Padraig

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The Value of iOS 7's Background Fetch API(blog.supertop.co)
1 points by Padraig 13y ago|0 comments
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Tokens makes promo codes actually-usable(usetokens.com)
6 points by Padraig 14y ago|0 comments
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The numbers post for my Vancouver bus app(padraig.tumblr.com)
5 points by Padraig 14y ago|0 comments
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37 Signals Valuation tops $100bn(37signals.com)
8 points by Padraig 15y ago|0 comments
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by Padraig 15y ago
The article makes a great case that Motorola is the real winner. The buyout can't have been solely for the patents, because Motorola are losing patent battles. It's unlikely that it was just to own a phone manufacturer, because why buy a 3
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by Padraig 15y ago
Has the documentation situation improved much in the last year? I tinkered around with it a few times and it really felt close to being great. But... aside from the 2 or 3 intro tutorials, I found the docs really lacking. I only made actu
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by Padraig 15y ago
Other factors like Facebook finding and removing spam accounts, users enabling privacy features, etc. seem like a much more likely cause. I could see people getting bored / busy and not bothering to use it any more, but it's unbelievable th
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by Padraig 15y ago
Right, sorry.
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by Padraig 15y ago
I'm getting very different numbers... I may be wrong though? (7,000,000/8) = 875,000 bytes/s = 0.834 MB/s 0.834 * 60 * 60 * 24 = 72,057 MB/day (EDIT: Tweaked numbers, had mistyped 0.834 as 0.844 — doesn't affect the point)
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by Padraig 15y ago
On this "Apple should buy / copy Dropbox" thing... Dropbox is wonderful. I love it. But Apple is slowly moving away from exposing the filesystem to the user, so if they do anything, I don't think it'll look or work like Dropbox. For exam
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by Padraig 15y ago
AFAIK, very little iTunes music is DRMed these days anyway.
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by Padraig 16y ago
There's plenty of room for 'respecting dangerous invisible shit that can kill you' between those two extremes of being a scaredy-cat and acting macho.
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by Padraig 16y ago
tl; dr's rarely do justice but I think that's a bit snipey. The point I took from it was in the organisational culture in the team that looked after the reactor. A macho attitude celebrating exposure to radiation does not inspire confidenc
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Redwind makes an app with the aim of getting rejected.(redwindsoftware.com)
1 points by Padraig 16y ago|0 comments
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by Padraig 16y ago
Sounds great but I am never going to pay a subscription for my IDE, or my FTP program or my Twitter client. Relationships require trust and effort from both parties and it's simply not a perfect model for every piece of software. I don't w
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by Padraig 16y ago
You can have a fast internal development cycle without devaluing the established concept of major version numbers. I don't appreciate this because I make money from software. To me, a new major version number is: a) an indication that ther
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by Padraig 16y ago
My argument is that violent protests would do very little to help. We're having an election that will throw the ruling party out. The next government are campaigning on the basis that they'll get a better deal. I doubt they will succeed,
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by Padraig 16y ago
Ha! That doesn't surprise me at all. What's the book called? There is an appetite to reform this stuff now, but it's hard to imagine the winners of the game when played by those rules deciding to change it dramatically.
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by Padraig 16y ago
I wonder about that. I view our (lack of) reaction as mature, not passive. People died in Greece and they burned all kinds of things. They still have a huge debt to pay back. We're taking it like grown ups and having an election.
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by Padraig 16y ago
One fundamental problem we have in Ireland is the way in which we elect our Dáil (parliament). There's a 4 minute section in this video (43m45s onwards ) http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1090239 which explains better than I can, but here goes
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by Padraig 16y ago
It's hard to disagree with his analysis of what the practical outcome will be. Google's not stupid though, so there's either another piece of the puzzle still to be revealed or Google's aim with this is to throw a spanner in the works for A
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by Padraig 16y ago
So glad to see this getting tackled at last. SproutCore's lack of decent documentation has been my single biggest difficulty in adopting it.
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Making My Artists [iPhone App] free yesterday is helping sales today(topdrawerapps.tumblr.com)
1 points by Padraig 16y ago|0 comments
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by Padraig 16y ago
Fair enough, but your use of long-ago deprecated HTML tags to make your point doesn't exactly inspire confidence in your expertise!
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by Padraig 16y ago
I'm looking forward to a proper response to these design issues. I have quite a bit of my savings invested in Apple and, while a recall would be bad, an Apple that doesn't recognise it's own fuck ups would be far more serious. They've made
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IPhone 4.0: Background Tasks, not Multitasking.(padraig.tumblr.com)
1 points by Padraig 16y ago|0 comments
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by Padraig 17y ago
Apple's Mobile Me service is built on this. It has its problems, but it's a pretty impressive web app. Amazing things can be done with this. But the _fucking_ documentation! I've 'dived in' to SproutCore a couple of times (spending about
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by Padraig 17y ago
We worked it out: http://padraig.tumblr.com/post/355936709/resolved
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by Padraig 17y ago
You can verify this for yourself, but it'll cost you the price of both apps: about $7. 1. Buy them, right click on both apps in your iTunes Apps list and choose 'Reveal in Finder'. 2. Copy both to your desktop. 3. Rename them to .zip and un
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by Padraig 17y ago
Good idea — well.. good advice for next time, anyway.

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