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by parrots 7y ago
No worries, if I was a bad actor you'd be doing the right thing, and as many have already pointed out more often than not it is a bad actor. It's tough (trying to be) of the good guys not abusing the system chasing revenue at all
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by parrots 7y ago
I'm really hoping Apple keeps a log of pushes, because they'll happily be able to tell you that the only pushes I send with Slopes are silent content-available notification for sync engine stuff. I have never sent any user-visible
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by parrots 7y ago
Hi, developer of Slopes here. Wait, what!? I do not use push for marketing (I hardly have a working push server). I haven't ever sent out any push notification for any reason (the recording reminders are local notifications, not se
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Paid Upgrades Won't Fix Your Business(blog.curtisherbert.com)
2 points by parrots 11y ago|0 comments
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Tough Love – Success on the App Store(blog.curtisherbert.com)
2 points by parrots 11y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: My weekend project, Slopes on Watch(getslopes.com)
1 points by parrots 12y ago|0 comments
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by parrots 12y ago
People are still complaining about section 8 - the remote kill switch? I remember only one instance of an app remotely killed, and that was malware. Even apps that enabled tethering, emulating, or are otherwise against the rules but make it
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The Back of the Fence – How Did Apple Rise to Power?(vimeo.com)
1 points by parrots 12y ago|0 comments
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by parrots 12y ago
Check out CocoaConf ( http://cocoaconf.com ). They travel around the country and provide many technical talks. I was at their DC one in March and found it very educational.
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by parrots 12y ago
"Not tech" as in no sessions focusing on how to maximize your CoreData performance, or how to use Metal in your new iOS8 game. No talks that are technical in nature.
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CocoaLove – A conference about people, not tech(cocoalove.org)
19 points by parrots 12y ago|6 comments
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by parrots 12y ago
Congrats! Quick nitpick - fix your icon in the app store itself. Looks like you have the corner radius from iOS6 on your icon so you get some black edging in the corner. I usually just export a square version for the iTunes image, they&#x27
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by parrots 12y ago
I make a distinction between trust and reliability. I can trust a company, even though they might not make the most reliable products. Bugs/etc are a great way to lose my business , but not a way to lose my trust. (what you're sa
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by parrots 12y ago
To counter this - installed 2.0, dropbox setup was just a matter of copying/pasting my password from 1Password (took ~10 seconds), and all my accounts/settings were there just fine. Bugs are frustrating, but please realize that so
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by parrots 13y ago
Come now, for years devs have criticized Apple for not having a proper first-party beta-testing solution. Now what might be their step into addressing that developer cry is being used against them in the typical Apple-controls-everything-
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by parrots 13y ago
It actually is - each plane as an ideal glide speed that you pitch the plane to match during an engine-out. 1 mile per 1k feed above ground level is a good rule of thumb for glide distance at this speed.
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Effective app promo videos on an independent developer budget(blog.consumedbycode.com)
1 points by parrots 13y ago|0 comments
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by parrots 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Based outside of Philadelphia, PA. Remote work ok. I specialize in crafting both web-based and native iOS applications and I run Consumed by Code. Over the years I've lead dozens of individuals, startups, and small busin
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by parrots 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Based outside of Philadelphia, PA) I'm a developer with design chops focusing on creating web and iOS applications. I love collaborating with startups and businesses to turn their idea into a product. Technically spea
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by parrots 13y ago
I've been debating using something like Parse or Azure as a backend, and this looks like a nice alternative as I'm usually a roll-your-own-solution kinda guy. But I worry about how it would hold up in terms of performance, given this recent
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by parrots 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Based outside of Philadelphia, PA) I'm a developer with design chops focusing on creating web and iOS applications. I love consulting with talented people to help realize great ideas and solve interesting problems. I’
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by parrots 14y ago
I noticed the same. I think that's replace with the "Up Next" feature - basically letting you queue songs to an ad-hoc playlist as you go.
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by parrots 14y ago
Sure, it's slowed down - everyone has gotten the pop-up by now telling them to OTA update so those that are left didn't want to right away. But that just puts us in the same boat we used to be; a slower adoption rate as we wait for them to
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by parrots 14y ago
The adoption rate for iOS6 has been amazing compared to previous versions that weren't OTA. Over 60% in less than a month (according to a statistically significant and diverse user base source: http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ ).
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by parrots 14y ago
Thought: in-app "pro" version to take advantage of the fact that people pay $$$ for wedding stuff? Keeps you in the top music list because you're cheap, but some of the more advanced features might be worth a premium. (Note: I had "pro" as
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by parrots 14y ago
True, true. My thoughts were along the line of the Classic - from year to year they didn't innovate much along that one line, but you're 100% correct they innovated to fill more niches with new lines.
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by parrots 14y ago
Yes, because every iPod they released was a revolution with tons of innovations compared to the previous year's, right?. Just like every Mac? Iteration is how Apple plays it, and they play it well.
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by parrots 14y ago
I think the nail in net neutrality's coffin will be when they start charging (or discounting) other parties' services. That isn't the case here. The way I see it you get all their content through a cable box today without paying data usage
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by parrots 15y ago
People are afraid of technology because of the crap tech from the past 20 years. What do you think happens when those people stop being afraid? Suddenly software development feels accessible to a bunch more people. I'd argue that people w
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by parrots 15y ago
"Putting rules on things" is the path to the dark side - aka corporate proxies.

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