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> Our payment platform requires that clients use escrow for guaranteed timely payment.
it makes me think that matchist takes a %-based cut. If this is the case then I want nothing to do with them. And if this is not the case then they should really re-work their copy to avoid setting off alarm bells in potential customer's heads.
Still though, "really really bad" makes me think you have experienced many other issues. I'm genuinely curious about how Maps performs in the places it is "supposed" to be at least passable. Got any other examples?
Meta: please don't edit your comments to respond to sub-comments. It makes the flow of the conversation very difficult to follow and makes my previous comment seem irrelevant and out of place.
I'm working on a routing/location based app right now. Out of curiosity could you give examples of what you mean by "really bad"?
The point is developers shouldn't have to worry about people in un-supported countries downloading their apps and finding them worthless due to no content.
* (it should be based on your Google Play account settings or billing information)
I've only got a few days left of development, so I'll probably get it out before Niantic/Google's iOS launch. The good news is that Field Trip seems fairly well received so far so there's a demand for this type of thing.
Us little guys need to stick together ;).
I'm not really arguing the legality of the issue though. I'm just talking about the spirit of what the content authors were trying to accomplish which I believe is: have some random person on the internet see their post and, subsequently, arrive at some sort of mutually beneficial arrangement with that person.
Earlier this year I was searching for an apartment in San Francisco. Craigslist was my only source for places to apply. The good apartments got snatched up pretty fast so I wanted a way to make sure I saw every listing that came through. The problem: there are easily 500 new listings added every day, and approximately 20% of these were re-posts of the same place. It's very difficult and draining, just trying to keep track of what you've already seen and where you left off since the last time you checked.
So I did what any self respecting iOS developer would do: I made an app. It worked pretty much like an email inbox. Each new listing was like a new message. Refreshing the feed was like checking your email. Reposts were marked. You could bookmark and store things. The app colored the message cells based on whether they were from the most recent import or not (i.e. the app keeps your place).
The best part? It worked pretty damn well. I gave it to a few other people via Test Flight and they were hooked as well.
So, again, I did what any self respecting iOS developer would do: I put the app on the App Store. I figured that since my app was exclusively a craigslist client - a tool to make using craigslist better - I might have a better chance of not incurring craigslist's wrath. I put it on sale for $3.99 (it's called Craigslist Commando, if you're curious) and hoped for the best.
The app did pretty well given that I did zero promotion for it. It was brining in around $30-40/day after Apple's cut. Unfortunately, my hopes for escaping craigslist's wrath did not pan out. I received a cease and desist letter from them two weeks ago. I'm still waiting on hearing back from them. They've gone silent on me after our initial contact in which they told me to expect a draft licensing agreement. I'm guessing they went silent because they have bigger things on their plate right now. I have opted to keep the app in the store during this time, but I'm not very optimistic that craigslist's licensing terms will be tenable.
All of this to say: I have a pony in this race. I respect craiglist's rights to do what they think is necessary to protect their business. However something about this just doesn't jive for me:
a) People go to craigslist and create content about some aspect of their lives. They, as the original authors of the content, post it to craiglist with the intention that the general public can see it.
b) Other people go to craigslist to view content posted to a public forum in hopes of finding something. This process is frustrating and difficult.
c) I create a tool that makes the process of finding something on craigslist less frustrating and difficult.
d) Craigslist threatens to sue me for creating the that tool. This despite the fact that I'm helping both: the original authors of the content who would like to have their posts seen by their target audience and, the viewers of the content by making the viewing process more efficient.
I suppose craigslist has these rights. But it just doesn't seem right.
If the theory is that bi-phasic sleep is ideal and natural for us, you should fall into that pattern naturally. All you need to do is go to sleep around the time that the sun goes down. It's just that "easy".
The consistency of the web is very important. That consistency is exactly what lets us look at a new web page and immediately start making sense of it and websites that don't conform to this consistency are the websites that we immediately label "terrible" and "unusable".
Vitamin D supplements consist of (mostly) one type of Vitamin D. People are typically deficient in that specific type so mild supplementation is a reasonable option. Just don't kid yourself into thinking that taking Vitamin D is a replacement for spending adequate time outdoors. Compared to the first 100 million years of our species existence, hiding indoors all day is a relatively new invention. It will be a while before science produces a silver bullet in gelcap form.
It gets old though. I've come to realize over the past few years that the stuff I spend my time reading on Hacker News does take it's toll in mental and emotional energy. Often a lot more than I realized. If there's anything I wish I could filter from my media intake, it would be both iPhone Naysayer articles and responses to iPhone Naysayer articles such as Jim's here.
>To sum up, I am willing to do a mental test (memory, or IQ, as the smart drug promoter chooses) duel with anyone who claims that smart drugs have helped him become smarter.
Wait, what? He spent 1000 words explaining to us all of the ways in which research around nootropics is lacking and then closes by proposing a ridiculous test fraught with a glaringly obvious confounding factor (the test subject's baseline intelligences). Baffling.
The old way was versatile actually. What it lacked was being able to relate views to anything aside from it's parent container.
44 is a magic number in iOS development. All navigation bars are 44px tall. All tap targets are recommended to be at least this size. It's very easy for developers to conceptualize 88 more vertical pixels and what to do with them; much easier to work with.
And let's face it, iOS is about the apps over watching videos. I'm sure 16:9 videos will look great.
I do think however that the extra width in Landscape will now require a completely different interface. Adding 88 extra screen pixels means that simply rotating and stretching the interface has crossed the line from "looks kinda weird" to "looks terrible".
I'd recommend the longer "Pro" model if you're targeting longboard skateboarding.
It's amazing how much Indoboard helps. It will quickly give you an innate sense for where to position your feet, how far forward or backward to lean, and (for a shortbaord) when you're approaching that "oh shit" threshold where the board will fly out from your feet like a banana.
After that, get a longboard and start slow in as much empty pavement space you can find. Try to always keep your knees bent. Start with kicking in front (i.e. the way you're facing) with your back foot instead of in back with your front foot.
Beware of cracks.. beware of hills- even gradual ones. Mentally prepare yourself for some bloody knees, elbows, and palms. Enjoy- it is a really fun way to get around short distances.
Yes, I do extend this to rollerbladers and scooters. Segues have a maximum speed of 12.5 mph and restrict their own downhill movement. I'd say they're sidewalk safe. Same with wheelchairs.
As someone who lives in San Francisco and commutes using all three of bike, foot, and car (and back in college rode a skateboard around a large and busy campus) I don't think skateboards belong on the sidewalk - and definitely not motor powered ones.
Anything that has the potential to move much faster than a person running at full speed is extremely dangerous on the sidewalk for everyone involved: cars, bikes, and especially pedestrians. It breaks everyone's mental model for what could possibly be coming from where. Cars making a right turn do not expect bikes or skateboards to entering the sidewalk at 5-10 mph from their blind spot and so they almost never check. Pedestrians turning a corner don't expect the possibility of something oncoming that is moving too fast to stop before hitting then and so they almost never look. And so on..
As an individual YOU might be a considerate skateboarder who has learned when and where to be careful. That's great, but it doesn't change the fact that there are still idiots and assholes out there that are going to do idiotic and asshole things. The only system that makes sense is: fast-stuff in one place where everyone knows to look out for fast-stuff, and slow-stuff on the sidewalk.
First, by definition RSI is an inflammatory response. So, here's a good overview of what is meant by "inflammation" in the body:
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/inflammation/
And here are studies related to the causes of inflammation I mentioned:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17402291?dopt=Abstract
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/135/3/562.full
http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ajg20104...
http://scienceblog.com/40178/poor-sleep-quality-increases-in...
In my opinion, the most important factors to consider are actually your diet and your lifestyle. RSI and similar types of issues can usually be traced to high levels of general inflammation in the body. It's not the usage you're putting on your body that's the culprit - it's how your body is reacting to that usage with an inflammatory response.
Programmers are very high risk group for factors which cause inflammation:
1) Toxic diets. E.g. high sugar, high processed carbs, high industrial seed oils, high intake of meat from unhealthy animals. Low intake of high quality fats and omega 3s. Poor gut health.
2) Lack of sleep / poor sleep quality.
3) Lack of movement.
4) Chronic stress.
I don't know about this one. I think that having to write print statements makes you do actual thinking about your debugging strategy and therefore makes you understand the flow of your code more. A debugger is certainly useful, but I was surprised the first time I had to go without one to find that I didn't miss it that much and possibly was even more efficient.