Zev

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by Zev 14y ago
Internships end. This is news?
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by Zev 14y ago
..is this a sneaky way to force us buy an iPhone 5? No, it isn't. Drama sucks, could you try to not stir any up for no reason?
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by Zev 14y ago
He makes it sound like nothing happens there, but if so, why do they claim to be the capital of SV? Geographically, San Jose is much closer to the "heart" of the valley -- Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Palo Alto, Mountain View and the surrounding
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by Zev 14y ago
Every time I've seen tptacek post on HN's Who's Hiring threads, he makes it pretty clear that Matasano has a bay area office. You should email him. The worst that happens is he says "No". And, well, in that case, nothing changes.
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by Zev 14y ago
Weekend projects are guaranteed to be fun. A job is, unfortunately for a lot of people, not. Convincing people to have less fun and work a second job is a hard sell -- made harder because most people who are capable of building something in
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by Zev 14y ago
When it comes to exceptions, its not even a matter of semantics and needing to be very clever. There are cases where exceptions in Java just don't carry over to Objective-C. A really good example of this is NullPointerException. Objective-C
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by Zev 14y ago
Do you know when this UI pattern was added to the style guide? Because, FWIW, webOS had something similar with sliding, over a year ago, in their Maps app.
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by Zev 14y ago
The "for iOS" suffix can sometimes be considered part of the app name.
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by Zev 14y ago
Open links in Chrome for iOS, instead of Safari.
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by Zev 14y ago
If only Apple wouldn't unnecessarily break their runtime environment every few releases. What runtime-breaking changes are you thinking of? Apple's been very good about not breaking the binary compatibility -- of the runtime, or of their
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by Zev 14y ago
Its not really a hack to run rMBP's at > 1920x1200, just a cli tool. Apple doesn't expose it in the UI anymore, thats basically it.
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by Zev 14y ago
A disassembler won't tell you that "giraffe" means "simulated device height"
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by Zev 14y ago
Why should I have to install Postgres to be able to play around with data? This is one less step to think about.
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by Zev 14y ago
People who charge $150+/hour are rarely working 8 (billable) hours a day.
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by Zev 14y ago
What makes you think it won't be the other way around -- say, a "5G" network that's an order of magnitude faster than LTE, and available anywhere. And at that point, what if people then stop buying wired Internet lines and wireless routers
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by Zev 14y ago
Retina MBP? If so, I can vouch for things being much better in 10.8 than 10.7.
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by Zev 14y ago
For a couple years, Apple shipped Macs with a TPM[1] chip from Intel. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
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by Zev 14y ago
iChat never had MSN support. However, there is a new plugin framework in Mountain Lion that would let someone write a MSN plugin for Messages.app.
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by Zev 14y ago
I didn't set a Facebook username, and Facebook force-assigned me one for this email address.
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by Zev 14y ago
If only SF was like that all year round[1]! Had you stayed until Monday, you'd have experienced the colder, partially clouded weather that had inspired a certain Mark Twain quote ;) [1] The gorgeous days like most of last week pretty much m
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by Zev 14y ago
Those startups probably haven't announced that they've taken (YC) funding yet. That sort of announcement is usually a good way to get some press.
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by Zev 14y ago
At work, a 27" cinema display, calibrated to have the same color profile as the iPhone I use for day to day development. Makes comparing the final output to mock ups really nice. At home, I don't have a desk (no good place in my apt for it)
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by Zev 14y ago
can I crack the top start ups of Silicon Valley? Sure. But, why wait? If you've got a year left, that means you've got this summer to go. Would another internship be possible? And I might consider sleeping on the couch :P Working at a s
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by Zev 14y ago
Eh? AFAIK, Accelerate.framework doesn't do anything with the GPU -- its "just" a set of highly optimized functions for math/DSP/image processing operations.
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by Zev 14y ago
Apple has provided the "Video Decode Acceleration Framework" for Mac OS X since 10.6.3: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2267/_in...
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by Zev 14y ago
One doesn't need a Vacheron in order to be able to wear a watch.
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by Zev 14y ago
Many people never touch interface builder and write all their views from scratch, but in that case you still have the choice between compositing your view using subviews and overriding drawRect with drawing calls. Many people overestimate
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by Zev 14y ago
But you could justify spending 4 weeks food on an experiment? Because you'll need that $100 to put an app on your device, as well.
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by Zev 14y ago
The fact of the matter remains though that you take a performance hit when laying out non-trivial views that need to be updated as fast as possible (e.g. when a table view scrolls by even one pixel and all the views have to be redrawn). N
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by Zev 14y ago
Do Makefiles count? Xcode project are largely (not so) shiny wrappers around Makefiles and keeping track of files.

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