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Re:Here's BB-8, the Adorable Rolling Droid from Star Wars: The Force A... on Thursday April 16, 2015 @02:22PM (#9389809)
My guess: a flywheel inside the ball to keep it stabilized, along with a motor and series of magnets to move the "head" around.
Re:Here's BB-8, the Adorable Rolling Droid from Star Wars: The Force A... on Thursday April 16, 2015 @02:15PM (#9389741)
Thoughts on how they built this?
Re:Ask HN: Did you get "never have to work again rich" through software? on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @04:21PM (#7979472)
Well said Dan!
Re:OkCupid/IAC Employees Donated Thousands to Anti-Gay Marriage Politi... on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @05:35PM (#7511888)
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.
Re:Deconstructing Facebook Paper's photo panner on Sunday February 16, 2014 @10:02PM (#7250408)
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

Re:HP to Re-Enter Smartphone Market With “Phablets” in India on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @01:46PM (#7065241)
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.
Re:Meldium (YC W13) Controls Your Team’s Shared App Passwords For You on Monday February 25, 2013 @06:54PM (#5282760)
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.
Re:Google releases full Android 4.0.1 source code, includes Honeycomb too on Monday November 14, 2011 @09:03PM (#3236629)
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.

Re:Show HN: RichestOnTheWeb - my submission to Hacka2thon on Saturday November 12, 2011 @11:52PM (#3229970)
Very similar to http://www.thebigballer.com/
Re:Who said Android apps can’t look good? on Friday September 30, 2011 @08:00PM (#3058954)
I'm curious, what UI frameworks are coming?
Re:Show HN: Hacker News reader for Android tablets on Saturday September 03, 2011 @10:31PM (#2958655)
Thanks! There are quite a few readers available on the iPad. I've only tried a few, but they seemed fine.
Re:Show HN: Hacker News reader for Android tablets on Saturday September 03, 2011 @10:28PM (#2958652)
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.

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