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I've been waiting for that evidence. All I see is a message stating "Receipts coming over the weekend!"

https://doge.gov/savings

Might be a net improvement, as the quality of the devices was headed downward even when the organization was fully staffed. I'd be content for the devices to be left alone in stasis instead of having someone tinker with something and break it, just as they made reliable Bluetooth connectivity that I used to take for granted into a daily exercise in frustration.

I have fond memories using Qt on Symbian. Thank you for your work.

I wanted to jump in and praise this project. After INSTEON suddenly shut down last month, I was able to set up Home Assistant and restore control to the perfectly functional network of devices orphaned by their makers.

Great work, all!

Amazing work. I'll be adding it to my daily routine.

Maybe?

I don't know if the Moment.js folks are reading this, but THANK YOU for your commitment to stability and security fixes.

Not all of us are in a situation where we're iterating through the JavaScript new hotness every couple years and still have significant legacy systems to maintain and support.

Santa's Map to Christmas is an app for Android and iOS devices where I've been geocoding classic Christmas stories for the holiday season. I read through the stories, extract the contexts where places are mentioned and geocode those places so readers know where places like Bethlehem or Ebenezer Scrooge's offices are located. For places where I can find illustrations, I include images with the entries for a rich location-aware experience.

I hope HNers find some joy in this creation, and have a very happy holiday!

Lovecraft kind of covered this in his Randolph Carter stories. Check out "The Silver Key"[1] as a prequel and "Through the Gates of the Silver Key"[2] as the payoff. It's not the typical horror he's known for, but definitely incorporates his larger cosmic themes.

[1] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Silver_Key

[2] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Through_the_Gates_of_the_Silve...

I upgraded my late-2008 iMac with Mavericks to see if it performed better than Mountain Lion given that my machine's maxed out at 4GB of RAM and my experience thus far has been that overall, the system is more responsive, but there's a lot more latency in doing things like restoring backgrounded applications that haven't been quit, but are still running. It may be that my machine is too old, but Mavericks has just shifted the latency around in this case.

Collecting student ID numbers is a big no-no, given the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. While the startup may not be bound by FERPA, Brown is responsible for protecting those student ID numbers. The University of Tennessee has a decent guide to the statute: http://ferpa.utk.edu/questions.php

I'd be a bit more sympathetic to Silicon Valley companies if they didn't send so much of their profits overseas to avoid paying the same taxes meatspace companies have a harder time avoiding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

"Viacom was founded by PHD students at MIT..."

Wasn't it Viaweb? Big difference between Viacom (the media conglomerate) and Viaweb, the online shop software.

Just a quibble, but Jobs purchased what became Pixar from George Lucas. Saying that he founded it is a bit of a stretch -- he pretty much just bankrolled it until it finally found its niche with "Toy Story". Alan Deutschman's "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" draws a sharp contrast between Jobs' roles at the two companies:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Second-Coming-Steve-Jobs/dp/076790...

I'm under 100. I love Stack Overflow, but the reason that my reputation is so low is that when I'm in software development mode, I'm usually so busy working that I don't have the time to (nor rarely think about) go back and answer some questions. Maybe one of these days when I have the time to step back and think about software development outside the context of a project, I'll go back and chip in. God knows I use it often enough every day.

As one of the folks working on this (I did some of the iOS programming), I just want to say that I had a blast working with Mat and Sean.

For Windows Phone users in Chicago, I can't recommend CTAWatch highly enough. I haven't tried Embark yet, but CTAWatch has become my favorite public transit app across iOS, Android & WP7:

http://www.triton-tek.com/solutions/mobile/apps/cta-watch

Disclaimer: I have no ties to the developer or company selling the app - I'm just a very happy user.

Doubled my originally intended contribution given the availability of the soundtracks. I wish all games came with the MP3s of the music used within. Game soundtracks are a staple of the music I listen to when I code.

Great job Humble folks!

As an Android app developer, I'd totally support this as part of the native platform. While I haven't gotten an e-mail from a paranoid user asking why Fresh Comics needs their location data, I've gone ahead and done a small writeup on why my app needs the location permission, why I need that data, and what I do with it afterwards:

http://freshcomics.us/support/privacy-location-information/

In my role as a developer, I'd support a way that I could specify these details in a more standard & concise way and allow the user to enable & disable permissions as needed without having to make an all-or-nothing decision whether to install the app.

As a user, I'd appreciate it even more. :-)

Thanks for putting it online. I have a similar project not involving the iPhone logs, but I'm looking to using your visualizations to make sense of the data that I've been collecting.

Just put out my first one two weeks ago: http://freshcomics.us

Got bored while waiting for Apple's approval, and started the Android version, which landed in the Android Market 3 days after Apple accepted the iOS version.

I have 3 iOS apps in the pipeline at the moment. I put development of one on pause while Apple figures out if it'll be taxing SaaS apps.