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by bennyg 14y ago
This is huge. Running on the emulator is good if you haven't paid the $100 to put it on device yet. After that, you better be running on your device every time. There's so much to be said for actually holding the device and using your app l
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by bennyg 14y ago
Great site, only problem I found was some wording at the bottom: "I was built by Simon Reed & Chris Mahon. Simon made me work they way I do and Chris who gave me my good looks." Simon made me work THE way I do and Chris -who- gave me my
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by bennyg 14y ago
I assume you take your desktop and monitor on the subway with you too, right? ;) I made it for me, then decided to hell with it, I'll submit it so others can read stories/comments too.
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by bennyg 14y ago
A coworker and I have hacked Siri up to do some interesting things for a project (all NDA unfortunately) and are very interested in getting her to function flawlessly with a Bluetooth device.
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by bennyg 14y ago
I was hesitant to try ARC at first - all of the tutorials I saw started with storyboards, which was terrible nonsense, and I wrongly equated that to ARC. I still think about where my pointers are, I'm just writing less code now and I love i
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by bennyg 14y ago
Fuck this mentality. What do we, as a collective community, say to the companies that can't mutate their business models because a player in the field has changed things up (for better or worse)? We tell them to change or die. Why is this a
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by bennyg 14y ago
I had an update get pushed in 4 days (two Saturdays ago till the Wednesday after), and just submit a new app this Saturday. For those interested, here's a shameless plug: http://subvertapps.com/HN - it's a HN reader with, what I think, is
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by bennyg 14y ago
The news.layervault.com link takes me back to the top of the page.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Exactly. Learn more, argue less. Both sides of the coin will be better off.
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by bennyg 14y ago
I'm a designer - by formal education and by thinking style. I graduated with a BA in Art. By trade, however, I'm a developer. I get paid to write, formulate, and conceptualize iOS Apps and how they connect with Android, our web services and
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by bennyg 14y ago
Haha cool deal. Appreciate the honesty there.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Not a fan of the logo, it looks very amateur. I hope it changes before this launches.
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by bennyg 14y ago
And it's the first time I've seen it. What exactly is the point of the negativity? If it's annoying to the community as a whole, it won't be voted up. If it isn't, and you don't like it, you're wasting energy by clicking and commenting sarc
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by bennyg 14y ago
Thank you ;)
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by bennyg 14y ago
Don't worry, I think I've done those things already. In all honesty, I have the hardest time getting the word out about my apps - so this is an attempt at a departure from my usual. I used to have a Wordpress site that I just posted screens
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by bennyg 14y ago
Yeah I see what you're saying. It is now this: iOS meets Finger Painting The best part is its price. No Monet necessary.
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by bennyg 14y ago
I just threw the word painting in there, so hopefully that'll help clear initial confusion. Good point though, conveying meaning is pretty important.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Had no idea about that, thanks for the heads up. Fixed.
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Ask HN: Critique my new app's splash page?
2 points by bennyg 14y ago|12 comments
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by bennyg 14y ago
Ahh yes, you're right. The hour hand should move .5 degrees every minute after the hour. Haha I can't believe I didn't reason that out.
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by bennyg 14y ago
“Calculate the angle of two clock pointers when time is 11:50." I know the correct answer is supposed to be 0, but the hour hand moves closer to hour+1 as minutes approach 60. I guess I would ask for a compass. Another fave is: “How many qu
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by bennyg 14y ago
Got mine from http://www.mcmelectronics.com/
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by bennyg 14y ago
8tracks, and usually whatever I'm feeling at the time (Reggae, Blues, Indie Electronica, or Hip Hop).
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by bennyg 14y ago
I like. An RSS feed would be nice. EDIT: Just kidding, I saw it at the bottom.
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by bennyg 14y ago
He can act. He's also pretty tech savvy. Don't be so critical without seeing ANYTHING relating to the movie besides a few articles - there's not even a trailer out yet.
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by bennyg 14y ago
I hate Storyboards - I can't even come close to manipulating views/subviews the way I want to with them. I love dot syntax. Writing myArray.count is a lot easier than [myArray count] and then when messages start getting nested it bothers me
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by bennyg 14y ago
I'm of the "do both" camp. Personally, I like starting out the interface in .xib because of the wysiwyg style - I've been an Illustrator and Photoshop design guy for much longer than I've worn my iOS Dev Hat. By laying out areas of apps in
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by bennyg 14y ago
No Objective-C?
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by bennyg 14y ago
I think the moral of this tale is to stay as curious as possible. It was his childlike curiosity that unlocked the creativity. Do things for the sake of just doing things sometimes; don't worry about the why.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Going on a whim, but I feel that mass perception is in Snapchat's favor here. The public doesn't explicitly trust Facebook with all of their stuff, despite putting just about everything online - but this is entirely different. The nature of

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