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samvj

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samvj··on New Cities
Basic income and the freedom to pursue things without having to worry about money, could be that opportunity.
samvj··on Firefox Hello
Since they're doing it at the browser level, it would have been nice if they provided screen sharing instead of this.

Google Hangouts-like screen sharing without the need for an account would be awesome.

samvj··on Jarvis: Personal assistant via SMS
They're not. "Jarvis is a tech enabled person. You will be assigned two US based, college educated personal assistants..."
samvj··on Coderwall (YC W12) launches Assembly
Love this idea! Great job Dave and team.
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Definitely won't do that.
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Oh, that's what you mean. Yes, that's definitely coming in the next release!
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
That's definitely a feature I've been thinking about and will be enabling in a future version.
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Visual progress is important, and it's currently done in the following way: when you complete a routine, it goes away, and it stays away until it requires your attention.

The second version will give you exactly what you expect: a historical chart of your progress, and also a nice surprise: a view to seeing how you're performing on all of your routines.

samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Thanks! It was a great experience and I'll be sharing what I've learnt with the community in a future post.
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Good catch! I'm considering using thinner icons, so it's more in line with iOS 7, for the next release.
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
If you accidentally mark a routine complete, you can bring it back by rescheduling it for today.
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Yes, sign up here to get notified: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1G1Mh1qRh0oR1-_ffAVjNJJA8R4J...
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Great idea! I just set one up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1G1Mh1qRh0oR1-_ffAVjNJJA8R4J...
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Sign up here to get notified when the Android version is out: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1G1Mh1qRh0oR1-_ffAVjNJJA8R4J...
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Not in this version, but it's been added to the development backlog since it's something people want.
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Haha, thanks! I watched the WWDC sessions to learn about the frameworks, features and see the intricacies of Interface Builder. And then spent a lot of time in iOS developer docs, stackoverflow, and cocoacontrols.com.

For the website, it was designed in photoshop, and coded using Zurb Foundations, SASS and Skrollr.js.

I'll be doing a post on how I got started on iOS and lessons I learnt to help others get ramped up quickly. So look for that in the next few weeks!

samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Good catch! Just added it to the bug list.
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
1 and 3 are also coming in the second version. I just added 2 to the backlog. Thanks!
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
That's one of the top features coming in the next version!
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Thanks for the feedback! This is definitely something that's on top of the priority list. The first version collects the history, and as soon as the second version is released, you'll have a new "Performance" view so you can see how you're doing on all of your routines, as well as performance graphs for each one.
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Can you elaborate on "would like to see a calendar with the different checks"? Do you mean a history chart that shows you how you're doing?
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
Awesome, thanks!
samvj··on Show HN: An app for developing great habits
This is my first iOS app release. There were a million features I wanted to get in, but I'm ecstatic about the feature set that made it in. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
samvj··on Map the iPhone Users In Any City, And You Know Where the Rich Live
You should double-check the compositing. It looks like the iPhone layer is being drawn directly on top of the Android layer. So there is a good chance that if you reverse the composting order, the map will light up green.

The correct approach would be to decide a winner, or do some blending for every pixel on the map.

samvj··on Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook
I'm not really convinced that you can make a reasonable conclusion on this based on 34 data points.
samvj··on Vanilla JS, fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework
If nothing else, the word doc look is pretty amusing :)
samvj··on Chrome 19 doesn't respect basic auth details embedded in the URL
I think it's worth mentioning that "IE 7/8/9: OK" is not correct according to this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489

I would be curious to know who actually uses this type of auth in their browsers these days.

samvj··on Apple's 1997 Think Different ad lives on the TextEdit icon today (just zoom in)
Here's the ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HmFwpfAunM
samvj··on IPad 2 pixels
Their target market can't pay attention to that much detail. So the iPad's resolution is good enough for them.
samvj··on Stop the presses: Facebook CTO says news next in social revolution
Don't worry, people are on it - http://www.dotcloud.com :)
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