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by ydant 15y ago
Thank you for the report. I found out about that one the hard way - plenty of crash reports overnight, but luckily only one negative review. I pushed a fix for that, so you could update... and see an empty map. :)
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by ydant 15y ago
Inspired by the posting about android-locdump last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2471404 https://github.com/packetlss/android-locdump I wrote an app to show you this information directly on your Android phone. Looking at the
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Show HN: Android Location Cache Viewer(market.android.com)
6 points by ydant 15y ago|3 comments
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by ydant 16y ago
I would have been a lot more interested the five other times I've seen this today if one of the headlines mentioned that it was pulling the location data from backups. I just assumed that it was Yet Another Location Tracking App.
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by ydant 16y ago
One small clarification - Amazon is free to do part of the process (download it automatically), but Amazon cannot install the application automatically on most phones. The actual installation step requires privileges that the Amazon Market
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by ydant 16y ago
If you're going to do it on the client-side with JavaScript, then you've lost half of the point of redirecting to a mobile site - to reduce the bandwidth and complexity the device has to deal with. You're also not helping out the devices th
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by ydant 16y ago
Do you find the beta to be worth requesting access to? I feel for the dev - I'm in similar shoes (although I do have a Blackberry co-developer, switching between those two environments is not fun). Sometimes it seems like the only similarit
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by ydant 16y ago
Last night was my second night using my WakeMate (with Android) and I woke up around two hours earlier than I planned (not WakeMate's fault) and did /something/ on my phone and went back to sleep. When I woke up a second time to my backup a
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by ydant 16y ago
It is, in the sense that you can rate places from Google Maps and the "Places" icon and it appears to be stored to the same database as Hotpot. That integration is throughout maps. There's also a widget (Rate Places) included with Places/Ma
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by ydant 16y ago
It's nice to see a detailed comparison from an iPhone user that doesn't hate on Android just because it's not iPhone. I went from iPhone to Android after 6 months of owning an iPhone 3GS (I went to the original Motorola Droid). For me, it w
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by ydant 16y ago
As near as I can tell it only gives you free storage for MP3s purchased and explicitly downloaded to Cloud Drive /when purchased/. So there might not even be need for smart de-duping - their originals are probably stored in S3 as well.
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by ydant 16y ago
If you have a middle button, holding down alt while middle dragging gives a nice and easy resize that only requires you be within what seems to be 1/3 of the window's dimensions away from the border you want to resize.
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by ydant 16y ago
They sort of do already - http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/07/faster-dialing-with...
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by ydant 16y ago
The tooltips would be ok, but they overlap the bullet icon, which makes it feel cluttered. I'm ok with the idea of changing some part of the page based on my movements, but I think it'd work better if you changed the screenshot (perhaps wit
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by ydant 16y ago
This claims to be coming to us from the future (April). Time is apparently not this publication's strength.
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by ydant 16y ago
I've only looked at the landing page and haven't (and won't due to the Facebook integration) used the site. From what I see (and this was mentioned elsewhere in the thread), you're going to have trouble building that viral aspect without th
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by ydant 16y ago
I was curious, and looked through his blog - he references that twitter account as his own here: http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=2437
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by ydant 16y ago
By default Chrome does not allow plug-ins to run at all in incognito mode. You have to explicitly allow the setting highlighted in this screenshot (available from the URL "chrome://extensions") http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/0om09caa/2011
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by ydant 16y ago
If you don't allow the extension to work in incognito mode (it's opt-in by default), then you can just open up an incognito / private browsing window instead (which Chrome makes pretty low-cost). This might have the benefit of removing any
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by ydant 16y ago
This doesn't agree with my understanding of the tax code as reported on IRS.gov. For example: http://www.irs.gov/retirement/article/0,,id=202510,00.html : "The maximum contribution that can be made to a traditional or Roth IRA is the small
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by ydant 16y ago
Which is limited to $5,000 per year at best (if not old enough for accelerated contributions), isn't it? Or am I missing something?
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by ydant 16y ago
Self-storage might be a US phenomenon. It's basically someone building a bunch of windowless locked garages of varying sizes (some the size of a small closet, some bigger than a car) for people to store their excess stuff. The price per squ
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by ydant 16y ago
I had 3 paid seats (now 11) when I contacted Google support regarding a hosted Apps account. I received a response fairly quickly (within a few hours), a response and resolution within 10 minutes of replying to the initial support email fol
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by ydant 16y ago
That is exactly my motivation for going to the coffee shop. I find I can focus on just getting there first thing and the rest of the day goes a lot smoother. If I sit at home, I make breakfast, then eat it slowly, then surf HN, then it's 10
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by ydant 16y ago
I do my 2-5 days a week (depending on if I go to the real office) at about 50% coffee shop, then lunch and home. I try to average a coffee or refill per hour there so that I'm not pissing the owners off, but if I'm there really early, I mig
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by ydant 16y ago
Positioning.
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by ydant 16y ago
For a while there the persistent-but-closed state of pinned tabs was coming in and out randomly for me (based on updates on whichever repository I was on). I agree, the old behavior of having a dual-state pinned tab was VERY nice. I pretty
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by ydant 16y ago
I don't know the grandparent's reasoning, but for me, having a small 0 there means I loose the peripheral vision effect of the icon. That little glowing "0" is hard to distinguish from another number in quick glance. If there were no icon t
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by ydant 16y ago
They support it, although it is tricky to set up and it sometimes gets confused if you have to sign into ancillary Google services with your secondary account. I am always signed into my personal account in one pinned tab and my apps accoun
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by ydant 16y ago
Google Maps (a different beast, of course) handles feedback exceptionally well. You're first thanked and promised a response, then a couple of days later you usually get a "you were right, we'll fix that and let you know when it's fixed", a

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