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domhofmann

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    Comment #3836999

    I originally put this together as a way to show my mom my Instagram photos without UI clutter or other things that might confuse her. I found browsing tags and locations in this fo…

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    Comment #3120755

    I'm trying to do just that with a project I started a few days ago called Khaki. It's a bit of a learning exercise and quite early, but you might find it useful in a month or two. …

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    Comment #3057492

    Go to your profile and swipe left on a wall post and observe the "Remove" button and its animation. Now go to the bottom of your wall, and tap on the "See more posts..." cell. Noti…

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    Comment #3057348

    The new LinkedIn and OkCupid apps are primarily HTML5 based. Not quite the same, but every new release of the Facebook app seems to have more of its existing views replaced by HTML…

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    Comment #2951879

    I probably made a mistake when estimating this. I exported 21 tiles to MBTiles at 429KB, and extrapolated based on the 5.7 billion tiles it would take to do D.C. at 13-16. I'm stil…

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    Comment #2951700

    TileMill doesn't seem particularly well suited for that either. I did a rough calculation and it looks like getting a usable map of Washington D.C. would run several hundred gigaby…

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    Comment #2951285

    Really incredible work. Is there anything we can do to speed up exporting, short of manually parallelizing across multiple computers? Distributed export might be a nice feature.

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    Comment #2925597

    Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the power icon on the enflock widget.

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    Comment #2881323

    This is anecdotal, but I've heard Steve Jobs is notorious for doing this.

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    Comment #2807660

    I wonder how true this is, with the scroll wheel having been around for the last ten years or so. Nevertheless, if these folks do exist, they're in for a sore surprise if they upgr…