Zev

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by Zev 15y ago
The biggest thing to learn isnt in the patches. It's in the process -- don't be afraid to break things, and dont let "I don't know everything about this" stop you from learning one small corner of it.
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by Zev 15y ago
Do you really go hack on random large codebases at a moment's notice when something about them irks you? If so, please know that nobody else on the planet can do this without spending weeks of time (conservatively). Yes. At least when the
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by Zev 15y ago
The equation is: I liked this story + I like to think of myself as a hacker + Hacker Hews is for hackers [1] = I'm going to post this on Hacker News Or, in the reduced form[2]: I found this interesting + I think this article would
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by Zev 15y ago
'cause enough people who are on the site like it. I personally think that most of that off-topic content that you mentioned sucks to have here (even if I do enjoy it elsewhere), but despite my flagging, they still get up there. So, I visit
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by Zev 15y ago
Because I don't want to add memory leaks trying to add features to mongrel2 You won't. Just send that patch in that fixes a bug/adds a feature. If its less than perfect, well, thats why code gets reviewed before committed. Other people lo
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by Zev 15y ago
Two things: 1. Why do they have to be "junior"-level? When you start a job, do you want to be doing easy stuff? Or do you want to be doing the fun, challenging stuff? If you're looking for projects that have bugs that are easy, or easy-but-
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by Zev 15y ago
Um. What? While, yes, it is more expensive to detect that something is a link than not, it isn't that expensive to do. Neither is drawing an attributed string with Core Text. Yes, its hard. No, it isn't nearly as hard as you're making it ou
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by Zev 15y ago
You can get the onscreen graphics context and convert it to an image to send over the network fairly easily. I'd guess that you probably won't get a full remote desktop experience, nor would you really need one. Just an image and a "tap her
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by Zev 15y ago
Maybe the startup could clone his repo and keep part of their product updated by the community for free. How does it make sense for Path to abandon their original implementation of this idea and to use the GitHub project instead?
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by Zev 15y ago
You can do something similar with iOS development as well, by implementing a -debugDescription method to return a NSString * object that is then printed out when you use print-object (or po ) from GDB/LLDB. If -debugDescription is not im
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by Zev 15y ago
But it works. And users will never know the difference. Sure they will, when your app starts to crash, or become unreasonably slow due to something hacked together without a second thought as to how well it would work.
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by Zev 15y ago
You know? I had a long post written out. About how I'm actually one of those developers who you're questioning and so on. But, none of that is relevant. The only thing that matters is this: Growl is the #2 app in the entire Mac App Store.
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by Zev 15y ago
That isn't how I read his statement, even after reading your reply to me. However.. the SDK is still free, easy to integrate (having done the integration process myself) and users still like it. That last point is, really, the important par
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by Zev 15y ago
With growl being a paid app now, will developer support wane? If anything, this will help increase core Growl developer support; they actually profit from spending time on Growl now.
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by Zev 15y ago
My impression* has never been that you're expected dress nicely, just presentable. You might not be able to get away with wearing that ragged pair of jeans and old tshirt that you happen to really like, but that doesn't mean button-up shirt
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by Zev 15y ago
Why not just use UIAppearance on iOS 5?
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by Zev 15y ago
My thought on the icon: Get rid of the paragraph symbol and keep the rest, maybe add two more lines of text to the page behind the paragraph symbol, to make the top/bottom border slightly thinner. At least, for now, until you get a designer
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by Zev 15y ago
What happens if you delete the last class that #imported something? Do you remove the #import? What if the #import wasn't automatically added? Still automatically remove it? How about if you don't need the #import for a class, but, instead
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by Zev 15y ago
Have you tried Xcode 4? I'm not its biggest fan, but, it is a step up from Xcode 3 when it comes to refactoring. It can rename a class everywhere in your project, for example.
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by Zev 15y ago
These are the shoulders of the giants that you stand on. (or: the fun stuff that you never get to see anymore.)
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by Zev 15y ago
How do you reduce the defense budget, without screwing yourself over politically? At best, you could not increase it as much.
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by Zev 15y ago
There is no API for Hacker News. There's http://api.ihackernews.com/ , which is unofficial and based on screen scraping, and doing the screen-scraping yourself.
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by Zev 15y ago
Or you could use clues like events in the user's calendar or recent emails to determine if there are any flights/hotels that need to be checked into, and ask from there. Also: the article says: "Check me in here ". This has much less ambig
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by Zev 15y ago
The old Siri app doesn't work anymore, either.
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by Zev 15y ago
You could probably do this with one line of code (and the rest in Interface Builder), if you really wanted.
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by Zev 15y ago
Not everyone is Steve Jobs, and not everyone should skip or drop out of college. (Argue all you want about effectiveness, cost and availability, but, it provides a service to some that is deemed worth the time, money and effort. And that is
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by Zev 15y ago
The history of the Federalist party and of the Alien and Sedition Acts would be a good starting point. And, as TruthElixirX said, the Whiskey Rebellion. For bonus points, be sure to pay attention to the American political response to the Fr
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by Zev 15y ago
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by Zev 15y ago
If I hadn't had it explicitly pointed out to me that the app is a bunch of web views, I would have thought it was a ton of Core Text drawing going on behind the scenes.
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by Zev 15y ago
There is no reason to support anything earlier than iOS 4.3 for an app being released today. There's only one reason that I can think of: Verizon/CDMA iPhones only run iOS 4.2.x, and won't be on parity with GSM iPhones until iOS 5 comes o

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