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Parental Control for iOS (my weekend project)(mocava.de)
10 points by vpdn 14y ago|16 comments
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by vpdn 14y ago
For github, I would add advertising as a source of revenue. From looking at the september data, github jobs seems to add around $1.2m per year to the bottom line.
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by vpdn 14y ago
"The kind of typography I’m talking about is not your typical “What font should I use” typography but rather your “knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash” typography." Is there a good solution to the first problem? I constantly
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by vpdn 14y ago
There seems to be currently two entries of the same story on the main page ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4504246 ). In case someone here has kids and would be interested: I'm creating ToddlerTube, a YouTube iPad app for young kids.
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by vpdn 14y ago
They might have just set the priority differently, given the time and resource constraints.
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by vpdn 14y ago
I started building ToddlerTube, a YouTube iPad app for kids. The first minimal version is almost finished. Is anyone with kids maybe interested in helping beta testing it? Some more info in the google docs form: http://goo.gl/nYIGD Backgr
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Why you should travel(convergemagazine.com)
3 points by vpdn 14y ago|0 comments
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As We May Think (predictions from 1945)(m.theatlantic.com)
2 points by vpdn 14y ago|1 comments
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How much does animation cost?(blog.milowerx.com)
2 points by vpdn 14y ago|0 comments
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by vpdn 15y ago
> Really, there's no excuse for a company that awash in cash to ship shoddy tools. I think money isn't really the issue here. Just as throwing people at a late project won't make it finish in time throwing money at a crappy product does
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by vpdn 15y ago
> Objective-C the language has always been extremely portable. Is there some inherent feature of the language that would make it more portable than others?
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There is nothing better in the world than getting paid to do what you love?(youarenotsosmart.com)
1 points by vpdn 15y ago|1 comments
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Guy creates lightbulbs out of water bottles(youtube.com)
3 points by vpdn 15y ago|0 comments
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IPad App Marketing Case Study: Flickpad(mobileorchard.com)
1 points by vpdn 15y ago|0 comments
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by vpdn 15y ago
There's something that they can do, it's written as the first option: "On our side: if Sparrow was to do Push today, we would have to store your credentials (login/password) on our servers to frequently poll your accounts, and send you noti
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by vpdn 15y ago
Not giving a discount of 50cents on the 400$ suit makes the other guy look even more like a dick. So this might be the easiest 50cents you've earned.
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by vpdn 15y ago
Even if you don't use facebook, you should probably have an account to see the mechanics of it. It's mind boggling how a product is able to attract 800 million people, with 50% of the users logging in on any given day. There's something to
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by vpdn 15y ago
I had the chance to work with some amazing illustrators before. It's actually not very hard to find them, just go to the places where they usually hang out. For the kind of designers I'm looking for, that would be deviantart and to a lesser
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by vpdn 15y ago
In Germany, it's way below $250. According to GULP, the largest freelancing website here, the average is around 71EUR/h (around 90USD).
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by vpdn 15y ago
"it would probably also be very sensitive to market changes in demand for developers / designers." So is your market rate as a freelancer.
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by vpdn 15y ago
"If you buy Lifepath, I'll give you some of my time to help you do whatever you want to do with it." For me, this would be the most interesting part of the auction, which makes me wonder whether well-known designers (and coders) could aucti
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by vpdn 15y ago
I tend to listen to people's app ideas when their ideas revolve around their life or area of expertise. For the rest of us, it's easier to start as a competitor in a big market than to envision a latent need and build a product around it. I
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Ask HN: How do you read/parse HN comments?
4 points by vpdn 15y ago|1 comments
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by vpdn 15y ago
http://tastytum.com - One week event in Berlin to match hosts and locals over food. Assumption is that an event like this might be less scary compared to AirBnB style of renting your flat away. If someone is in Berlin and interested to ho
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by vpdn 15y ago
> Internet infrastructure here isn't great I was in Vietnam last year for a longer trip (worked remotely for a client in Germany). I found the internet to be working extremely well in Saigon, so it might just be your region. For two we
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Ed Catmull, Pixar: Keep Your Crises Small (youtube.com)
2 points by vpdn 15y ago|0 comments
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How To Ask Questions The Smart Way(catb.org)
3 points by vpdn 15y ago|0 comments
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by vpdn 15y ago
I see two potential target groups here. One focuses on the developer and tries to solve the data storage and synchronization procedure. In that field, I'm not sure what the benefits of your solution are. Could you elaborate on how it is dif
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by vpdn 15y ago
"I’ve been lucky enough to run a company that’s been profitable for 23 years, so I developed the habit of doing things that way [..] That’s a way of doing business, that if you think about it, computes much better than getting tens of milli
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by vpdn 15y ago
How can you tell that it's being downvoted? (And yes, I do miss the points next to comments or other, better means to filter for useful comments)

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