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samjohn··on Show HN: A Facebook app I made that maps your friends' locations.
Hmm, I just switched from click to mouseover- I'm not sure if it's better or not. It makes it jump around a bit. I'll leave it up and let me know what you think.

(p.s. thanks for the feedback!)

samjohn··on Show HN: A Facebook app I made that maps your friends' locations.
Fixed! Good catch.
samjohn··on Show HN: A Facebook app I made that maps your friends' locations.
Hey,

That permission is there because I have a share button- if you click it a popup will open where you can choose to post the app to your wall.

You have a point though- I will see if I can split the permissions such that I only request wall posts after you choose the share option.

EDIT: fixed, I took out the wall publishing permissions and the share button still works. Enjoy!

samjohn··on Programmer as Market
I once had an interview with Pivotal labs in which I paired with their devs to do some TDD. We spent about 20% of the time writing code and 80% writing tests and fixing bugs in the test cases. I can see how it works for what Pivotal does but this would definitely not fly when you're trying to ship and iterate as fast as possible.
samjohn··on Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
I wish he had addressed the fact that school is incredibly expensive. It's much harder to start a business when you are 100k in debt from your expensive MBA (or your undergrad for that matter).
samjohn··on 20 Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of
I love the green boxes. Last time I moved my roommate spent almost $50 on cardboard boxes. After unpacking we immediately threw them away (with the additional hassel of disassembling them). This is a far better solution.

I hope they become available in my state next time I have to move.

samjohn··on Try F# in your browser
Not working in Chrome. I pressed send and it just printed back everything in the editor without executing.