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Looks like that only works for 5GB files or less, which is a shame.

Rad! Haven't run across Archive Team before. Looking into them now.

Interesting - hadn't considered that possibility. Thanks! I'll look into it.

Seems reasonable, though given the size of the file I'm probably going to have to host it somewhere for seeding purposes rather than just parking it on my home fileserver (yay Comcast monopoly in my area).

If that were the case, how would the data input into your cell phone get stored on the card? I believe at a minimum Coin uses BLE to transmit card data from your phone to the device.

Seems like you've got a WAIS to go.

Thanks for clarifying! Makes sense.

Having spent a fair amount of time in PhoneGap, I recall one of the tricky bits of using stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString to call into JS land was that it could block, leading Apple to impose a 5 second timeout on that particular API call. Is that still the case? I recall that making loading large objects created/fetched via native code more complicated.

Congratulations on 2.0, regardless!

The accuracy is definitely a mixed blessing - interpolation, velocity awareness, and (screen-independent) gestures go a long way toward a good user experience.

The device can be positioned anywhere you like, but I'm guessing there's a definite learning period if you have it somewhere other than under your monitor (sort of like what I imagine Wacom users have the first time the use a screen-mapped tablet).

It's also possible that medical applications (and, by extension, deploying the hardware in a hospital) would require them to have a whole different set of dev, manufacturing, and QA procedures, much like flight control and other "mission critical" software.

The replay button in the local web UI is enough to make this instantly useful. Thanks for building this.

What's the storage multiplier for TokuMX vs. straight mongodb? Will my total size on disk go up or down?

Is there a feature roadmap somewhere detailing what order these and other features will be added (actual schedule is great too!)?

The 16 hour talk time is in reference to the battery life of the phone, I'm guessing (the next bullet references 30 days' standby time).

Clearly an organization that values people skills.

Fascinating. A bit of digging suggests the founder, Ross Nochumowitz[1], has a second business as well: Big Boyz Bail Bonds[2] (note the identical avatars). He was CEO of the latter as recently as October[3].

Never having utilized the services of a bondsperson, I'm not qualified to comment on the similarity of the two businesses. Perhaps Ross can comment here!

[1] http://www.facebook.com/ross.nochumowitz

[2] http://klout.com/#/BigBoyzBail

[3] http://citypaper.com/news/big-boyz-bail-bonds-banned-from-ce...

I posted the same article a few minutes earlier using the Google cache link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4159481

It's viable. Drivers exist for most of the interesting storage engines you'd use for user records, leaderboards and the like. You'll need to pay attention to any server-side operations that require heavy CPU and ensure those tasks don't block time-critical operations.

You may or may not get the same level of concurrency as someone's custom-tuned C++ backend, but you won't have to pay an arm and a leg to license it, either. :)

Found this[1] as well while poking about - fairly tall structure, unique curved shape, nothing but a road, some outbuildings and some antenna masts for miles in any direction. Thoughts on what it might be?

[1]http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.509945,93.236595...

At the moment, just the Facebook plugin for Facebook Connect authentication.

Great service - I've used it to build a modest application or two for Android and iOS. One caveat: Phonegap plugins that include native components (for example, the Facebook plugin) can't be included in apps built with Phonegap Build (yet).

If the final versions aren’t available, Samsung wants “the most current version of each to be produced instead.”

Given that Apple hasn't announced an iPad 3 or an iPhone 5, what are the odds they simply ship Samsung's lawyers an iPad 2 and an iPhone 4 and call it good?

Could this be made into a bookmarklet? I could see using this to diagnose issues on 3rd party sites where source access isn't available.

Very, very true. Client-side javascript suffers a debilitating flaw: it's largely used to manipulate the DOM, which is sadly still an ugly task despite over a decades' worth of effort. Provided you can sandbox that part of your code away from the rest, client-side javascript is every bit as palatable as the rest.

Definitely a big thumbs up to Pusher for enabling us to scale well past where we expected to fall over. We pushed a peak of 500k messages/hr on Monday and averaged 169 simultaneous connected players that day. Crazy.

Absolutely. We're looking at longer term ways to preserve the massive unified game space while insuring that people start out in fun areas (others playing nearby, some room to play, etc.).

Heh. That was from my misunderstanding of the rules of that, er, other tile-based word game. I'll fix it post-competition when we can deploy changes to the app. Thanks for playing!

Very high on our list of post-competition features. Not just for the usability; we also think the game board would make an gigantic, amazing poster. ;)

Actually, we do track your game state along with everyone else's. Thanks for playing!