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Re:Show HN: My first app – The minimalist distance-based transit alarm on Sunday September 07, 2014 @01:50PM (#8281835)
I wish more people your age would teach themselves something like this in the summer. I remember tearing down and rebuilding computers and teaching myself Linux in the summers when I was your age. I wouldn't have picked up those skills in school otherwise.

Keep up the good work, passion and initiative like this will take you far.

Ask HN: Why am I getting 402 Payment Required on HN?

Posted by mbmccormick on Monday June 10, 2013 @09:10PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I recently launched a Hacker News app for Windows Phone and now my API is getting 402 Payment Required from Hacker News. The API is using the exact same code as @cheeaun's http://node-hnapi.herokuapp.com. I merely cloned his API and deployed it to my own Heroku instance, to avoid using up his bandwidth.Any idea why this is happening? I find it odd that Hacker News would be returning a 402 if...

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News for Windows Phone on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @07:04PM (#5822658)
Windows Phone users, I am interested in hearing your feedback. Thanks to the HN users who helped with beta testing!
Re:Ask HN: Which E-Ink device to use for a project? on Friday May 17, 2013 @06:43PM (#5727049)
I just got done hacking the non-touch Kindle 4 (the $69 one on Amazon) as a dashboard-type display and it was pretty easy to do. I have a post on my blog with how to do it if you end up going this route.

http://mbmccormick.com/2013/04/secure-shell-access-on-the-ki...

Ask HN: Interested in helping test out my Hacker News app for Windows Phone?

Posted by mbmccormick on Friday May 17, 2013 @05:13PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am working on a Hacker News app for Windows Phone and I need some Windows Phone users that read HN to test it out. If you are interested, send the email address you use for your Microsoft Account to me at [email protected]. I will add your account as a beta tester and then send you a link to download the app on the Windows Phone Store.Here are some...

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Re:Show HN: We built a simple way to accept payments through Stripe on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @11:20PM (#4846252)
Nice job! Are there plans to support mobile browsers? Works great on iPad, but not iPhone at the moment.