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New comment by phil in "One Man Has Written Virtually Every Major Pop Song Of The Last 20 Years."

phil — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:22:12 +0000

Great NYer profile of another pop hit lyricist & production team:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/26/120326fa_fact_...

New comment by phil in "An iOS Developer’s Wishlist"

phil — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:23:23 +0000

Wouldn't this make signing more complex? Currently the bundle doesn't change after you sign it on submission, but it would have to if resources were getting stripped.

New comment by phil in "Meanwhile, at code.org"

phil — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 07:11:10 +0000

This is so strange to see, especially since code.org's tutorials might be the closest thing we've got to a widely used implementation of (some of) Mr. Victor's ideas.

New comment by phil in "We raised money for the EFF and ACLU with an NSA t-shirt"

phil — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 04:40:55 +0000

SSL Added and Removed Here

phil — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:17:10 +0000

Article URL: http://philkast.com/2013/10/30/spying-tshirt.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6644185

Points: 4

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New comment by phil in "Why Silicon Valley funds Instagrams, not Hyperloops"

phil — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:57:00 +0000

My mistake. I thought your point was, "Tesla was much cheaper to start than people think, well within normal parameters for early venture rounds."

New comment by phil in "Why Silicon Valley funds Instagrams, not Hyperloops"

phil — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:48:37 +0000

Yeah -- but what are the chances SpaceX would exist if Musk hadn't personally invested the first $100m?

And Tesla might have been cheaper at first, but Musk led the A round and participated in every funding until the F round (!).

Without a deep pocketed founder willing to absorb years of losses, what are the chances Tesla ever makes it to market? Even so they nearly died before they shipped the roadster.

New comment by phil in "Ink (YC S12) Releases New iOS Layer That Allows Apps to Interact, Share Data"

phil — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:15:28 +0000

A short description of how it works would probably go a long way for developer adoption. There doesn't seem to be any.

The most obvious way to implement this might not work the same in iOS 7 -- I'd want to know more before relying on it.

New comment by phil in "How negative app reviews from iOS beta users could be prevented"

phil — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:31:20 +0000

Everyone has wanted this for years now. I wouldn't hold my breath.

New comment by phil in "Observations from a Tipless Restaurant"

phil — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:03:55 +0000

Chez Panisse and Per Se don't have the same reputation.

New comment by phil in "Exploring the Calendar Metaphor on iOS"

phil — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:24:09 +0000

It's really neat to see work of this caliber being done, then... simply released on GitHub as an example.

New comment by phil in "What's Wrong with the iOS 7 Icons?"

phil — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:04:01 +0000

I agree with this:

I freaked out in the beginning because I thought the crummy icons were representative of Apple screwing up the entire new design direction for iOS. But now that I’ve seen the rest of iOS, I’m not that worried.

After a couple days with the beta, it's pretty obvious that Apple didn't, like, FIRE their UI designers or anything. There are a few strange choices, but most of the new OS feels like an improvement when you use it.

Tunebox Is An iTunes Match-Like App For Dropbox Music Files

phil — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:53:35 +0000

Article URL: http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/13/tunebox-is-an-itunes-match-like-app-for-dropbox-music-files/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876170

Points: 2

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New comment by phil in "Apple is finally allowing developers to sell their apps to other developers"

phil — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:02:04 +0000

I'm curious what people think of existing marketplaces.

If you're thinking of selling an app, do you feel like the tools are there to find buyers and perform the transaction?

New comment by phil in "3D printing is nothing special"

phil — Thu, 30 May 2013 02:50:16 +0000

Don't forget the metal doohickeys, too.

How much of the stuff in your life could be made by snapping together plastic and metal doohickeys?

New comment by phil in "Apple deluged by police demands to decrypt iPhones"

phil — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:09:04 +0000

Do any HN people know what they're doing to unlock phones? Brute-forcing the passcode as the article suggests?

Crosswa.lk Debuts First Public-Facing Tool To Send iOS Apps From Web To Mobile

phil — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:28:32 +0000

Article URL: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/08/crosswa-lk-debuts-first-public-facing-tool-to-send-ios-apps-from-web-to-mobile-no-need-to-launch-itunes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5681292

Points: 1

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New comment by phil in "iOS Sale Numbers By App Store Rank"

phil — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:38:35 +0000

Unfortunately, I don't. I have two paid music apps but like yourself, only have good data for lower portions of the charts. Plus it's tough to pick apart iPad vs iPhone sales for universal apps.

If I had to guess, it's probably about half of iPhone, but don't rely on that!

New comment by phil in "iOS Sale Numbers By App Store Rank"

phil — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:58:56 +0000

It's great to see those charts. You're conflating iPhone and iPad rankings though.

~10 sales/day won't get you into the US Music top 100 for iPhone since iPhone is a bigger market than iPad. Yet that 80 sales/day number is for iPhone. That's making the extrapolated bit of your chart steeper than it should be.

New comment by phil in "J.C. Penney Apologizes in TV Spot"

phil — Sat, 04 May 2013 07:14:40 +0000

J.C. Penney Shoots Self in Foot