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by bennyg 14y ago
Beautiful and simple visualization. The meteors/comets shooting by were a great touch. Did you make this spindritf?
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by bennyg 14y ago
Which is such a lame "gotcha'" by FB. If they really cared about user engagement then surely removing user engagement, even in a competing, but tangential product, isn't the way to go.
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by bennyg 14y ago
I still disagree. Just because something isn't business viable doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. You should pretty much always do it - then decide if there's a market/think about how to market for it. A business for the sake of just making
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by bennyg 14y ago
Meh - I'd rather make something that's awesome for myself, then figure out marketing it so other people can benefit as well. I believe that thinking about a market and how to make money first is the wrong avenue to go down if you actually w
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by bennyg 14y ago
Sometimes caring deeply for the product means you need help to get it where it needs to be, and sometimes getting it where it needs to be means being acquired by another company to help get it there.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Looks sweet, thanks for the recommendation. Whenever I get a box I'll look into using this for Push services.
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by bennyg 14y ago
How many people were caught and not publicized? I think it's fairly impressive, all things considered, that after two IEDs went off in a crowded civilian area, only 3 people died. And that in less than a week, those responsible were killed
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by bennyg 14y ago
It's not very difficult to nab top-secret clearance, you just have to work on the right projects. One of my buddies, a recent grad, has a top-secret clearance because of the project he's on at Lockheed. In Huntsville, AL almost everyone has
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by bennyg 14y ago
Yep. My official title is IT Technical Specialist 2 - but I'm an iOS Developer if we're playing with words that actually mean something when said together. Funny enough though, I don't have a CS degree, I have an Art degree. Though everyone
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by bennyg 14y ago
Exactly. My brother may or may not be dealing with possession charges that would have warranted nothing more than a ticket if they happened ~60 miles to the West.
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by bennyg 14y ago
The government really tries to cripple you following any sort of felony. Isn't going to prison and not doing the things you normally do, for any extended amount of time, enough punishment as it is? Isn't the whole thing supposed to be about
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by bennyg 14y ago
Doesn't mean there's no value to be gleaned from this quote.
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by bennyg 14y ago
The things is, I've just never had those problems you mention in the 7 apps I've shipped, and I always use .xibs. Some apps of mine are simple, and some are fairly complex. As a side note, I also hate, hate, hate using things like Balsamiq
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by bennyg 14y ago
He's probably talking about ARC for Objective-C, that automatically releases references and allocations when it's impossible for those allocations to be used again in scope.
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by bennyg 14y ago
I think the perfect thing to do is use a tool when it's necessary to use that tool, and no more/no less. Sometimes it's unnecessary and a pain in the ass to use .xibs or storyboards and other times it makes iterating through designs magnit
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by bennyg 14y ago
Here's why I say no it isn't: The end product, what my nib is for, has 12 labels, three UIView border bars (1px thick), two UIViews just for a differing background color in a couple spots, and a UIImage. Now you're right, I could set all th
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by bennyg 14y ago
This is still fairly trivial stuff, and I like the IDE a ton better in Xcode than Visual Studio (seriously, I shouldn't have to stop my current build just to add lines in VS - that's lame). Just open up your dual screen editor, put the xib
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by bennyg 14y ago
Or use a helper class (called Design.m/.h) with a call: +(void)styleLabelForCertainPage:(UILabel *)label { label.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentRight; label.textColor = [UIColor redColor]; } Then run those through you
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by bennyg 14y ago
Yeah I know what you mean about the idea, that's why I'm working on said prototype - but I can see that now, even with a bootstrapped launch, it's gonna' need more money to get to where I want it to be and where it needs to be. My buddy and
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Ask HN: How to get funding when I'm over 2000 miles from SV?
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by bennyg 14y ago
I like to think of Nibs like classes. A lot of times I'll have a certain design I want reused throughout the app, and this works perfectly. For instance, in an app I'm working on now, I have a few different views that have scroll-views insi
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by bennyg 14y ago
Man, no offense, but you seem extremely short-sighted here. So when you and a couple coworkers are architecting a system, deciding what the pipeline of information flow is going to be, where the security holes may be, stopping any latency o
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by bennyg 14y ago
We can put an ICBM on someone's doorstep ~8000km away in just over half of an hour. Putting a package ~4500km away in 15 may be doable. You just better be ready to catch it at a couple miles per second.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Honest questions: what's to stop that person from calling themselves a JavaScript developer? Why shouldn't he/she? What in the words "JavaScript Developer" imply professional ability? It's hard for me to imagine how this person learning a l
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by bennyg 14y ago
How can you call that overly vociferous without thinking the same thing about "Apple's joke of an operating system"?
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by bennyg 14y ago
Honestly, it's awesome man! The only thing I can think of is a "replay" button next to the instrumental, so when it's done you can start it over. I only figured out to do that by clicking in the yellow progress bar close to the beginning. I
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by bennyg 14y ago
Quickly before I get back to work: -------- Jazzy beats creep up in my seat, My back arches low as the words start to seep Straight out my mind, and down through the keys. Thoughts and feelings show, so slow with the release. Complementary
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by bennyg 14y ago
I've had it happen once, so about 6% of all apps/updates submit to them. It was for a button in an app that dials a number, and not checking if the device was telephony enabled. Which shouldn't matter because an iPod/Pad can't dial out, but
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by bennyg 14y ago
I don't know, another comment echoing the same thing is like two people talking to you. An upvote doesn't hold the same weight psychologically (at least to me). Maybe more could be said than "this", but that's just me.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Looks awesome man, slick design. Don't worry too much if it doesn't take off here on HN - from breakdowns of traffic analytics after Show HNs and other sources it still seems like word of mouth and cumulative use effect make everything else

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