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It seems that the state iOS development is improving at a very rapid pace. I can't wait to try this out.

I'm very excited about this, but it would be nice to see the price without having to first upload a document.

Sorry, but I'd disagree. The transitions aren't very smooth and often times you're faced with a blank screen while waiting for assets to load.

I was actually very hopeful that the app would feel as good as native after I'd read about it, but I was disappointed.

I still prefer the <blink> tag.

I'd venture that none of the brands mentioned in this comparison are used by as many people as Facebook. Everybody you know uses Facebook. How many people do you know that drive a Ford? 1 of 10?

I'm pretty sure they do client side resizing as well.

Often times running out of money is a symptom of a larger problem.

This looks great. I've already built some iOS photo and geo apps that run on Heroku (highly recommended), but I'm sure there are a few pointers I can pick up from this tutorial.

Thanks for doing this. I'll be a regular listener.

Bummed I can't make this. I really like the idea of a game-focused hackathon.

You guys are nuts!

I disagree.

Instagram is not about making the photo production process easier. It's about making the photo consumption process easier, so that the photos you take get more attention from others (and you have more fun).

You could share your photos to Facebook or Twitter instead, but when users view their streams from those other sites, they're confronted with either a sea of text (Twitter) or a sea of mixed content in non-standard formats (Facebook). Catching up on your Facebook feed is impossible, so nobody does it. Twitter is a bit better because the posts are in a standard format, but still, reading tweets takes a bit of time.

Contrast this with Instagram. I'm following over 200 people and I can catch up on an entire day's worth of photos in about 5 minutes. Because it's faster to view an image than read a tweet, and because of the standard post format, Instagram is literally the fastest way possible for me to see what my friends and family have been up to.

To me, that's the real value of Instagram.

He said that they had 2 engineers in 2010, 3 engineers in 2011, and 5 engineers 2012, but only 2.5 backend engineers.

I'm surprised that the number of engineers is so low, considering that they had 15 employees.

Maybe the figures above don't include mobile engineers? But then what would the other 2.5 be doing?

Thanks to Instagram and AirBnb for putting this on. It was an amazing event.

I lived without home Internet for about a year in 2002 when I lived on a boat. I eventually got a wireless 56k connection. I spent time at coffee shops and wardriving for Internet. I don't recommend it.

Those bad engineering decisions the founding engineers made may have been what allowed them to move fast enough to build a startup that's still in business 4+ years later.

If you know exactly what your customers want, you should take the time to build it correctly the first time. But if you're innovating and creating a new product, you'll need to perform a lot of experiments before you figure out what your customers really want.

Experiments shouldn't be engineered perfectly. It's better to have a creaky product that customers want than a bullet-proof system that nobody wants.

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I will recommend this to everyone I know that works with iOS in some capacity. What a great resource! Thanks!

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Am I the only person that laughed out loud at this?

One has to assume this means that they might finally be updating their UI.

I've done a significant amount of development with Twilio, and I can say that I do see a need for a service like this. Developing conversations with Twilio is a pain, and requires a bank of phone numbers. A service like this can pool phone numbers among apps, and result in savings for everyone.

The question is, how many apps need to implement conversations for Twilio?

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I'm very excited by this. Graphite is an amazing tool, but the UI feels a bit outdated.

I wonder how long it will be before they allow you to receive SMS as well, and forward to an API, like Twilio does.

I suppose this means that LinkedIn is moving away from Lucene NRT Search?

I put this together for the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon. It's pretty fun when people are on it, like any social service.

I'm guessing that GoGrid provisioned the server, then sent him an email with his password. After first login, he would have been prompted to change his password, but somebody got to his email before he logged in...