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Some of these tactics are contradictory. Tactic 2 says to add cents for a "rational" purchase, i.e. 19.86 verus 19. This contradicts tactic 3 which says to use fewer syllables, i.e…

It's great to see mobile 3D scanning receive validation from a major player like Google. My company, RealityCap, is working on bringing 3D scanning to mobile devices without the ne…

Neat. How many letters per minute?

i think it's ridiculous that in order to get a prescription for a simple low-risk medication, i have to call my doctor, make an appointment, wait 45 minutes past when my appointmen…

your site doesn't load at all if javascript is disabled. i recommend fixing this. otherwise, good looking site.

I made an Android app, Unlock With WiFi, three years ago. It has brought in about 64K over that time. The app unlocks your phone when you're connected to your home wifi. I'm curren…

i found this collection of photos surprisingly illuminating. i feel like i have a better understanding of north korea just from seeing them.

"There are relatively effective checks on large scale corruption through independent layers of law enforcement agencies and a separate judicial system." ...unless you have money. t…

unbelievable. some people.

good looking website. one small typo: at the bottom, it says "be one of 250 proud member". should be members.

thanks for the link. it was a good read. however, i see nothing in there that suggests that using a pepper is necessarily a bad thing. i think the answer from rory mcclune puts it …

one strategy that has occurred to me is to use a secret "master" salt, in addition to random public salts for each password. that way, an attacker would have to obtain the secret s…

from wikipedia: "A public salt makes it more time-consuming to crack a list of passwords. However, it does not make dictionary attacks harder when cracking a single password. The a…

there's a great book in the same vein, How to be Idle. http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Idle-Manifesto-ebook/dp/B00DB3F...

i make around 1300 USD a month from this android app i made two years ago. i have to update it every time a new version of android is released, and i spend maybe 5 minutes a day on…

Yep, that's pretty accurate. I'll let our PhD guy come explain a bit more himself. Sorry, we're a bit busy with our exhibit at Disrupt, bit we'll be able to answer more questions l…

last year, a friend and i started an LLC in california. we made a couple of mobile apps which we sell through apple, google, amazon, etc. shortly after that, i co-founded another s…

Today I released Tilt Racer, an app that lets you use your phone as a steering wheel with nearly any driving game for Windows. You tilt the phone to steer, and use a unique split s…

looks like a good idea. i could use something like this for native mobile apps.

agreed. web developers have been dealing with different sized monitors for years. yes, it's a pain, but they manage. mobile is no different. coming from a web dev background, it wa…