sammcd

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   by sammcd 13y ago

   Did the same thing at my college. We crawled their course catalog. They blocked our IP. Our big addition was being able to sort classes by time and day, the university ended up adding that feature, so I guess we got what we wanted?
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   by sammcd 14y ago

   Great software for half off doesn't seem like a scam to me. The app still works.
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   by sammcd 14y ago

   Congrats on launching Sam!
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   by sammcd 15y ago

   Good point :) To be fair I started writing code much younger, but I still chose a bad date. I still think my main point is valid.
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   by sammcd 15y ago

   I have trouble thinking this 60 year old programmer exists. There were only 2000 computers in existence in 1960. Today a 60 year old programmer that spent a career in computer science is a very small group of people. I'm going to wait an
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   by sammcd 15y ago

   Thanks a lot!
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   by sammcd 15y ago

   Currently it is because of the page view controller, but I'm thinking about dropping that in the future. I'll definitely being iOS 5 only at that point.
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   by sammcd 15y ago

   I simply went to http://www.dafont.com/ and searched until I found a font I liked, thats all that happened here.
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   by sammcd 15y ago

   This list is one of the first list that seems to really coincide with the things that bother me about the app. I do like the idea of making the left side tappable, and I really do want to change my animation and hope to get time to fix that
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    by sammcd 15y ago

    Thanks for letting me know, here are a few more: LT3A7P3NJEX3 K47EP4FFK7PY HLRAM3LPA7XK HJR9N3AKN6XA JKLPNAF7L3YN
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    by sammcd 15y ago

    Feel free to email me at sam@sammcd.com if you would like to discuss this more. I just want to say that I did not use your app as a source at all when designing my app, but I did use newspapers.
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    by sammcd 15y ago

    Thanks a lot for your feedback. Like I've already commented its great to hear from you and see which of the features I think are important are also important to people who have tried the app.
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    by sammcd 15y ago

    Thanks a lot!
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    by sammcd 15y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. In the next version I will definitely try to do something to make it look a little cleaner.
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    by sammcd 15y ago

    Thanks a lot for your feedback! The gestures, better fonts, and buttons are three things that are already high on my list to fix, but its really good to hear it from someone else. Be looking for an update shortly.
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    by sammcd 15y ago

    Thanks a lot for checking out my app. Here are a few promo codes for anyone interested. EFERTFJWWR7W 36XTN3E9MNYN LAKJ99K6RFNY X4ERRNY46NTE 3HLAMPWWE3X6
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    Show HN: My iPad Hacker News Client, Hacker News Paper(hackernewspaper.com)

    38 points by sammcd 15y ago|60 comments
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    by sammcd 15y ago

    I was a huge fan of the thesis, but as I kept reading the situation seemed very familiar. Very familiar to the multiple times I have worked for a non technical guy that really just doesn't have a clue. I was really not a fan of the part whe
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    Austin's tech scene still vibrant, but morphing to startups(statesman.com)

    1 points by sammcd 15y ago|0 comments
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    by sammcd 15y ago

    I bet the key difference here is that now people are much more likely to use google specifically to find dropbox.
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    by sammcd 15y ago

    I've been turned down a few times for merchant accounts. The company I started in college got turned down, and we ended up using paypal.
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    by sammcd 15y ago

    I bet they end up spending a lot less than 10k per employee with the current plan. The current plan means that people who are already donating, the people who would care about this 10K get it, and Apple saves money on the people who don't c
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    by sammcd 15y ago

    I'm working on a registrar that just focuses on domains. I want to be the Chipotle of domain registrars. Life has been happening and putting me behind, but if you are interested I'd love some more people to e-mail when I finish it: http://
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    Advice for wannabe startup employees(blog.synack.me)

    27 points by sammcd 16y ago|10 comments
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    by sammcd 16y ago

    I'm working on an iPad app now. There are many things you need the device for. First, the lower amount of memory is very important for testing how your views load and unload. Second I've noticed pretty big differences in how the screen look
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    by sammcd 16y ago

    Interesting. I didn't even question this part :). 80% of people here make money off of software. If I was being funded by an iPad app it definitely would be that important.
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    by sammcd 16y ago

    I don't see how these two points are mutually exclusive. It very well could be an executive order not fix it because of the security issue.
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    by sammcd 16y ago

    "And you can accomplish in a few short minutes what it takes a dedicated programming team weeks to put into beta" Ouch man that hurt. But seriously Wufoo is looking much more impressive than the last time I saw it. Had no idea you guys coul
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    by sammcd 16y ago

    I remember an episode where this american life explained why health insurance came to be like it is. I was specifically interested in the fact that they said during WWII wages where not allowed to increase, so the only things that employers
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    by sammcd 16y ago

    Sounds like you live in an area where Groupon hasn't been widely accepted. In Dallas the most common deal (that interests me) is $10 for $20 food at restaurant X. It is quite obvious how this is a good deal for me. I also once used it to pu