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by vegashacker 14y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but does anyone in SF who rides public transportation agree that Google's Map directions in terms of time predictions don't work? Like they're almost always completely wrong. I wonder if they use scheduled bus times inst
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by vegashacker 14y ago
But there's no way app.net is going to be Twitter without ads if you have to pay $50/year for it. It may be Super Small Niche Twitter, but it won't come close to being actual Twitter in numbers.
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by vegashacker 14y ago
Seeing those big squares was startling (in a good way). It was like, of course! Why have tiny little horizontal cells on a tablet spreadsheet? And with calendar widget datatypes, images, iPhone data entry... Lots of clever happening here.
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by vegashacker 14y ago
I like the one called Mayday ( http://www.apple.com/mac/videos/#tv-ads-mayday ). The awkward delivery of "I'm a genius" comes off as sincere modesty, in contrast to the condescenion of Justin Long's "I'm a Mac" character. This is actually c
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by vegashacker 14y ago
We tried to change the name of our page from "Hit Tennis 2" to "Hit Tennis". (After releasing Hit Tennis 3, we realized a per version FB page was silly.) We were asked to explain the change and it was denied (as I recall they said it could
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by vegashacker 14y ago
The OP says that they are not accusing FB of using bots to drive up revenue.
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by vegashacker 14y ago
Ha. Never thought of that. But no, it's not a feature in the sense of something that was designed with this goal in mind. It's a way of not having to design and implement a whole url scheme, and instead being able to easily run arbitrary
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by vegashacker 14y ago
Sold. So is the Nike the one to get? I thought I had read that people didn't like that one?
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by vegashacker 14y ago
Is this related to this project? http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Cubescape/new.php Design looks the same.
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by vegashacker 14y ago
Someone's gotta be first, right? And if it did work, the payoff could be huge. I see what you're saying tho--we're hesitant as well. I would love to see an example of an iOS app released that integrates Betable. This FAQ ( https://betable.f
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by vegashacker 14y ago
Yeah I see what you mean. The title was designed to be catchy. Our previous app with a lot of users though was only one of our "bullets". The cross promotion idea is probably something more people can do than they realize. Also having an ap
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How we got to #2 in App Store without spending any money(markj.net)
6 points by vegashacker 14y ago|2 comments
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by vegashacker 14y ago
The articles headline quotes "confusion", implying to me that Facebook used that word in their explanation. But the quote given in the article ("That is likely...") doesn't use the word "confusion"--and in fact, is a lot less incendiary.
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by vegashacker 14y ago
If you download it and get it in iTunes on your computer (either via syncing or downloading it there in the first place), then you can inspect the package yourself pretty easily. But in my experience, 2.74mb is not a large iOS app.
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by vegashacker 15y ago
"fee speech": I realize it's a typo but it's a cool phrase. Kind of 1984-y. I wonder what it means--"pay to say"?
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Proposed NYC park would be underground in old trolley terminal(nytimes.com)
37 points by vegashacker 15y ago|5 comments
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by vegashacker 15y ago
FYI, even if you click cancel it will still advertise you to your friends ("Rob uses this app" in the bottom left corner of the signup popup). Which seems pretty questionable. I verified with two other friends--I saw both of them in the "so
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by vegashacker 15y ago
I didn't know about Kindles being already logged in. That's clever--"out-Apple-ing Apple". I'd worry a bit about package thieves but that's probably mostly irrational.
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by vegashacker 15y ago
With SVN, probably, but the branching just feels heavyweight so sometimes it's hard to motivate. Git with the "git flow" addon seems like it'd be a better fit for you. Being able to checkin in "to your feature", as opposed to waiting till i
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by vegashacker 15y ago
Check out MOG. They have some sort of free option.
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by vegashacker 15y ago
He's talking about after having clicked "log out". I don't think the "keep me logged in" button factors in here (though I could be wrong).
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by vegashacker 15y ago
I've dropped my caseless iPhone 4 on sidewalks and other hard surfaces a handful of times. It's gotten dinged up, but nothing's cracked.
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by vegashacker 15y ago
"How to Design Programs" ( http://htdp.org/ ) is aimed at beginners. I haven't read it, but the people behind it are top quality.
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by vegashacker 15y ago
Is that "50 million total downloads" number right? It seems low. Especially considering they have 10 million active users on those 50 million downloads. Really? 1 out of every 5 downloads of Bump generates an active user? I feel like a zero
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by vegashacker 15y ago
Imagine the mainstream media using the word “hacker” for what it really means... That'd be very cool indeed.
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by vegashacker 15y ago
The "suggested recipes" idea is the rare kind of upsell that I would love to be offered. I never know what to buy at the grocery store, so I always end up buying the same 20 or so items.
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by vegashacker 15y ago
How would you actually go about giving them 5%? It seems very complicated. Presumably it's after Apple's cut. There are also expenses. Is it a handshake deal? Is there a legal document? Is it 5% for all time? What about tax considerations s
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Zediva forced to suspend DVD over-the-internet rentals(zediva.com)
1 points by vegashacker 15y ago|0 comments
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by vegashacker 15y ago
This is sort of what you're looking for: http://www.paulgraham.com/vwplan.html
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by vegashacker 15y ago
The interest here (for most people I assume) is the YC funding they got in 08. (Or "O8" as it seems to be written in the headline.)

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