appden | 1 year ago | on: Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds
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appden | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Play the game I'm developing directly on its website
This is so freakin’ cool! Love the animated screenshots and whole retro vibe. I hope the tech behind this will enable you or (through licensing or open source) others to build more immediately playable, cross platform games.
appden | 7 years ago | on: Tesla implements innovative way to avoid gas cars 'ICEing' Superchargers
Tesla leases those parking spots to only be used by Tesla owners. Your non-Tesla vehicle can legitimately be towed away if you park there. They aren’t merely a convenience, but are in fact an essential piece of infrastructure for some Tesla owners who count on being able to charge there. While some Tesla owners enjoy free supercharging, most need to pay for it. In fact, they charge Tesla owners idle fees if they block a supercharging spot after being done charging.
appden | 7 years ago | on: But why is a sphere's surface area four times its shadow? [video]
Imagine the sphere’s surface is divided into one million little rectangles. Their total area is meant to approximate the surface area of the sphere. If each one of those were projected onto the cylinder, and we showed that each of those projected rectangles has the same area and that they don’t overlap, then the total area of all million of the projected rectangles would be there same as those on the sphere. Therefore, the cylinder has the same area, since it is comprised of all those projected rectangles.
appden | 9 years ago | on: Dungeonfs: A FUSE filesystem and dungeon crawling adventure game engine
Pure genius.
appden | 9 years ago | on: Apple’s Judicial System
Well said. I've used and depended on Dash almost every day for years, and I've followed its development closely. I know the developer has absolutely no reason to manipulate reviews, and that this allegation is false and unsupportable. I also know from firsthand experience how impenetrable the App Store review system can be, and unfortunately was forced to leverage a connection to get my Mac app unstuck and onto the Store. I sincerely hope Apple does right by this developer and the many others I'm sure who are being wronged. This has got to change.
appden | 9 years ago | on: Realm 1.0
That would be really neat, but the core technology of Realm is written in native code. Somebody in the community could certainly create a Realm-like API for web local storage. If you (or anyone else reading this) is interested in building it, I would suggest building it on top of localForage (https://github.com/mozilla/localforage), and definitely hit me up if you'd like to further discuss implementation details!
appden | 9 years ago | on: Realm 1.0
Realm is for local storage on the device, whereas Relay is really for getting data from cloud storage.
appden | 9 years ago | on: Realm 1.0
We're considering it depending on the level of interest. You can vote on it in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/realm/realm-js/issues/428
appden | 10 years ago | on: Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla
> In late October 2001, Elon Musk went to Moscow to buy an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Has there ever been a better introductory sentence?
appden | 10 years ago | on: The Golden Age Of Quantum Computing, Once We Solve These Tiny Problems
This was a really good science piece by Fast Company. I do wonder how "factors of a prime number" gets by editorial. You don't need a quantum computer to tell you those. :)
appden | 11 years ago | on: Launching a Mac app in 32 languages for less than $250
1. I don't have any server-side logic whatsoever. All requests are made through Facebook.
2. I did some consulting work early on as well, but I would say I spent at least 6 months of solid development on the app.
appden | 11 years ago | on: Launching a Mac app in 32 languages for less than $250
Facebook should have no reason to block Current. I don't block their ads, and I've actually found that users of my app end up being more engaged with Facebook. Current makes using Facebook a more positive experience, and that's valuable to them as well. It's also very difficult for them to reliably detect users from my app.
appden | 11 years ago | on: Launching a Mac app in 32 languages for less than $250
I'm the creator of Current, and I'm happy to answer any questions here!
appden | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Current – The missing Facebook app for Mac
I'm sorry, but I don't have a demo available at this time. I tried to include a lot screenshots to demonstrate its functionality. If you buy it and don't like it, I'll be happy to issue a refund!
The only data Current transmits is device analytics (OS, CPU, RAM, etc) to DevMate, crash reports to Hockey, and error reports to Rollbar. All other requests made by the app will be generated by the Facebook website or any other website you visit from within the app.
Hope that helps!
appden | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Current – The missing Facebook app for Mac
Thanks for the compliment! Don't worry, it doesn't use the Chat API at all. It uses the JavaScript from the Facebook page to power all of the chat functionality.
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Seems to me like a flawed “study” if the baseline assumption is that chimpanzees would type randomly even when given lifespans through the heat death of the universe, which is estimated at 10^100 (googol) years!