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sammcd

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    Comment #7074424

    Did the same thing at my college. We crawled their course catalog. They blocked our IP. Our big addition was being able to sort classes by time and day, the university ended up add…

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    Comment #4271640

    Great software for half off doesn't seem like a scam to me. The app still works.

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    Comment #4172699

    Congrats on launching Sam!

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    Comment #3553505

    Good point :) To be fair I started writing code much younger, but I still chose a bad date. I still think my main point is valid.

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    Comment #3553363

    I have trouble thinking this 60 year old programmer exists. There were only 2000 computers in existence in 1960. Today a 60 year old programmer that spent a career in computer scie…

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    Comment #3263778

    Thanks a lot!

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    Comment #3263777

    Currently it is because of the page view controller, but I'm thinking about dropping that in the future. I'll definitely being iOS 5 only at that point.

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    Comment #3262152

    I simply went to http://www.dafont.com/ and searched until I found a font I liked, thats all that happened here.

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    Comment #3261896

    This list is one of the first list that seems to really coincide with the things that bother me about the app. I do like the idea of making the left side tappable, and I really do …

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    Comment #3261880

    Thanks for letting me know, here are a few more: LT3A7P3NJEX3 K47EP4FFK7PY HLRAM3LPA7XK HJR9N3AKN6XA JKLPNAF7L3YN

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    Comment #3261733

    Feel free to email me at sam@sammcd.com if you would like to discuss this more. I just want to say that I did not use your app as a source at all when designing my app, but I did u…

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    Comment #3261659

    Thanks a lot for your feedback. Like I've already commented its great to hear from you and see which of the features I think are important are also important to people who have tri…

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    Comment #3261604

    Thanks a lot!

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    Comment #3261438

    Thanks for the feedback. In the next version I will definitely try to do something to make it look a little cleaner.

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    Comment #3261410

    Thanks a lot for your feedback! The gestures, better fonts, and buttons are three things that are already high on my list to fix, but its really good to hear it from someone else. …

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    Comment #3261382

    Thanks a lot for checking out my app. Here are a few promo codes for anyone interested. EFERTFJWWR7W 36XTN3E9MNYN LAKJ99K6RFNY X4ERRNY46NTE 3HLAMPWWE3X6

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    Comment #3246458

    I was a huge fan of the thesis, but as I kept reading the situation seemed very familiar. Very familiar to the multiple times I have worked for a non technical guy that really just…

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    Comment #3126467

    I bet the key difference here is that now people are much more likely to use google specifically to find dropbox.

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    Comment #3054807

    I've been turned down a few times for merchant accounts. The company I started in college got turned down, and we ended up using paypal.

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    Comment #2983235

    I bet they end up spending a lot less than 10k per employee with the current plan. The current plan means that people who are already donating, the people who would care about this…

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    Comment #2452413

    Sorry for the delay responding. I was trying to find a quick way to say I want to focus on one thing and do it great. Chipotle knows they could add cookies to the end of the line a…

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    Comment #2448575

    I'm working on a registrar that just focuses on domains. I want to be the Chipotle of domain registrars. Life has been happening and putting me behind, but if you are interested I'…