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njern

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About njern

I work at Walkbase (www.walkbase.com), building location-based services of all kinds.

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    Comment #9086572

    Very similar lifestyle as when I was a student - small apartment, eat in most days... but couldn't be more satisfied with my "job" :=)

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    Comment #8968252

    As you rightly point out, the more correct solution is of course to use unsafe.Sizeof()

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    Comment #7502615

    Please let me somehow sign up and get an e-mail when a new learning path (like data analysis) becomes available. Great job on the site :)

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    Comment #7226628

    Author here, any questions or comments are welcome :)

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    Comment #5662216

    How about letting me try it out without registering? :)

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    Comment #4070963

    What I meant was that the current system feels like Paint while I would like something with the power of Photoshop. Sorry for the confusion, English isn't my native language :)

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    Comment #4069994

    You have a valid argument. My only excuse is that this is the first (publicly available) post-mortem I've written. The answers to the questions you bring up have enough material fo…

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    Comment #4069743

    I can definitely recommend Jackson. Performance is stellar and it's easy to use. It does make your APK a bit bigger (in our case, about 20% of the APK size comes from Jackson) so i…

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    Don't take me wrong, I'm not a proponent of being "dumb" with performance either. However, I'm perfectly okay with using the standard libraries like JSONObject & AsyncTask until th…

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    Comment #4069705

    Did you ever try to give a button one or two rounded corners (not the whole object, just some of the corners)? Turns out that for pre-3.1 it will round the wrong corners ( http://c…

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    Show HN: Checked - An auto-checkin client for Android

    GigaOM has the scoop at: http://gigaom.com/2012/01/29/walkbase-showcases-indoor-location-tech-with-auto-check-in-app/ You can see a few screenshots, read a more detailed descriptio…

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    Comment #3140997

    There are a bunch of different solutions to this problem being explored. Being able to give provide location context-specific services in your applications is something that I pers…

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    Show HN: Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.

    Hi guys! Our team of HN lurkers been hard at work for what feels like an eternity now and today we're proud to present our first public product: The Walkbase library for Android. Y…