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12 years ago
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on: Show HN: Tube Tracker, an iOS App for the London Underground
Hi, I'm the creator of Tube Tracker. In its first two years, a colleague and I built the departure board section. After going solo, I've spent almost all the free time over the last year building this app into what you see today. I don't have any funding or staff. It's taken a lot of work, and a lot of luck, but this week my app is being displayed on the front page of the UK App Store. I'd love to hear what you guys think of it.
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13 years ago
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on: Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic (2010)
I finished my maths PhD last year. The concept that PhD grads earn less than people who opted out of academia earlier makes a lot of sense to me.
PhDs grads aren't financially driven - they are mathematically driven - to the extent of thinking about problems all day. Everyone I knew used to keep a notebook and pen by the bed because waking up in the night with an idea was so common. With this much passion, the desire to leave academia for a well-paid industry job is low.
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13 years ago
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on: CSS Tube Map
Yes, otherwise it's copyright infringement. I've been working on a mobile app for some time. As an indie developer, the map license is almost fatal for my project.
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13 years ago
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on: CSS Tube Map
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13 years ago
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on: Wish I was here by Zach Braff
Doesn't want to take money because it alters his vision of the movie. $10K - have a line in the film. $7K - name a character.
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13 years ago
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on: How long is it until Beer O'clock?
Not true. We have 24hour pubs.
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13 years ago
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on: ShowHN: Hacky 2 – Hacker News for Mac with Favorites, iCloud, comments etc.
Sorry to be "that guy", but there's a typo in your subheading: "Never ever loose your favorite Hacker News stories"
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13 years ago
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on: Show HN: Emails that Self-Destruct and Notify You When Read
This service converts your email into an image. You can save a copy of the image, and keep it forever, even though the mail will disappear. It's novel, but I'm not sure I see use-case for it.
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13 years ago
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on: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
