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by chubs 15y ago
I was wondering similarly: Dev work on ST2 seems to have stopped altogether. Which is a pity, because it really was shaping up to be a winner. But there are still plenty of features missing. Now i'm using chocolatapp, which seems to be movi
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by chubs 15y ago
What if it was a 100k bond, refunded after 5 years of proven good behaviour? (good behaviour = 5 years continuous employment, clear crime record, etc)
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by chubs 15y ago
My 'hack', as you put it, is to work on iphone apps on my laptop whilst on the train (2hrs/day). Makes the trip go faster, and supplements my monthly income by 50% at this stage.
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by chubs 15y ago
Reminds me of the story of steve jobs, when he dropped the original ipod prototype into a fishtank to force the engineers to make it smaller: 'See? Bubbles? That means there's air in there. Make it smaller.'
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by chubs 15y ago
I wrote a blog about this, you may want to have a read: http://splinter.com.au/how-to-get-a-programming-or-design-jo... I guess one thing i found useful is to go to meetups, get to know people, and give a few presentations.
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by chubs 15y ago
By all means, get in touch!
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Ask HN: Help with writing a job-seeking article for sydney
4 points by chubs 15y ago|3 comments
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by chubs 15y ago
Meetups: eg roro, cocoaheads, sydjs, etc...
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by chubs 15y ago
Everyone needs to keep in mind that the latest xcode is only about 1.5GB these days... they really did trim it down with 4.2
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by chubs 15y ago
Bummer! How did i miss that. Is there some community mailing list i should be on to find out about things like this in sydney?
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by chubs 15y ago
You sound like you have an awesome attitude! Maintain that attitude, it'll take you further than any technical skillset will. As for your dream to work at github: learn objective-c, and make an ipad app that allows you to code on an ipad: p
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by chubs 15y ago
"Just a minimal superset of C with lambdas" You pretty much exactly described Objective-C with that statement. I'm not sure if you intentionally meant that or not?
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by chubs 15y ago
Hi, Just wondering, with appfigures, do i need to include a library in my app so that it'll send data to their servers? If not, it sounds pretty neat, and i'm definitely interested.
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by chubs 15y ago
Brilliant info! I'm gradually getting to where you're at, I really hope i can do as well as you :) Thanks especially for the marketing/promotions information. That's my biggest struggle to be honest, so any information in that area is gol
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by chubs 15y ago
I think it's great! Mou plays to the strengths of OSX, MarkdownPad plays to the strengths of windows: they both have UI's that 'fit in properly' with their native environment. I've always found that ST feels slightly out of place in windows
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by chubs 15y ago
I heard rumours that google was doing 2 things in particular to deal with the version fragmentation issue for developer's sake: * Enforcing a minimum hardware level, eg opengl es2 acceleration (eg no more cheap&slow androids that do the
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by chubs 15y ago
This is a brilliant way to promote their app (cam plus) - a great blog post that adds value, and indirectly is used to promote their app while drawing traffic to their site. I should use that idea with promoting my apps!
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by chubs 15y ago
But here's the thing: if i had sold out for almost a billion, you could either see that as a retirement, or you could see it as a platform that you can use for even bigger entrepreneurial projects? Ie with that kind of money behind you,
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by chubs 15y ago
I've made one, it's on the app store for free, as well as open source on github, feel free to fork and improve it: https://github.com/chrishulbert/HackerNewsReader http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-reader/id45751901...
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by chubs 15y ago
Very good video. The 'locking' effect is simply blowing my mind. I had no idea that was possible.
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by chubs 15y ago
Hi, Thanks very much for your thorough and constructive criticism :) For me, writing articles like this is as much about learning to be a better communicator as anything, and you've (indirectly) really got me thinking about how i could have
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by chubs 15y ago
Yup, that's pretty much what i meant, plus a bit of what veyron meant when he was talking about obsession with the GoF. Wow, you guys really are reading a lot into what i've written, keep in mind that this was written as a light-hearted and
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by chubs 15y ago
There's ConciseKit for precisely this problem: https://github.com/petejkim/ConciseKit We use it in a lot of our code here. Its quite nice. You'll end up with something like: myDict = $mdict(val, key, val2, key2);
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by chubs 15y ago
Wow - this is fantastic! I'm glad i submitted this now, just reading the comments here is very heartening. I was beginning to think i was the only guy in the world who liked obj-c :) (i work in a c#/java predominaated environment where most
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by chubs 15y ago
Is it considered poor form around here to submit your own articles? If so, i'm terribly sorry and will remove, however i feel strongly that a lot of people write off obj-c based on superficial weaknesses, and that it has a lot of strengths
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In defence of Objective-C(splinter.com.au)
107 points by chubs 15y ago|116 comments
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by chubs 15y ago
Wow, that sounds painstaking. Although you're probably right, you'd need to be working in something like illustrator to get results that look that nice.
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by chubs 15y ago
Anyone know what software he used to create the slides? They're beautiful, and i'm 100% sure he didn't use powerpoint!
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by chubs 15y ago
Where in sydney are you? I'm in sydney too, could help point you in the direction of the local hacker scene. Anyway, if you've got a mac (or hackintosh...) and an iphone or itouch, you could make iphone games? Make sure you hit up the local
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by chubs 15y ago
I'd be pretty stoked, personally - i mean, it proves that you're onto a good idea for an app if apple also spent the effort to make a similar app. So rename it and launch!

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