mp_mn

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by mp_mn 8mo ago
I tried reading the two top rated stories. They're both unreadable gunk. Why would I (or anyone else) go for another? Why would I tell anyone I know to spend their time reading this?
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by mp_mn 8mo ago
OK, so you already recognize these stories aren't something that people are going to spend time sorting through. How could you possibly then get any usable preference data out of this?
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by mp_mn 8mo ago
There's more quality fiction out there than you or I will ever have time to read. I don't see a purpose in flooding the world with more mediocre to unreadable fiction.
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by mp_mn 3y ago
I like CARI a lot https://cari.institute/aesthetics
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by mp_mn 11y ago
Is your search scope too broad? Too many Pods maybe? I've never had an issue with project text search. The only time I've ever had that many problems in an iOS dev workflow was years ago when I was briefly running OSX through VMWa
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by mp_mn 12y ago
Done. Out in the latest update for all Android and Pro iOS versions. It'll be out for the free iOS version as soon as Apple approves it.
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by mp_mn 12y ago
Yep, working on it. We get bar code data from BreweryDB, which allows us to improve bar code accuracy without an app update. BreweryDB takes user submitted bar codes easily with PocketBeer (BreweryDB's app) http://www.pocket
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by mp_mn 12y ago
Picky Pint is native both ways. I've been making iOS apps professionally since 2011 (in a great consultancy that does native on both platforms in-house), so that part was straightforward. My co-founder and I both are software guys but
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by mp_mn 12y ago
Yep, added it in response to another comment, and the parent comment was posted a minute or so before the fix was sent up.
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by mp_mn 12y ago
Yeah, if you take a photo of a menu displayed on a standard monitor you tend to get a screen door effect on the photo, which lowers accuracy. It does work much better on high density monitors (and other high density tablet and phone screens
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by mp_mn 12y ago
Not yet, but there's always time in the future :)
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by mp_mn 12y ago
Agreed, and done.
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