Zev

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by Zev 14y ago
Being busy isn't ever an excuse to be rude.
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by Zev 14y ago
"by default" are the key words here. It is very easy to disable this behavior, if you don't want it. But, it is a good (read: relatively safe and secure) default to have for the average person.
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by Zev 14y ago
I don't know if I would call IRC a complex protocol. But, agreed that it isn't the right tool for this job. One of the many node.js-based chat servers that were so popular to make a few months back might be a better choice.
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by Zev 14y ago
That jailbreaking works by taking advantage of OS exploits to gain root access, and, in fact, represents a glaringly obvious, popular, and easy to use vulnerabilit has nothing to do with Apple fixing it quickly?
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by Zev 15y ago
I really like the name. Doing Core Audio development on its own can be almost as bad as having dental work done, if you don't know what you're doing. Novocaine makes things better.
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by Zev 15y ago
Its not that Core Graphics is slow, just that CG doesn't guarantee that drawing will take place on the GPU. It turns out that CG typically prefers the CPU for its its drawing. In comparison, when you load images into a UIImageView, you know
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by Zev 15y ago
If you have an iPhone, you can use ZNC and Mobile Colloquy to get push notifications on highlights.
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by Zev 15y ago
#FFCC00. It strikes me as a nice halfway point between YC's orange, and HN's tan background. HN also has http://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors , which shows all the custom topcolors from users active in the past #{interval_i_cant_remember}
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by Zev 15y ago
Do you really think that most people care about their music being lossless? Let alone know what "lossless" even means? Most people want more music on their phones and iPod's, not less. Now, and not later in the afternoon after they've down
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by Zev 15y ago
The galling bit will be when they do start selling in ALAC, they'll probably charge more for it - at which point I'll still refuse to pay for anything from iTunes.. On one hand, Apple did charge 30 cents to upgrade to the higher quality A
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by Zev 15y ago
The first two are the same, with a different syntax, yes. They would both become: objc_msgSend(self, @selector(bar)); However, your examples are basically explicitly passing a message (1 and 2), vs dynamically building a message to p
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by Zev 15y ago
Quick example of calling a method that doesn't take any arguments and returns an object: id foo = [self bar]; is the same as: id foo = self.bar; which is also the same as: id foo = [self performSelector:@selector(bar)];
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by Zev 15y ago
The casual user doesn't know what any of the words in your post means.
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by Zev 15y ago
We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. I never got this. It sounds catchy, but, holding a grudge forever sounds like a horrific way to live.
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by Zev 15y ago
* But when designing in photoshop, theres rarely a need for a full version control system since I usually only have 5-6 PSDs of each iteration per design (or logos/sites/etc) and at that scale its easily manageable.* I feel like the word "v
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by Zev 15y ago
Neat. I don't know if I'd ever use this, but, its a cool hack. Random thoughts off the top of my head, re: making it faster: - Can you can decode into an ARGB buffer, instead of an RGBA buffer? iOS uses ARGB as its native bitmap format, so,
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by Zev 15y ago
WWDC being about when it has been for the past few years? Totally possible iPhone 5 being out in June? Total guess.
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by Zev 15y ago
Where's this rule that just because it is text based means that it has to be ugly? I seem to have missed the memo on it.
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by Zev 15y ago
This sounds horribly elitist. You absolutely must use the command line and an editor in order to use git? Sure, I guess. If you get to spend all day working with neckbeards. For the rest of us, having a pretty UI helps. And I don't see how
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by Zev 15y ago
The way I explained delegates to a friend is: You have this friend, lets say his name is Steve. Steve is a really good guy, and usually excited to hear about what you're working on - and to help out, if he can. He also happens to be really
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by Zev 15y ago
So what? 5 months is a long time, and I bet that they've added a lot of symbols. (Also: I've been on HN for a really long time and there are plenty of things that are months — or years — old that I've forgotten about and wouldn't mind seein
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by Zev 15y ago
Goto cops? Yes. Why wouldn't you do this?
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by Zev 15y ago
I had the exact same question as magicalist. So, even if you don't think that it implies not having the rights, it can certainly be read as such. // edit: magicalist is the parent poster, not rorrr. Whoops.
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by Zev 15y ago
How long/detailed was the phone conversation? A small coding question isn't too unusual — at least, not for startups. What does surprise me is that the coding question came after they spoke to you on the phone, not before, as a filter.
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by Zev 15y ago
…simple initial "put stuff in a folder…" Apple's goal with iCloud (and iOS) is to eliminate the concept of a folder in the filesystem. Of course it won't work well for you. You want folders and files.
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by Zev 15y ago
Interesting to note: the coffee shop in question is The Summit, which is closing down (and/or moving to a new location that hasn't been found yet).
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by Zev 15y ago
not everyone has those toys already, i dont have the iphone and ipad for example (not even an ios developer account) FWIW, if you have a Mac, you can get the iOS development environment from Apple for free, and just run your apps on a sim
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by Zev 15y ago
I largely try and do the same - use return and continue early and often. Aside from the things that you mentioned, one more benefit is that doing this makes it very easy to step through code using a debugger, and see which condition is
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by Zev 15y ago
If you liked the Xcode/Interface Builder similarities, Gene Backlin (he wrote a book on NeXT development in 1995 and a book on iPhone development in 2010) talk on it from last year's (2010) SecondConf talk: http://www.secondconf.com/videos
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by Zev 15y ago
When I want to go to the theater near me (Metreon in SF, local mall's theater in NY), the price you cite is a little over half of what I would have to pay for a single ticket. Its usually closer to $11-$12. And thats without imax or 3d.

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