stevenwei

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by stevenwei 14y ago
He doesn't have to be lying, just unaware of how touchscreen calibration works. With resistive and infrared touchscreens, some portion of the screen can be miscalibrated or faulty even if other portions of the screen work correctly. His "ca
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by stevenwei 14y ago
That doesn't actually mean anything. Resistive and infrared touchscreens (especially cheaper ones) can have all sorts of hilarious calibration errors where part of the screen area works perfectly fine, but other parts of the screen are off
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by stevenwei 14y ago
I have to disagree with this one. Just having a mobile stylesheet with a sane font size and clickable link sizes makes a huge difference on most websites. Take this site for example, reading it is quite difficult on a phone, I'm always find
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by stevenwei 14y ago
Are you on a tourist visa? How are you managing to stay for 6 months?
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by stevenwei 14y ago
We're not doing freelance work, rather, we sell software. But we did wait until our sales were sustainable before deciding to travel.
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by stevenwei 14y ago
We're both developers and we work together (a less common situation, I suppose).
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by stevenwei 14y ago
At some (most?) F1 races you can rent out a "Fanvision" unit which is basically a portable tablet that contains live timing and commentary. Unfortunately for us at the Japanese Grand Prix this year it was only available in Japanese... so I
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by stevenwei 14y ago
My girlfriend and I decided to do this last year. We didn't have a house to sell, but we sold our cars, put everything else in storage, and left to see the world. We've been on the road for about 18 months now, and it's been quite a blast.
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by stevenwei 14y ago
Yeah I can't really see the PC market outright dying either. I think it will diminish as there are some use cases where a smartphone/tablet will suffice instead, but in the long term both will continue to coexist. I guess the question is, i
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by stevenwei 14y ago
To me, the user experience issues are the biggest failures of all: - A mail app that opens to a completely blank screen with no cues on how to continue. - An infinite login dialog that doesn't allow you to cancel and back ou
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by stevenwei 14y ago
Honesty, the ActiveRecord approach is fine for the vast majority of use cases - just consider the number of sites built on Rail's ActiveRecord or PHP's Doctrine. This is one case where getting things done is more important than theorist pur
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by stevenwei 14y ago
I agree that the flexible layout approach is pretty nice (and obviously we're seeing Apple move towards this direction with autolayout), but I'm not a big fan of the fragment API. They sounded better in theory than they've worked out in pra
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by stevenwei 14y ago
> To this day iCloud + Core Data support is buggy, poor, and more or less > undocumented (the go-to guide for using it is a thread on the forums dozens > of pages long full of angry devs and overwhelmed Apple eng
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by stevenwei 14y ago
The Mac App Store is a much better comparison than iOS, and it's far from a race to the bottom there. If you look at the Top 100 Grossing apps, only 10 or so are priced at $4.99 or less. Most of the apps are closer to the traditional desk
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by stevenwei 14y ago
It's kind of funny cause his proposed alternative is how Doctrine originally worked... http://docs.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine1/en/lates...
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by stevenwei 14y ago
It's not entirely clear to me that the company is actually going bankrupt. The author of the article seems to imply it, but obviously he's never seen the company's financials. Still, with 11 employees as of July 2012[1] (and fewer now), eve
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by stevenwei 14y ago
I don't see how you could look at an ~11 employee company that made $10M in 2011 and $22M in 2012 selling an iPhone app and consider it a failure. In the world of the App Store I would consider that a huge success. But I guess after Insta
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by stevenwei 14y ago
UIGEA [1]. It basically killed the entire U.S. online poker market. And what little that remained was destroyed by Black Friday [2]. It certainly was possible (with a little bit of study) to make $85k/year playing online poker back then, bu
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by stevenwei 14y ago
You want this guy to move across countries and work for minimum wage on the hope that you'll be able to raise another round of funding in 6 months? Sounds like you're looking for a fourth founder, not a first employee.
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by stevenwei 14y ago
This does not bode well for international users. I've been traveling through Asia for the past year, and the Google-based maps app has been invaluable (and quite accurate) in every country I've been to. On the other hand, my girlfriend just
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by stevenwei 14y ago
Wow, that's a pretty serious burn rate. Isn't Wunderlist/Wunderkit essentially a free todo-list app? How are you planning to monetize into a sustainable business?
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by stevenwei 14y ago
That's ridiculous. Apple's recent 2-3 quarters have been SUPER strong, much more than I would have expected.
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by stevenwei 14y ago
CSS is used for two different things: styling and layout. CSS for styling is great, since you can declare your colors or font sizes or whatever in one place, and easily make changes to them across the board. I don't think many people would
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by stevenwei 14y ago
Are there similar (recent) numbers for tablets yet? I am curious whether the Nexus 7 & Kindle Fire are putting a dent into the iPad's domination of the tablet market.
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by stevenwei 14y ago
Some of the examples are so poorly executed (on Samsung's side) that I can't think of any possible explanation for them beyond pure laziness. For example: 1. Landscape mode is only supported in Memo and Calculator when rotating l
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by stevenwei 14y ago
Hm, I suppose that's a possible explanation. Although since the sales reports provided by Apple already include the 30% cut, I'm more used to developers reporting their net revenues. And the original quote says "we've made more than half a
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by stevenwei 14y ago
Unfortunately iOS/Mac users aren't really willing to pay subscription fees for syncing between devices (or cloud based backups). iCloud/Dropbox has really set the expectation that syncing should be free.
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by stevenwei 14y ago
There are some issues with the numbers in this post: Thus, when Dominique revealed to Ellis Hamburger in August 2011 that Sparrow had made at least $350k in it’s first 6 months in the Mac App Store, they had already been working at least a
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by stevenwei 14y ago
I think (b) and (c) are overly dramatic here. Doomed to work to the end of their lives for a big corporation? These are the guys that just sold their 5 person company for $25M. I don't think people will stop buying indie software on account
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by stevenwei 14y ago
The Mac App Store has a lot less competition and high quality apps have a lot more staying power compared to the iOS App Store. There are fewer apps to crowd you out of the market, and the high quality ones (of which Sparrow definitely qu

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