mronge

That's the tech we built we call LIQUID: http://astropad.com/#tech

We are extremely interested in the rumored iPad Pro and stylus :)

Thanks, that's great to hear :)

We've been working on this for 1.5 years and we had to write completely custom tech to make it happen.

We're happy to answer any questions about our tech

Are there any known patent issues with CABAC?

We didn't evaluate Android as we are long time Mac devs so we knew we could work fastest on iOS and Mac.

We are somewhat concerned about getting sherlocked, but I have no idea what to do about that other than push on!

Building streaming video over wireless has been crazy hard. We are happy to answer questions on that and our trials with USB.

I went ahead and put together a post. Check it out. "Apple, is USB allowed now?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8778010

We've been developing app that also streams video content from Mac to iPad, and this recent Apple reversal on USB has been very frustrating for us.

About a year ago we submitted an app to the App Store that uses the same USB tech (PeerTalk), we wanted to see if Apple would allow it (we didn't want to build a business around something that could change on a whim). If it was allowed that would have changed the entire direction of our development. An Apple rep called us and informed as that USB access is not allowed.

With this in mind we went ahead with using WiFi, which has been HARD and time consuming. Now Apple all of a sudden allows USB access, what?!

How does Apple expect people to build serious apps when the ground is shifting beneath our feet?

Anyway.. I should write a post with more details.

How come all mobile browser uses software JPEG decoding? Is it because of the startup latency of the hardware decoder?

I've tried living in eshell but zsch auto complete is just too damn good. Is there really good auto completion for eshell?

Apple has them

My understanding with FDA guidelines is they are always "voluntary" only in name. Companies effectively have to comply or the FDA will crack down very hard on the company.

That is NOT true. It does in fact use the real login window

Ah go for it, it's still fun

Yes, but most of these projects have been abandoned. GitHub for Mac used a similar project but they've also changed direction. There is just too much "stuff" to reimplement. It is really a job only Apple can do

I'd love to see these benchmarks on a beefier ec2 instance type. I'm curious how it would compare to the dedicated hardware

Probably performance reasons on mobile. Past 5 large accounts the app probably starts to get slow

The cost of living difference between Minneapolis and San Francisco is HUGE. For the cost of an apartment in San Francisco you could have a huge house on 1/2 an acre of land in the Minneapolis area.

This calculator takes into account more, like housing, food etc: http://www.bestplaces.net/col/?salary=107798%20&city1=50...

"A salary of $107,798 in San Francisco, California could decrease to $56,716 in Minneapolis, Minnesota"

Which is much more in line with my personal experience having worked in both Silicon Valley and Minneapolis.

If you're a good engineer, it is not uncommon to pull down 107k or more in Minneapolis as well.

I do not believe this was officially supported by the Sparrow team as he make it seems...

Check out my iOS/Mac library for a head start: http://www.libmailcore.com It uses the same C library that powers Sparrow

SEEKING WORK - Minneapolis and remote. iOS and Mac developer. mronge at mronge dot com

The short answer is yes, you need to use the environment to fully grok Smalltalk.

Much of the power of Smalltalk comes from the environment. It is pretty amazing how even now parts of Smalltalk are more sophisticated than todays programming tools.

I would love to try it but it requires Facebook.

Yep. That is exactly how you solve this problem. I've done this with Lucene and then searched either the regular field or the reversed field depending on the wildcard query.

I work at the company that makes My-Cast (mentioned in the blog post as one of his favorite wx apps), if you have any suggestions on how we can improve I'd be happy to pass them along.

If you are a pilot be sure to check out Pilot My-Cast, which is what I work on. The iPad is incredible for pilots, for far too long they've had to put with complex and arcane UI. We are working on changing that here at Digital Cyclone.

If you're interested in this app also take a look at Garmin Pilot My-Cast.

I work on that app along with a small team here at Garmin and were are really proud of what we've done. We are passionate about making great apps and I think Pilot My-Cast really shows that.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/garmin-pilot-my-cast-aviation...

I second The Soul of A New Machine, what an incredible book.

It follows a team of engineers at Data General around 1980 as they race to build a new computer under incredible pressure. It's an incredible story and anyone who has worked on a tightly knit team under high pressure will relate.

1) Code Complete

2) The Pragmatic Programmer

I would also recommend incorporating in your home state. I incorporated in Minnesota and it was ridiculously easy, simplest government form I've ever seen.

However if you're going to be seeking VC then it probably makes sense to incorporate in Delaware. However if you're like me and bootstrapping it, there is no need to go with a Delaware Corp.

Yea, but that's not what most mean by "write once run anywhere." I don't consider having to write separate view controllers for iPhone and iPad "write once run anywhere."

In fact that's not much different than many existing cross platform applications that have a platform agnostic core with a layer of platform specific UI code on top.