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It's a reference to Aphyr's blog series on partitions in distributed application - http://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-an... . It's a great series and seems t…

Depends heavily on what you're letting people do, and how long they're going to spend doing it. Games tend to have smaller numbers of "verbs", and longer engagement times - for a s…

He's probably referring to the idea that much of the complexity around today is not particularly useful - in particular, that programming with values rather than variables makes un…

We geeks typically place too much importance on the fidelity of the experience: on the idea that the kindle itself feels cheap, or the music from the (standard) iPhone headphones i…

The "so-and-so read site X" thing will make this really transparent to people, really quickly. Its creepy how much "Friend X has read article Y on the Guardian" is happening.

Well, the fiddly part so far seems to be that's set to a single level (announce/don't announce) and every different app needs its own mute button. Spotify, for example, will happil…

Compare $20 to the cost of 1. working out how to do it yourself 2. ironing out any kinks in your homegrown solution 3. worrying about it 2am. Totally worthwhile. (edit: formatting)…

While the app's a work in progress (and if you forgive the shameless shill), Splitsies ( http://splitsies.net ) does more or less the same thing and is freely available in the App …

Actually, that's a UI issue ;) In the web or mobile app, just click the "delete" icon next to "you" when adding a bill. And yes, we've got a way clearer and sexier UI in the pipeli…

We're looking at it. I'll probably go for mobile web first - 1 developer and a backlog of essential work that needs to be done. But I hear the call for Android, its definitely on t…

My take on the problem has been live since end November (yeah, working on the marketing & design side now). http://splitsies.net/

Interesting: if I may ask, what lead to the decision?

Interesting - it looks really similar to my app Splitsies which launched late last year: http://splitsies.net/ - it'll be interesting to see how their dependence on Facebook connec…

The only two major issues for me are * search: the built-in one takes ages compared to remote search. I understand that it makes the search behaviour the same both locally and remo…