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svarrall

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About svarrall

App Developer, originally from the UK on an Australian adventure hanging out in central QLD.

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    My only confusion was when I’d correctly reduced one word to the required for the phrase, but didn’t get any feedback that it was correct. I didn’t understand why it wouldn’t accep…

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    If you scroll down on to the bottom of Apple Weather it has a “Report an Issue” button which allows you to report current weather conditions at your location. I have no idea what h…

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    Comment #43828236

    Be good to get some numbers to compare input speed/accuracy of the different variations. Reminded me of the Nokia 3600/3650 [1] with its radial button layout. Wonder if a similar c…

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    Comment #43500285

    They mentioned the name of the app in the article “KiwiServices”

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    Comment #41104533

    Interesting concept. Certainly took a bit of head scratching to get the concept, but now starting to solve them. I did get a successful solve that wasn’t correct, some of the roads…

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    Comment #40886506

    You mean like this? You can get push notifications when your codes are “cool” https://open.substack.com/pub/jacobbartlett/p/building-a-2fa...

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    Comment #30497137

    There seems to have been a fair amount of research into this based on the COVID lockdowns around the world. One such study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33443542/

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    Comment #25491456

    Would love to see a making of for this. Would be fascinating seeing the experimentation involved

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    Comment #22708334

    Getting the ducks in line for a sale?

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    Comment #18420974

    This seems pretty clear. They’re giving you a heads up that in a future iOS version you won’t be able to get awake/pickup information whilst using the background location api.

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    Comment #17937888

    Indeed, I’m impressed the speed in which Apple maps updates happen and they send notifications when they have made an update based on your feedback.

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    Comment #15942286

    The Scenic Railway in the Blue Mountains, NSW is listed at 52deg so I believe it’s still steeper? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katoomba_Scenic_World#Railwa...

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    Comment #15657295

    That was my initial though to. Here’s a good discussion from Sessionable on the subject from independent breweries perspective and their main concerns seem to be around access to t…

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    Anyone with any insight into how much something like this 'cost' Reddit, resource wise. Is the main outlay in time and the server costs already covered by their infrastructure or d…

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    Comment #14095458

    Looks like it does exactly what it says. Mind writing a bit about the app, reasons for making it, development process, pricing model?

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    Agree. I'm in the same position. I find it particularly poor and combining multiple search terms, where it seems to favour the most popular of the terms and ignore the important na…

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    The opposite, you should release the brakes to reduce the effect of the impact so you actually acted correctly.