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by Xuzz 12y ago
(I've used GraphQL at Facebook, but I don't work on it.) If I understand your post correctly, I think it could. GraphQL prefers to expose full objects, rather than IDs, which lets you query for data inside objects at the same time
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by Xuzz 12y ago
Facebook Groups is available for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.g...
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Tweaks – easily adjust parameters for iOS apps in development(github.com)
17 points by Xuzz 12y ago|1 comments
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Shimmer: easily add a shimmering effect to any iOS view(github.com)
26 points by Xuzz 13y ago|0 comments
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by Xuzz 13y ago
Hey, I wrote HNKit. I'll admit I haven't had time to write documentation. However, most everything follows Cocoa conventions, and the headers should be pretty readable. Absolute worst case, there's an existing app using the framework as an
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by Xuzz 13y ago
Interesting: comScore had iOS up and Android down. I think all that proves is that these numbers are essentially meaningless. http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/04/04/comscore-apple-incre...
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by Xuzz 13y ago
Those are also in an uncomfortable place to reach with your thumb when holding the device once-handed — and might even be covered by the thumb, depending on how you're holding it.
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by Xuzz 13y ago
Think about everyone who doesn't see this post. Will they figure this gesture out? Did you? If it takes a blog post at the top of Hacker News for people here to find this, it's pretty far from discoverable. Is it really that great if most p
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by Xuzz 14y ago
How do you know that more about this than Apple does? I don't see any reason to believe they're lying, from what you said?
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by Xuzz 14y ago
I think the actual number is 65536 or similar — the 3 million may have been a misquote by TechCrunch.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Try putting a different browser renderer on Firefox OS. You're pretty much locked in to JavaScript — unless you can somehow build WebKit with Emscripten, you're already behind what iOS can do — even with Apple's rules.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Counterpoint: as a developer, this looks awful. For iOS: write an app, set a price, release it. For at least 90+% of potential customers, they have to pay for it. Piracy requires modifying the device in a way that Apple blocks. For Android:
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by Xuzz 14y ago
The Phone app has a blue status bar in iOS 6.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Yes, and you will note I said "slightly faster CPU and GPU". The point is that the whole device is much more resource constrained, as what needs to be done with the CPU and GPU on the original iPad is more than on the iPhone 3GS, but the CP
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by Xuzz 14y ago
The iPhone 3GS is much faster than the original iPad. On the iPhone 3GS, you have a reasonably slow CPU and GPU, but you also only have 320x480 pixels to deal with. On the iPad, you have a slightly faster CPU and GPU (but still single core)
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Yeah, but there's nothing stopping someone from porting JailbreakMe to 4.2.1 — it already works on 4.2.8 for the Verizon iPhone 4, and the other versions are similar enough. The hardest part would be the CPU (armv6 vs armv7), but it's clear
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Removal of a specific exemption from a law is not the same as "becomes illegal". Do we have any clear reasons that this becomes illegal, or is it now just more of an unexplored gray area of the law?
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by Xuzz 14y ago
It wouldn't be perfect, but the Google Now app could recognize that you're nearing an airport — something iOS does support, with background location updates — and then download the map data when it gets that notification. iOS apps can also
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by Xuzz 14y ago
User location is available to background iOS applications; Apple includes two APIs specifically for that purpose: fine and course background location updates. The app will be notified whenever the user's location changes, if it's activated
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by Xuzz 14y ago
What APIs would something like Google Now need that don't currently exist? The only one I can think of is a way to launch it easier, rather than with an icon. But the push and local notifications, geo-tracking, ability to access your Gmail,
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by Xuzz 14y ago
But your two cousins, who may have smartphones, could both have your grandmother as a shared friend — and thus, since they were both connected to you and were connected to your grandmother, Facebook assumed you might know your grandmother?
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by Xuzz 14y ago
There's just an amazing lack of interest in the Surface altogether — except, apparently, from the freedom groups still upset about Microsoft while mostly ignoring the rest of the industry.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
The reason the Apple TV 3 hasn't been jailbroken is because it provides a tiny attack surface. There's no web browser to exploit, and there's no iTunes syncing. So even when exploits have been found in various parts of iOS, most of those pa
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by Xuzz 14y ago
This is no different than on the iPad. And as with the iPad, finding a security hole to work around the signature requirements is very simple compared to actually porting Linux. Indeed, as the Surface is a new product, I'd guess it might ac
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by Xuzz 14y ago
No, you can easily block taking a screenshot, as long as (and as with Facebook Poke and Snapchat) you require a finger on the screen. I explain it here: http://blog.chpwn.com/post/38491252231
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Yeah, probably. Anything that gets in front of the app should call one of those two, and do so pretty immediately. A timer for a second or so later should be pretty safe.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
I looked into how SnapChat does it, it's pretty simple: http://blog.chpwn.com/post/38491252231
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by Xuzz 14y ago
I wonder if they could use anything from the Magenta project, an attempt to make an iOS-compatible Linux implementation. Website: http://crna.cc/magenta.html + http://crna.cc/magenta_source.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
Hybrid. You can select UI text everywhere from the message chrome to the settings page, so there's definitely HTML 5. But other parts are definitely native, like the label and account lists.
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by Xuzz 14y ago
However, the screen is "PenTile" ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile_matrix_family ), which means that each pixel is only 2/3 of what we'd usually think of a pixel. And it really does look like crap, even at high densities (such as on

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