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spalt | 1 year ago | on: Author Clock: a novel way to tell time

I kickstarted this long ago and when I got it a few months ago gave it to my wife as a gift, who is an author. She immediately rejected it because she found the eink transitions where it flashes a dark color briefly very distracting.

spalt | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you still code in BASIC?

We still do some development in .NET 3.5 VB (huge health care company). It rules and I love it. We do angular, node, c#, yadda yadda, also, but I will always return to my #1 (and first) love, BASIC.

spalt | 7 years ago | on: COI – Chat Over IMAP

I mean all this really is is two people sending email really quickly to each other....

spalt | 7 years ago | on: Android vendors, don’t kill my app

"Doze" is a nightmare for apps that need reliable GPS readings.. the only real solution is a service that polls continually to get the GPS when the screen is on so that when the screen is off it can use it to do various background tasks (and of course, it ends up not being super accurate as when the screen is off the user is typically moving, which is when you'd want the GPS to be accurate). This ends up using more energy than would have been saved if the GPS wasn't available periodically when the screen is off! It's totally ridiculous..

spalt | 7 years ago | on: Farewell, Google Maps

Check out Azure Maps: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-maps/ I believe they have an autocomplete component....

I was investigating the Google Traffic API for an app I was working on just as they were making this change. They went from something like 10,000 free requests a day (which would have been plenty for my purposes) to 0 free requests a day. "Don't be evil" my ass. Anyway, the Azure Maps (which uses TomTom data) is much more generous.

spalt | 7 years ago | on: CBS “60 Minutes” piece on Google’s abuse of dominance

i thought it was pretty funny during their demonstration of how bad google was, they googled "san francisco restaurants" (or something like that), and there on the auto-complete was "san francisco restaurants YELP", like, dude, this website that is so evil is advertising for you, right there, in the box where you're typing!

spalt | 8 years ago | on: Magic Leap One

i don't want something beaming light into my eye at close range. just doesn't seem appealing to me.

also, how is this different than castAR?

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