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Airdrop for Android update

Hey folks! We launched Drop exactly one week ago, and the reception on Hacker News has been awesome and overwhelming! With your patience and generous feedback, we've made a few bug fixes and pushed an updated version. Please give it a shot! In case you missed the announcement the first time around, please see below:Hey folks! Drop is a proximity-based peer-to-peer file sharing app that is...

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Re:Airdrop for Android on Thursday November 07, 2013 @12:41AM (#6687779)
I can see your point =) We'll definitely be more mindful of our message next time around!
Re:Airdrop for Android on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @02:36PM (#6677562)
We're work'n on it =)

Airdrop for Android

Hey folks! Drop is a proximity-based peer-to-peer file sharing app that is simple, fast, and secure. Drop just went live on the Google Play store yesterday, and it is the first Android app that uses a combination of Bluetooth and WiFi Direct to create a seamless P2P user experience. It is still an early release so there are plenty of kinks and interop issues, but we'd love for ya'll to check it...

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Proximity-based files sharing app goes into Private Beta

Hello! We're a rat-pack of developers, our company was featured by Android at Google IO (our demo was live-streamed over the Keynote! Sweet!), and we're sick and tired of the friction that currently exists with file sharing on mobile devices. We're taking a step-wise approach to our grand (evil) plan for file sharing domination, and the first step is Drop, a file sharing app that is super...

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Re:Did a hyper-black hole spawn the universe? on Friday September 20, 2013 @02:46PM (#6419715)
No wonder Carl Sagan loved to smoke weed; you need a little bit of that chronic to appreciate the article. So what they're saying is that, if we forget time and talk only of spatial dimensions, that in the 4th dimension, where our 3D world is essentially a flat "membrane", that a 4D black hole in this 4D world collapsed, and a 3D ripple is created (in the 4D world), and the world we we know is this membrane on top of this 3D ripple that is uniformly expanding with uniform temperature. I wonder if dimensions are additive, ie a 4D object in the 4D world is an 8D object?