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by bennyg 13y ago
Looks awesome! I can't wait to get my hands on an iPad at work and download it. I love vector drawing/illustrating - and based on your other comments, I'm hoping there's some export functionality (even as svg) in the nea
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Show HN: Push Notifications made Easy - an iOS/Android/C# Server Template(github.com)
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by bennyg 13y ago
That's awesome. Congrats to making the money, and raising the issue correctly - as well as not going off of the ethical deep end.
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by bennyg 13y ago
The last sentence of the quote is what he was referencing.
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by bennyg 13y ago
Probably not great in the office, but having a nice craft beer shouldn't be discouraged - it opens up the thoughts, creates an aura of relaxation and can promote conversation and creative collaboration pretty damn fast. Not everything
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by bennyg 13y ago
It's never that simple - and making the product awesome and launching at 95% can introduce way more rewards than launching at 75 or 80%. I think the concept of an MVP is regarded as the word of law around here, and sometimes an MVP loo
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by bennyg 13y ago
Don't worry about a thing. I have an Art/Advertising degree, and I'm an iOS engineer right now. I got here by programming my ass off.
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by bennyg 13y ago
Why not cover all of the bases?
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by bennyg 13y ago
I know it goes to another website, but is the database connecting to the new website, or is the new website connecting to the old website that connects to the DB? I feel like this matters for SSL reasons.
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by bennyg 13y ago
Here's where we differ. Adobe Illustrator is like a canvas on an easel. Visual manipulations appear right in front of you, and then you can dive in and inspect. Change a color easily and know if it's right immediately. Not commit,
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by bennyg 13y ago
Yeah but it's actually a lot of fun to design in Illustrator. I don't think the creators of this icon set would have wanted to do all of this stuff while not in Illustrator - or at least I can't imagine me wanting to do that.
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by bennyg 13y ago
Exactly I just want this: NSString *newS = @"blah " + @(42) + @"!";
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by bennyg 13y ago
You can do this now @(100.5) for NSNumber literals.
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by bennyg 13y ago
I wrote a utility class with idiomatic Obj-C color methods like the one you mentioned and more. I hate to plug it, but I'm fairly proud of it. It also generates color schemes when you throw a UIColor object at it, and includes 100 diff
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by bennyg 13y ago
Fundfill is sending us the metadata of this page: http://www.fundfill.com/fund/U81L-pd41x0OSJ6B6AXbKYg%3d%3d instead of the accurate one. Just letting you guys/gals know in case you were extremely confused like I
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by bennyg 13y ago
On the job interview point: I'm always as truthful as possible in a job interview - especially technical ones. My background is not in tech, however I'm an autodidact with programming and whenever technical questions are asked tha
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by bennyg 13y ago
This is why it always feels funky to me for companies to raise money at insanely large valuations. To me it should only be enough money to cover expenses (employees, office space if necessary, business deals, salary for the founders, r&
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by bennyg 13y ago
> I'd love to be able to do it without embedding code copies, or at least have a smarter system than that. Maybe a section on the Server where gems lie, and a section on the hard-drive of your dev computer where gems lie - and then
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by bennyg 13y ago
Almost all of that stuff you list is actually waaaaaay easier than you give it credit. Setting up a programming environment is not hard, and is done in parallel with programming. Don't like that font? Change it here. Want this hot key
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by bennyg 13y ago
Thanks for your contribution, I'm glad you love it! I can't wait to get user management type stuff on there so I never have to open the browser version again.
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by bennyg 13y ago
My app, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id592893508?mt=8 , does comments pretty darn well. Let me know what you think!
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by bennyg 13y ago
Mine's definitely a labor of love - I use it daily, and hardly ever use the browser version unless I want to comment on something. I'm working on adding commenting/submitting/voting at the moment, and should have that do
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by bennyg 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - iOS Development - Remote I'm an iOS engineer with 8+ years of graphic design experience as well - so I can make the full package, from UI design to implementation and production release. I also do some backend work such
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by bennyg 13y ago
Clever marketing to pull at heartstrings. Of course they want email everywhere to be private.
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by bennyg 13y ago
To me, it's a clear blend of both of the giant tech monoliths (and more, really) and a satire of the entire tech culture where the next sharing app is raising obscene amounts of money for an exit to a handful of monoliths.
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by bennyg 13y ago
The thing is, I'm not rolling my own here (minus message authentication, but based on cursory reading, this is how it's done anyways). I'm using standard OpenSSL libraries - things that are vetted, and I'm using like the
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by bennyg 13y ago
Getting lib sodium and rbnacl to play nice with Heroku has proven to be outright impossible as of now. But I do believe I have fixed the problems you raised. - The key is not a string, it's generated using PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1 for 20,000 r
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by bennyg 13y ago
I would, but the whole purpose of this is to not tie any information back to a person, aka keep it anonymous. Persona accounts use email, so there's no point in using them.
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by bennyg 13y ago
Thanks for all the input, Ruby is basically the equivalent of ESL to me. I'm an Objective-C programmer by nature (self-taught at that, I have a Bachelor's in Graphic Design as it stands). These are all really good points, as I get
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by bennyg 13y ago
I fixed the README to say it was using CBC for the cipher mode, thanks for that input. (though this will be changing to NaCL's implementation of XSalsa20 very, very soon) I made it open source so people can also fork and run on a local

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