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ortatherox | 14 years ago | on: The Apps are Too Damn Big

When creating iOS apps part of the process of transferring the app resources into the app itself involves compressing the images even further. There are ways to improve this, but at the base line you have it done for you.

ortatherox | 14 years ago | on: Testflight acquired by Burstly

Apprehensive, I absolutely love testflight. I've used it in every app I've worked on and I think they are an essential part of beta testing apps on iOS. I was looking forwards to using TestFlight live, and have it ready in apps in the store now.

I'm worried that this will dilute testflight, I would've much rather that it becomes a pay for product than be part of an ad network. It's not like they've got much competition, Flurry's analytics are difficult to use, Google Analytics is a hack -which is ok- but it doesn't work offline last time I checked.

ortatherox | 14 years ago | on: How github was hacked

I'm not a fan of some of the comments about the man posting, you'd think the developer community would be above "you look like frankenstein" and "your english sucks."

ortatherox | 14 years ago | on: WikiLeaks begins publishing 5 million emails from Stratfor

"The Global Intelligence Files exposes how Stratfor has recruited a global network of informants who are paid via Swiss banks accounts and pre-paid credit cards. Stratfor has a mix of covert and overt informants, which includes government employees, embassy staff and journalists around the world." + "Stratfor has realised that its routine use of secret cash bribes to get information from insiders is risky" - from the link

ortatherox | 14 years ago | on: The iPhone monoculture

Lets not forget that Apple make it easy to develop and test using Webkit on iOS. Grabbing the simulator and testing it at native speeds is only a click or two away from the App Store.

Opera on the other hand seem to get it, by offering a webpage where you can get a feel for how your page will run: http://www.opera.com/developer/tools/mini/

If I want to test my website on a blackberry I first have to know which blackberry to test on ( http://cl.ly/3n3x0r0H2C2y0P1O3C3o ) to get the version, I then have to use Windows.

Finally a search for "Samsung Dolfin Emulator", admittedly the first time I've heard of the browser, turned up nothing. I found the dev tools on bada.com, though again, windows only.

ortatherox | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail

That was an internal video to try raise morale in Microsoft and get some people switch, it's pretty safe to assume gmail reads your emails as much as their spam filters does. But as well as doing the spam filtering on the results it does ads.

ortatherox | 14 years ago | on: Fork this project and add fucking awesome songs

Interesting idea, get many people to edit the same JSON file.

I'd imagine you'd need to do a lot of hand merges, because everyone will try edit the same files section though (notably the bottom of the list), which in part ruins the whole "everything is a PR" vibe. Shame, because the idea of talking over changes in the comments and then pulling it in is cool.

ortatherox | 14 years ago | on: The Sugru story

I bought some the moment it appeared in boingboing, I still get asked about it now

ortatherox | 14 years ago | on: EMI music is sold to Universal. We're down to three major labels.

I'd be more worried in the idea that there is no competition in label's market at the largest scale. Supposedly label contracts aren't exactly very artist friendly already, and I can't imagine as an upcoming artist it's going to get any better.

On the otherhand, there are now a million indie labels, and lots of success stories from people using the internet.

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