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by mtrichardson 12y ago
Urban Airship, in Portland, San Francisco, and remote. We're building the platforms required for communicating with and understanding a mobile audience, and we work with some of the biggest and best companies in the world. We're l
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by mtrichardson 14y ago
Same restrictions on normal unemployment apply in Oregon. The SEAP is unemployment, and requires that you be on regular unemployment first. The differences are that you're specifically allowed to work full time on your company. The company
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by mtrichardson 14y ago
Not in Lion - by default holding down a key will bring up the accent menu. You can turn it off by following this http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/04/enable-key-repeat-mac-os-x-li... (though I've found it more useful to keep it on).
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by mtrichardson 14y ago
You can be doing what you love and still have a crappy job with low pay and no hours.
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by mtrichardson 14y ago
I think the difference here is that I'm already on my phone or iPad looking at the item in the first place. It's a pleasant experience for me to look up things that I might like, or to grab something I know we need. Oh, we're out of light
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by mtrichardson 15y ago
I'm honestly curious, why is that a problem?
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by mtrichardson 15y ago
Check out the OPEN act. Ars links to their writeup in the article: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/censorship-f... It moves the focus on handling these things away from the DoJ and to the ITC.
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by mtrichardson 15y ago
I'm using it right now, as is a friend I recommended it to a few minutes ago, thanks to this post.
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SimpleGeo And Urban Airship Partner Up For Location Notifications(techcrunch.com)
9 points by mtrichardson 15y ago|1 comments
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by mtrichardson 15y ago
I'm one of the founders mentioned, and others are here as well - please don't hesitate to ask any questions about the program.
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by mtrichardson 16y ago
Portland venture capital is picking up (and we've been lucky to be a part of that). An important note is that most of the money isn't coming from Portland and it's not coming in small amounts. Serious investments are coming in from out of s
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by mtrichardson 16y ago
There are local tech events happening pretty much every night of the week. http://calagator.org/ has a good listing. It's to the point where you can't pick a night to do a user group/meetup without it conflicting. You might want to start
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New funding and new space for Urban Airship(blog.urbanairship.com)
6 points by mtrichardson 16y ago|0 comments
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When Dilbert came to Nokia(theregister.co.uk)
9 points by mtrichardson 16y ago|0 comments
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Portland Seed Fund: Y Combinator, it’s not.(siliconflorist.com)
5 points by mtrichardson 16y ago|1 comments
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by mtrichardson 16y ago
Urban Airship in Portland, Oregon. http://urbanairship.com/jobs
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You Have to Break It.(blog.paradoxica.net)
40 points by mtrichardson 16y ago|10 comments
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by mtrichardson 16y ago
Not in our tests, and nobody in our beta test period had any comments. The logic around controlling the connection is pretty intelligent in what it does. A connection that's open isn't problematic at all, assuming it's being used - lots of
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On open source and government: An accidental manifesto(siliconflorist.com)
2 points by mtrichardson 16y ago|0 comments
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by mtrichardson 16y ago
Thanks! That means a lot to us :D
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by mtrichardson 16y ago
Sure thing. For in-app content delivered through our infrastructure, whether it's free or paid through Apple's in-app purchase, we charge $0.05/download. An API call is made to our system when a person wants to download content. If it's a p
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by mtrichardson 16y ago
Our core product is a suite of features to make it easier for mobile publishers to add advanced mobile features. If it becomes clear at some point that we need to only use C2DM (Google's version), then we will - it'll still be the same API
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by mtrichardson 16y ago
Hi, Thanks for the questions! The AirMail Control Panel manages a persistent TCP socket connection to our infrastructure using custom keepalives. Our pings aren't adapted to networks yet, as we just don't have good enough data around that -
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by mtrichardson 16y ago
We've been doing this for over a year. We're extremely familiar with all of the quirks of the process around push notifications and, during that time, have listened to what our customers are asking for. We've implemented most of these featu
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by mtrichardson 16y ago
There a couple Urban Airship cofounders that read HN, myself included - please don't hesitate to ask us any questions. This has been a really, really fun project with some very interesting technology coming out of it.
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Urban Airship Brings Easy Push Notifications To Android(techcrunch.com)
48 points by mtrichardson 16y ago|16 comments
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Flurry: iPhone in-app purchase revenue jumps to $14.66 per user per year(venturebeat.com)
1 points by mtrichardson 16y ago|0 comments
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by mtrichardson 16y ago
(cofounder here) Since the post is just about Apple push notifications, I'm going to assume that's what you're asking about. Apple maintains a persistent connection to every device with push notifications enabled. An application can show a
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Urban Airship sends half a billion push notifications(blog.urbanairship.com)
14 points by mtrichardson 16y ago|2 comments
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by mtrichardson 16y ago
My main problem with Posterous imports is that they don't preserve the URLs of my previous posts. I have custom domains set up, so redirects are broken. I was hoping that with the latest Tumblr import they had fixed it, but no go.

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