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It's especially unfortunate because decaf coffee is usually gross.


I've found decaf made with the Aeropress is actually surprisingly good. I usually only have a single cup of caffeinated and then follow up with a few cups of decaf.


Unsurprising when you look at the method they use for removing the caffeine.


Supercritical CO2 extraction is gross? The solvent evaporates without a trace.


I've used this pretty frequently and it was great. Nowadays the new testflight makes this obsolete for external testers, but is still useful for internal testers to quickly get their UDID.


A lot of hardware manufacturers offer their own SDKs for interacting with their beacons, not letting you get the UUID of the beacon itself. Are you interacting with all providers' SDKs?


Hardware manufacturers generally offer SDKs that allow you to gather specific data from the beacon's sensors that are not part of the iBeacon spec (and therefore not captured by iOS CoreLocation, for e.g.)

The iBeacon spec requires the UUID to be transmitted with each BLE packet so there's no way to hide the UUID of the beacon (you should be able to get it using a simple BLE scan).

Beaconstac currently does not support those providers that are not compliant with the iBeacon spec. We don't integrate with any custom beacon manufacturer SDKs.


Developer here! This is the first game I made, doing the game design and the development and my friend doing the art/audio. I'm excited to see what you guys think.

Thanks!


Is this US only? I want it in Canada!


Hey sritch! And want to be in Canada. We would absolutely love to be available outside the US, though unfortunately our location data provider doesn’t yet support it. We’re always looking for ways to expand beyond the US, but in the mean time you can manually add places in other countries by: * Opening the Varkala app and tapping ‘Add Place’ * Scrolling to the bottom of the screen and tapping ‘Can’t find it?’ * Then give the place you’d like to add a name and address

Let me know what you think!


It's only in the US App store :(


Correct. I know some people have changed their app store settings to the US to get Varkala :) Here are the instructions from Apple if you are interested: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6119


Interface builder is pretty limited for customizing design elements.


As someone only familiar with the MVC paradigm and being fairly new to Cocoa/Objective-C, does your book cover an "implementation" tutorial or some sort of introduction to writing a project with MVVM?


Yes, it does. You can download both samples from GitHub:

- https://github.com/AshFurrow/C-41 - https://github.com/AshFurrow/functionalReactivepixels


This is like Zappos or a ton of other companies that offer free return shipping.. very little correlation to Warby Parker as mentioned.


Our customers aren't buying an off the rack shirt here. We are sending sizing templates for people to try on. They then go back to our site to determine any adjustments to their sizing profile (adding length to shirt or shortening a sleeve, or tapering the waist, etc). We then go ahead and make a one of kind size and fit for that customer based on their unique body type.


Warby Parker's value proposition isn't in a custom product, it's in having a product free of massive markup. Not sure where you are see the relationship between the two.


Why is it targeted to kids? I was weirded out when it asked for my parent's email address.


I can think of a few.

1) The gallery and buy now overlap but not enough. You should be able to buy prints from the actual print page. Consider using the buy style view as your gallery (Much like a product listing page)

2) The homepage is nothing but a directory. The carousel is moving too fast, use it to showcase recent or popular prints (no carousel.)

3) Consider why the user might actually be coming to the page? The entire bottom half (about, recent posts, twitter) can be combined into a sidebar which would be more economical space-wise

There are just a few starters.


Thanks a lot sritch, really appreciate the feedback.

I agree that the gallery and buy now page should be combined, I'm starting to think of the site now as product focused, rather than showcase focused.

I like the idea of ditching the slider/carousel and putting up more actionable and recent products and postings.

I guess the home is now of a portal rather than telling the user anything special or showcasing why they should be here.

Great tips, thanks so much.


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