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by mickdj 10y ago
[10] is the best
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by mickdj 11y ago
"ANCESTRY. I don't totally understand this variable. It's a fill-in-the-blank question on the American Community Survey, but there weren't any Asian categories."
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by mickdj 11y ago
Looks like a Japanese design firm tried something similar back in 2013 called the unbrella, still shipping for about $90 ( http://h-concept.jp/fs/hshop/c/unbrella ). English press story at http://www
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by mickdj 16y ago
No it doesn't.
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by mickdj 16y ago
If you are interested in life tracking, you might want to try out one of our (Whereoscope, YC10) apps called DriveTime. Passively monitors your location every 10 minutes, collates, and then lets you view graphs etc. from within the app. Inf
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by mickdj 16y ago
Actually we started off with that - having the same interface for both Android and iOS. But Android users don't expect Android apps to behave like iPhone apps - so the affordances don't carry over. They kept tapping the context menu, or hol
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by mickdj 16y ago
"The OS will almost always be able to minimize battery usage because it has way more information than the App could or should ever have." This is only true for standalone apps which don't share location information between people. The OS do
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by mickdj 16y ago
I don't want to veer O/T, but that's not the hard stuff in CLLocation. There's a lot that could be discussed, but as one example: optimizing for battery conservation requires knowing which radios are currently powered up. iOS makes its own
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by mickdj 16y ago
Clarification: We don't use any private API's on iOS, James' comments were with respect to what we do with location and networking. Apple's documentation is great for most visual elements, but CLLocation* in particular has quite flawed docu
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by mickdj 16y ago
Yes, voip apps can also be relaunched in the background. The focus of this article was location-based apps, but there are also interesting behaviors with voip and audio applications.
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by mickdj 16y ago
Thank you for that - I have updated the post to more clearly identify the subset of apps I was talking about.
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by mickdj 16y ago
The description under startMonitoringSignificantLocationUpdates at http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/CoreLo... is the place to start, where they state "If you start this service and your application is subsequently ter
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by mickdj 16y ago
Thanks for the insight!
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by mickdj 16y ago
I'm curious about this - I've seen that behavior with Android users as well. Why specifically do you want to turn WiFi, GPS, and bluetooth on or off? I can think of several potential reasons, but would like a user's perspective.
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by mickdj 16y ago
You have to have asked for the Significant Location Update Service. I have verified this in code numerous times, and Apple representatives have confirmed in the development forums.
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Stopping background applications on iOS 4(whereoscope.wordpress.com)
16 points by mickdj 16y ago|16 comments
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by mickdj 16y ago
You may want to look at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2135081/does-my-applicati... http://blog.theanimail.com/iphone-encryption-export-complian...
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What the location arrow on iOS 4.1 now means(whereoscope.wordpress.com)
34 points by mickdj 16y ago|12 comments
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by mickdj 16y ago
Good work Euwyn!
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by mickdj 16y ago
You raise valid criticisms, and ones we considered for some time before building the product as we did. a) Multiple proxies for demand exist, from the existing carrier-based services to portable GPS units to the use of cards swiped at the s
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by mickdj 16y ago
Hi, Latitude (and other friend finders) are solving a different problem. Our users (families, couples, etc.) tell us their main concerns are: 1) Privacy model: people don't want to broadcast location to everyone, or (particularly for women)
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by mickdj 16y ago
Definitely :) I'm one of the developers and we actually have hockey teams, couples, real estate agents, small legal teams and tour bus drivers using the app as it is. There are also quite a few people who just track their own iPhone in case
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by mickdj 16y ago
I'm a native English speaker and relatively fluent Japanese speaker. I used to speak only Japanese for several days straight, dreamed in Japanese, thought in Japnese etc. when I lived there. There are words in Japanese I cannot translate to
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by mickdj 16y ago
I work with jamesg (who's already commented) as an Aussie in the current YC batch. The short answer is there isn't really an equivalent, although I think I speak for many expat Aussies in saying we wish there were! There are certainly many
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by mickdj 16y ago
Yes we spoke to the kids and the parents. Can I ask how many 12 year-old kids you've asked about this? I try to spend several hours a week on the phone doing exactly that - talking to all the users of the service. We agree that they're just
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by mickdj 16y ago
Hi axod, We, like you, hate the idea of abusing trust and privacy. However, children who want their parents to know when they're getting home from soccer practise, or see how far away their mother is when she's coming to pick them up, is qu
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by mickdj 16y ago
Yeah we're really aiming to cut down the number of times you have to call and say 'Where are you?' 'Where are you now?' 'How about now?' :-)
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by mickdj 16y ago
We hope so too and thanks!
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by mickdj 16y ago
Hi, To be clear - this is about building trust not a lack of it. The kids can see where the parents are, and the parents can see where the kid is. We agree 100% that setting this up as a spying tool isn't useful for the parents, the child,
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by mickdj 16y ago
So we deliberately designed the system to be 2-way - both parents and kids need to consent and are aware that their location is being broadcast. Additionally, on iPhone you can always tell when location services are running as there's an ar

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