alanz1223
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I am looking to experiment with ecommerce a bit and Ive signed up for shopify trials but since I want to extensively customize my store, learning liquid has been something i keep procrastinating on and this seems like a more approachable and affordable way to launch experimental stores but I want to understand what exactly you offer.
You're charging $5/month for the front end and hosting of the tiny store/website and on top of that I need to have the additional $9/month shopify lite plan correct?
What does this allow you to do?
Holy guac, room temperature superconductivity seems almost science fiction-y but just imagine the disruption it would make. I would be particularly excited to experience how much electric motors and energy transfer/storage and conversion would improve.
Reddit has gone through many changes both in the product and the organization.. I feel like its initial purpose/mission has been lost in the way that it was intended as an open space to share things. I do absolutely hate the redesign and hate having to type the URL out.. the redesign is more tedious and eats up data like mad
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alanz1223 on Saturday April 06, 2019 @01:02PM
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I am trying to incorporate a real time messaging customer support system into my mobile app for users to contact me right away and chat with me in real time for any issues. This is a fairly common feature of many websites, I am not sure of the marketing name but it's that small pop up that allows you to instantly message a support person and chat with them without necessarily being registered....
As an extension, not only is Apple guilty of the absurd 30% tax on IAP, Google does it too and I think its very unfair that you cannot choose your own payment processor. Apple and Google should be viewed as an oligarchy of some sort being that they control almost all of the mobile market. The fact that there is almost no oversight to their business practices and their ability to literally take any app off the market or charge whatever processing fee they want is ridiculous. Its not like any company can also just set out to build their own app store since Google and specially Apple would never allow them to compete. I could go on this topic for days since I just know how much mobile developers are so vulnerable and powerless against the app stores.
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alanz1223 on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:28PM
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I am making a mobile app and want to have a chat/messaging feature where users can directly chat with me (in order for them to ask questions about a product) in real time. I would also like to have file exchange support (to send imgs, PDFs, etc) within the chat.. I know it maybe a stretch but are there are third party solutions that offer this feature?? So far the closest thing that is...
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alanz1223 on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @11:08PM
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I am making a mobile app and want to have a chat/messaging feature where users can directly chat with me (in order for them to ask questions about a product) in real time. I would also like to have file exchange support (to send imgs, PDFs, etc) within the chat.. I know it maybe a stretch but are there are third party solutions that offer this feature?? So far the closest thing that is still...
The unfortunate reality of the situation is that a lot of these disparities have to do with culture. Wealthier neighborhoods tend to be white and asian as those cultures tend to instill pursuing a higher level of education in their children as well as a few other positive values I could mention.. As long as politically correct leftists (a majority in this country) keep turning a blind eye away from these hard truths, and refuse to put their boot on the ground, these communities will unfortunately continue to be afflicted by their own culture.
Sure but I think this really applies to industries under a free market in general however the dynamics in the tech sector are such that a single person with little to no startup capital can create something with paranormal returns and that is really what indies are after (perhaps after having their idea come to life). I wonder if there any other industries that have this same allure
Great suggestion but from what I've read there really isn't a way to detect uninstall events on Android.
Well it obviously has a negative effect but the reports are giving me 10 crashes per day and there are 100 more uninstalls so even if 1 crash = 1 uninstall, why are the other 90 ppl uninstalling...
This is a good suggestion thanks
Well I think I have a retention/engagement problem that I don't know how to troubleshoot. Most of the users who sign up for the free trial stick around and pay. So it's not like I am not seeing any sign ups.
yes I have a registration page prior to the main content page. No tutorial animation but I have a button inside the menu. and the emails were not really personalized since I don't have much other than their emails
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alanz1223 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:19PM
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About three weeks ago I launched my app as a solo dev and without any marketing or buzz I've been able to convert paid subscribers and sell products. I know its an app with a viable market, and has potential. However I have a high churn rate (install/uninstall ratio) of about 70-80% that I know I could improve. Just to put into perspective I am getting an average of 150 installs/day and about...
ahh yes, open the borders and import every type of third worlder into western countries for the sake of profiting over cheap labor... Let us forget about the clash in cultures, and how unrestricted immigration leaves the native population in a worse off state by rising housing prices, demographic replacement and stagnant wages. I have experienced first hand the effects of such policies here in California. This article is the equivalent of selling your lung to afford a kidney.
Also as a side note, Why is it that more developed nations have to find solutions for failed states by re-homing the population which voted for those same policies instead of leaving them to fight and improve the conditions in their own countries. Absolute globalist non sense.
From an outsiders perspective with all the legislature and politics governing it S.A wouldn't be my first choice. Midwest U.S is still very comfortable and you don't have to move countries or as a last resort maybe I'd go somewhere in Latin America.
If he is confident that he can manage to quit his job while making less than 1k a month for now, then even $10/hr part time job of less than 25 hours a week would be a great boost
Hip hop and rap music is one of the worst things that happened to culture. It appeals to most lowly desires and it's hedonism in music form. Track 1 of a rap CD can address how minorities are supposedly discriminated against yet Track 2 is filled with criminal intent and mysogyny. I am still in my twenties but I do not allow either my siblings nor myself to listen to it or I at least frown upon it.
You may say not all rap is this way but the truth is that most popular rap is this way.
Looks like great material, thanks.
Anyone know of good resources to learn how multiplayer online games are made? I would like to learn how devs deal with scaling, lag, states, synchronization, etc..
I work in a different line of development but I've always wondered what is going on in huge online multiplayer games like GTA-V or COD.
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alanz1223 on Thursday September 21, 2017 @11:23AM
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Hello, I am trying to learn how mining clients for crypto currencies work (specifically monero like the one found here https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak-cpu). What I would like do is what kind of exchange and interface is implemented between the mining client and pool. How does the client gather "work", what does this work/job look like and what the mining client does with it and how does...
Well theyre not entryprise grade.
Well in that note React sucks too... Yeah I said it. Lots of dependencies, complicated bootstrap process, too many abstract concepts, and if youre using redux which is necessary if youre planning to build anything serious, you need to edit like 10 files just to add a new feature.
My grandpa had to eat crackers and bread for most of his lifetime in Argentina and he didn't find success until his late 40s as a farmer... Said suicide was the easiest path but after suffering for too long it'd be like training for war and surrendering when you hear the drums.
Had it been musk though, oh you people would have sacrificed a small child in his name. I applaud this guy, doing more than most of the people that claim to be saviours or at least perceived that way.
I would like to ask you some questions about the project, what is the best method to contact you?
Does anyone know what kind of oscillator is used to produce the signal? And how they managed to get such a high sample rate?
Well I have a simple GeoJSON point object with lat/long coordinates. The document also stores a score of sorts and what I plan to do is limit the results to a certain number say 20 (although still not quite sure) and then sort by the score. This way people will only view the most interesting locations no matter if they are looking at a street level view or on a national level.
The way rethinkDB advises is to query by intersections of circles. So on the client I calculate the center of the map, and then the radius based on the edges of the screen. Then I send that to construct the circle and get all points within the circle. I am just unsure how I can organize these results and cache them within Redis (or a better alternative) for ease of retrieval.
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alanz1223 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @04:09PM
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I am in the process of creating a mobile app that consumes geospatial data intensively. I am displaying a map of points of interest and upon user interaction (pinching, panning) with the map, I query the database for the new region. As you may infer this is very computationally expensive as I could potentially be making thousands of geospatial queries per minute. My current DB is RethinkDB,...