Zev

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by Zev 16y ago
You can scale the simulator down to 50%. And if you don't need the window chrome, you can fit almost all of the iPad simulator onto a 1440x900 display. Enough so that its definitely usable.
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by Zev 16y ago
I think your eyes are playing tricks on you.
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by Zev 16y ago
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... Please see the end of the first line in my previous post: ...the only difference is that marketing gave it a new name.
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by Zev 16y ago
...and before anyone responds with "well, that's just going to lead to a bunch of bad apps in the store," I ask you to count the number of fart apps in Apple's App Store. Though I'm sure they're all quality fart apps... I typed "fart" int
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by Zev 16y ago
How about "minor" developers? By that, I mean people who would make an app as a hobby in their spare time. How easy is it for them?
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by Zev 16y ago
Yup. However, from MarcoPolo's page: There are known issues with Snow Leopard: WiFi evidence source and ToggleWiFi action do not work Bluetooth may not work, or may cause crashes
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by Zev 16y ago
A "Universal Binary" is the exact same thing as a "Fat Binary," the only difference is that marketing gave it a new name. If you look at the mach-o header of a binary that contains multiple architectures (initially, ppc/68k or now, i386/x86
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by Zev 16y ago
Let's not forget about the Universal Binaries (a solution for the transition to Intel) And from 68k to PPC.
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by Zev 16y ago
Actually three20 is a great option to go with for many apps. This is the only bit of advice in your post that I completely disagree with. Three20 may have some nice UI bits, but it is a very poorly designed framework. I say this having lo
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by Zev 16y ago
A twitter client. No, really. There's only a small handful of native Mac twitter clients, compared to the plethora of iOS clients. And I believe that @ev recently said that Tweetie|Mac isn't going to get updated anytime soon. Or a small app
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by Zev 16y ago
The people who made the nasty posts aren't representative of the HN community in any sense. I didn't see the posts you describe, but, if they did say what you're describing, good riddance at them being removed. Moderators exist for a reason
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by Zev 16y ago
FWIW, I've upvoted a story or two in the past, simply because I hoped that other people would comment on it and I was genuinely curious as to what the community thought about the story/post. It could very well be the same case here. And ple
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by Zev 16y ago
As vidar mentioned in a different thread of this story[1], prior art plays a large part in this process. 1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1797836
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by Zev 16y ago
Spend 20 minutes talking to each other once or twice a week on Skype. By the time you have to make the video, you'll be pretty comfortable with it. Also, close AIM/GTalk/Twitter/whatever while you do this. Don't let yourselves fall back t
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by Zev 16y ago
I suppose that makes me one of the smaller handful of people who's learned the IRC protocol while making an iPhone app (Mobile Colloquy). And I even liked it so much that I then had to go and do some work on a second implementation of it (f
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by Zev 16y ago
Additionally, some big APIs from iOS have been (or look to be) available in both OS's. CoreLocation and AVFoundation, at the very least. And the multitouch framework on each OS is very similar, even if the prefix isn't. It wouldn't be too h
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by Zev 16y ago
GCD is separate from blocks; you can use one without the other. GCD/libdispatch is a library written for concurrent execution and to make it easier to manage. Blocks are closures added to C, Objective-C and C++. Lambda's have also been (or
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by Zev 16y ago
That has nothing to do with Cocoa. It would take me as much time to do a Rails app well as it would for someone who has as much experience in Objective C as I do in Rails (that is, not nearly as much as I do with Cocoa).
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by Zev 16y ago
And I've seen many spaghetti messes that had to be cleaned up by full-time "developers" who cared more about getting paid than if their code worked, let alone if it could be maintained.
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by Zev 16y ago
I, too, would be interested in more info (like total lines of code, whether or not they built a Twitter engine from scratch for the app, etc). I believe that Twitterrific uses MGTwitterEngine now, but originally had used its own.
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by Zev 16y ago
I know people who increase (>= 2x) their hourly rate if they're expected to do the same amount in half the time because of a deadline. Who's to say that Iconfactory doesn't do something similar?
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by Zev 16y ago
I've never found myself wishing for bindings on the iPhone. Maybe when I'm using Core Data, but thats not too often. And even then, its relatively easy and quick to abstract it all away. I want GC on the iPhone. Not for the GC itself, just
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by Zev 16y ago
I do wonder if at some point they'll become so ubiquitous--and so many YC applicants and companies will be focused on smartphones--that he'll feel he has to to get one so that he can better judge the value of companies focused on mobile an
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by Zev 16y ago
I just skimmed opentracker's sources (they're surprisingly small, < 5K LOC of clean C). Not sure why ocelot wasn't based off of opentracker. One possibility is that (as I understand it,) What.cd is a "private" torrent tracker -- meaning
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by Zev 16y ago
Lets say you're writing C. You're going along your merry way and all is well. Except that one day, your code doesn't do what you want it to do. Well, every day. But, this day is special. Today, your code isn't working because of a compiler
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by Zev 16y ago
Have you ever tried using HN on a mobile device? I've been tempted to hack up yet another iOS app for HN, but A. I don't have the time to do it in what i would call the Right Way(tm) -- or a Hacked-Up Way(tm) either and B. it would really b
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by Zev 16y ago
There's nothing to stop you from submitting a story titled "$foo is hiring $language/framework developer!" with a description of the job or linking to the post. And FWIW, Flurry's analytics library has an option to check for if the app is c
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by Zev 16y ago
Does losing them count as a failure? If so, a lot have failed on me. If not, never had one outright fail. At most, I've had a USB slow down transfer speeds once. But, I could still get all of my data off of it.
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by Zev 16y ago
We have Commercial skipping technology for TV.. FWIW, I know a lot of people with a DVR that don't skip commercials. Hell, I'm one of them. In my case, I have the TV on in the background and put the remote down somewhere else in the room.
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by Zev 16y ago
I've taken to setting whatever IDE or editor I'm using to have comments in italic Helvetica, rather Menlo, my fixed width font of choice. It makes comments easier to read, and I find myself writing slightly more of them as a result.

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