Zev

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by Zev 16y ago
I highly doubt that anyone cares that I didn't apply, and I have more karma ;)
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by Zev 16y ago
You typically get more than cash when you raise a round of funding.
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by Zev 16y ago
A paragraph and a half in, this rant turns away from "This page doesn't validate" to "Apple is doing it wrong." It sounds a bit like you're being anti-Apple for the sake of having something to rant about. Pretty much every one of the errors
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by Zev 16y ago
If you want to talk about tested and battle-hardened code, make sure that you really have the older API :) Foundation (and, by extension, NSHTTPRequest and NSURLConnection and such) is a few years older than cURL is. Foundation is really a
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by Zev 16y ago
JSONKit is less stable than yajl/touchjson/json-framework is. I was seeing 2-3 crashes/day in it when I last tried using it[1], switched back to yawl and haven't had any crashes in json parsing since. 1. About three weeks ago.
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by Zev 16y ago
Objective-C memory management has nothing to do with RAII.
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by Zev 16y ago
In that case, it is very weird that one sample (Lua) specifies the bounds of the UIWindow while the other is closer to the default setup and does not specify the bounds (Objective-C).
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by Zev 16y ago
- If you remove the boilerplate, you can likely get the Objective-C version down to about 40 lines.[1] - Can Lua/Wax not use IB? The Objective-C version uses IB to lay the views out, while the Lua version seems to lay it out manually? It do
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by Zev 16y ago
Is it not possible for a site to go downhill over a period of time? Ie: it is possible that the network was good when you were younger but no longer.
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by Zev 16y ago
Been doing iOS dev for a few years, friends with many others who have been doing the same. Sometimes things suck. But, not usually. How is this any different from relying on Google to "guarantee" a base minimum to dev against… that seems t
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by Zev 16y ago
There's more to writing code than writing it fast.
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by Zev 16y ago
It wasn't planned. When we initially sat down to plan the schedule out two months ago, I thought there was enough time to get the iPhone app done. Without that intense of a workload. And then some bugs more serious than I (or any of us) had
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by Zev 16y ago
Not so much if you want to do any iOS work.
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by Zev 16y ago
You mean like the builds on http://www.macruby.org/ , that are hosted by Apple?
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by Zev 16y ago
Why the down vote? Ampersands are awesome. What other character has so much variety on a font to font basis? Most characters are basically the same, give or take serifs, thickness and small curves[1]. An ampersand can look completely diff
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by Zev 16y ago
How do most of these arguments not apply to any other programming language when they first came out?
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by Zev 16y ago
Even if it's not a root exploit, though, there's no cause for celebration. Handy Light shows that the App Store process can sneak major, prohibited functionality onto users' devices in the guise of a clearly useless and trivial app. Any c
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by Zev 16y ago
The inverse isn't always true. Correlation isnt causation, more than two points to a line, etc etc.
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by Zev 16y ago
So I strongly suspect that our programming ability is related to our capacity for being pedantic, as annoying as that may be socially. Just like all tall people are good at basketball? Being a pedantic nit has nothing to do with one's abi
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by Zev 16y ago
In that case, you win at being a pedant and miss out on some cool talks by smart people.
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by Zev 16y ago
(As another counterpoint) I'm 21 and I usually wear a wristwatch. I wear an expensive wristwatch, actually. All it does is tell the time. It isn't solar powered, it doesn't synchronize with a server somewhere based on nuclear time, it doesn
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by Zev 16y ago
Hacker News will still be here in the morning.
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by Zev 16y ago
Maybe its just me and because (I like to think that) I'm pretty decent at writing good software, but I find that I best learn a programming language by writing code, not by doing any of the above. As for what I use to get to the point where
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by Zev 16y ago
Projects not receiving much love after the original authors give it up isn't unique to projects written in ocaml.
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by Zev 16y ago
Does it actually cost Square less when you swipe? Yes. Credit card processors charge a lower fee if you can say that you got the number from swiping a card, rather than manually entering it in.
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by Zev 16y ago
I don't necessarily think that what someone hopes to learn from an internship is worth much. One of the key things about the most valuable internship I did was that almost everything I learned wasn't in the list of things that I would have
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by Zev 16y ago
In my unscientific survey, MacBook Pro's outrank iPads, which outrank generic Windows laptops in cafe's. Moreover, in a further unscientific survey, paperback books outrank hardcover books, who's usage surpasses the Kindle and Nook, combine
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by Zev 16y ago
If you remove "to be slightly more flexible" from my previous post, you'll find the real point I was trying to make.
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by Zev 16y ago
Anything more verifiable than an "industry analyst"?
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by Zev 16y ago
Does recreating UITableViewController to be slightly more flexible really constitute a new approach?

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