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sainttex··on Show HN: Free and easy platform to publish 360 panoramas
I made something similar recently, it focuses on an easy capture and creation process from mobile, as well as the easy cross platform publish everywhere aspect. You can also create and play with 360 degree views of objects and panos. It's on the app store, and web: http://360gram.net
sainttex··on Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github
I hope this catches on as a trend. A similar setup has worked great for me for some time now. Don't forget your print media specific styles though...
sainttex··on Ask HN: What services do people pay for online?
Rdio $10/mo

Netflix $8/mo

Typekit $50/yr

Github $7/mo

Basecamp $20/mo

Sendgrid

Pingdom $10/mo, but am in the middle of replacing it with https://github.com/sainttex/tentacle

Hosting for http://postheat.com $170/mo

sainttex··on No app store? No problem: Grooveshark rolls out full HTML5 site for all devices
This tag caused an issue on certain versions of Android for one of my mobile web apps. I'm able to consistently reproduce this on Android 2.3.3. When an input field is focused upon, and the on screen keyboard is initialized, focus on the input field is lost, causing input to not reach the input field. So just make sure it's only included on iOS devices.
sainttex··on CloudFlare Is In Talks to Raise Funding At Near A $1 Billion Valuation
They've caused me a fair amount of downtime on several sites too. The third time they made my sites unavailable for hours I cancelled the paid plan and switched off them.
sainttex··on Show HN: Help me launch a weekly HN podcast
This could definitely be an interesting podcast. My only bit of feedback is that the chosen topics seem to be the events and topics that have already been discussed to death already. How are the featured topics being decided upon?

There have been some other very interesting topics I'm sure people would like at least an overview of within the week you based the outline on. There have even been some Show HN posts with peak scores higher than the Instagram acquisition. If this is going to be an HN based podcast I think it'd be very important to include some things like this directly from our community.

Here is a list of the top posts from week 2 of april, and week 3 (this week) http://postheat.com/top/hacker_news/

sainttex··on Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store
You mentioned you're using google's directions API, what is this doing differently than the walking directions in maps? Doesn't that include bike paths, passages etc?
sainttex··on Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store
They give you an option of putting in a release date, or immediate release after approval.
sainttex··on [dead]
I was in Sonoma, North of San Francisco but have been looking anywhere around the Bay Area.
sainttex··on If you develop web apps, don't do this.
Traditionally if an account reset email is sent out you didn't trigger, it's a huge red flag. With this proposed approach, especially on a location based service like foursquare, getting access through a sniffed seemingly harmless notification email would most likely go unnoticed.

The closest method to this I'd personally implement is a toggle option only, with no further access. Similar to a standard unsubscribe toggle link.

sainttex··on CSS3 toggle-button without JavaScript
Yeah, that's the horrible curse of the anchor tag.
sainttex··on Ask HN: Best metaphor for software development?
Great - Good luck with the clients!
sainttex··on Ask HN: Best metaphor for software development?
Easy, hit the potential client back with an outline of involved work.

If they seem determined to come to their own understanding, explain that it is similar to machinery and each portion of the machine needs to be crafted exactly to the machine's purpose.

sainttex··on Ask HN: Best metaphor for software development?
Possibly, leave the stories behind and stick to building out a scope of work that both you and your client can clearly understand.

It doesn't have to be crazy, and will most likely take less time than clearing up a rough metaphor to programming, which your client most likely has no interest in understanding.

Scopes can be very quickly done, be used in contracts/legal docs and keep both you on the same page.

sainttex··on Ask HN: Does anybody else get bad carpal tunnel/RSI? Any tips?
Yes, it's the worst. My sister and another friend have it pretty bad from working in a coffee shops. Mine hasn't been bad, just a little uncomfortable at times.

It can help when it's really bothering you to wear wrist braces at night to make sure there is no movement and give the inflammation some time to go down. The only other fixes I've been told are regular wrist exercises and obviously making sure your work area is ergonomic. Have a look at some example exercises online, building up certain muscles can drastically help you out.

Good luck with it, hopefully you find something that helps.

sainttex··on Apple Announces Beatles Collection
Why the downvotes? This morning after they launched this, you could once again add apps and they'd actually show up in iTunes Connect.
sainttex··on Apple Announces Beatles Collection
This still doesn't explain why I haven't been able to add new applications to iTunes Connect for the past few days, until now. They seriously stopped that process for this?
sainttex··on Show HN: Craigslist Instant
I'll check it on IE after I get a new windows virtual machine running. I just gave the machine I've been testing on away.

However, as far as your IE usage statistics, 65% is being more than generous even for 2006. Currently it's more like 31%.

sainttex··on Show HN: Craigslist Instant
Thanks for checking it out. It's still an alpha pre-release and there are some performance enhancements I'm working on.

The cool features are after you log in, you can save searches and it'll monitor real-time and notify of new posts.

sainttex··on Ask HN: How reliable is PhoneGap to develop Native Apps?
I started building apps for Android and iPhone simultaneously with a very early version of PhoneGap. The latest versions require less hacking to get up and running. It was very straight forward to get solid apps done on both platforms.

Out of the three apps out for iPhone and Android there have been no crashes and no complaints from users on bugs or unreliability. The apps make use of hardware (camera, gps and a few other things) as well as interfacing with a RoR backend for user systems, data syncing and upload pics taken in-app.

All in all, I've had no problems with it even after digging pretty deep into it and testing on Android 1.5-2.2 and old iOS through the latest versions.