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epaga
9,390karma·952submissions·March 25, 2011
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Java developer / team leader at inetsoftware.de by day
iOS developer by night
https://silentshark.app - Tactical map-based WW2 submarine simulator for iOS, Android, Mac, PC, Linux, Web
https://smoothtrack.app - VR-style head tracking app (iOS + Android) for PC sim games. Replaces the need for a $150+ TrackIR system.
https://mindscopeapp.com - Text canvas outliner, thought organizer (macOS, iOS)
http://appstore.com/johngoering - other apps
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I still am completely confused at how professional editors at both Wired Science AND Gizmodo that must see loads of fake videos every day were unable to tell the video was a fake. Especially the takeo…
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Donating to Kickstarter gives you no guarantees whatsoever. The guy can basically just walk away with the money if he so decides. No, really. This however makes it all the more a powerful concept in m…
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Though both the email and the blog response from TSA are incredibly unprofessional, the email is NOT intimidation or a "veiled threat", and exaggerating by claiming it is is not going to help a sane d…
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Is anyone able to compare and contrast this with the UDK which seems to be a similar license (free until you make six figures)?
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...at which point the $1500 dollar version doesn't sound like a bad deal...
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This is one of those beautiful win-win-win situations - everyone in this situation is happy - StackExchange, Balsamiq, and the users. What a great idea, and props to all involved for making it happen.
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"the best argument against democracy is a ten minute conversation with the average voter" - reportedly Churchill as well
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"Clear feels a lot more Metro than iOS. Not that that's bad." - @agnoster I find that a very insightful remark. I always did like Metro's UI "feel" - simple and sleek with clear edges and clean color…
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Very reminiscent of Dwarf Fortress, except that it doesn't bring my machine to a crawl.
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As Matt Gemmell proposed: send over the hash codes of the email addresses or whatever else needs to be compared.
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Though it's quite a difference whether the contacts are checked client-side or all sent over to THEIR server including all (unnecessary) info.
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Actually, reading his biography, it didn't sound like that to me at all.
"More time" as opposed to complete ignoring and acting like he wasn't the father, yes. But the reason he had the biography writ…
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"Success at the cost of my children is not success. It is failure." I can already tell this post is an instant classic that I will return to many times in the coming years. I was left with almost exac…
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☚♛☛ <- this almost made me not click on the link because it looked like spam. I'm glad I did though - it's one of the best writeups I've seen re: post-mortem on app design and marketing. Highly …
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Just a thought - the screenshots look really great, but you will definitely want to write a much longer app description. I would NEVER buy the app based on that description alone since it is $3 and I …
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Marketing the app truly has been the hardest part for myself as well... would really appreciate any pointers from fellow iOS devs on "what has worked" to get more reach for your apps. Has anyone tried…
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A book I heard about via Matt Gemmell is "Learning iPad Programming" (Kirby Turner, Tom Harrington) - it's really an excellent overview, explained by programming a real-life iPad app step by step. Mas…
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"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." —Tanenbaum (1996)
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Fascinating (and strangely inspiring) that after ~550 days in office, every single president on the chart had the explicit disapproval of at least(!) 16% of the country.
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I'd recommend Trello.
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Quite the coincidence - I just started doing exactly this a few weeks ago, and am fact am reading this at 5:30am my time (when I should be coding :P). It has worked quite well for me as I work on my a…
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As far as I know, it IS a Facebook app in the sense that it uses the Facebook API to connect you to other Facebookers who want to code race against you. Bummer since it's a great idea but I deactivate…
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Unfortunately, in most of Europe, home-schooling continues to be illegal - as in, the police show up at your house and pick up your kids if you try...in extreme cases you can go to jail. So we are for…
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My experience with our educational app is that we actually sold less units(!) when we tried going down from $3 to $1 - we changed nothing other than the price so we have to assume our target group (te…
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I have to admit, reading the article I went back and forth between being impressed and being slightly freaked out. Best quote from the article that evokes both of those feelings for me: "This is searc…
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Here's the whole text, as an app developer I definitely can relate: About .01% of users got stuck on the first screen where it says Enter Your Name. They apparently got stuck and not understand that y…