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Cinemagr.am - Montreal (no remote, relocation possible) Android Lead Dev. We're looking for a talented developer to create the Android version of our app. This involve a lot of cha…

Thank you for taking the time to write this up. Greatly appreciate it!

Good job, I love this. I find that FastCells are less useful these days as iphone 3G are less common. I prefer to design my complex cells in interface builder for ease of maintenan…

What matters most is distribution and solving a problem that customers have. It can be an advantage in a crowded segment to have an extremely well polished app for differentiation …

I wonder if awareness + the experience that we had just 10 years ago is going to limit the size of this bubble. 10 years is a very short time it's the same sector. I know for one t…

We've had this debate about "catchup mechanisms" or negative feedback loops with my boardgames friends countless times. I personally tend to prefer games with a minimal amount of l…

Agreed. Also, what is the actual iPhone app? Where was the ad(s) placed? Different kinds of apps will have different ctr. And ad placement is also very important. Without context w…

From my experience, users love updates -- of course as long as you're adding meaningful features. We try to update our app every two weeks and and we get a significant increase in …

TechCrunch is not worse or better than any other news source. They want to get traffic and to achieve that they cover what is interesting to their readers, namely innovation and su…

From what I understand, he is using the 'statuses/filter' call of the stream api, filtering with users that have installed his app. This allows him to get the tweets of all his use…

Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi I'm not even a fan of bios and seriously this is one of the best books I've read this year (so far, I'm halfway through).

Original post by pg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861577

I also think that private social networks have a bright future, especially networks targeted to close friends, family, basically smaller groups (instead of FB approach where the no…

Do you read a lot on your phone? We have a few ideas to improve discovery and navigation on mobile devices and would love to run them by you. Before I explain the actual solution, …

As long as $5000 is enough for you to survive 3-4 months, go for it. As others pointed out, calculate your burn rate and make sure you won't call it quit after a month. You need en…

You should expect him to work 8 hours day and depending on the culture you wish for your company, I also suggest you be laid-back with office hours. The most important is that thin…