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by bennyg 14y ago
My question: why is outside investing considered the norm around here? It feels like so many people are worried about "playing the game" if you will, ie getting funding, creating a "startup" and moving to the bay. To what end? To just make
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by bennyg 14y ago
Timing of post probably matters the most. I think I've done 4 Show HN's and only one made it to the front page - and that's because it was an HN Reader for iOS... I've seen some Show HNs be posted multiple times (the guy who made the github
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by bennyg 14y ago
Exactly. Plus storyboards tend to lock you in, and moving around and constantly iterating to better and better nav schemes kind of goes out the window.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Looks great! Only one thing, how often is it updated? I pushed a new Podspec to the master repo about 5 days ago for one of my projects ( http://cocoadocs.org/docsets/Colours/0.0.1/ ) and it should be v1.0.1. Just wondering if you are doing
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by bennyg 14y ago
JCPenney (JCP now?) is SEVERELY lacking a vision. And they have been for years. In my undergrad, I was on the school advertising team competing for NSAC ( http://www.aaf.org/default.asp?id=123 ) and JCPenney was our client. We were tasked w
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by bennyg 14y ago
I'm with you about CSS. It seems the target market of this app is geared towards Web->iOS devs, but that seems like a smaller slice than something like "Bootstrap for iOS" should be made to do. Bootstrap is great because it makes web de
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by bennyg 14y ago
I still think CSS is one step away from making something awesome for developers of all flavors (from not developing at all to extremely competent in other languages) to make native apps even easier to code. I'm working on a more natural lan
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by bennyg 14y ago
Gotta' give a point cause I partied with y'all at University of Alabama.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Software is another medium for my art. I used to think that the best way of getting my creativity and projects seen was to put software in people's hands. Now I know that the best way is to put easy-to-use, beautiful components in the hands
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by bennyg 14y ago
Yep. Got an interview for a software engineer position after someone looked at my Github, when a repo of mine was trending overall. I've got an Art degree, and no formal CS training - but the internet is a powerful and beautiful place.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Andy Warhol had a Factory of people working for him too. Damien Hirst does now as well. It's not uncommon at all for artists to do residencies with big name artists. Have you ever had a gallery show? Let alone a whole museum at your disposa
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by bennyg 14y ago
That's awesome! I've been playing around with some machine learning stuff recently, and because of my art background, I've been wanting to tackle similar stuff to this. Did you let your genetic algorithms run on real-life paintings? i.e. Di
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by bennyg 14y ago
And for all we know, it could be removed in further post-production now that he posted about it. I'd hate for that to be the case though, because this is pretty sweet!
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by bennyg 14y ago
As a data point, I'm strongly proficient in one (Objective-C) but use PHP,HTML,CSS and a small amount of JS to supplement the data handling, web services, and create the web site side of my mobile apps. I can get done what I need to in thos
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by bennyg 14y ago
To think that last July it was at about $5.20, and I scoffed at buying when it reached $6 cause that was more money than I was willing to spend... I'd be rich by now.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Yep. A buddy of mine and a DAMN good Android developer (and overall highly intelligent man) is not getting hired on at my job (a CS research arm of the University) because HR can't accept the fact he doesn't have a Bachelors. He's literally
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by bennyg 14y ago
ADD == ADHD-PI now, there is no ADD anymore
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by bennyg 14y ago
I think it looking more appealing is the key. Sure you can fit less, but if people don't want to use it, it doesn't really matter does it? People are usually more willing to make subconscious tradeoffs when it looks, feels, and works awesom
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by bennyg 14y ago
If qeorge's stepdad's Reddit username is Trexlittlehand. Interestingly enough I found that comment after going way down through the comments of this article yesterday: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/03/bees-buzz-each... I thou
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by bennyg 14y ago
Isn't the best case GPS position only within 10m anyways?
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by bennyg 14y ago
Interesting post by a redditor about the bee collapse: --------------- Ok, beekeeper, non-vegan here. I've got no horse in the vegan race, but I do know my bees and here is the sad truth: beekeeping is responsible for the decline of world-w
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by bennyg 14y ago
He was working at NEXT and Pixar in parallel.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Why do you say this? I think too many people are focusing on the game the way VCs and SV play it.
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Ask HN: What is a Software Engineer?
9 points by bennyg 14y ago|16 comments
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by bennyg 14y ago
It looks like from the video it just writes it all and you drop an info.plist file and a build folder (probably with classes and all images) into your project. It doesn't show it, but my guess is that you then change the initial VC in the A
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by bennyg 14y ago
Part of me wants to and most of me doesn't haha. The problem is that design patterns change pretty frequently. I mean I cringed when I saw action sheets and their table views in the video. I'm working on a "Bootstrap for iOS" right now but
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Show HN: Colours for iOS - 100 predefined colors and auto ColorScheme generation(github.com)
4 points by bennyg 14y ago|0 comments
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by bennyg 14y ago
That's awesome. I recently took an Amtrak from Tuscaloosa, AL to New Orleans, LA for a weekend trip, and got some coding done along the way. Man was it beautiful, and working in the snack-car was perfect. I thought about doing something sim
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by bennyg 14y ago
Exactly, I know plenty of people in the food industry that work harder than some engineers I've seen.
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by bennyg 14y ago
This is a reply to those below you, because I can't reply to them specifically. Word of mouth is considered the best form of advertising you can get. Almost 100% of the time it's not even paid for.

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