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by bennyg 13y ago
All people who work in marketing are dishonest. You literally can't trust any of them. Edit: I guess sarcasm should be mentioned.
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by bennyg 13y ago
God damn. Not all defense contractors work on the NSA spying technologies. Personally, I think it'd be cool to work on anti-missile guidance systems or fighter jet avionics.
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by bennyg 13y ago
Meet Bob. Bob got a job working on a random system through an NSA subcontractor. After several weeks on the job, and having gone through rigorous training, Bob was starting to feel uneasy with the work requirements and amount of details he
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Show HN: dead simple XML/JSON to NSObjects and vice versa.(github.com)
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by bennyg 13y ago
Don't be naive.
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by bennyg 13y ago
There are a few open source libraries for managing CoreData from a higher level now (like NSOperation for GCD). This post by Mattt Thompson (of course) on NSHipster has links to wrappers, adapters, synchronizers and utilities for working wi
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by bennyg 13y ago
This is my certificate/profiling debugging workflow - most of which Xcode does for you, btw: 1. Is your certificate expired? Yes - renew it obviously. 2. Is your provisioning profile a wildcard (com.company.*) or specific to an identif
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by bennyg 13y ago
I was an art major that learned Objective-C and launched an app in 3 months (calculated the most drunk for your buck in my college town - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/red-cup/id477350446?mt=8 ). Now I have
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by bennyg 13y ago
https://developer.apple.com/support/system-status/ For a clickable link.
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by bennyg 13y ago
I agree - but I don't think the statement semantically means perfection. It really means "practice makes greatness." Perfect just has a P.
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by bennyg 13y ago
Sure, but statistics is on your side too. More enrollments has a higher shot at increasing the number of star programmers than not (all education and teaching ability staying the same).
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by bennyg 13y ago
It's kind of bogus. There's more reasons than what you're listing - and some help the author's statements. For starters, why throw a résumé away because it doesn't have [Top-Tier CS Program] listed? Make the potenti
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by bennyg 13y ago
> We're talking about having to grasp variables, lists, function calls - basic stuff - that given no prior knowledge may take weeks alone. Not true at all. I had no prior programming knowledge when I began Objective-C and all of tha
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by bennyg 13y ago
Practice makes perfect. It's a tired adage, but it's absolutely true.
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by bennyg 13y ago
It's always the acceleration that matters.
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by bennyg 13y ago
I also would like to see stuff like this. I hope it only evolves to stuff more like when I can see the whole algorithm (not in code, but in process I guess) in my head versus thinking "okay brain, for loop starting at x == 0, while x i
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by bennyg 13y ago
I'm imagining bank account numbers over CC info/passwords was the sensitive part.
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by bennyg 13y ago
All I'm saying is that the US isn't all sunshine and daisies. There are a TON of poor areas (rural and urban alike) where it's just not safe to live, kids don't get enough mental and physical nourishment, and there'
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by bennyg 13y ago
The United States is 35th in infant mortality ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mor... ) - and the US is 33rd in life expectancy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countri
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by bennyg 13y ago
I've been toying with the idea of recording an open-source album, or at least recording the entire album the way I want and source-controlling it on Github at first. After the initial launch, I'd open-source it and start a whole r
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by bennyg 13y ago
I work for a University, and albeit having a slightly lower starting income than some private industry, my starting vacation time is incredible. I accrue just about 2 days per month paid vacation time. Besides regular holidays, I also get s
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by bennyg 13y ago
Don't be naive. There are plenty of real benefits too, and it's all about weighing them. Hopefully if you get an opportunity at BigCo, you can remain open-minded and actually explore the opportunity before dismissing it immediatel
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by bennyg 13y ago
Sure, but it would be nice if those companies (especially the ones who play off morality as their tagline) did everything just under what's illegal to inform the public of what's happening.
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by bennyg 13y ago
Who cares about whether a person should build an Eiffel Tower out of matchsticks or go try to solve cancer? Pushing humanity forward is great - and so is finding personal happiness and growth through exploration. Don't knock one or the
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by bennyg 13y ago
Came to say this, but I could not say it with the brevity you did. What function is the Mona Lisa accomplishing behind layers of glass, with security guards posted 'round the clock, in a museum in France?
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by bennyg 13y ago
I totally agree. Lateral thinking is so much harder to program and architect than logical thinking - we don't even have a good operational definition for creativity that is rooted in physical space and in a conceptual framework.
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by bennyg 13y ago
This is what I want to see happen. I want to see categorical cross-referencing events/things where round is applied to ball and ball is applied to basketballs and baseballs. I want to see orange applied to basketballs, and then a conne
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by bennyg 13y ago
iOctocat for iOS is also open source - though they charge in the App Store (depending on how you feel about supporting the organization as a whole).
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by bennyg 13y ago
Well, Apple was the last of the bigs to buckle.
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by bennyg 13y ago
There's a TON of intangibles that this data absolutely cannot tell you. Watch people's facial expressions as they look at the end of aisle displays. Watch where the kids go, and you can probably sell to their parents there too. Ev

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