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KingOfB

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About KingOfB

brianaking@gmail.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #4422987

    Interesting that 3 of the squares represent Windows, Office, XBox. I'm guessing the 4th square will represent Surface once it de-vaporizes?

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    Comment #4251991

    Another method of productizing the technology could be an automatic group generator. I'd pay 5$ to have all my friends merged into mutual groups. I have 500 friends and there's no …

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    Comment #4089094

    Yea, at 50k a year! Maybe that's just the market, but seems a bit high ;0

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    Comment #4088963

    How'd you register the .ng domain? Is it possible to get a straight .ng domain with out the '.com'? All the sites that offer .ng seem very sketchy and I'm skeptical of trying.

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    Comment #3844034

    Other Helpers: - Use the most official title: 'Yes Trooper', 'Thank you sheriff', etc. - Be honest, authentic and remorseful, but not apologetic. (I don't agree with #1) - Be well …

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    Comment #3780541

    Should Checkout CloudPull for the mac for backing up google services. Yes, everyone should backup gmail. If you get hacked and all your email deleted, googles backups won't do you …

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    Comment #3612581

    There's an interesting Clang autocomplete mode. It is almost great, but falls short a bit for obj-c. If you deal with C/C++ all day, you should definitely check it out: https://git…

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    Comment #3550641

    Wow, I never had any post summarize my growth as an engineer so well. Except for the writing and community bit, that's come a bit late. I remember the day I realized that I could h…

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    Comment #3549852

    This seems like such a bad UI Choice by Apple. 1 finger scroll. 2 fingers, in-app action(forward/back), 3 fingers inter-app action, 4 fingers desktop action. I think differently if…

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    Comment #3391986

    This reads like terrible journalism. "This is one metric used for safety and this one device can't possibly violate that one metric, so the ban is arbitrary." Taking the words of t…

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    Comment #3337009

    I just downloaded it - search for it on your iPad. Interesting choice to not support iPhone.

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    Comment #3180046

    Here's another visualization focusing on the last 200 years. Doesn't focus on population growth as much as life expectancy, but a far cooler visualization in my book! Starts about …

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    Comment #3172391

    Anyone remember the original freshmeat logo? For the life of me I couldn't find it, but it was basically a softcore-skin as the background for the freshmeat text. I looked at the i…

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    Comment #3118045

    Wow, what a douchy site. Guess this is the tabloid for the indie world? protip: When life sucks act perfectly. The guy had his baby killed and these guys ream out the way he respon…

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    Comment #2862268

    Was able to get through a ways, but I'm hanging on Farmers insurance. Hope you saved a cookie so I don't have to re-enter that... Never thought I'd say that !

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    Comment #2730332

    I'd appreciate an invite - email in about

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    Comment #2722070

    Here's the launch video for String SDK. Looks pretty impressive, much smoother than many other implementations I've seen http://www.poweredbystring.com/official-launch Great demo v…

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    Comment #2700061

    This happened to my girlfriend and I had a similar freak out. After asking a few more questions she remembered getting an email to enter her gmail password to get more storage spac…

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    Comment #2684265

    There are windows on macs, but it appears Macs are going away from them with the full screen apps. Look at all of Apple's apps - they're all going single window. Document based app…

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    Naming products and Trademark checks

    I'm an independent app developer. I picked a name for my app that I've been using through beta and just discovered that the name of my app is in name of another software company. I…

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    Comment #2416171

    Might want to consider getting some app review people on board and feature their accounts as accounts to follow.

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    Comment #2416141

    By Clever, do you mean a private API? I'd be interested in how if not!

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    Comment #2375416

    I hope he gathers data from different social groups. Would be interesting to prove that techie-types have a numerical bias different from marketing types.

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    Comment #2328653

    Yea, I found a bunch of good projects from your repo a while back. I ended up just using those projects instead though, as having a layer of repository-indirection just didn't sit …