wlue

5 ms·

1.
by wlue 12y ago
Aw man, is there any way to still apply? I had the form filled out in my browser, and I was waiting for a friend to fill out his application, but I ended up forgetting to submit the form before 12:00am PST.
2.
Twitter Open Sources Summingbird - Streaming Map-Reduce with Hadoop and Storm(blog.twitter.com)
2 points by wlue 13y ago|0 comments
3.
Square Debuts its Latest Hardware, a $299 Card Swiper for iPad Registers(techcrunch.com)
42 points by wlue 13y ago|45 comments
4.
by wlue 14y ago
Looks like Visibli ( http://visibli.com ), if you haven't seen it before.
5.
The Real Hack Week at Square (YouTube)(youtu.be)
2 points by wlue 14y ago|0 comments
6.
Speak in French: Mantaphrase, an app that enables language foreign conversation(mantaphrase.com)
51 points by wlue 14y ago|20 comments
7.
Square Introduces Gift Cards and Integrates Passbook(thenextweb.com)
1 points by wlue 14y ago|0 comments
8.
by wlue 14y ago
Reminds me of pttrns ( http://pttrns.com/ ). Being able to look at a lot of apps can be a source of great motivation if you're having designer's block.
9.
by wlue 14y ago
On OS X, you can use KeyRemap4Macbook ( http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/ ) to turn on the feature with a bit of hackery. I have not figured out how to do it on Windows, but I imagine that it might be possible with AutoHotKey.
10.
by wlue 14y ago
The funny thing is that I know a few people who do this. (Holding Caps Lock = CTRL, tapping Caps Lock = ESC)
11.
by wlue 14y ago
A strategy that I found works really well to quickly style everything is to create a category on UIView that defines a block property decorated with UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR, then on the setter, invoke the block. Then set the appearance proxy
12.
by wlue 14y ago
I worked at a start-up whose engineering lead brought familiar coding style to a project that was inherited. We were imposed a combination of C89-esque and Microsoft kernel coding style on an Objective-C source code. Things like defining al
13.
by wlue 14y ago
This is awesome. I wonder if there any free open source projects that would let developers implement this sort of front-end for their own services.
14.
Starbucks Offers Square Wallet Beginning Today(squareup.com)
3 points by wlue 14y ago|0 comments
15.
From Idea to Execution: Mantaphrase's Japanese Heritage(mantaphrase.com)
35 points by wlue 14y ago|11 comments
16.
Color: We Are Not Shutting Down(techcrunch.com)
70 points by wlue 14y ago|38 comments
17.
by wlue 14y ago
The app works in landscape when in a conversation. This makes the text a bit bigger.
18.
by wlue 14y ago
We have had a bunch of beta testers use it in China and Japan. It was also fun to pretend to not know English and use it at a restaurant.
19.
by wlue 14y ago
Yes! This is something that we're really excited about, and is definitely on our pipeline.
20.
by wlue 14y ago
Thanks for your comments! The idea of the conversation interface is that the user is driving the conversation. We wanted to make it extremely simple for the other person to see and respond. We don't have a good solution for the flip-side ye
21.
by wlue 14y ago
Exchange rate info right now is just an approximation that's stored offline. In a next release, we're going to be sourcing information like that more often.
22.
by wlue 14y ago
Yes, it's something we're seriously considering for sure.
23.
Show HN: Mantaphrase, an app that lets you converse in a foreign language(mantaphrase.com)
127 points by wlue 14y ago|48 comments
24.
by wlue 14y ago
Nice to see a PonyDebugger mention here. :)
25.
by wlue 14y ago
Definitely getting paid. Square treats us interns well. :)
26.
PonyDebugger: Chrome Developer Tools for Native iOS Apps(corner.squareup.com)
278 points by wlue 14y ago|44 comments
27.
JSend: a specification for how JSON responses should be formatted(labs.omniti.com)
44 points by wlue 16y ago|29 comments