank God. I'm not used to stories like this having this kind of ending, so this is a welcome sigh of relief. Seeing how her friends and coworkers cared enough to start a massive online campaign to help find her reminded me of the importanc
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How to Put Off Making Decisions About Your Life(chrisguillebeau.com)
2 points by stevenp 15y ago|0 comments
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by stevenp 15y ago
Gorgeous. It looks like the bulk of the functionality here is made possible by jQuery Waypoints ( http://imakewebthings.github.com/jquery-waypoints/ ). The custom script that contains the bulk of the in-page logic is pretty basic. I'll defi
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by stevenp 15y ago
I highly recommend that you consider having a designer (or a different designer) take a stab at your icon. It's the first thing people notice when looking at your app, and right now it's pretty unappealing. The app itself and your website l
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by stevenp 15y ago
My personal rule of thumb has always been: "When it stops being fun and starts being work, it's time to find something new." I try to keep my count at "zero" hours as much as possible.
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by stevenp 15y ago
I've never personally been able to get any use out of the voice control feature of iOS. In fact, after trying it a few times, the only time I invoke it now is by accident. I hope that Apple kicks some major ass on this feature and creates a
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by stevenp 15y ago
Don't miss the tiny footnote at the bottom that mentions that they repeatedly spelled his name "Macro" and his website "Macro.org" in correspondence. These BI guys are truly a class act.
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Labeling iOS' Back Button(macstories.net)
2 points by stevenp 15y ago|0 comments

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