jasonostrander

My guess: a flywheel inside the ball to keep it stabilized, along with a motor and series of magnets to move the "head" around.

Thoughts on how they built this?

Well said Dan!

What discrimination? Eich exercised his right to donate to political causes. OkCupid (and others) are exercising their right to protest. Just because you have the right to your political views does not mean you don't have the right to be criticized for those views.

If anyone is interesting, I wrote a proof-of-concept Android implementation of this UI. Not as polished as this though. I didn't make any attempt to ensure the scrolling time was consistent for different image sizes, and left out the scrollbar. But this code would get you started.

https://github.com/jasonostrander/TiltToView

If you use Google Voice, there are a couple of apps that let you make VOIP calls using it. Not sure how much longer that will work.

This looks fantastic. It sounds like it uses a similar setup as Lastpass, but with a service for startups to manage accounts. They should offer a free tier for end users to store and manage passwords ala Lastpass, and then keep the team focused features as a premium upgrade.

I do Android dev full time and it's pretty rare to actually need to look at the source. The only time is when encountering a strange bug that you suspect is caused by the underlying implementation.

Google has generally been good about releasing emulator images prior to releases, though usually it's only a few weeks. Luckily, it takes time for Android versions to achieve large market share, so any bugs can be squashed before it's a big problem.

Very similar to http://www.thebigballer.com/

I'm curious, what UI frameworks are coming?

Thanks! There are quite a few readers available on the iPad. I've only tried a few, but they seemed fine.

Hey Thanks!

- My thinking was that since in portait, clicking on any post will hide the list and make it pretty obvious how to get it back, I didn't need to add a button for it. But I think you're probably right.

- Yep, thats on my list.

- Also on my list.

- Good suggestion. I'll look into adding this.

Yeah, given the feedback I'm getting I think I'll step up implementing a phone version.

Not yet. For an offline mode to work, i'll also need to download and store the actual pages. That could take a some time, so I have a few other features to add first.

Thanks!

Hmm, the market is notoriously flaky. Try rebooting your device. Also verify your credit card info. For some reason that helps, even if you're not buying anything. If you're still have problems, let me know and i'll throw the apk up on a server somewhere.

You're correct, I rolled my own parser. The iHackernews API is nice, but I found it pretty unreliable in my testing. I've also noticed most other Android apps report API errors frequently. I'm planning on open-sourcing the library I wrote for this, but I need to clean it up first. Honestly, it's not the best code I've written.

I don't really have a good feel for the CPU load of the parsing (I was mostly concerned with how much time it would take). In my testing it seemed fine. Probably more concerning is the memory usage, as I see the GC kick in whenever I refresh the feed.

This release only works on Tablets. I'm working on adding a phone interface. (I wanted to play around with the new 3.x APIs, hence the tablet only first version).

I'm working on adding a tablet interface for the comments. For now, unfortunately you will have to zoom to hit the voting buttons.

Totally agree. Google is dropping the ball by not being more strict in it's compatibility program. Google even has more leverage than Mozilla does, as they also own the core apps that provide most of the value in Android. Gmail, Voice, Maps, Market, etc. are supposed to be the wedge that prevents the sort of fragmentation that is happening in the Android ecosystem.

On a side note, I don't see delaying the release of Honeycomb as a big deal. Google clearly feels it's not "done" yet and will release when it is. It seems to me that Motorola simply jumped the gun in releasing a Honeycomb device before it was ready.

For those of us doing Android dev, this actually sounds like more of a headache than anything. It can be challenging enough making an app that works on all the different possible Android versions (OEM skins, old revs.) without having to deal with a totally incompatible OS.

I wonder if something like this could help solve the patent troll problem. As I see it, there are two conditions that allow patent trolls to function:

1. The ease of obtaining frivolous patents. 2. The cost of litigating patent disputes exceeds the cost of settling.

The software industry has focused primarily on the first point, but if we could reduce the costs of litigating, it may well reduce the financial benefits of being a patent troll.

I'm thinking of something like IBM's Watson being used to find prior art, auto-filing court motions, etc. Of course, it all comes down to what some jury in Texas thinks so I'm probably just dreaming.

I personally find unseen UAV's raining missiles down on our heads to be much more terrifying. I'm actually quite excited about this tech. The first thing I thought when I saw this video was one of these things walking on the surface of Mars.