cwalcott | 1 month ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
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cwalcott | 7 years ago | on: React Native at Airbnb
I think this thread gives some good answers to this: https://twitter.com/jandersen/status/1009247005233692672. Basically, problems you get from being at massive scale and supporting a large number of devices.
cwalcott | 11 years ago | on: List of URLs checked by Twitter for its app targeting
It's not a requirement. Apps can use these to send someone to another app, along with optional information. For example, it's how you used to login via Facebook (before it was built into iOS).
cwalcott | 11 years ago | on: Twitter Is Tracking Users’ Installed Apps for Ad Targeting
For apps that support deep linking, you could check if the device responds to a URL with a corresponding scheme (e.g. "twitter:///")
cwalcott | 12 years ago | on: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects
If GitHub profiles really are becoming the "new resume", I think users are need more control over them. Certainly sorting projects is a good start.
cwalcott | 12 years ago | on: Gmail push notification no longer works with Mail on new iOS devices
It should be noted that you can still get push notification support if you use Google's Gmail app on iOS.
cwalcott | 13 years ago | on: Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails
Managing load with thin workers isn't very hard...haproxy [http://haproxy.1wt.eu/] makes it pretty easy to setup rather complex load distributions (certainly more complex than random!).
cwalcott | 15 years ago | on: The Ugliest Girl At The Dance: How Yahoo Destroyed Yelp’s Google Acquisition
To me the most interesting part of this article are the comments: many people questioning Arrington's impartiality since Yahoo is a competitor to AOL. It'll probably subside over time but still interesting.
cwalcott | 15 years ago | on: Apple Magic Trackpad
Yeah, I could see using it for my Mac Mini, I just wish you could somehow attach it to the wireless keyboard. Having two separate devices on your lap doesn't really work...
cwalcott | 16 years ago | on: Rackspace passwords are visible to customer service
Seems similar to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148328. The internals of any VPS aren't really secure from the hosting provider, although I don't why that means CSRs should have plaintext access to the root password.
cwalcott | 16 years ago | on: How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter
It seems like marketing would still be an issue though. Even to make $1/day, someone has to find your software. If you're not marketing through a blog or Twitter, that leaves advertising. So now in addition to writing good ads, you need to make sure each project is making more than you're spending on advertising, which is a lot of work on its own.
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