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This worked great on my aging macbook. That's just amazing, I had no idea it came with sensors to support such functionality.

Player would reset to the beginning several times, and wouldn't let me skip to the part I was currently watching. FLV file is much easier to deal with :)

Python here - very quick to code in if you have terminal handy.

Never really bored... But to answer your question - mountain biking whenever I can (yesterday went to a dirt jumping park! in fact, I think I'll go there right now!), and assembling little air plane replicas (currently working on MiG 21). Oh, and hacking (should be writing a shell right now...) :-)

This is worrying. We're using Twilio in my app - they've been good to us so far, certainly very friendly and helpful. The service has been spotty at times, but mostly reliable. Most of our customers are based in U.S./Canada, and all paying customers are; we also had a backup SMS delivery built recently. However, providing absolutely no notice (didn't seem like I missed an email from them) of such a significant change in service certainly isn't a good way to go about this.

Are you planning on adding PDF export? Or, at least, something like "email this invoice"? I don't interact with my clients in person, so just the ability to print an invoice is clearly not enough to make me use your app.

Something that worked really well for me is having several hobbies outside of work. It prevents me from just coding for 12 hours a day, and makes my life so much more enjoyable.

A really big one for me is mountain biking. I always found it to be a great escape from whatever I had going on - school, work, relationships - you can really forget about all of that stuff on trails. Mountain biking at times feels more like an addiction, to be honest. Indeed, I own a shirt that reads "Mountain biking is as addictive as crack, but twice as expensive". I start feeling bad about myself and getting a bit anxious if I don't go out on trails for several days in a row. It sure feels great afterwards though - really push yourself, have fun, get that dose of adrenalin and be physically exhausted in the end. I always solve my toughest problems after "hardcore" biking sessions :-)

Having talked to some hospital staff during my several biking-related emergency room visits, I can tell you that some forms of it (downhill-type stuff) are very hard on your joints, so don't over do it. If you're really into downhill racing and freeride, mix in several good XC sessions for cross-training. You'll be stronger and healthier.

P.S.: another thing that really helps is having an active S.O., someone who'll drag you out of your work-mode and take you hiking several times a week, and who will want social interactions outside of "reading HN".

While I agree with you, I wanted to provide a different perspective on how "remote" these images might seem. (I might be misunderstanding meaning you're putting behind that word. If so, please forgive me!)

I'm Russian, and I grew up in different parts of USSR and later ex-USSR. All of my older relatives were, in some sense, involved in WW2. A big part of my family died during that time - some killed in fighting, some from hunger, some from random bullets, some because of repressions of that time... That war greatly affected every family I know, usually in most tragic ways. So to many people over there, such photographs are not "remote" at all - they are an integral part of their own history.

At the same time, it is saddening to see a new generation grow up oblivious to what their grandparents went through... People forget so easily!

This is such a great presentation. Thank you, David!

Right. For that purpose, the system tells you (when you add links), on average, how many messages you will get per day. I know it is quite rudimentary for now, but I will be adding friendlier analyses tools soon, maybe even on the Pricing page - e.g., tell us what you want to monitor and we'll estimate which price plan you might want.

Also, I just got my first paid monthly subscription users this morning (1st day of launch, woot!), so I might be keeping this payment option for now.

However, I try to avoid recurring charges as much as I can myself, so great pre-paid options are a must.

Well, this depends on how people will use the system. Say, you're just tracking down a used car with best possible price. So you sign up for text notifications so that you're the first one - and once you bought the car, you no longer need these notifications.

Other usage patterns might assume regular, monthly usage.

Since I just launched this and have only a handful of users, I'm yet to see how it'll be used.

Edit: I misread your comment. They will be using this, in the best case scenario, regularly on ongoing basis - so not "monthly" in a sense of regular subscription services.

Thanks for trying this out!

I use Twilio (http://twilio.com) for sending text messages, and rely on them to provide somewhat global support. UK should be supported, but their logging does show that they couldn't deliver your text message. I filed the issue with their support system, so hopefully they'll resolve this.

I will add list of countries that are supported though!

Yeah, I've given it some thought. I'm still trying to decide which way to go (keep current model, or go in a direction that you suggested).

However, your suggestion about dropping monthly plan is interesting. I thought it would be a matter of convenience for people? Given that they'll be using the service monthly, of course. Steep discounts does sound like a step in the right direction.

Thanks a lot for your comments!

Fantastic app! UI is particularly well done, great job.

Small number of currently present APIs definitely is a let down, but I suppose that will change soon?

I would love to have ability to create multiple "pages", for monitoring different projects - so that their widgets don't overlap.

Thanks!

I completely agree with Pricing page being confusing... It felt fine when I initially created it, but hours after launching I want to remake it completely. There are only two main options to tell people about, and two different prices - seems like all that text isn't really required.

Also, pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by MVP in this context?

I've been working on this app for the last couple of weeks. This is a first actual "product" that I've launched, so I'm a bit shaken up by how people will, or will not, react to it. Any feedback and recommendations are highly appreciated!

Would definitely try this out from Canada!

Yup, definitely can't drag it.

The whole "mobile browser" thing seemed odd. Mobile Safari, Mobile Chrome, RIM's future browser, etc. - they're running on webkit, and that what matters.

Definitely take a look at CodeIgniter. After going through several frameworks myself when faced with a necessity to switch from Python to PHP for several projects, this is the one I ended up staying with. It's really great actually. I might have ended up using it in a very Djangoesque way, but definitely did enjoy my time with it.

I did this and graphed the results:

http://imgur.com/y0aH3.png

2192 0 - 0%

389003 1 - 38%

151943 2 - 15%

116663 3 - 11%

96393 4 - 9%

76590 5 - 8%

53572 6 - 5%

45381 7 - 4%

47138 8 - 5%

36983 9 - 4%

Contrary to the popular trend, they aren't using a WebKit-based browser - site claims that the phone comes with a Mozilla powered browser engine.

If this phone does take off, I wonder if it could distill WebKit's mobile monopoly (disregarding RIM's rather fair efforts with their in-house browser for having a marginal market share, and Opera is a bit of a different story)...

No mention of lambda style anonymous functions, too!