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by ydant 16y ago
I never really fell in love with delicious (partly because I could never remember where to put the dots). I have, however, found a good bit of use out of Historious lately. StavrosK is quick to mention it (he did in another Historious threa
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by ydant 16y ago
I find this interesting as well. It's a rare song that I like /because/ of the lyrics (or even despite the lyrics). For the most part they are just part of the music - another instrument adding complexity to the song. Despite that, I can't
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by ydant 16y ago
Yes, but no Android market . I've been waiting for this for a while, but without the market place I'm not sure if I'll jump on it. They screwed up getting me a reasonable expectation of when it'd ship long enough. I made the plunge. I bough
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by ydant 16y ago
I have no experience with iOS development, but in Android you can extend classes for views and provide custom behavior for most things you'd want to customize. You also can configure quite a lot of the look and feel of the interface entirel
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by ydant 16y ago
Original Droid and you can have updates very soon after N1 gets them thanks to Cyanogen. You also will be working with a bit more limited resources - less memory, and slower processor, which should help save you from writing stuff that will
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by ydant 16y ago
Put Android Developer in your profile on LinkedIn. I don't know how successful it ultimately ends up being, but you'll certainly get spammed with recruiters trying to find Android developers.
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by ydant 16y ago
May I suggest using the W3C geolocation API to get the user's location and pre-populate that? It's Simple to get the Coordinates, and then you can probably use Google's geocode API to get the address. I just tried to use this while travelin
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by ydant 16y ago
Quite a number of links are self-submitted, and it seems to be well accepted. What isn't accepted is self-submission of link-bait / pointless / off-topic articles, especially when your submission history shows that those types of links are
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by ydant 16y ago
I'd suggest putting something letting the user know what it does (beyond the little label beside the search box). It's a pretty handy tool, but it doesn't make it clear what it does - which is going to make sharing it a lot harder.
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by ydant 16y ago
I'm pretty sure Verizon's MiFi is contract only (and $60 for 5GB data). Virgin's just recently became unlimited, but I /think/ it's always been contract-free, it just used to be 5GB. Virgin's got a public awareness problem (at least among t
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by ydant 16y ago
Have you found it shuts down periodically? I was tethered to it all day yesterday (plugged in to the wall and not plugged in), and about halfway through the day it started disconnecting from the WWAN every 30 minutes or so. The "Connect" bu
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by ydant 16y ago
Like the grandparent said, BestBuy has them. I asked them specifically on Twitter and they responded: > Your best bet to purchase a MiFi right now would be going to one of our retailers- @BestBuy, @RadioShack, @Target I went to BestBuy
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by ydant 16y ago
The person (epi0Bauqu) behind DDG has commented previously that this is a positive thing for him in that it means Boss is an established/supported API now. Specifically: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1727829
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by ydant 16y ago
It's begging for auto-location adjustment (when I land somewhere new on a plane, I'd want to see the nearest tower for where I am). At the very least, there should be a way to pick the nearest towers to your current location easily. Bonus
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by ydant 16y ago
I don't know Marco, so I don't know his motivations or plans, but he's pretty disparaging of Android on his blog. A lot of what he says I agree with, but a lot of it reads like baseless commentary from the sidelines without having used the
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by ydant 16y ago
The key differences I see are: * Groupon takes a large cut of the coupon purchase cost - up to 100% if Posies Cafe is to be believed. So it's more like a 80-100% off coupon as far as the shop is concerned. * All income is realized up front.
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by ydant 16y ago
There's this - http://www.vagabondish.com/looxcie-wearable-bluetooth-camera... And also the GoPro http://www.goprocamera.com/ Neither of which quite match your requirements, though.
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by ydant 16y ago
Well, I think it's obvious it's just scaling the image, I just expected a better technical implementation out of Apple. I'm actually surprised that got past Job's filter, as it looks horrible. I don't know what the proper solution would be
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by ydant 16y ago
I think a better solution might be more along the lines of system-supported (as in linked to the full app) trial applications that can be upgraded in place, along with the application provider being able to specify if refund is allowed or n
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by ydant 16y ago
That at least helps explain why there aren't more existing (popular) apps that are hybrid apps that (at the very least) look the same on both. I just got an ipad to try and I was astounded by how bad the scaled mode for non ipad apps is. Su
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by ydant 16y ago
Same way as in the bathtub. Zip-loc bag (or competitor).
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by ydant 16y ago
Given the price and that I only use Live Gold for watching Netflix, it's almost high enough to justify getting a second Roku (would take 2 years to break even, though) for our house. It'd be a lot less of a heat-generator for my small offic
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by ydant 16y ago
For me it's mostly a matter of making myself read (books). It's too easy to pick up the phone or stay tethered to the computer and read what's online. Once I get hooked in a book it's pretty straightforward to finish it. Thanks to the inter
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by ydant 16y ago
My understanding is that the difference between 1.5 and 1.6 was huge in terms of what it provides in API/functionality and a lot of apps target 1.6 as a minimum as a result. Probably a lot more than target 2.1 or 2.2. 2.0 almost doesn't ex
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by ydant 16y ago
I actually think I'd be ok in this situation (and I have real difficulty recognizing faces) largely because my "friends" list is pretty damn short. I take the "friend" part pretty seriously - if they renamed it acquaintances, or had built i
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by ydant 16y ago
As one anecdote, I wouldn't have paid for historious at more than the $20 a year I paid (I hesitated, and decided it was worth it due to the usefulness and the fact you seemed like a cool bunch). It's a cool service, but not THAT cool. I co
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by ydant 16y ago
I stand corrected. I didn't see the Droid X on there and misread the chart as if the devices were grouped by manufacturer. On closer examination I see it has been updated more recently. How much of the hardware compatibility can be accurate
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by ydant 16y ago
A huge list, and it's already way out of date (from July 2009 last year). This is proof that developing for Android has to be device agnostic. Query the device for what's available and assume nothing. It's not quite the fragmentation nightm
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by ydant 16y ago
Well, judging by the amount of progress on the application recently, I imagine they would be receptive to fixing it. Assuming someone has pointed the issue out to them. I haven't tried to implement any intents targeting their application.
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by ydant 16y ago
Have you used it recently? It's really improved over the last couple of updates. It still randomly opens my browser instead of doing things in the app, but it's added a lot of features that brought it a lot closer to the iPhone one.

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