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by yoda_sl 14y ago
That particular topic about Yelp and their reviews have been discussed many times on HN. Yelp is a major scam company that absolutely do not care about the business owner. They are in it for the money -doh- and what matters for them is Page
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Flipboard Unofficially Available For Any Android Device(techcrunch.com)
1 points by yoda_sl 14y ago|0 comments
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New iPad Tops Three Million(apple.com)
78 points by yoda_sl 15y ago|64 comments
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
Interesting concept... Thinking about it, they are making Safari act as the proxy/gateway. I did not dig into it but are they using web socket for achieving that? I can see their desktop app, sending the request/proxying to Safari which wil
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Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit(apple.com)
287 points by yoda_sl 15y ago|261 comments
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
Yes, this is the correct link/form the devs I know have been using in the past. Obviously it is a case by case basis but for the folks I know their apps were not anywhere close to a top 100 position, and the review team did for them the "ri
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
Not totally true: for such case if you have a nasty bug and you are quite sure to have fix the problem, then you can ask Apple review team for an expedite review. There is an online form to fill up, and you are good to go. I know at least 2
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
Agree, and in addition if you know the URL you can still acces the iAd reports and the sales and trend web interface. Only the web app for managing existing apps or changing prices is not available.
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
Interesting solution to their problem with webOS. I am not convinced that open sourcing it without any HP hardware to officially run it or any announcement of partners that will produce compatible hardware will allow webOS to take off. At l
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
Interesting solution to their problem with webOS. I am not convinced that open sourcing it without any HP hardware to officially run it or any announcement of partners that will produce compatible hardware will allow webOS to take off. At l
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
I am with you on that one... Extortion and abusing small business is their core business.
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C. Jolley: Facebook is not taking on Strobe itself(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by yoda_sl 15y ago|0 comments
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
Looks to me like FB acquired the people rather than the technology... The blog post from the founder: http://blog.strobecorp.com/?p=304 I think it's quite clear from that post: "SproutCore, meanwhile, will continue as an independent proje
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
What is the license behind the script ? Apache ? MIT ? Other?
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[video] Steve Jobs narrates "the crazy ones"(youtube.com)
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
Simply because doing some research will have yield the same results without a public embarassment! Netflix is quite a big player in user focus group and testing different scenario before launching new features, but in this case: total FAIL.
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
Hmm... Downloading a DMG without knowing if it was not modified or not... I will rather wait for the official release in a couple days and get it from Apple. At least as a regular user I will do that... Being an official iOS dev, the GM is
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
This is a sad day in History
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
+1 on cocoacontrols! I did not yet contribute but the content provided is great. I recommend it to many other iOS dev looking to get things done without re-inventing the wheel.
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
It looks like either you have never been interacting with a business owner you know and trust, or you are a Yelp employee. Believe me, my wife can handle negative review when they are truthful but when you see a negative reviews that is cle
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
It is not just about clueless people writing reviews. Yelp as a business doesn't care about the business owner when some inaccurate reviews are being posted and clearly break their TOS. Yelp doesn't try to be fair toward the business, and
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
Hi spaznode, I will be really curious to hear more about your approach for doing a better filtering. Feel free to contact me (contact info/web site on my profile).
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
It's hard to believe that so many business are complaining about Yelp if nothing was wrong... If what you are saying is true then the only conclusion is that the algorithm used has a major flaw but Yelp doesn't want either to acknowledge it
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
That doesn't surprise me. Depending on the business, Yelp is powerful and you may have to play by their rule. See my previous post earlier, at least my wife small business is not too dependent on Yelp because customers are signing for cla
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
From personal experience Yelp is a company I do not respect or trust in anything. Yelp absolutely don't care about small business and how their filtering system works. My wife is running a small business and she has been facing exactly the
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
You are totally correct. With iOS 4 the significant location changes API can be trusted with distances around 1 mile / 1.5 kilometers. Anything below that and you don't have any guarantee. I speak from my own experience developing GPS Notif
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Instagram: 150 million photos(instagr.am)
4 points by yoda_sl 15y ago|1 comments
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
Same issue on iPhone: just seeing the first slide I assume (the typewriter), and tapping on it or outside does nothing.
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Netflix to expand to Latin America(thestreet.mobi)
2 points by yoda_sl 15y ago|0 comments
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by yoda_sl 15y ago
That is one of the approach but I combine it with a few other useful ones.

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