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mp_mn

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About mp_mn

Check out my newest project:

Picky Pint - Find great beers with a photo

http://www.pickypint.com/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46878005

    I tried reading the two top rated stories. They're both unreadable gunk. Why would I (or anyone else) go for another? Why would I tell anyone I know to spend their time reading thi…

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    Comment #46877712

    OK, so you already recognize these stories aren't something that people are going to spend time sorting through. How could you possibly then get any usable preference data out of t…

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    Comment #46876879

    There's more quality fiction out there than you or I will ever have time to read. I don't see a purpose in flooding the world with more mediocre to unreadable fiction.

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    Comment #46876666

    [flagged]

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    Comment #38561690

    I like CARI a lot https://cari.institute/aesthetics

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    Comment #9683567

    Is your search scope too broad? Too many Pods maybe? I've never had an issue with project text search. The only time I've ever had that many problems in an iOS dev workflow was yea…

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    Comment #8686277

    Done. Out in the latest update for all Android and Pro iOS versions. It'll be out for the free iOS version as soon as Apple approves it.

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    Comment #8633832

    Yep, working on it. We get bar code data from BreweryDB, which allows us to improve bar code accuracy without an app update. BreweryDB takes user submitted bar codes easily with Po…

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    Comment #8633057

    Picky Pint is native both ways. I've been making iOS apps professionally since 2011 (in a great consultancy that does native on both platforms in-house), so that part was straightf…

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    Comment #8632044

    Yep, added it in response to another comment, and the parent comment was posted a minute or so before the fix was sent up.

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    Comment #8632029

    Yeah, if you take a photo of a menu displayed on a standard monitor you tend to get a screen door effect on the photo, which lowers accuracy. It does work much better on high densi…

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    Comment #8631671

    Not yet, but there's always time in the future :)

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    Comment #8631644

    Agreed, and done.

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