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cmaxweon Ask HN: My first time developing a rails app. What do you think?

For my app it was being able to post to the timeline that made Facebook attractive as an auth system. Get more exposure quickly.

cmaxweon How I got his social, license, and credit card via Android

Also to me it makes sense to keep these things separate. My friend had to wipe his phone because it was randomly rebooting and it saved him from having to connect to a computer and backup all his music and photos.

cmaxweon How I got his social, license, and credit card via Android

Not sure about TouchWiz or other varients of Android but on Sense you have two options...

1) Erase Phone Storage (which clearly explains that it is music, pictures, etc)

2) Factory Reset (erase phone data)

Seems pretty straight forward to me.

cmaxweon Why wood pulp is world's new wonder material

Probably good news for Canada too as we export a lot of trees to the US.

cmaxweon Ask HN: Your Personal Finance Software?

+1 I have been using mint for a long time. The mobile apps are really great too. I have accounts at several institutions so I just open the app and it connects to all the institutions and updates my various balances.